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Soul Sustenance 12-02-2013
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The Evolution Of Anger
We become a little irritated when we are stuck in a traffic jam and we getting late
to reach somewhere on time, or we are not going to complete a particular task, as
per our expectations or if someone whom we very well know decides to ignore us today,
for some reason or the other. If this seed of irritation is watered, or in other
words it is given the concentrated energy of our attention i.e. we continue with
the irritation for some time, it slowly grows or evolves into frustration. Unless
we take some constructive inner action to stop the growth of the frustration and
we keep energizing it, it will grow or evolve into anger. And if this happens regularly
and we are not careful, it will become a habit, a part of our personality, which
we will finally come to believe is a natural part of your nature. We will even think
we were born with it. That it is ‘in our genes’. Every time we become angry we cause
the production of certain chemicals in our body and we also become addicted to those
chemicals – then we look for people and situations which will give us an excuse
to get angry so that we can have our daily dose of chemicals. We not only become
attached to material objects, people, ways of thinking, beliefs etc. - we also become
attached to our emotions like the emotion of anger. The regular secretion of these
chemicals will finally kill our body. We don’t need to kill our body. We need to
accept that anger is never ever productive, know that it is just not necessary to
be angry with anyone or about anything, know that it is entirely our own creation
and know that we can choose a different response. If we know and accept that, we
will experience freedom from it.
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Message for the day 12-02-2013
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When our vision is on our aim, we will continue to progress.
Projection: Sometimes as we move along we suddenly stop. We no more find
the progress that should be there in our life. At such times we don't really understand
what the reason is. We do try to bring about changes but it doesn't always work
and we find ourselves stagnating.
Solution: When on a journey, we are sure to come across many scenes that
are beautiful or distracting. But when we know where we have to go we will never
be distracted but will move on appreciating each scene that comes our way. In life
too, when we are faced with a situation that is not in keeping with our aim we need
to pay special attention not to get carried away with such side-scenes.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris