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Soul Sustenance 20-05-2013
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Meditating With Open Eyes
It is advised to practice meditation with eyes open. When we sit to meditate, if
we close our eyes, what we do is that we send a signal to our mind, intellect and
our physical body that sleep is close and that signal, in turn, induces sleep. That
is the last thing we want to induce inside ourselves, while meditating. Meditation
is a way to wake up and stay awake, not only physically, but in terms of being conscious
and alert about what is happening internally and externally. It is
therefore good to practice with eyes open, so that during your meditation, you can
become used to going beyond the physical inputs of what you see, hear, feel and
smell and at the same time, remain exposed to these inputs.
By practicing with open or semi-open eyes, it becomes easier to create the accurate
state of consciousness while still being faintly aware of our surroundings. This
will be essential in day to day activities when we want to stay connected to our
inner peace while others around us may not necessarily be very peaceful. It will
also help us to move deeply into our peaceful consciousness during conversations
which at the same time, require alertness to go into the depth of ideas and concepts.
When we are established in our peaceful, spiritual state (as a result of meditating),
it is as if we are keeping our third eye, the eye of our intellect, open, which
gives us the ability to see, in actions and interactions, what is true and false,
and to make the right decisions without being influenced by others or our own emotions.
All the above abilities are required many times during the day. We obviously can’t
keep closing our eyes to meditate each time any of these abilities are required.
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Message for the day 20-05-2013
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To be open to change means to experience constant progress.
Projection: We usually judge the situation according to our past experiences
and we don't want to change our responses to the situation. Because we have succeeded
once we feel that the particular response will bring us constant success.
Solution: We need to learn from our past experiences but also need to take
care to be open to whatever new learning the situations may have to offer to us.
When we keep learning from every new situation that comes our way we will be able
to experience constant progress.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris