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Soul Sustenance 09-10-2012
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Understanding The Mind And Its Functioning
The mind is a faculty of the soul, the main function of which is to produce thoughts.
The thoughts we create are energy. In one day we produce an average of thirty to
forty thousand thoughts. How much energy does this represent? What do we do with
it?
The mind works constantly, even when we are sleeping. We cannot separate ourselves
from it, it is our inseparable companion. If you study your mind you will see that,
as well as thinking, it imagines, remembers, dreams, associates, desires and even
produces your feelings.
If you think about some incident that made you unhappy ten years ago, you will feel
that unhappiness again, perhaps even more deeply than before. If you think of something
that made you happy, you will also feel that happiness when you repeat the event
in your mind.
If you create positive thoughts about yourself, you will feel good and your self-esteem
will be strengthened, and if you create negative thoughts, you will feel depressed,
with low self-esteem. The mind opens up the way to the self. By creating the right
type of thoughts you can open up your inner potential again, and rediscover that
as people we are full of positive qualities.
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Message for the day 09-10-2012
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To be an embodiment of power is to be free from effort.
Expression: When we are faced with a difficult situation we usually try to
make our mind positive at that time, but we find it very difficult to do so. We
then give up making effort thinking that we don't have the power to change our nature.
We continue to work with the weakness and strengthen it further.
Experience: In order to win over our weakness we need to become an embodiment
of power. For this we need the practice of a long time of being powerful so that
we experience the power within. Then the power that we want at that time will emerge
naturally. Like a master we'll be able to order our inner powers and be free from
the effort of changing negative to positive.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris