Brahma Kumaris

Monday, September 07, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 07-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 07-09-2020
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Happy Greetings That Matter

Good Morning! This morning, did you greet your family, friends and colleagues with a good morning, good evening or good luck? Do you wish people daily? And how do you acknowledge wishes? Most of us underestimate the value of a genuine Good morning wish. They are not just a pair of customary words. Conveyed with pure intentions of goodness, they radiate the energy of blessings and promise of good things to come. When someone greets us, let’s not ignore, nod, mumble or casually say morning. Also, let’s not monotonously exchange wishes with people on the phone. We need to experience the energy of the message and act thereafter. The receiver then gets our message plus our pure energy. Saying Good Morning should not be difficult. Let’s not wait for others to greet based on hierarchies of age, position or power. People could be happy, sad or in an in-between mood but regardless of their response, we can make those 2 seconds to connect and make their experience of meeting us, good.

We often overlook the power of simple gestures like making eye contact, smiling, paying a compliment or greeting people. These meaningful acts certainly add happiness to our days and theirs. By helping others feel good about themselves, our own happiness significantly grows. Take a moment to see how your positive energy brightens someone’s day today. Everyone is looking to be acknowledged and heard. Sometimes that is all that people need from you. Let them know through your words and actions that they matter. Notice how you feel when you greet the security guard at the gate, hold the door open for a stranger or thank your family member. When you spend time with someone, you understand their value and importance. Kindness in action will bring you more joy than you thought.

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Message for the day 07-09-2020
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Concentration develops when the intellect is clean and clear.

Expression: For the one whose intellect continues to wander, concentration becomes difficult or impossible. On the other hand, for the one who is focused on one thing there are no other distractions at that time and there is easy concentration.

Experience: When I am able to remain focused, I am not troubled by distractions which lessen my concentration. Instead I am able to increase my discrimination power and am able to decide and judge well. This happens because my intellect becomes clean and gets cleared of waste.

In Spiritual Service,
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Sunday, September 06, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 06-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 06-09-2020
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Overcoming Self-Doubt And Insecurities

The one emotion that depletes our happiness and leaves us feeling desperate, is insecurity. Being insecure about ourselves, our relationships, health, finances or careers can damage every aspect of our lifestyle. We need to realize our potential and see ourselves as who we truly are, to shed all our real and imaginary insecurities. As you become sure of yourself at every step, you will experience happiness and health. You will stop making back-references to past failures or flaws, and look forward to creating a destiny of your choice.

Has there been something you felt insecure about – maybe your health, relationship, career, finances or life itself? Does your mind feel threatened from time to time with self-doubts? Is there a belief of not being good enough? Insecurity seems to have gripped most of us today, and we are often not even sure what makes us feel it. The source is mostly the negative information we consume from our environment or media. When we feel insecure about something, we are unable to fully trust ourselves, other people or situations. Let us not allow our mind to continue negative conversations over a prolonged period, because then insecurity becomes our personality. Insecurity is caused by our wrong thoughts of fear, doubt or anxiety. We can finish it by being confident, created by thoughts of optimism, self-belief and positivity. Consciously engage your mind in pure, positive inner talk. Surround yourself with positive, optimistic energy. Remind yourself everyday - I feel safe and secure. My life is perfect. I always have everything that I need.

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Message for the day 06-09-2020
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To have tolerance means to be stable.

Expression: When one is faced with defamation or insult, tolerance gives the power to be stable and cool. And so there is the ability to smile even when there is negativity that comes. Tolerance means to see beyond the insults because of being stable in the stage of self-respect.

Experience: When faced with criticism, if I am able to be stable in my stage of self-respect, I am able to learn from every negative remark that comes my way. I will never become defensive, but will be able to see clearly what new learning I could take.

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

Saturday, September 05, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 05-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 05-09-2020
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Discriminating Correctly And Clearly

Life does not come with a user manual of how to live it. And there are hundreds of choices and decisions we need to make, every single day. We need to have greater wisdom and accurate discrimination power. The ability to discriminate, which means to separate right from wrong, truth from illusions, relevant from the irrelevant, is fundamental to taking correct and beneficial decisions.

Sit back and see how you increase your capacity to discriminate -

Affirmation I am a knowledgeful being. I am the creator of my destiny… so many options every day … so many choices to make … and there is so much information… media…social media…past experiences… public opinion… But I know what I need… I have the power of discrimination… my mind and intellect are stable… they are my strength… my intellect discriminates perfectly…based on my rich wisdom… I use it in every situation… to discriminate my thoughts, belief systems, feelings, behaviours … and decide what is right for me … I understand people and situations as they are… it tells me what is right…what is the truth… what is my priority… what is beneficial for my present and future … it discriminates…it gives me guidelines… then I take a decision… the right decision … I check what will be the result if my thoughts come into words or actions. I bring the decision into action. I immediately do what I decide to do ... I choose, decide and implement immediately. I don’t get affected by other influences when discriminating. I trust my highest self… even if people’s opinions are different… I analyse their intentions and habits triggering it… I empathise…I respond with peace. This is my nature.

Repeat this affirmation a few times to strengthen your intellect. When you discriminate between right and wrong, you will be able to take quick decisions. Your capacity to discriminate gives you an accurate understanding not only of situations and other people, but also an understanding of our own self.

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Message for the day 05-09-2020
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The one who is able to discriminate well is able to bring about real benefit.

Expression: Everyone naturally works for the benefit of the self and others. But the one who discriminates well is able to understand the other person's need and give accordingly. So whatever is done naturally brings benefit for others and also for the self.

Experience: When I am able to bring benefit for the right person at the right time with the right thing, I am able to win the trust of the other person. I expect nothing in return, but have the satisfaction of helping at the right time.

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

Friday, September 04, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 04-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 04-09-2020
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A Journey To Happiness Or A Journey Of Happiness (Part 3)?

Happiness at all levels can be experienced when life is full of the treasure of beautiful relationships. The closest person to you is your own self. A good relationship with the self where there is a clear understanding of your own spiritual identity and you also know what is your value and how special you are in different ways, is the key to happiness. Also, the closer you are to your own self, the more beautiful your relationship with God and with others will be. God himself is an Ocean of positive personality characteristics and experiencing each shade of his personality and different relationships with him will make you happier and full of wisdom and strength. Also, the more you love God and hold his hand in every sphere of life, the more other people will be closer and more content with you, which will make life beautiful and light at every step. It is said that the power of love can move mountains. So loving the self, God and others and receiving love in return will make you enthusiastic in your life journey to fulfill different tasks and objectives. A roller-coaster life ride full of the rises of will happens and the falls of will not happens will get replaced by a smooth train ride in which you constantly experience the breeze of satisfaction and joy to the fullest, irrespective of the type of events happening in your life.

Lastly, it is said that the biggest virtue is to share virtues or qualities with others. In other words, experiencing your own qualities, increasing them and then radiating them to others through your face, your eyes, your smile, your sweet words and your noble actions will not only make others happier. But their happiness and blessings full of light and love will reach you and make you happy in return. Goodness shared is goodness earned. And goodness gained inside the self is opening the treasure of joy and lightness inside you. So, aim to be the nicest person in the world, full of goodness and you will become the happiest person in the world. This is because an emotionally wealthy person is wealthy in happiness too.

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Message for the day 04-09-2020
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The one who is aware of one's fortune enables others to experience their fortune too.

Expression: To be aware of one's own fortune means to appreciate and use all that one has. Also when there is the awareness of one's own fortune, there is a natural tendency to help people become aware of what they have and how they can benefit from it. So the one who is fortunate becomes a giver.

Experience: When I am able to recognize my own fortune, I am able to have the joy of being a giver constantly. Whatever the circumstances, I am able to give knowing that I am fortunate. But never is there dependency created on me, because my help is to make them aware of their fortune too and make them independent.

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

Thursday, September 03, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 03-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 03-09-2020
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A Journey To Happiness Or A Journey Of Happiness (Part 2)?

It is worth wondering that obstacles on the life journey can be temporary obstructions in our achievements, but not obstructions in our happiness. Only then the journey of life will be a journey of happiness and not a journey to happiness. One of the most important ways of remaining happy during the journey with many challenges co-existing at the same time is increasing the wealth of our thinking. The right type of thinking will make us happy even if there are unfinished tasks or goals or life events which we are keenly anticipating to get over. Raise the bar of your thinking on a challenging day and see how rich and full you feel internally. This will make you pure happiness conscious and not challenge conscious and also not date conscious, the date when the challenge will be overcome which you waiting to see unfold in front of your eyes. The source of rich thinking is a choice for you to make. You can make a good selection, you can choose the message that we send you everyday and feed that source every day to your mind before leaving for work or starting any day-long activity which keeps you occupied.

Also, have you heard the story of the woodcutter who used to work very hard the whole day but used to not cut much by the end of the day without realizing the reason for the same. This went on for many days until one fine day someone suggested to him that why don’t you sharpen your axe? He did that and his tiring days got over. Likewise we go on and on the whole day in search of different life purposes without ever sparing a thought that our axe which is our strengths, specialties and skills, needs to be sharpened. Not a single day should pass without experiencing our strengths, positives and special personality traits including our unique talents. You might wonder how we will experience these? The path is simple – by bringing them into practical action. This will make you fuller. But along with that, both - the practical application of these unique positives inside you and the pure happiness due to the high self-esteem experienced as a result of that, will make it easier to fulfill your ambitions faster.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 03-09-2020
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To be careless means to misuse specialities.

Expression: To be careless means that there is no awareness of one's specialitites and so there is the inability to use them for the benefit of the self and for the good of others. On the other hand there is also a tendency to become overconfident because of these specialities and not to work on self -transformation. The one who is careless is not able to recognize the need for self change and so is not able to bring about transformation.

Experience: When I am able to be free from carelessness, I am able to understand the importance of the specialities that I have , and am able to use a particular speciality that I have , and am able to put them into use. So I find that the more I am able to use a particular speciality that I have, the more I am able to bring out and use the latent specialities that are within me. So I am able to experience quick transformation and constant progress.

In Spiritual Service,
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Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 02-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 02-09-2020
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A Journey To Happiness Or A Journey Of Happiness (Part 1)?

We commonly express the following incorrect words in our everyday interactions - Wait till I achieve this particular goal, whether it be a promotion, success in a particular exam, marriage, retirement, a birth of a child or an end of a difficult situation and I will be happy. Why are all of these incorrect words? Aren’t these all life is all about? Isn’t calling all of them incorrect unnatural? Try remembering a single moment in your life without these and you will be left wondering. It is important to realize the futility of waiting for goals to be achieved and then becoming happy. So it is good to introspect that is it a journey to happiness or is it a journey of happiness? The wait for happiness is futile because one goal is followed by another challenge; the challenge is followed by another unexpected phase, leaving us without any moments to experience our desired happiness amidst so many uncomfortable pressure points.

Happiness can be defined as a state of being created, while working towards a goal, not a feeling to be experienced after achieving the goal. This is simply because life is a journey with a series of goals, sometimes one after the other and sometimes with two or even more than two goals co-existing with each other. So should one anxiously wait for the goals to be achieved or should one take the wait for goals to be achieved, in one’s stride accepting it as an integral part of our life journey. For very long, we have associated happiness with achievement and this has become an integral part of our modern day belief system, as the speed of life has become faster and more challenging with each day. We suggest a change in this ideology and associate happiness with experiencing each day – (i) experiencing creative ideas (ii) experiencing your strengths, specialties and skills by bringing them in action. (iii) experiencing beautiful relationships with the self, with God and with others. (iv) experiencing goodness and beautiful virtues and giving others the experience of the same.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 02-09-2020
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The habit of thinking positive finishes negative.

Expression: Just as it has become a habit of thinking negative, a positive habit when created will naturally bring about a change. A little practice and attention to form a habit of thinking positive will reveal its result of creating an influence of positivity. The situations will not change on their own, but the habit that has been formed will bring about a change in the response and will change the situation too.

Experience: Usually it becomes very difficult or sometimes impossible for me to think positive in difficult situations. At that time, although I want to, the response that emerges from within is based on the habit that is formed previously. So when I make the habit of constantly and consciously thinking positive, I then become free from the struggle of having to change my mind to positive in difficult situations.

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

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 01-09-2020

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Soul Sustenance 01-09-2020
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Leading A Stress-Free Life

Till about 20 years ago, the word stress was only a term in Science. It was not a part of our conversations to refer to our state of mind. Even during those years we worked as hard as we are working today, situations were equally challenging as they are today. Yet we never said I feel stressed. Slowly we started using it commonly as an emotion to describe our state of mind. We like to say that we are stressed, as an indicator that we are working very hard, even going above and beyond our regular duties. Let us check our understanding about stress. We are originally happy, peaceful and powerful beings. Stress is a result of our creation of wrong thoughts. It is an emotional pain that indicates that something in us needs to change. But seeing everyone around us also going through stress, we tend to believe that experiencing a little stress is fine, natural, obvious and common in today's times. That is not true. Stress has an impact on our physical and emotional well-being. It impacts our efficiency, memory, decision making ability and reduces our performance. Hence, any amount of stress is damaging.

In Science, Stress is equal to Pressure divided by Resilience.
Applying it in our lives:
Pressure = Our Situations (like targets, deadlines, exams, goals, issues in health, relationships)
Resilience = Our Inner Strength (like purity, peace, power, happiness, bliss, wisdom, love)
Therefore Stress is equal to Our Situations divided by Our Inner Strength.

So when we increase inner strength, we reduce stress. We become stable, peaceful and happy beings. But when our inner strength is low, even a small pressure creates high stress. Our first responsibility in any situation is to take charge of our state of mind by increasing inner strength. It is the only entity in our control and not the situation, and gives us the power to face any situation.

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Message for the day 01-09-2020
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The sweetness of the mind brings sweetness in words and interactions.

Expression: There is an understanding of the need for being sweet in words and interactions. But this sweetness can be expressed only when there is sweetness in the mind. Sweetness of the mind means there is not even a trace of negativity. Such a mind is further open to all that is nice and beautiful and expresses its own freshness and beauty in interactions.

Experience: When I am able to keep my mind sweet, i.e., free from any kind of bitterness or ill-feelings, I am able to experience the beauty of life. There is no feeling of sorrow or negativity but the mind is nurtured to further positivity with everything that comes its way. I am then able to experience constant growth and progress.

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