Saturday, August 06, 2022

What You Believe Is What You Achieve

What You Believe Is What You Achieve

Do you wonder where the set of beliefs gathered along life's journey have come from? Whatever you believe about happiness, love, respect, anger or stress were mostly thrusted on you based on your social conditioning. Have you paused to evaluate them, to accept what is right and discard any limiting belief? Every situation is perceived through our belief system. Quite literally our lifestyle relies on it – the quality of our thoughts, feelings, attitude, habits, personality and finally our destiny. This means what we believe has a dominating influence on our destiny. We cannot afford to hold a single wrong belief. The society spread limiting beliefs like: Anger is necessary, Happiness is in achievements, Stress is natural, People and situations decide how I feel, and so on. Believing Anger is necessary, we used anger repeatedly. So even if we wanted to be peaceful, it was temporary. Experiment with a new belief: Anger is damaging, love is the way to get work done. This will make love and happiness natural. Let us replace layers of incorrect beliefs with empowering ones. Remind yourself: I evaluate every belief and adopt what is beneficial. All my beliefs keep me happy, healthy and in harmony with my world.

Have you paused to check how many beliefs you have adopted and lived with, since childhood? Have you evaluated beliefs about yourself other people or about the world, before owning them? Or do you just accept the beliefs instilled in your mind by your family, education, society or your past experiences? Our beliefs are the absolute truths for us. Belief System is comparable to a computer's Operating System. It drives our life - our thoughts, words and behaviour. Holding a single wrong belief can be very damaging. Let us consciously check and change limiting and incorrect beliefs that are holding us from living a beautiful life. Sit back and prepare your mind to check and clear beliefs that are obstacles to your own growth, wellbeing and success.
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Message for the day


To have the balance of being a master and a child is to experience constant success.


Expression:
To have the right balance means to know when to be a master and when to be a child. When one gives an idea or makes a contribution, it is as a master - with total authority. But while the idea is heard by others and is being criticised I become a child. There is no attachment to the idea, but the mind is open to receive new thoughts in order to enrich what is already there.


Experience: When I am able to maintain a balance between being master and a child, I am able to experience constant happiness I am able to put forth my creative ideas with confidence. Yet I am not upset when someone criticises my ideas. On the contrary, I am constantly learning and moving forward. So I constantly experience success.

Friday, August 05, 2022

How To Study God's Wisdom Everyday?

How To Study God's Wisdom Everyday?

God is an Ocean of Wisdom and the Highest and most knowledgeful and powerful soul that exists. Because He is eternally bodiless and does not come in the cycle of birth and rebirth, He knows the World Drama very clearly. God shares His wisdom on Earth at the end of Kaliyug or the Iron Age, with the help of which all souls of the world get purified and the world gets transformed into Satyug or the Golden Age. Let us look at 5 tips for studying God's wisdom everyday.

1. Meditate For A Few Minutes Before Spiritual Study - When we meditate for a few minutes before listening or reading spiritual wisdom, our thoughts slow down and our concentration increases. This helps us in understanding and absorbing God's spiritual wisdom clearly.

2. Revise Your Purpose Of Studying The Wisdom - After meditating, tell yourself that God Himself is going to teach me today and also remember that this study will make me pure, perfect and full of all qualities and powers and I need to study with complete mental and physical alertness.

3. Feel A Beautiful Closeness With God While Studying - Also, remember and experience God as a loveful parent and teacher while studying His wisdom, which is full of depth and beauty. Absorb God's vibrations and His feelings behind every word. Do not only listen or read.

4. Note Down Important Points Of The Wisdom - When you study spiritual wisdom, it's important to note down a few points of the wisdom, which you feel you want to revise in the day, think about deeply and apply in the day's actions and interactions.

5. End The Spiritual Wisdom With Thanking God - After you have finished studying spiritual wisdom, take God's sweet blessings of love, thank Him in your heart and promise Him that you will follow everything that He has taught today and will not leave His hand anytime in the day.
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Message for the day


God's love brings out the perfection from within.


Expression: 
The power of God's love brings about change internally. Through His love everything old and unwanted finishes. There is the natural tendency to bring about such perfection that the one who loves Him and gets His love becomes like a mirror - a mirror in which perfection of others too is visible. 


Experience: There is such inner strength that I get because of God's love that even if somebody does something to hurt me, I don't allow myself to get hurt. Even if people are saying negative things, they don't influence or touch me in a negative way. I am so full with God's love that it naturally flows out to those around me.


Thursday, August 04, 2022

Changing Negative Thought Patterns (Part 3)

Changing Negative Thought Patterns (Part 3)

To create positive sanskaras, we need to first take the foremost step of determination. Determination means a strong promise to the self that I will change my thought patterns from negative to positive. That is the first realization. Then, we need to select one particular sanskara of weakness that disturbs us and does not let us be powerful. For e.g. if I have the habit of being impatient in difficult situations, then first I need to fill myself with that quality through self-effort. Until I do that, no matter how much I may try to be patient in any situation, because I am lacking the quality at the level of the sanskara and since the weakness has not been erased completely, it will be difficult for me to be patient. Let's say on a particular day, I am faced with a traffic jam. If I say to myself that all these vehicles on my way should get cleared in the next five minutes, but they take half an hour, will I be able to remain calm in those extra twenty five minutes, which I did not anticipate or expect? So, what I require is patience. If I say to myself, in those twenty five minutes that I have to be patient, will I experience that virtue? I will not unless that virtue is in my sanskara or part of my personality. So, it is like filling myself with a lot of happiness and then I will experience that quality. I cannot say to myself - I am the happiest person who exists in this world and experience happiness alone. I need to first fill myself with that quality and then happiness will come naturally to me.

So it's about being natural and not theoretical alone i.e. I should be an embodiment or a practical form of every quality and power and not just repeat inside my mind that I have that quality or power. This applies to all the different qualities and powers which are required in crossing negative situations or circumstances. Meditation fills us with these qualities and powers very easily. This is because meditation is a beautiful relationship and connection with the Supreme Source of spiritual energy and power – God. God is full of those qualities and powers and never loses them ever, unlike us, who need to fill ourselves when we lose them.
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Message for the day


To receive respect from others comes more with responsibility than as a right.


Expression: 
The one who gets respect is the one who becomes worthy of it rather than the one who just expects it. True respect comes from how well a task is done rather than what is done. The more one's speciality is expressed, the more one becomes worthy of respect. 


Experience: When I go on giving my best in whatever is expected of me, I will start receiving respect from those around me. I will then never expect from others but will naturally be able to give respect to all. This further makes me earn their love and regard.