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Soul Sustenance 02-04-2013
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Mental Clarity Or Focus
To strengthen yourself you need to have mental clarity or focus. That is possible if there is not so much of excessive thought, so as to generate clouds of unhappiness, suffering, grief, indecision, doubts and negativity - thoughts that your mind produces, thoughts that are weak, useless or wasteful. All of these thoughts cloud your own clarity. Mental focus means to think less, think concretely, concentrate, think in an elevated way, and your thought will have an energy of clarity and inner strength that will help you to put it into practice with greater success. You should strengthen yourself to achieve a state of self-control. For this, you need to study yourself, know yourself and understand yourself. You need inner silence, for there not to be so much mental chatter (noise) from thinking, thinking, thinking and thinking.
On top of that, other people influence you and so you generate even more thoughts. There are so many influences and inner voices that speak to you. With all of that there cannot be clarity. There is the voice of your fears, of your ego, that of desires and greed, there are influences of the past, thoughts emerging from your values, influences of your neighbors, your children, your husband or wife, your mother or father, the influence of your office colleague's opinion, or your best friend, your doctor, your guru, etc. You can listen to many inner and outer voices and, if you are not strong, your mind weakens under so many influences, which has negative effects on your clarity of mind. Because of all of this you have to strengthen your mind, which means, think less; think slower, concentrated and clear thought; with sense and meaning; of quality, based on a healthy and positive motivation. These thoughts are then like arrows, which have positive strength and clarity.
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Message for the day 02-04-2013
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To be free from negative and waste is to be light and spread the
light around.
Projection: When we find ourselves having waste and negative thoughts we don't
usually work to change them. It is because we don't realise the
effect of such thoughts, which are harmful to both others and
ourselves, too.
Solution: We need to remind ourselves that the positivity in our mind is
beneficial to both ourselves and others too. When we consciously
remember the benefit of having positive thoughts we will not feel
heavy because of the change that we have to bring about.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris