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Soul Sustenance 07-11-2012
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Understanding The Different Types Of Thoughts That The Mind Creates (Part 3)
We have explained Necessary and Unnecessary Thoughts in the last couple of days.
Today we explain:
Negative Thoughts
Negative thoughts harm you and are not good for you. As well as the impact they
may have on others, these thoughts disturb your peace and weaken your inner strength.
If these thoughts occur on a regular basis, they can cause health problems, both
physical and mental. They can even become destructive.
Negative thoughts are based on the five vices primarily – lust, anger, greed, ego,
attachment. They are chiefly caused by selfish and harmful reasons, without taking
into account the values and inner qualities of the person.
"If he speaks to me again in that way I'll beat him up (rage), I think they should
pay me more without having to do any more work to earn it" (greed).
Negative thoughts also arise from unsatisfied expectations, in disagreements, in
laziness, vengeance, racism, jealousy, criticism, hate and an excess of power.
"My boss never appreciates my work but he always values my colleagues more (jealousy).
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth or He who lives by the sword, shall die by
the sword" (vengeance).
(To be continued tomorrow …..)
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Message for the day 07-11-2012
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Change in others is possible when we change.
Expression: When there is some misunderstanding, we normally want to change
others, trying to bring them to our way of thinking. We usually can't understand
why they are not able to understand our way of thinking when we seem to be right.
We are usually not able to succeed in this and we end up feeling frustrated.
Experience: Instead of trying to force people to change their way of thinking,
which is not going to work any way, we need to concentrate instead on our own change
process. As long as we are working on ourselves we will be able to be sweet to those
around too. Our own change process inspires others also to work on themselves.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris