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Soul Sustenance 13-08-2012
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Crossing Negative Circumstances/Situations (Part 2)
The challenge lies in knowing what the strategy is to learn to live through negative
situations without allowing them to influence our emotional and mental state.
In order to achieve that, in the first place, we should change our interpretation.
Instead of interpreting the situation as an obstruction, interference or barrier
to our path, we need to change our perception. We can ask ourselves questions like:
What has this situation taught me? What does it say to me? Remain detached, observe
and listen before reacting immediately. From detachment, observation and listening
we can have a more practical and wider perception.
We are the creators of our realities. Reality, in itself, does not create
for us stress, pain or unhappiness. It is our way of looking and interpretation
of reality that brings about these reactions. Therefore, we have to review how we
perceive situations and with what beliefs we interpret and judge them. Reinterpreting
the situation, the concrete reality, implies allowing the old perception to die
in order to make room for a new vision. Without the old dying, the new cannot be
built correctly. Instead of seeing people or situations as obstacles on the path,
we can see them as opportunities to practice patience and tolerance, to know how
to listen, thank and love. They allow us to widen our capacity to co-operate and
enlarge our heart so that we might be more generous.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 13-08-2012
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To be fully responsible is to inspire responsibility in others.
Expression: When there is true responsibility, there will be freedom given
to others too to be responsible. Ones ideas are not forced on to others but there
is full freedom for others to make their own choice. Support and guidance of course
are given and people are able to become independent and responsible.
Experience: When I have learnt to take up the responsibility of my own life,
I am able to become self-sufficient and independent and also constantly be available
for those around me to become independent and responsible too. There are enough
resources in me for those around to take benefit from.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris