04.04.2015

Self-Talk
How do you talk to
yourself? Thoughts from the past and worries
about the future do not create good
conversations. Instead talk to your mind with
love.
Gratitude
The intention and the action of gratitude is the
inner symphony of the
heart. It opens to sing with thanks for the
smallest of things. To
hear a bird sing, to see a child laugh, to
receive a friend's
affection - are all invitations to practise the
attitude of gratitude.
Gratitude is the kind of loving thanks which
touches another's heart
in a place where they will allow you to reside
for a long time.
Accessing
Spiritual Power
In the inner depths of the soul there is
pure, spiritual power of peace, love, wisdom and
un-conditional joy. This power provides us with
the inner strength needed to change. But how do
we access this power? Meditation is the method
- it allows this power to come to the surface of
our consciousness and into our minds and
influence our thoughts, feelings and
personality. In the same way as lava flows
from the inner depths of the Earth to the
surface through a volcano, we can also create
volcanoes of spiritual power when we meditate.
Note, though, that we want to use our power in a
positive way: we are not seeking the kind of
power that is physical in nature and may cause
damage, we are seeking spiritual power.
When we get access to our own personal source of
the power of peace, love and happiness, we
essentially become free of any dependency on
external sources for feelings of the same. When
we generate our own feelings of love and
self-respect, we stop being dependent on others
and our addiction to their acceptance and
approval reduces and finally disappears. When
we generate our own feelings of contentment and
joy within ourselves, we become free from the
need for substances, places or physical
experiences in order to be happy.
Using this inner power in the right way
allows us to uproot or remove completely the old
negative habits within our personality. Any
unwanted habit can be changed and the scars of
all the negative habits, which have developed
within the soul over a long period of time,
during the journey of birth and rebirth, can be
healed in a short time span.
Soul Sustenance
Ways of Improving
Communication - Part 1
* Listen with both ears. I should be an
active listener by tuning in fully and being
present fully with the person and with the
moment. If I am not, I listen through one ear
and let it out of the other, or I only half
listen, which finally creates misunderstandings.
* Understand where the other person is coming
from. Do not just assume, imagine or judge;
when we do this, our critical vision prevents
others from expressing what they wish to say.
Then, because of wrong or half-right
assumptions, others are not given the
possibility to improve, or express, outside the
boundaries of what we think of them. To give
others a true chance to express themselves, we
must not place our own boundaries around them.
* Think before speaking. This is not
something new, but however often we hear it, we
forget to apply it. To think before speaking
means to show consideration to the other and
then we say the right thing, at the right time,
in the right way.
(To be continued tomorrow….)
Message for the
day
To be free from
the identification with negativity is to be
always light.
Expression:
The one who identifies with his negative traits
is always thinking about it. There is a trace of
this negativity that is seen in everything he
does or talks. He is not able to be free from
this negativity because with each passing day
the identification with it becomes stronger.
Slowly others too start perceiving him in the
same way.
Experience:
When I am able to be free from the
identification with my negativity, I am able to
be constantly light. There might be situations
or people who might provoke my negativity, but I
am able to maintain my inner positivity. This is
because I have managed to finish my
identification with the negativity.