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Soul Sustenance 09-05-2013
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Overcoming Fears Connected With Negative Past Experiences (cont.)
The work with oneself to see what aspects of your past burden you and coming to
terms with those aspects, requires silence, reflection and meditation. When you
come to terms with your own past, you can let go of it and be free of it, not be
afraid that the past will come back to you. If not, sometimes, it is like a shadow
that follows you. If your house was robbed once, the shadow follows you that, perhaps,
you might be robbed again. If they hurt you, you fear it will happen again. Sometimes
that experience presents itself in dreams, in the subconscious or in present attitudes.
Reliving the past in your mind, you do not fully enjoy the present. You have to accept
the pieces of your past so that they do not continue to generate upsets.
Accept that you had to live through them and live the present with a constructive
vision of the future.
In the above context, it helps to write letters to God about your experiences. The
exercise of sharing them with God in writing brings clarity inside you and helps
you to bring the spiritual light and might in your life in order not to be burdened
by unnecessary experiences, unhappiness or grief. Have you ever written
to God? You could do it at night and tell Him the things that affected you or that
you have learned. You can tell Him the things or intimate feelings that other people
perhaps wouldn't understand or wouldn't be there to listen to. You could also talk
to Him about all that you question, and you do not have an answer to. And the following
morning, when you meditate and study a little bit of spiritual knowledge, you often
receive answers.
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Message for the day 09-05-2013
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To be clean means to be a success.
Projection: We usually interact with others based on our past experiences
with them. Even if there has been a single negative experience with someone, we
keep that in our mind and all our responses are based on that experience. We are,
then, not able to be fully successful in our relationships.
Solution: In order to succeed in our relationships we need to keep our mind
free from the experiences of the past. We can do this when we look at the uniqueness
and speciality of each individual that we come into contact with. This practice
makes us respect all and be free from the negativity of the past.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris