Brahma Kumaris

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 19-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 19-04-2020
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Changing The Quality Of Your Morning Time

The biggest gifts we can give ourselves is, developing a powerful morning routine for nourishing our mind and body. It’s the most important time to start fresh, prepare yourself and set the tone for a rewarding day. How does your typical morning begin? Do you check your emails a few times and then rush through the day? Do you grab the phone upon waking and scroll through social media? Before you know, you might get late. The mind becomes turbulent and the body is stressed. Our mind handles all our roles and responsibilities. So our first responsibility is to take care of it. We can begin with creating thoughts of highest frequency – by giving gratitude to God, to our mind and body, to people, to objects we use, and to nature. Nourish the mind with few minutes of affirmations along with visualizing the entire day being happy. Meditate for a few minutes, and then read enriching messages for the next few minutes. These activities charge our inner battery and help us experience happiness and peace throughout the day. Let’s be systematic and have the self-discipline to follow morning habits that set us up for the day.

Remind yourself every morning that peace and calmness are your natural sanskars. Each day is beautiful because you begin it with a perfect routine. Set yourself up for happiness and success. Strictly follow your morning habits every single day. Wake up feeling fresh. Your mind and body are well rested. Exercise or walk for 30 minutes, activating every cell of your body. It becomes ready to support all your activities through the day. Meditate for 15 minutes to charge yourself, your mind, by connecting with God, the Supreme Power House. Emerge your inner powers of peace, happiness and power to be used in every scene. Also plan to work on yourself in the day, changing a sanskar, forgiving someone, forgetting the past, being nice to someone. Choose, decide and implement. Read uplifting, inspiring messages for 15 minutes to help your mind create pure, perfect thoughts. Do not check social media or email messages, read newspaper or watch news for the first one hour. Your morning time is your time, reserved for your nurturing. You will see a huge difference all this makes to your mood, energy, attitude and efficiency in the day.

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Message for the day 19-04-2020
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Love spreads positivity.

Expression: The one who is loving is not limited by circumstances and his love is not restricted only to certain people. On the other hand, it is revealed in each and every act thus colouring everything and every relationship with the beauty of that love. To be loving is to be constantly a giver. It also means to forgive others easily and help them to move forward.

Experience: When I am loving constantly, I am able to experience the joy of life. I am able to exchange the gifts of pure feelings and find my life enriched with them. I am able to enjoy the beauty of relationships without having to feel the bondage due to expectations. Each moment of my life is filled with beauty and joy.

In Spiritual Service,
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 18-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 18-04-2020
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Keeping A Worry Free Consciousness

Does your mind become constantly pre-occupied with worries of what-if, how-to, when-will and so on? Do you look at your life and the world in negative ways as if there is always one or the other dominant threat? Relentless worry paralyzes our ability to handle challenges. It not only drains us but also attracts more negativity into our life. Are you caught in a habit of worrying? Do you write negative scripts about your life or that of your loved ones, constantly fearing the worst? Worry is an outcome of our mind creating negative thoughts. Most of our worries are about the past, are uncontrollable, or shall never materialize. But the negative vibrations of worry deplete us, radiate to our situations and can complicate them. We mostly worry for people in the name of love. Instead of worrying, let us care. Care radiates positive vibrations. By caring, we create the highest frequency thoughts and these thoughts attract positivity in life. Let us trust ourselves and our life to be beautiful. We don’t need to worry. We have the power to change what can be changed, and accept what we cannot.

Remind yourself everyday that you are a powerful being. Create your inner power. Use your power in every scene today. You are fearless. Live peace and thereby radiate it into the universe. Whatever may be the situations, respond calmly. Your life is beautiful, health is perfect, relationships are harmonious, career is successful. Don’t worry about anything. Take care of your mind. After every hour pause for a minute to check your thoughts and change them if there is a slight trace of anxiety. Nurture your mind with meditation and spiritual study every day. Increase your inner power every day. Cultivate the resilience to face any pressure with stability. Focus on your karmas. Keep them right so you don’t need to worry about your future. The consequences of your right thoughts, words and behaviour create a secure future for you. Worry about nothing. Even if there is a challenge, do not worry. You are a problem solver. Your inner stillness radiates power to the issue and shifts the situation from chaos to calm. Everything in your life is perfect and will always be.

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Message for the day 18-04-2020
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To give regard to all is to win the love of all.

Expression: To give regard to someone who is older and more experienced is one thing, but it is also important to have regard to someone who is younger. When there is such regard, interaction with them would surely be positive. The words spoken would be encouraging and giving them support and never putting them down even when they make mistakes.

Experience: When I am able to give regard to everyone, I am able to win the love of all. I am not dependent on others' love for giving them regard, but am able to appreciate them as they are. I am able to see their specialities and encourage them to use these specialities. This naturally wins the love of others, along with bringing improvement in their own life.

In Spiritual Service,
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Friday, April 17, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 17-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 17-04-2020
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Corona Protection By Thought Power

8 Spiritual Steps

1. Remind yourself 20-25 times everyday – I am a fearless soul, protected by God’s vibrations, which surround me every moment. My body is always healthy and protected from corona virus.

2. As you drink or eat anything, radiate rays of purity and power to it for 20 seconds each time before having it. This will fill your body with protective energy and increase immunity.

3. Visualize a golden circle of God’s light and might around your home everyday and feel very deeply that my family is safe and secure from corona and this light and might is destroying it.

4. Treat the present social isolation time as a time to go in silence, meditate, empower yourself spiritually and radiate vibrations of peace, patience and strength to the world.

5. Fear and worry about the future of your family, your health or your work at the present time will only increase your problems. Think right and positive. This will create a solution soon.

6. Today, whenever you meet someone, radiate thoughts of cooperation to them – You are very powerful, physically strong and your immunity is immense. You will never be affected by the virus.

7. Instead of over reading and listening corona information, absorb spiritual wisdom and take steps for mental and emotional protection. Tell yourself – The world will recover very soon. We are safe.

8. Every morning as soon as you get up and every night before sleeping, affirm to yourself – God has incarnated in my life, home, colony, city and country. He has cleaned corona completely and forever.

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Message for the day 17-04-2020
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The one who is patient experiences constant success.

Expression: I always expect things to happen fast. Even with a little effort on my part I expect high results. Because of my impatience I just can't wait, I jump to conclusions and react without understanding the problem. Thus I find it difficult to experience success in whatever I do.

Experience: I need to understand that the fruit of the seeds I sow will come at their own time. This gives me the patience to wait without expecting results too fast. Also patience allows me to be calm even in the most negative situations. Thus I will be able to experience success whatever the immediate result of my actions might be.

In Spiritual Service,
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 16-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 16-04-2020
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Viewing Situations Positively (Part 3)

Feelings of helplessness when faced with difficult situations are something that many people in the world experience. It’s as if life comes to a standstill and you don’t know where to look for help and whom to call out to. Is it so difficult to face situations? Doesn’t God know what we are going through and can’t he be made a part of the situation to cross it. Some say God is a spectator to our problems and he is too far away to hear our voice but is it so? God waits for His help to be taken because you are His spiritual child and you have a right to take His help. Also, God is not very happy if we say that He is insensitive to our troubles. Some people even go the extent of sometimes incorrectly saying that all the happiness and the sorrow in our lives is given by God, which is not true. But, at the same time to get us out of the sorrow is something that even God is always eager to do, but we need to take His help by remaining strong and stable in the negative situation. It is said that one step of courage taken by us brings thousand steps of help from God. God is our Father and taking His help is the first thing that should come in our mind when we are in trouble and not the last as sometimes it happens. We get so over-involved in situations and in thinking how to solve it that we forget that there is someone sitting out there who can be called by the power of thought and whose help can be taken. We can do this as we would do with our physical father, if we needed his help.

Some people assume that God should help on His own, but there are two conditions for receiving His help – one is courage and the other is remembering Him. Remembering him is a way of giving Him respect, who is the Highest of Highest. Remember God, who is the most humble being that exists. But He will help us when we remember Him much more than if we are disconnected from Him. Taking His help makes it easy for you to face the situation at hand and hence view situations positively.

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Message for the day 16-04-2020
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To live in the present is to be free from the influence of the past.

Expression: Many times the past keeps coming back again and again in the mind, influencing the present too. The present is lost in thinking about the past. So there can be nothing done to enjoy the present. All words and actions then are totally coloured by the past. Instead the one who is able to free himself from the influence of the past is able to move positively towards the future.

Experience: To be free from the influence of the past it is important to have a powerful consciousness of the present. To be able to be free from the influence of the past is to forget the past. Because there is the understanding that it is gone. Also there is no worry about the future. When I am able to learn to live in the present I am able to discover how full it is of peaceful moments.

In Spiritual Service,
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 15-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 15-04-2020
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Viewing Situations Positively (Part 2)

Situations arise in our lives regularly and even suddenly at times. At those times we are not prepared for them and even the best of people who are generally very positive will at times become disturbed when they look at them. There are people who have had heart attacks or have died of shock when someone close to them died or when suddenly their business went down or when their favorite sports team lost a game or when they were told about a serious illness which they were suffering from. So, life can be demanding at times because we are not prepared for situations and at the same time we are not mentally strong enough to face them. So this makes it difficult for us to adjust to the sudden changes in our life and also we are generally attached to a perfect life in which no difficult situations exist. There are people who fear situations not so much because of the actual situation itself but more because of the fact that the situation exists in their life. This is called attachment to a particular lifestyle which we are used to, where everything goes smoothly and a little change in that can disturb us mentally.

Bringing spirituality in our lives is an important way of making our lives firstly free for the fear of situations existing. At the same time becoming aware of why situations arise in our lives and accept them easily. Lastly give a thought to what positive steps we can take on a physical and non-physical level i.e. at the level of our words and actions which are physical and at the level of our thoughts which are non-physical to reduce difficult situations in our lives. Also, the power to face situations fearlessly increases inside us when we have the hand of God to hold on to. Also, it increases when we have a very deep relationship with Him based on a spiritual understanding of who He is actually and how we can connect with Him. The connection becomes easy by experiencing ourselves as a soul or a being of spiritual light which is different from the physical costume we wear which we commonly call the human body.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 15-04-2020
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To bring in light is to finish darkness.

Expression: Usually when there is any negativity seen, there is a lot of attention paid to it. All the positivity remains hidden and only the negativity is highlighted. So the one who is caught up with a negative attitude colours all his words and actions too with this negativity and will naturally create a world of negativity for himself.

Experience: When I am able to see the positivity even in both positive situations and negative situations, I am able to influence others with my positivity. Others' negativity will not influence me in a negative way, but I will be able to remain powerful in all situations. I will experience inner growth constantly.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 14-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 14-04-2020
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Viewing Situations Positively (Part 1)

If you look at the world around you and judge people based on how they respond to different situations, you will realize and know that there are some people who will look at situations from a negative view point very easily. A view point literally means – viewing from a point a particular scene in your life. Obviously the point of view as we say is different for each person i.e. the point from where someone views a particular scene is different for each person. It’s like a painting on a wall. I can see the same painting by standing at different points and I will see the same painting differently. That is what we mean by perception or the angle of viewing or the point of view. Sometimes one painting of life or scene in life will be seen by ten different people from ten different positions of the mind and they will see it differently or in other words they will react differently. And because we look from different viewpoints or have different perceptions, life for some is like a joyride and for some it can be a roller coaster ride i.e. a ride with ups and downs where you are shaken up and down very often. In other words you become unstable emotionally.

When looking at situations, choose the most positive mind position to look at them from. That is the secret key to having a mind space which you own, in which the experience of virtues like happiness, contentment and power exist and express themselves freely. How to choose the best mental position to look at a scene of life or in other words how to have the most positive perception for a situation? This depends on your personality, which the good thing is, can be changed. Meditation is the most beautiful technique of connecting yourself internally using the power of visualization to the sweet personality of God and absorbing His virtues. This brings the virtues inside your mind space in the form of good quality thoughts and on the basis of that creating positive perceptions or positive view points when looking at situations.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 14-04-2020
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To appreciate variety is to harmonise.

Expression: When there is recognition that each human being is unique with his own unique set of capabilities, there is the ability to respect him for what he is. Then all attempts are made to harmonise with him instead of trying to make him just like oneself. So energy is channelised in the right direction and one becomes an inspiration for others too.

Experience: To appreciate variety means to see the beauty and specialities of each and every individual. It means to appreciate the natural positive qualities in everyone and learn to blend my own qualities with theirs. This gives me the satisfaction of the beauty of relationships, because there are no expectations and no disappointments.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website

Monday, April 13, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 13-04-2020

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Soul Sustenance 13-04-2020
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The Pledge Of Responsibility

A very important aspect of progress in the self and my relationships, which we all desire is restoring a sense of responsibility in my inner world, so that by doing that, I and others around me are benefitted. Even on a physical or non-spiritual level, someone who is responsible while playing his/her role or performing his/her duties either in the family, at the workplace or in some other setting e.g. a club group or a team in a particular sport or a social service group, not only feels content with his/her actions himself/herself but spreads ripples of contentment to others and receives similar energy from each one he/she is involved with. In the same way on an emotional or spiritual level, when I start my day I need to remind myself of my responsibility towards myself. I need to remind myself that I am responsible for the choices I make in my life which influence and color everyone around me. So do my thoughts, feelings, the way my personality functions internally and externally the whole day and my responses to people and situations, for all of which I am responsible.

It is like taking a pledge of responsibility with the self in the morning that today I will not create a single thought, word or action which is against the texture of my innate, positive nature i.e. irresponsible. And what will provide my pledge the much required strength of determination? An injection of positive thoughts, emotions and sanskaras within me in the morning, using a suitable technique of self empowerment like meditation or spiritual study or some other. By taking such a pledge of responsibility and by watering it with the energy of my attention from time to time during the day, I am able to implement it and can make a difference to not only the people around me, but to a lot more than that. In this way, as I change, the world around me changes, because the energy I create in my inner world starts flowing into my circumstances, my interactions, my sphere of karmas, etc. to make them positive, which benefits me in return in the form of a cyclic process. As I take this pledge and abide by it for a few days, I start realizing the immense potential that it possesses.

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Message for the day 13-04-2020
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True change brings benefit to all.

Expression: When there is someone who is behaving in a way that is not right, the usual reaction is to have negative feelings for that person. All words and actions based on this negative attitude will naturally create negativity. Instead it is good to see what could be done to benefit the other person. Raising complaints only takes away inner peace.

Experience: When I bring about a change that benefits even the person who is making the mistake, I am able to remain in peace with all types of people. I am not worried about why a person is behaving in a particular way, but I am able to see what is to be done in order to remove that particular negativity. The hatred is not for the person but for the negativity itself.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website