Friday, August 16, 2024

Think Of Other People Only When Necessary

Think Of Other People Only When Necessary

It is a simple law of science that whoever we think of often, we get connected to them mentally. If we think of someone who is upset, we feel pain. Spiritual wisdom tells us to constantly remember God. When we remember someone, we get connected to their state of mind. We start feeling the same emotion they are feeling – may be stress, fear or anger. 


1. Check if there is someone who lives on your mind on and off. It could be someone you are emotionally attached to, or even someone you don't like. This means your thoughts reach them, trigger a thought in their mind, and their thoughts reach you back. You're connected thought-to-thought.


2. Recall times when you suddenly felt low or uneasy and did not know why. Maybe you remembered someone who was worried or unhappy at that moment. 


3. Criticizing, hating or fearing people lowers your energy. Suppose your office colleague is not performing well. Suggest improvements to them with dignity. After that don't think negatively when you think of them or meet them. 


4. Not just during meditation but throughout the day, even as you carry out all day-to-day activities, remember God to get connected to His frequency. He is the Ocean of peace, love, joy and power. So you will get influenced by His vibrations and start feeling the same.

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Message for the day


To have the awareness of being God's instrument is to bring about a positive change.


Expression: When there is the awareness of being an instrument of God, there would be the desire to do the best and be the best. So each and every thing I do would be for the improvement for the self. Due to this there would be divinity and speciality seen in every thing that is done. This would also bring the awareness of all the resources and they would also be used in a worthwile way. 


Experience: When I am aware of my own role and what I contribute through my specialities, I recognise the fact that I am a beautiful instrument of God. This awareness naturally helps me be in my state of self-respect under all circumstances. I find myself giving my best and making myself more and more beautiful within. So I find that I am able to bring about a positive change with great ease.


Letting Go With Lightness

Letting Go With Lightness

Letting go is our ability to release everything that is not right or healthy for the soul. It means not carrying the baggage of the past into the present and future. It is about dropping the burden of our ignorance, pain from past experiences, attachments, expectations, negative habits, limiting or wrong belief systems, negative sanskars and people's opinions. By letting go of our old ways, we welcome new ways of thinking, behaving, being and becoming. Meditation and connecting with God strengthens the ability to let go. Being aware that I am a soul and not a body or role, makes it easy to live with people and possess things but not get attached to them or fear losing them. We play the role of a trustee, so no one and nothing belongs to us. We understand that people come into our life to live together in harmony and things in possession are to be used with gratitude and care.


We need to let go of our wrong thoughts, beliefs and sanskars. When we recognize the damage they cause, we can finish them. We also let go of expectations with the understanding that people and situations can never be our way owing to difference in our sanskars and karmic accounts. If we do not let go of the pain of our past experiences with people, our present experiences with them will get coloured by the unpleasant past. So, we interact with them each time, perceiving them through the filter of their earlier behaviour. Holding onto unpleasant emotions of past situations deepens emotional wounds. Letting go is like dropping a baggage of negative energies that had become stronger and heavier each day, weighing us down. By letting go of it we travel light carrying only what is useful.

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Message for the day


The one who has the courage to face is the one who can bring about a change.


Expression: When there is a challenge which brings out a negative response, there is an immediate desire to move away from the situation so that the negativity finishes. But the real challenge is not the situation itself, but the expression of a weakness within. The one who has the courage to face this weakness and work on it is able to bring about a change accordingly.


Experience: When I am able to face the challenge of working on my own weaknesses, instead of moving away from the situation I am able to experience progress at every step. Then there will be no feeling of helplessness but I will be able to have full control on the situation. So there is the ability to learn from each situation and move forward constantly.


Overcome Addiction To Gadgets

Overcome Addiction To Gadgets

Do you check your phone every 10 minutes? And do you panic when your phone battery drops to 20 percent? Can you not stop watching mobile or TV screens at mealtime? And can you not stop checking emails when you're with your family? From using gadgets to abusing them, gadget addiction is hampering our happiness, health and relationships. Limiting screen time saves you time and energy. Remind yourself everyday - I am a powerful being. I use my gadgets for their utility, I am not addicted to any of them. I limit my time with technology. My gadgets don't control my time, energy or habits.


Do you sense an overexposure to digital screens? Are your gadgets becoming a huge part of your life? The extra hours of digital screen-gazing might be building into addiction. It all begins with signs of wanting - to read every news item, to watch another cricket match, to catch up with episodes of a TV show we missed and so on…the thoughts lead to action, action to habit, and habit turns into addiction. Decide your screen time and stick to that schedule until it becomes a habit. Your will power and discipline to support your intentions will end gadget addiction. Instead of viewing other people's lives through gadgets, be more productive with your own life. Start relating to your gadgets and technology in healthy ways. Your computer, phone and TV have made your life comfortable. Become a master of them and make your gadgets your instruments. Don't be addicted to your gadgets. Make sure your gadgets do not control your mind, they don't make you happy or sad. Appreciate their utility, enjoy using them, connect to them when needed and disconnect without feeling uncomfortable. Don't get disturbed if you can't use them for any reason. watch TV only for x hours a day, use your computer only when necessary, phone only when required, do not keep checking for new messages, do not read or watch everything on media and social media. Consume only what is healthy for your mind and body.

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Message for the day


True honesty to the self brings the power to bring about change.


Expression: To be honest is not just to be truthful. It is more to be honest with the self. The one who is honest with the self constantly has the aim of bringing about a change for the better. Each situation is used as a chance for the betterment of the self. So there is always the aim not to repeat the mistakes that are committed once.


Experience: When I am honest with myself I am able to feel the constant progress and experience the happiness of moving forward under all circumstances. I have the power to understand the situation, not just from my point of view, but more in a detached way. So I am able to understand and accept whatever the situation holds for me and learn from it humbly.