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Soul Sustenance 21-07-2012
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Overcoming Mood Swings
At each moment of the day, we have the capability to feel something. Our feelings vary throughout the course of the day. Sometimes they are joyful and sometimes they are painful. What we forget to do is to choose our feelings consciously. Instead, many of us have become lazy and allowed our feelings to be dictated and shaped by people and circumstances. In other words, we have become influenced. Our swinging, changing moods are the result of the inner karma of becoming attached to things, people, ideas and circumstances. If we are attached to a person and suddenly he/she leaves us we will feel gloomy and our mood of sadness will drain our energy just when we need to remain optimistic and enthusiastic about the future. Any form of loss will bring about a mood of sadness. If this sadness lasts for a long period of time, it will gradually turn into depression.
When we think we are consider the world around us to be our source of happiness and joy, our moods will fluctuate, even with the changing weather. But when we are spiritually empowered or strong our happiness and joy come from inside. We are stable in the face of praise or insult, loss or gain. We are no longer moody and stability becomes our basic nature. We are in control of our life, our feelings. And while we cannot control the waves of the ocean of life around us, we can control and choose how we will respond to outer events and people. When we do that, we will be able to choose what we feel, regardless of what may happen in our life. Life stops being a rollercoaster and becomes more of a cruise, less a storm and more a gentle breeze.
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Message for the day 21-07-2012
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To work with joy is to be free from tiredness.
Expression:
When there is the happiness and joy of doing something, one can go on
putting in effort even in the most difficult circumstances. For
having done everything with happiness, there will be the inner quality
revealed in each and every task. The happiness within will spread
around to others too.
Experience:
As I never leave my inner joy, and am constantly in touch with my
inner qualities, I am able to enjoy everything that life brings.
Nothing will then be experienced as work, but I feel everything to be
entertainment. I will be able to enjoy the richness of life even when
there is something actually difficult.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris