Freedom From Dependency

Freedom From Dependency 

The real reason why we sometimes experience a lack of real, deep lasting happiness in our lives is dependency. We are taught to make our happiness dependent on some event, condition, person, object etc. This is why we keep delaying our happiness until things are just right in our life. We think we will be happy in the future and then wonder why we are not happy now. But life is never just right, and the future never comes – there is only now! And that's why, in order to be happy we must make our happiness a decision and not a dependency. 


Reflection: What is your happiness mostly dependent on right now? Imagine your self without the above and that you are quite content without the above, how do you feel?


Action: What can you do in your mind tomorrow to change your state of being from dependency to freedom from dependency

Courtesy: Brahma Kumaris

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Mind, Intellect And Personality

Mind, Intellect And Personality

Just as electrical energy produces warmth, sound or light depending on the device through which it passes, similarly, the energy of consciousness functions through three different but closely connected entities, referred to respectively by the terms mind, intellect and personality.

The Mind
With the power of the mind, one imagines, thinks and forms ideas.  The non-physical mind should not be confused with the heart, the physical organ that maintains blood circulation.

The Intellect
The intellect understands, reasons, memorizes, discriminates and makes decisions. The non–physical intellect should not be confused with the physical brain, which is the physical focus of the nervous system.

The Personality
Habits, sanskaras and tendencies are all embedded in the soul in the form of impressions as a result of every action performed. The most fundamental feature of every soul, its personality, is determined by such stored impressions

Courtesy: Brahma Kumaris 

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Co-operation

Co-operation

Human achievement is like a mountain range with cliffs, peaks, slopes and valleys. To aim for excellence in collective achievement is to aspire to climb to the crowning point. The effort requires each climber to be equipped with essential skills and knowledge and good amounts of determination and will power. However, no climb should ever be undertaken without the most important piece of equipment: the safety rope of co-operation.
Co-operation ensures calmness, empowerment, easiness and enthusiasm. Co-operation provides the means for each climber to take a step, no matter how small, and for those steps collectively to reach the peak.

Courtesy: Brahma Kumaris 

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Self-Introspection

Self-Introspection

Meditate on an external object that holds some symbolic reference for you. You can begin more simply by finding in nature something (real, imagined or illustrated) that holds particular symbolism for you. The symbol can be anything, so long as its associations are positive - you might choose a lake, a mountain, a river or a tree. You can connect with the symbols and use them as reflections of virtues in your own personality. In this way you gain a deeper insight into the inner self. Whatever you find in these symbols will have correspondences within yourselves

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Self Esteem: Our parents are critical and have a deep and lasting impact on our self image and self belief

Self Esteem

Almost everyone of us has heard a voice of criticism from a very young age. It is a voice, which echoes through our whole life, and unless we become consciously aware of it, and decide not to listen to it, it will be a major reason why your self esteem never recovers from those first blows. Our parents are critical and have a deep and lasting impact on our self image and self belief. It could have been anything negative "You're not very good….you can't….you are always…you are never able….you are useless at that". Parents are our Gods during those early years, and Gods speak the truth. So we believe them, and not only shape our self image around what they tell us about ourselves, but their voices remain in our heads, in our subconscious minds for years to come. This is how our sense of our own inner beauty never gets a chance to form. But that was 'then', and this is 'now'. 'Then' cannot be changed, but 'now' can be transformed. Have the courage to remove those voices from your head, and set yourself free. That does not mean struggling with them and conquering them. It means politely disagreeing with them and replacing them. Start from where you are and accept yourself. Accept where you are now, accept what you feel right now. This is the beginning of quietly rebuilding your self image and self belief. Realise you are now your own parent and begin to talk to yourself in accepting, loving and gentle ways. It may sound strange at first, but keep going, and you will be amazed at how quickly your feelings about yourself change, and how it brings a natural inner strength and increases your self esteem. 

5 Qualities of Thoughts: Necessary:Waste:Negative:Positive:Soul-conscious

5 Qualities of Thoughts: Necessary:Waste:Negative:Positive:Soul-conscious 

The art of relaxation does not lie in any physical exercises or postures but in the posture of our minds. Essentially there are five qualities of thoughts, which we can create:
Necessary thoughts, such as, "I must not forget to go to the market today", or "I have to collect the children from school at 4 pm."
Waste thoughts, which include thinking too much about the past, worrying about things that might not happen (future), and thoughts about others that spill out as gossip.
Negative thoughts, which include feelings of anger, fear, ego, greed, doubt, sadness, regret and unease. Negative thoughts make us lazy and drain our energy.
Positive thoughts, which are affirmative and focused, carrying only the best intentions for ourselves and for others.
Soul-conscious thoughts arise from the truth of who and what we are, and require the effort of remembering and gently reminding ourselves that we are eternal souls and our real nature is peaceful and loving.

Courtesy: Brahma Kumaris

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Anger: A Stupid Habit : How to Drop Anger Habit

Hello Reader, I was just thinking about the Anger and how anger harm us and there are lots of things which comes in my mind. I am sharing those with you guys.

Let  look over these facts

1 80% of the world's Problems in human relationship occurred due to anger.

2 15 minutes anger takes away 9hour of Physical and Mental energy i.e. 1minuts anger takes away 36 minutes of our creative energy.

3 When scientist study the most relevant emotion 72hours before the heart attack, they found that it is ANGER.

I found the following causes for Anger

1 Harassment (Physical or Mental)
2 Hunger
3 Injustice
4 When the things are not according to our planning/ thinking

Why these cause occurred to us 

Every events has been planned by God. Bhagwat Geeta explains the "Theory of KARMA" according to that whatever we do we got the results accordingly, the difference is that we think only for the years we know, never bothered about the life before our birth.  Let me ask you a question: Have many people you know who have lots of problems the day one when they taken birth (Blind by birth etc.etc) Why? this is all because of the Old Birth Karma and theory of Karma is Universal.

e.g.

If a Insect think that think that the whole universe ends up with him (Insects have  maximum life of 2 days), Insect don't know what he don't know

Whatever is happening is happening for good and whatever will happen will happen for good. The change is law of Universe. So the events which causes you

Remedy when anger comes


1 The best remedy is to quip quite, I know this is not possible.
2  Count down 10 to 1 may be 20 to 1
3 Try to focus on the solution not on the problem (Think logically)

What Controls the movement of Body?

What Controls the movement of Body?

When we make the distinction (difference) between mind and matter, body and soul, human and being, we are making a distinction between two kinds of energy – physical (matter) and non-physical (spirit). Our bodies are made of the five elements of matter, which combine to make our physical forms, which are visible. Our minds are non-physical energy, which produces invisible thoughts, feelings and attitudes. To understand this more clearly, consider the case of electricity: you know it exists because you can see the result in the form of an electric light, but you cannot see the actual electricity. In the same way the mind cannot be seen but the energy, which comes through it, controls the movement of the body

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The Virtue Of Love: Why Don’t you Understand The Virtue Of Love

The Virtue Of Love: Why Don’t you Understand The Virtue Of Love

Love is normally associated with the heart. But what is the heart? You are your heart. Human consciousness is the heart. You have two hearts – the physical heart and the spiritual heart. Your physical heart is not a source of love, it is simply a very powerful pump. Your spiritual heart is a source of love and you are it. Why? Because you are spirit or soul. This is important because it reminds you that you are love and you are a source of love. In fact, you don't need love because you already have it! However, you don't feel it. You normally believe that love and happiness are physical sensations. This teaching is dangerous because it makes you reverse the flow of the energy of your own heart from giving and radiating to wanting and taking. That's why attachment happens and our life becomes rather dry of real love. This false belief, that love comes from outside, eventually makes us turn our own life into one which is filled with sounds of 'give me, give me, give me'! It's no wonder love is a rare experience because the moment our aim is to take we change the energy of our heart into fear. The fear that we won't get, the fear that if we do get it won't be up to expectation and the fear that when we do get we might lose what we got! And we haven't even got it yet! If only someone had told us that fear is the opposite of love.

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Giving Up Revenge: Why Don't you Giving Up Revenge

Giving Up Revenge: Why Don't you Giving Up Revenge

When we feel hurt by another person we feel the desire to take revenge. Even though we know it will not bring about a solution to the situation, or heal the relationship, we still want, and feel justified in wanting, and taking, revenge. The illusion behind the desire to hurt another with our anger is that they were the ones who hurt us. No they didn't. No one hurts us but we use others to hurt ourselves. When we blame others we conveniently avoid taking responsibility for our feelings and actions. So there is no need for anger.

Question: When was the last time you thought someone had hurt you?

Reflection: How did you see the other person, how did you interpret their actions (i.e. what did you do with them in your mind that caused you anger)?

Action: Imagine the situation happened again – how would you see the situation (interpret their actions) differently, so that you do not create anger in response?

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Anger Management And Prevention: Step-By-Step Anger Management And Prevention

Anger Management And Prevention: Step-By-Step Anger Management And Prevention

To get freedom from anger, you need to stop trying to control other people, events and the world in general and accept them exactly as they are at a particular moment. In the meantime, since most of us have learned and developed the deep habit of becoming angry regularly, given below is a stepwise method that, over a period of time, will help you manage and overcome anger completely.

1. Realization

By increasing your self-realization, you will start to notice the anger in its initial stage, e.g. irritation is the first warning that there is a disturbance in your mind. When you do start to experience the irritation emerging, go to the next step.



2. Recognition

Recognize the fact that you and only you are completely responsible for creating your irritation. Make sure not to become irritated at yourself for becoming irritated!

Anger Management And Prevention (cont.)

3. Acceptance
Accept and welcome the irritation's presence, do not resist it, otherwise it will only become stronger and you are likely to suppress it.

4. Detachment

Now detach yourself from the emotion and just observe it. Remember, you are not your emotions. All emotions die under observation. You are the creator and it is your creation. Don't identify with the emotion.



5. Tune In

The quietest place in a hurricane is at the centre of the storm. And so it is with the hurricane of emotion. The quietest place is at the centre, which is the heart of your own consciousness. The technique of Rajyoga meditation teaches you how to go there and connect with the Supreme Being and discover your inner peace and power.
Anger Management And Prevention (cont.)

At the end of the day, check yourself as to how well you implemented these steps in real life situations to overcome your anger. You may not be able to go through all the steps right away, but for a particular situation, your thoughts while introspecting, could be: "This afternoon, I did experience a feeling of irritation arising inside me when Mr. Gupta visited me in my office, so I did realize the irritation. I recognized and took responsibility for it, and did not project it on to him. But instead of accepting the presence of the irritation, I began to oppose and thereby suppress it. As a result it worsened by the evening. So tomorrow I will work more on the third step i.e. Acceptance and experience true inner peace"

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Self Empowerment:Proven Techniques on Self Empowerment

Self Empowerment:Proven Techniques on Self Empowerment

To empower and help others is to empower yourself. The most successful people in life are not go getters, they are 'go givers', they always hold out the hand of co-operation and ask, "How can I help you achieve your goals?" As they empower others with their encouragement, they empower themselves with their own energy and, in time, this is magnified by the blessings of others which come back in return. The one thing that kills this positive exchange of energy within our relationships is competition.

Question: Write down all the advantages and then all the disadvantages of competition.
Reflection: Reflect on the meaning of the words you used to answer the above e.g. if you wrote down 'competition creates progress' in the advantages column, what do you mean by progress?
Action: Have a competitive conversation with someone tomorrow and then go and ask yourself if it was lastingly satisfying, empowering and fruitful?

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Brahma Kumaris
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Time Management :: Phenomenal Time Management

Time Management :: Phenomenal Time Management

The one who works in coordination with others is the one who can fulfill responsibilities well. Responsibilities can be fulfilled well when there is the recognition that each one can contribute something to the task. It is also essential to create a cooperative rather than a competitive environment. Then there would be no feeling of superiority or inferiority in anyone. When we are responsible to complete some task, we need to involve all the people who can help in it. When we do this we will find our task finishing faster. Also we would find that we would get the good wishes of all the people involved in the task.


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Virtues / Values::: You Pick One My One

Virtues / Values::: You Pick one my one

Take one of the following virtues or values per day and spend five minutes thinking about its meaning and its application during the day.

Harmony
Forgiveness
Trust
Flexibility
Courage
Gentleness
Freedom
Understanding
Benevolence
Patience
Enthusiasm
Tolerance
Serenity
Co-operation
Generosity
Humility

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Brahma Kumaris
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Self Management: Secret of Self Managements

Self Management: Secret of Self Managements

One of the deepest patterns, which we all learn to create within ourselves, is to blame others for what and how we feel. Each and every time we point the mental and emotional finger and blame another person or situation, however subtly, we give our power away. Self-responsibility is the first principle of self-management. Once we learn not to blame others for how we feel or whatever happens to us we only need be careful we don't turn and point the finger at ourselves. No one is to blame but I am responsible. There are three essential steps if you wish to empower yourself. Step one is to know who and what you are. Step two is the acceptance of complete self-responsibility. Step three is to break the deepest patterns which we all learn in some form or other, that of self-rejection and self-blame.

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Relaxation: How to Get Relaxation? YOU want Relaxation

Relaxation: How to Get Relaxation? YOU want Relaxation?

The art of relaxation does not lie in any physical exercises or postures but in the posture of our minds. Essentially there are five qualities of thoughts, which we can create:

Necessary thoughts, such as, "I must not forget to go to the market today", or "I have to collect the children from school at 4 pm."

Waste thoughts, which include thinking too much about the past, worrying about things that might not happen (future), and thoughts about others that spill out as gossip.

Negative thoughts, which include feelings of anger, fear, ego, greed, doubt, sadness, regret and unease. Negative thoughts make us lazy and drain our energy.

Positive thoughts, which are affirmative and focused, carrying only the best intentions for ourselves and for others.

Soul-conscious thoughts arise from the truth of who and what we are, and require the effort of remembering and gently reminding ourselves that we are eternal souls and our real nature is peaceful and loving.

The art of relaxation does not lie in any physical exercises or postures but in the posture of our minds. Essentially there are five qualities of thoughts, which we can create:

Necessary thoughts, such as, "I must not forget to go to the market today", or "I have to collect the children from school at 4 pm."

Waste thoughts, which include thinking too much about the past, worrying about things that might not happen (future), and thoughts about others that spill out as gossip.

Negative thoughts, which include feelings of anger, fear, ego, greed, doubt, sadness, regret and unease. Negative thoughts make us lazy and drain our energy.

Positive thoughts, which are affirmative and focused, carrying only the best intentions for ourselves and for others.

Soul-conscious thoughts arise from the truth of who and what we are, and require the effort of remembering and gently reminding ourselves that we are eternal souls and our real nature is peaceful and loving.


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Brahma Kumaris
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Stress Management: Proven Techniques on Stress Management

Stress Management: Proven Techniques on Stress Management

Standing Back, Observing and Steering -

Standing Back : We can do this individually or as a team, when stressful situations occur. We may take a few minutes to stand back mentally and physically from the situation or scene.



Observing : The next step is to re-view the situation, as if we are an onlooker or a detached observer. Being as silent as possible, we can ask ourselves if the thoughts we are having are the ones we wish to keep, if they are going where we would choose them to.



Steering : In the resulting silence, it is possible to steer (change direction) our thinking to where we want it to be; perhaps to personal affirmations (positive thoughts) we use to calm us. The affirmations can be: 'I am aware of myself as calm and peaceful' or, '….as happy and content', etc.

This technique changes our attitudes and feelings, which influences positively the situation as well as how others respond.


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Brahma Kumaris
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Physical or Corporeal World::The World of Expression and Experience.

Physical or Corporeal World::The World of Expression and Experience.

The world in which we are now living is known as the physical or corporeal world, because all living beings here have a physical, corporeal form. Here 'time', 'space', 'history' and 'geography' are important parameters of existence; here the laws of science apply. It is a world of expression and experience.

Beyond the physical world of action lies an infinite, timeless dimension of complete stillness, silence and peace. This is the original home of all souls, the incorporeal world ('paramdham' or 'shantidham'), a soft golden red light world where we once stayed in a state of total peace and bliss. Experiencing this 'supreme region' of highest consciousness in meditation recharges the soul, empowering it with the strength to play its part in the physical world with peace and clarity.


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Relaxation: Secrets of Relaxation

Relaxation: Secrets of Relaxation

It seems that the stress, which comes with modern living, inhabits all corners of our consciousness and all areas of our lives. Many people consider being able to relax an achievement in itself. Making meditation a natural part of our life, with its practical benefits, is the deepest form of relaxation. While the deepest levels of soul-consciousness mean our thoughts are slow and peaceful, the secret of staying relaxed in the practical situations of everyday life is to ensure that our mind is always filled with positive and soul-conscious thoughts and free from negative and waste thoughts.

Tomorrow we shall explain the various types of thoughts that we create in the entire day.

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Self Empowerment: The Mystery of Self Empowerment

Self Empowerment: The Mystery of Self Empowerment

Our internal strengths create the foundation on which we make our decisions in life, how we relate to others and how we understand ourselves. For most people they are understood but never made very conscious. They lie below the surface and are not openly talked about. Bringing them into our conscious understanding improves our process of self-empowerment.

To realize and review your strengths, sit comfortably in a pleasant atmosphere and answer silently the following questions:
A. Look back into the past and remember the times when you experienced your greatest successes. List the unique talents or strengths, which you made, use of at those times.
B. List the specific features, which you admire in yourself.
C. If you were to take the opinion of your family, friends and colleagues, what strengths would they say that you have?
D. List your most valuable assets.
E. Now examine your answers and summarize. What are your main strengths?

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Spiritual Intelligence::Learning And Developing Spiritual Intelligence

Spiritual Intelligence::Learning And Developing Spiritual Intelligence

Given below are a few methods, the regular practice of which will help you improve your spiritual intelligence quotient:

A. Connecting
There is a higher source of spiritual power and it is possible to connect with that source and empower oneself. This accelerates the developmental process increasing both the depth and breadth of our spiritual intelligence. Energy absorbed from the highest source is essential to clearing the inner noise and to focus our consciousness.

B. Seeing
Spiritual vision is learning to see only the best in others and by doing so empowering others to develop the best in themselves. Seeing is creating – how you see the 'other' is how you will create the other within you, which will be a reflection of how you see yourself at that moment.




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Brahma Kumaris

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Energy Field: The Auric Field Surrounds US

Energy Field: The Auric Field Surrounds US


As we activate our energy field (auric (from the word 'aura') field that surrounds us) through conscious positive thought, we carry it with us wherever we go. Then we can positively influence those who come into contact with us at our workplace or at home. The positive vibrations influence those who interact within our auric field very powerfully and on an unlimited level.

If you know somebody who might need a little bit of help, support or guidance experiment by going into silence and sending out your positive thought energy to him/her. As a first step, practice with the following positive thoughts:
Let me adopt the consciousness of a conscient being of light, love and energy, situated at the centre of the forehead.
Now I send a very powerful protective light to my friend or to my family.
I surround them with that light ......




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Brahma Kumaris

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Self Esteem: Proven Techniques of Self Esteem

The strength and stability of our self-esteem is tested when someone criticizes or insults us. If we are affected in any way, in other words we react in any way, it is a sign that our self-esteem is delicate. Because most of us are taught to base our self-esteem upon the opinion of others, we experience both a disturbance in our intellect and our power draining away. By remaining in a positive consciousness about our own qualities, we will not lose our inner stability, inner peace, power and ability to respond positively.

Question: Which person's opinion do you think you are most sensitive to for how you feel about yourself?
Reflection: Imagine listening to someone criticizing you, and yet you remain completely calm and in control, stable in the knowledge that you are unique and have found your inner strength and your personal power to be unaffected by others.
Action: With whom, where and when can you practice this today?

If our self-confidence is based only on a set of skills and abilities, we will not have real self-esteem. This is because there will always be a situation where those skills and abilities will have no use, and the ones that are needed in that situation have not yet been developed. The person who has real self-esteem will recognize that while they may not have the skills now, they can and will learn. They are able to use such situations as their personal classroom. High self-esteem has a certain humility built into it. The person with the highest self-esteem is free of the ego of "I know".

Question: What are your key skills and abilities? In what situations do you find yourself out of place, or out of your depth? What do you think you need to learn to be more effective in these situations?
Reflection: Visualize yourself being skillful and confident while maintaining your self-esteem in that situation.



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Empowering Exercise: Powerful Empowering Exercise

Empowering Exercise: Powerful Empowering Exercise



As days become busier in an increasingly busy world, here is a short, practical and empowering exercise which you can integrate into your daily lifestyle:

At regular intervals throughout the day, stop whatever you are doing (if practical at that time) and withdraw your attention from everything around you. When you stop, bring your attention back to yourself and become aware of the heavy traffic of your thoughts passing through your mind. As you start to observe your thoughts they will naturally begin to slow down. Then just remember who you are - a peaceful and powerful soul, a being of life energy, the master of mind and body. A few minutes spent practicing this exercise regularly will enable you to become relaxed and quickly regain concentration, focus and energy which you can then re-direct to whatever you were doing



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Self Empowerment: The Mystery of Self Improvement !!!!!!!!!!

Self Empowerment: The Mystery of Self Improvement

Introversion brings empowerment of the self. Just as a tortoise withdraws from the external environment after its work is done, we too need to find time for ourselves. Amidst the activity of the day, we need to make time to look within and find the beauty that is hidden there. When we do this as a practice it brings a positive experience that empowers the self. We need to give ourselves a little time everyday at regular intervals. During this time, we need to look within and find our own uniqueness and we will find that we are able to have access to our positivity. This practice will help us during difficult times too and we will be able to use these qualities under all circumstances. So we will not be a victim to situations but will be able to give what is required at that time.

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Emotional Intelligence: Proven Techniques of Emotional Intelligence !!!!!!!!

Emotional Intelligence: Proven Techniques of Emotional Intelligence

Most of us create the following forms of disturbances inside our minds: anxiety, tension, fear, irritation, frustration, anger, sadness, depression, worry, powerlessness, hopelessness are but a few of the many painful emotional experiences! One minute the high of excitement and the next moment the depths of sadness. We have been taught to believe this is good, normal and healthy, but it is not – it leads only to addiction to the emotional disturbance in our minds and the chemicals they stimulate in our bodies. When people hear this they immediately think that without emotion life would be without feeling and meaning, a cold and boring existence. In fact the opposite is true. Free of emotional disturbance we are able to feel better, care deeper and better. We also learn how to truly motivate ourselves instead of being dependent on emotions to motivate us. Emotion is the lazy man's form of motivation. There is very little power in emotion. It always fizzles out fast!


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Meditation: Astonishing Meditation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meditation: Astonishing Meditation

In meditation, the object of concentration is not any physical object, like a flower or a candle but it is the 'inner' self or the soul, which is a star like point of conscient energy or a being of spiritual light situated between the eyebrows. Meditation does not involve the repetition of a mantra. Instead of repeating one word or phrase as in a mantra, a flow of positive thoughts is encouraged, thus using the mind in a natural way. Using the power of thought, the mind is guided to take a new, positive course each time. These positive thoughts are based on an accurate understanding of the self and so act as a key to unlock the treasure trove of peaceful experiences lying within

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Meditation And Health: THE Meditation: THE Phenomenal Health!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meditation And Health: THE Meditation: THE Phenomenal Health

Given below is a meditation commentary can be used to heal the physical body. Think slowly and visualize side by side each positive thought given below before moving on:

I sit quietly and turn inwards........
I visualize a pinpoint of light, a sparkling star, the source of pure energy that I am........
located in the center of my forehead........
In this awareness, white rays of the divine light of purity from me extend into my physical body in the form of a laser beam........
These vibrations of purity soothe, heal and energize my physical system........
The impurities, toxins and illnesses in the body are being washed away and thrown out from the extremities........
The body starts experiencing its original inner beauty........
It returns to a state of harmony, to a state of good health.......

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Meditation:: Step By Step Guide of Meditation

Meditation:: Step By Step Guide of Meditation

Step 1

Sit in a comfortable and relaxed position. There is no need for a special position, but you need a balance between being too comfortable (in which case it is easy to fall asleep) or too rigid (in this case it is possible that you will begin to feel tense, physically and mentally). Keep the eyes open a little as this helps; to stay awake; gently concentrate on the third eye.

Step 2

Concentrate your attention on the center of the forehead. Visualize a point of energy. This point of light is the soul.
Now focus on the thoughts: "I am a soul, a spiritual being, working within this physical body, my material instrument, but I am not this body. I truly am this point of spiritual energy. I make use of these sense organs (eyes, ears, mouth, hands, etc.) to perform actions. I am a point of energy that is eternal (cannot be created or destroyed) and ultimately beyond time, sound and nature."
Step 3


Take your thoughts deeper into your inner world. Discover and begin to experience your original strength of peace.

Focus on the thoughts: "My original strength and original quality is peace."

Ask yourself "What is peace?" When we examine what it is, then this understanding makes it easy for concentration to take place. If we do not exercise this word in our mind and intellect, it cannot be absorbed by the soul. Otherwise, we know of the idea of peace but it remains just an intellectual idea, rather than a personal reality or experience.

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Time Management ::::The Mystery of Time Management

Time Management

In reality, time is not a manageable commodity, it has no independent existence. In life there are only events, and events are what define how time passes, and that means that time management is in really event management. Most events in our life involve other people, which means time management is event management is people management. However we cannot manage or control other people! We can only manage our own response to other people. However, we do influence each other.

The more we try to control others, the less influence we will have, whereas the less we attempt to control them, the more influence we will have.


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Anger Management:: Breakthrough of Anger Management

Anger Management::Breakthrough of Anger Management

For some time therapists have believed that anger is OK - in fact, many therapists still believe that it's good to get angry once in a while. Around fifteen years ago in Japan it was discovered that around 10,000 executives were dying every year from overwork (Karoshi) and they found the cause to be excessive, but suppressed, anger. So they created 'anger rooms' in the basements of their offices, padded the walls and put a baseball bat in the room. They told executives, that if they felt anger developing inside them they should go to the room and just hit the walls with the bat as hard, and as much, as they wanted in order to get the anger out of their system. Two years later they measured the results. The amount of anger had increased. Why? After much thinking they eventually realized that people who were going to the rooms regularly were practicing getting angry and simply repeating the habit. The message - don't suppress and don't express your anger - transform it.


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How Creating A Space Of Your Own Helps in Meditation?

How Creating A Space Of Your Own Helps in Meditation

The first step in your journey towards experiencing your true state of inner peace is dedicating a place or space in your home where you will practice your meditation regularly, even if it's just an armchair. Always use this chair, this space when you can. In this space, place two or three objects, which represent peace to you. Soft music, soft red light and lighting an incense stick ('agarbatti') can make the atmosphere soothing and relaxing. The walls could be decorated with white curtains to create a peaceful and purifying effect. After using this space for your practice of meditation for a few days, you will experience that the atmosphere of this space has elevated itself to a higher spiritual plane and this will help your practice further

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Brahma Kumaris
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How We will be able to Maintain Peace.

How We will be able to Maintain Peace.

To experience peace is to be in one powerful stage. The more the thoughts we have, the lesser the peace that is experienced in the mind. When we are able to maintain a powerful thought throughout the day whatever the situations come our way we can experience constant peace. Right in the morning let us take a thought that is positive and powerful. For example, 'victory is my birthright' or 'I am always fortunate'. Whatever the situations we come across, let us emerge this thought and we will be able to maintain peace.

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Brahma Kumaris
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Thought Classification: Positive, Necessary, Waste and Negative

Thought Classification: Positive, Necessary, Waste and Negative

Our thoughts can be classified into four main types - positive, necessary, waste and negative. On an average we create 25-30 thoughts / minute. When we are under any sort of stress or anxiety, this number increases and when our mind is relaxed or when we are asleep, this number reduces. Overall our mind creates around 30,000-40,000 thoughts in a day.

A very large percentage of our thoughts are negative or waste in nature, which is the root cause of all our stresses and strains. The regular practice of meditation helps us reduce this percentage and raise the percentage of positive thoughts, as a result of which we can experience a relaxed state of mind.

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Brahma Kumaris
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Meditation, What we create in Meditation?

Meditation, What we create in Meditation?

The soul has seven original positive virtues - peace, joy, love, bliss, knowledge, purity and power. In meditation, we create an awareness of ourselves as a soul, which leads to an experience of these qualities. The non-physical soul is closely connected with each cell of the physical body. These qualities of the soul flow as spiritual energy to each cell and nourish them. The mind acts as a sieve (mesh) between this spiritual energy and the body. When the mind creates negative thoughts, the sieve of the mind gets blocked thereby blocking the flow of this spiritual energy, which leads to disease. These negative thoughts attract toxins, viruses, bacteria, etc. towards cells of the diseased organ. The immune system also gets damaged which leads to disease. Positive thoughts have the reverse effect.

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Brahma Kumaris
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Focus: Will: Capabilities: The elements need to exist simultaneously i.e. Focus: Will: Capabilities

Focus: Will: Capabilities: Three elements need to exist simultaneously

In order to bring about a fundamental or transformational change three elements need to exist simultaneously:
Focus: A clear sense of purpose in life and clear goals to guide your life's activities.
Will: The motivation and enthusiasm to introduce and sustain the actions.
Capabilities: The skills and abilities to fulfill your purpose and goals.

But where do you start? There is definitely a right place to begin and that is with your focus. Why? Because if your focus is powerful and based on a very deep sense of your inner most purpose in life, then that will provide you with the will power you need to keep going. Then if you have a clear driving focus in life and lots of will power to back it up, you will soon develop the skills and capabilities you need to make it happen. You may not have them yourself, but your enthusiasm and passion will certainly inspire others who do have them to join you.

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Brahma Kumaris
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Self Esteem :: You need to know about Self Esteem

Self Esteem :: You need to know about Self Esteem

One of the most important human characteristics is that we are each unique human beings, with unique histories, patterns of thinking and personalities. One of the deepest habits that we learn in our childhood is to compare ourselves with others. Comparison always ends in failure, especially if we are dependent on being like someone else for how we feel about ourselves. This habit of comparison and imitation is one of the greatest killers of self-esteem. It stops us from ever beginning to know ourselves. And so the first and most important step in building our self-esteem is to break the habit of comparison, and to stop unconsciously trying to be like someone else.

Question: Who are the three people you regularly compare yourself with the most?
Reflection: What are your own talents and strengths today? (what makes you unique) - What talents/strengths/capabilities do you see yourself developing?
Action: What will you focus on in order to help yourself break the habit of comparing?


Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Types of Thoughts:: What are different Types of Thoughts

What are different Types of thoughts

On an average, we conceive approximately 25-30 thoughts in a minute and around 30,000-40,000 thoughts in the entire day. These thoughts can be broadly classified into four different categories: positive, negative, waste and necessary. Positive thoughts are those, by the conception of which, we experience peace, joy, love, happiness, power, etc. We share this experience with others also. They empower the mind. Negative thoughts provide the experience of peacelessness, sorrow, discontentment, etc. to the self and to others and are associated with emotions like anger, stress, anxiety, envy, hatred, ego, fear etc. Waste thoughts are thoughts revolving around happenings of the past and worries about the future. Necessary thoughts are related to our day to day actions. A very large quantum of our thoughts in the entire day are waste and negative in nature and are the primary cause of all our stresses, worries, tensions, fears, etc. They debilitate (weaken) the mind. Unfortunately most of us mistakenly accept the 'stress experiences' as part of life, and do little to alleviate the pain or discomfort at the mental and emotional levels, until it becomes so severe, that it eventually leads to physical disease or illness.


Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Positive Atmosphere:: How to Create A Positive Atmosphere

Positive Atmosphere:: How to Create A Positive Atmosphere

To create a positive atmosphere at home or at office, while interacting with your family members or colleagues, emerge positive energizing thoughts in your mind like "I am a peaceful soul, child of the Supreme Soul, the ocean of peace", "I am a loveful soul", "I am a blissful soul", "I am a powerful soul", etc. These positive thoughts spread in your home and office in the form of positive vibrations and have a positive influence on your family members and colleagues also. As a result you can maintain your peaceful, positive state even amidst actions and interactions with them. When you are clearly established in this stage of self-respect, they will be more co-operative in your work and will have greater respect for you. Obstacles from your surroundings will not affect you.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Meditation::You need to know Exploration and Experimentation of Meditation

You need to know Exploration and Experimentation of Meditation!!!!!!!!!

Exploration and experimentation of a few methods of meditation is required before one decides which is the most appropriate method for him/her. One can know through a combination of intuition and experience. One may experience a few moments of peace while gazing into a candle flame but it is unlikely to help one change a pattern of negative thinking and acting. The rhythm of a mantra being chanted verbally, or even mentally, may erase anxious and angry thoughts (stress) for a while, but it won't change the hidden beliefs and perceptions which are responsible for one's stressful emotions. A good test of any method is to ask yourself five questions: does it increase my self awareness, does it help me understand myself better; does it empower me to transform my deepest negative habits; does it help bring a lighter and more positive energy to my relationships; does it help me 'see' more clearly my values and my purpose in life.

Stress Symtoms:You need to know Symptoms Of Stress

Symptoms Of Stress::You need to know Symptoms Of Stress!!!!!

When we feel stressed our difficulty tends to be reflected in certain physiological and psychological symptoms, whose importance we may not fully understand. These are normal signs that we should re-evaluate our priorities – our body, or our state of mind, is telling us that something in our lives needs to change. Listed here are some of the common signs:

1. Loneliness – We may feel isolated from friends and family, or have a lasting sense of being "lonely in a crowd".
2. Insecurity – We may suddenly feel shy or exposed around people with whom we are usually filled with confidence. Or we may believe that we are always being judged or criticized.
3. Loss of concentration and memory – We may find it hard to recall recent conversations or promises. We may often feel confused, so that understanding and retaining information could also be very difficult.
4. Fatigue and sleeping difficulties – Although we may feel constantly tired, we could also find it impossible to get to sleep.
5. Tears and mood swings – One of the most common symptoms is that we cry easily. We may also be prone to mood swings – bouts of joyousness alternating with sadness.

6. Restlessness - We could have difficulty sitting still over even short periods of time and we may play with our hands, twiddling our thumbs or playing with the rings on our fingers.
7. Impatience And Short-temperedness - We could find ourselves becoming angry at any moment for simple reasons; or we may snap at people, too quick to assume that they are accusing us.
8. Obsessive Working - Treating work as a refuge can be a stress symptom, although stress can also manifest itself as absenteeism.
9. Loss Of Appetite - Food doesn't interest us anymore. Either we don't eat, or we over-consume junk food, or whatever is in the store cupboard or fridge.
10. Fear Of Silence - Silence may cause us discomfort, so that we "over-talk" when with other people or leave on the radio or television when alone. Alternatively, we may be intolerant of noise.



Source:
Brahma Kumaris

How regular practice of meditation for 5-10 minutes every morning HELPS!!!!!!!!!

How regular practice of meditation for 5-10 minutes every morning HELPS!!!!!!!!!

In order to maintain the physical body, we give importance to diet, exercise and to proper rest or sleep .

In order to maintain the non-physical self or soul, we need to make sure that we feed our intellect with positive thoughts. Attention needs to be kept on the diet of the intellect. If we keep feeding it with positive thoughts, then automatically it will make us free from any heaviness and we will feel the lightness of our own mind.

The regular practice of meditation for 5-10 minutes every morning is the exercise for the soul. Meditation will help us master our senses, think more peacefully and powerfully, maintain our focus of inner attention and therefore remain undisturbed by external events (at the workplace or at home).

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

This is Meditation For Beginners

This is Meditation For Beginners!!!!!!!!!

Make an appointment with yourself for 5 to 10 minutes each morning or evening and follow the instructions given below:

1. Sit comfortably upright on the floor or in a chair.
2. Keep your eyes open and without staring, gently rest them on a chosen point somewhere in front of you in the room.
3. Don't try to stop thinking; just be the observer: not judging or being carried away by your own thoughts, just watching.
4. Now, create one thought about yourself; for example, "I am a peaceful being of light, situated in the centre of my forehead".
5. Hold that thought on the screen of your mind; visualize yourself being peaceful, quiet and still.
6. Stay as long as you can in the awareness of that thought. Don't fight any other thoughts or memories that may come to distract you. Just watch them pass by and return to your created thought, "I am a peaceful being".

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Total Quality Mind (TQM):: Change Mind to Total Quality Mind (TQM)

Change Mind Total Quality Mind (TQM)!!!!!!!!!!

At all times in our life, during every waking minute, we are creators of thought. Thoughts are seeds. The future is merged within our thoughts. As soon as we put our thoughts into words we plant seeds in the minds of others. The law of manifestation states that if they are sustained and empowered those thoughts must become reality. This is why we have to be very careful what we say, because the more minds that give life to our words, the more powerful our thoughts become, and the sooner the reality will come to life.

Question: What are the two things you have recently said at the workplace or at home that you would not like to become real?
Reflection: Can you think of two things you have thought and said in the past, which have become a reality.
Action: Now take all four examples from above and evaluate what you could have said instead.

Thoughts As Energy::You need to know Thoughts As Energy

You need to know Thoughts As Energy !!!!!!!!!

Just as the physical atmosphere is the result of climatic conditions and air quality, there is a subtle atmosphere which cannot be seen, heard or measured but can be sensed and influenced by the mind and analyzed by the intellect. It is variously described as the "prevailing mood", the "vibration" and so on. What is the cause of this non-physical atmosphere, these "vibrations?"

Thought has been proven to be a powerful yet non-physical "energy", which can influence other souls and matter. Thoughts, emotions, desires and moods generate a "field" around the soul, just like an electric field, can be called positive, negative or neutral, depending on the quality of its effect on other souls and on matter. When a large number of souls are all experiencing positive emotions, then the atmosphere becomes "charged" with positivity. When they are experiencing negative emotions, the opposite happens.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Meditation::Step-By-Step Meditation

Step-By-Step Meditation Meditation!!!!!!!!!!

Step 1 - Withdraw energy mentally from everything around you – not to reject or resist, but to turn your attention inward.

Step 2 - Create a point of consciousness. Focus on the centre of your forehead. Think of this point as a radiant star, a sparkling jewel or a kindled flame. This will transmit positive energy, making you feel good about yourself.

Step 3 - Affirm this positive energy through positive thoughts and images about yourself such as "I am a peaceful soul", "I am a jewel of peace", or "I am the child of the Ocean of Peace".

Step 4 - Focus your energy on peace, and let this become the object of your meditation. As you focus, you will give peace life, turning a thought into a feeling.

Step 5 - Experience this feeling by paying conscious attention to it.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Proven Techniques Controlling Your Emotions

Proven Techniques Controlling Your Emotions !!!!!!!!!!!

There are five essential steps to emotional control and mastery. Although the complete process will eventually happen in seconds in real time, it is essential for our process of learning to break it down and see what is required at every step.

Step One – Awareness
This simply means being aware of the emergence of the subtlest of emotions, which, if left unchecked, will grow into significant disturbances. For example irritation leads to frustration leads to anger leads to rage.

Step Two – Acknowledge
Which means taking responsibility for the emotion by understanding and acknowledging that I am the creator of the emotion, not someone or something else.

Step three – Acceptance
Fully accept the presence of the emotion without resisting it in any way. If it is resisted it simply becomes stronger, or is suppressed for another day.

Step Four – Ascend
This is the moment of full detachment from both the emotion and the inner source of emotion. In the process of detached observation the emotion is losing its power. And it is only through detached observation that the emotion will begin to dissipate and eventually dissolve.

Step Five – Attune
This means returning our attention to the very centre of ourselves where our inner peace and power are to be found. This is the purpose of meditation.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Powerful Life Role Playing

Powerful Life Role Playing!!!!!!!!

Good actors can play any role. They will play each role to the best of their ability, but will never actually think, "I am Romeo" or "I am Juliet". However involved they are with their roles, at the end of the performance, they will take off their costumes, drop the characteristics and features of the role and resume their true identities.

The following thoughts can help you break the habit of identifying with your roles:
"Whatever role I, the soul, am required to play e.g. managing director at my workplace and husband or father at home, I maintain my true self-awareness, my true identity as a soul - a living, spiritual, eternal being. The body is simply my temporary, physical costume through which I can create and play as many roles as I wish."

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Amazingly Practical Benefits of Meditation

Amazingly Practical Benefits of Meditation

The practical application and benefits of meditation show up in our interpersonal relationships. As our inner peace and positivity are restored by regular practice, we find it easier to resolve conflict, remain open, communicate honestly with others and ultimately be of help to others through the quality of the company we are able to give.

There are also many physical benefits, which can result from the sustained practice of meditation. Meditation has a deeply relaxing and calming effect on the nervous system, balancing physical energies, allowing the body to function more effectively while improving its ability to heal itself. This can result in reduced blood pressure, an increase in vitality, better sleep patterns and greater pain control.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Fulfilling Responsibility: Everything about Fulfilling Responsibility

Fulfilling Responsibility

Responsibility is best fulfilled by the one who is detached. When one is attached to the task that he is responsible for it leads to worry, doubt and fear. This can have a crippling effect on decision-making and result in difficult situations. On the other hand, the one who is detached is the one who is able to see things clearly and so fulfill all responsibilities with lightness. When we have to take up some new responsibility we need to tell ourselves that we will do our best in fulfilling the responsibility. When we become detached from the result of the task we will find ourselves doing our best because there are no negative thoughts.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

How can you influence others?

How can you influence others?

In the formal context of organizations and the less formal setting of families, it is the manager and the parent's role to influence others. But when they try to control it means their intentions are self-centered i.e. "You have to do what I want. You have to please me". In reality, their role is not to control but to influence. In order to assist in the growth and development of another, the intention has to be corrected to, "Now what can I say or do that is going to be most effective in encouraging and supporting their growth and development?"

Arriving at the point of realization that control is impossible but influence is possible the next question is 'how'. How can you influence others? You can listen, encourage, empathize, share etc.… there are hundreds of ways to positively influence. But what is the right way, at this moment, with this person, in this situation. This is real creativity requiring the ability to understand what is appropriate and the accurate words and behaviors to communicate it.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Peaceful Listening:: Proven Techniques of Peaceful Listening

Peaceful Listening

To be a peaceful listener:

1. Be peaceful within, calming the mind in order to listen deeply.

2. Listen with your heart by keeping an open posture, a receptive and calm expression, and a kind, non-judgmental attitude.

3. Listen with your full attention.

4. Only if the person finds it difficult to speak, be curious, encouraging them by making gentle, open-ended enquiries.

5. Be aware that interruptions (making comments, noises or facial expressions) are not necessary; sometimes they can influence or detract the person from expressing their feelings or telling their story in their own way.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

You need to know Impact Of Being Positive At Work

The Impact Of Being Positive At Work!!!!!!!!!!

Being positive does bring individual gains and this in itself can create or facilitate change. Any individual change will have a positive impact on others around us in the workplace, including clients, colleagues and the broader organization.

Examples of some specific benefits of positivity at the workplace are:
1. Health and effectiveness at work – having more energy, better workload management.
2. Relationships with clients and subordinates – able to listen more receptively and provide a sense of hope to them.
3. Relationships with colleagues – more open to collaborating on problem solving.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

The Mystery of Meditation: Meditation Mystery!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Mystery of Meditation: Meditation Mystery!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Instead of adopting this obvious bodily identification, identify yourself as a soul, a subtle star without any physical form and dimensions, a point source of light energy and consciousness. Whatever you do or say, it is you, the soul, who is performing that action through the body. The soul is like a driver and the body is the car. To be in complete control, the driver has to sit in the place where he has access to the controls and also can collect all the necessary information to make decisions. The soul is located in the centre of the forehead in the brain.

The soul has innate, peaceful, positive qualities. In meditation create an awareness of yourself as a soul. This naturally leads to an experience of these peaceful, positive qualities. This is what is called 'soul-consciousness'. It is not just something to experience while in meditation alone, but also as we perform actions.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Happiness:: Proven Techniques on Happiness

Proven Techniques on Happiness

Happiness comes when there is self-sovereignty. Being a self-sovereign enables to have control over the self. If not, when there are negative or difficult situations, there would be sorrow. When there is control there will be no expectations from situations to change, but there will be the courage to change oneself. When things go wrong, instead of worrying or waiting for things to change, we need to remind ourselves that we are a self-sovereign and we will be able to bring about a change in ourselves. When we work on ourselves and change we can be happy.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Amazingly How Stress is Ballooning!!!!!!

Amazingly How Stress is Ballooning

This exercise is designed to help you free yourself from habitual stress responses and to programme new responses to the situations that trigger your stress. You can perform this exercise in your imagination also.

1. What do you think are the triggers of your stress – work, a relationship, a change in domestic circumstances, worries about ageing, etc.
2. Think about the most powerful stressor. Remember your usual stressful response and imagine you are blowing it into a balloon.
3. Now take a large pin and burst the balloon. In the explosion, the old response has gone.
4. Take a second balloon and blow it up. Imagine positive energy filling it breath by breath. Write your new response (action or thought pattern) on the balloon's surface.
5. Now tap the balloon gently into the air and keep it afloat a while as you fully absorb its message. Next time you face the situation, recall this balloon and the positive message you put on its surface.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Everything about Temper Tantrums

Everything about Temper Tantrums

Habits go deep. It's been estimated that eighty percent of our lives are lived by habit. That means somewhere in the past we learned to become easily upset or angry. Probably a parental influence, perhaps some friends at school. Just as we may have enjoyed building with our Lego set as a child, or placing pieces into our jigsaw, we built a place for short temper into our temperament. From there it grew into one of our prized habits. If so, now is the time to dismantle, break apart and rebuild our temperament or our personality. It's much easier than we think and does not require specialist help. It requires only our interest, some understanding and the intention to change how we respond to the world around us. Never believe anyone who says, "I can't change... I've been always been like this.... this is the personality I was born with." We didn't inherit our current personality, we grew it.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Powerful:: Open Spaces of Silence

Powerful::Open Spaces of Silence

One of the aims of meditation is not to stop your thoughts but to slow them down so that you may find and enter the silence between and behind your thinking. This is a little challenging at first but the more you practice the easier it becomes.

Think of your thoughts as trains, just as in the saying we sometimes use, 'train of thought'. Each thought is a carriage and in between the thoughts/carriages is a small gap, a space. The train can arrive at varying speeds. Our aim is to slow the train down and become aware of the space between the carriages, in other words between your thoughts. You may even be able to expand that space so that there is the experience of no thought. In this moment you reconnect with the silence that exists always between and behind your thoughts. Don't try to hold it or grasp it, or you will lose it.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

The Mystery of Meditation And Health

The Mystery of Meditation And Health

Visualization (For Heart Patients)
The Supreme Soul is like a tuning fork that always vibrates with the frequency of all positive virtues. During the practice of meditation, I tune my consciousness towards this Supreme Energy. As a result my mind also picks up these positive harmonizing and health promoting frequencies.

A heart patient could visualize and feel the following positive thoughts to treat himself:

I am a soul, a golden star like energy situated between the eyebrows........
I gradually fly from the physical body to enter the incorporeal world, a world of soft golden-red light........
I am receiving the tranquilizing golden rays of love from the Supreme Being of Light, the ocean of love........

Remain submerged in this experience for a few minutes and then continue:

Now I focus these rays on my heart region........
The positive vibrations of love have covered the complete area of my heart........
Undue stimulation of the special nerves responsible for increasing blood pressure is reducing........
Heart muscles are becoming relaxed and healthy........
Pressure on my blood vessels is reducing........
Coronary arteries are softening and the blockages in them are being removed........
Supply of oxygen to the heart is increasing........
Discomfort in the chest is receding........

Specific visualizations can help patients suffering from different illnesses when combined with the conventional medicines.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

How to love for everyone

How to love for everyone

When you are constantly having love for everyone, you'll have no negativity. Your unselfish love will make you have only positive thoughts and you'll find yourself in constant happiness. Start your day with thinking of all the people you come into contact with. Then take a thought in your mind that you have love for all of them. This thought will help you throughout the day. You'll find yourself accepting others as they are and having good wishes for them.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Secrets of Remaining Relaxed During An Interview / Meeting

Secrets of Remaining Relaxed During An Interview / Meeting

A state of relaxed alertness will yield optimum results in an interview or an important meeting. To relax, you need to defuse all sense of confrontation, instead see the meeting as a friendly fact finding exchange and an opportunity to talk quietly of your achievements.

1. Think of your interviewer as someone with whom, very soon, you might find that you have a great deal in common – perhaps not a friend, but someone you enjoy talking to.

2. If the questions become difficult, think of the Supreme Being in the form of a person who is spectrally in the room (visualization) – perhaps standing behind the interviewer. Imagine him as a friend urging you on, applauding your handling of the situation, willing you to succeed.

3. If the interviewer seems unfriendly, say to yourself: it is because he or she has difficulty with the situation. Respond calmly and pleasantly.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Breakthrough Anger Management

Breakthrough Anger Management

Creating Your Inner Peace Room (Visualization)
To overcome anger, visualize a house and in that house there is a 'peace room'. See the room as an empty space. Then, step by step decorate and finish the room with the colours and objects, which symbolize peace to you. See the sun streaming into the room, filling the room with light. Then see yourself sitting in the room and filling the room with your vibrations of peace.

This is now your 'inner peace room'. Whenever you see yourself succumbing to emotions like anger, irritation, frustration etc. - you can go visit this room using the power of your mind and intellect (visualization) - it takes only a second - and peace awaits you. To keep it fresh in your mind write a description of your peace room.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

You need to know Secret Rules of Attraction!!!!!!!!!

The Rules of Attraction

If we are alert to opportunities that will satisfy our most serious vision in life, it is surprising how often these opportunities will tend to present themselves in front of us. These are the rules of attraction - the most mysterious ways by which your need and its fulfillment are drawn together.

Create your vision. Identify your goals, objectives and tasks.

Make yourself a magnet. This means having faith that you will encounter the relevant opportunities and recognize the signs they are giving you - which may not be direct. Look out for such signs with patience, and act on them when they come.

In order to fulfill our vision, we must not become too "attached" to our targets. This is not a sign of weak-mindedness or a lack of commitment: rather it is a sign of wisdom. By "letting go" of our goals or objectives, we become more relaxed in our attitude toward them. The journey is no longer burdensome and stressful, because we don't have to strive, life's circumstances will present us with the right opportunities.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Mind..Mind..Mind...The Five Powers of a Focused Mind

The Five Powers of a Focused Mind

The power of perception allows us to see into things and truly understand them, with neither complication nor confusion.

The power of mindfulness, by which we absorb ourselves into any action or thought without distraction or complication, further energizes us by allowing the power of our mind to become concentrated, freeing us from frustration, stress and anger.

The power of injection can permit us to energize others with our own positivity. As we help them to feel positive, good energy bounces back towards us to perpetuate (maintain) the positive cycle.

The power of choice requires us to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad. Having done so, we can select our option, and at every moment choose to be positive.

The power of inner energy can spur us on to new things, encourage us to change where we feel uncomfortable with ourselves and help us to enjoy life to the extreme.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

How to overcome: workplace or the more intimate (close) setting of family

Workplace or the more intimate (close) setting of family

Whether it's in the workplace or the more intimate (close) setting of family relationships, perhaps one of the greatest challenges today is developing the ability to say 'NO' for the right reason, at the right moment and in the right way. There are many reasons why we tend to say 'YES' when we know we should say 'NO'. These include the fear of offending (loss of approval), looking incapable (loss of face), avoiding an argument or confrontation (loss of temper) or even feeling guilty at not being there for someone (loss of relationship).

When it comes to saying NO, time is not the real issue, it is self-esteem / self-respect. If they are intact they will govern both what you say so and how you say it. Saying NO reactively out of fear or resentment will only generate the same reaction in return. However an assertive and affirmative NO once made is never defended, explained or justified.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

The Mystery: Innate Values and Acquired Values

Innate Values and Acquired Values

When we look at ourselves from outside we can only see the surface of what we have become. We can't see or perhaps cannot even imagine the inner core, which, like in the example of the coconut, is the only part that really can sustain and nourish us. The shell serves as a protection but we certainly can't consume (eat) it.

The core consists of inner or innate qualities (IQ's) such as peace, love, power, truth, happiness and so on. The shell is the ego which consists of aspects we have acquired through the course of our lives such as experiences, abilities, memories, learning, habits and beliefs – in short, all that is implicit (implied) when we say: 'I am so-and-so, from such-and-such an organization'.

While we are limited to these acquired aspects, our true qualities remain inaccessible. Through deep reflection and meditation we can break the shell and activate our inner qualities from which our values are born.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

Want to solve Your Stress ::: Stress Management!!!!

Often when faced with stress at work or at home, we can feel quite drained. Indeed, we may have noticed how certain individuals or particular situations are draining. We feel as if all our energy has been drawn out of us and it leaves us tired and exhausted. Although this sort of energy cannot be measured in the scientific sense, we can use the power of imagery to stop us feeling drained.

E.g. we can visualize that we are encased in a sphere of golden light, so any negative feelings or energies cannot affect us. In a detached way, we can view what is happening and can act appropriately, but we are not touched by the stress. This method of using your power of visualization to create protective shields can be used in stressful situations e.g. before or during an important meeting.

Source:
Brahma Kumaris

How to Erasing the Details & Sit comfortably

Erasing the Details

The following visualization is designed to progressively free your awareness from everything that is not the essential self. It is not the intention to escape or avoid ourselves but an opportunity to be free of everything to which we surrender our awareness and our attention. The paradox within the exercise is simple, when you discriminate and detach from everything outside yourself you do not lose the world, it will always be there, but you regain yourself, which was also always there, but was lost in the world!

Sit comfortably...
Visualize an eraser in your hand...
Take the eraser and imagine yourself rubbing out the desk in your office...
Then rub out the building, which holds your office...
Erase your car...
Then the surrounding streets and homes...
Then be aware of everything outside your own home...rub it out...
Then inside .. your bedroom, the kitchen, the lounge...
Erase them all one by one...
Until you are sitting in your chair floating in space...
Now rub out the chair...
Then look down and rub out your entire physical body and facial features...
There is now nothing left...except you, a sparkling being of conscient energy...floating in empty space
It's not that you are no longer...
As you float there you are very aware of yourself, very focused on yourself, powerful, serene and quite content...
...just to be...


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Brahma Kumaris

How to Letting Go Of The Past

Letting Go Of The Past

The influence of the past on our personality, hopes and fears is complex, and difficult to trace. The past is by definition a collection of memories. It is also the journey on which we have picked up our life-skills; accordingly we tend to believe that it will sustain and protect us. There are certainly great benefits in learning from our past mistakes. But excessive attachment to the past can threaten present fulfillment.

Many of us are preoccupied with avoiding past disaster, even to the extent that we forget how to enjoy the present or how to hope for the future. e.g. If we have been badly hurt by someone in the past, we may allow this to damage our self-esteem. We become worried that the sorrow will recur, and project this negative consciousness into our current relationship, where it is reflected back at us. The relationship fails, which strengthens our belief in the past, and heightens negative feelings about the future.

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Brahma Kumaris

How to be detached yet loving is to be mature..........

To be detached yet loving is to be mature. The lotus flower is both detached and loving. It is untouched by the dirt it is surrounded with and is beautiful and loving at the same time. In the same way, whatever the situations or the people around us, maturity enables us to be untouched by their negativity. Then we will become the one who is loving too under all circumstances. When we are faced with a negative situation, instead of blaming the situation, maturity lies in working at our own inner strength. The problem could have been created by someone else, but we have to make effort in bringing about the solution. Then we will be able to make things better without having negative feelings towards anyone.

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Brahma Kumaris

Event + Response = Outcome: fundamental principle of successful living

A fundamental principle of successful living is : Event + Response = Outcome. It may require some adjustments to our beliefs and changes to our daily behaviours. When we realise that we are not getting the outcomes or the results we want, what do we try to change in the above principle? Unfortunately it's the event. And the event is always in the past, and it usually involves other people, both of which we can never change (the past and other people). In order to change the outcomes we need to change our responses. By including a few minutes of reflection or relaxation in our daily routine, we can empower ourself to do that.


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Brahma Kumaris

Young child for their mischievousness or mistakes

Would you scold a young child for their mischievousness or mistakes? Though it's important to be firm in teaching discipline, a good parent or caregiver realizes that the child is innocent of how it should behave. Therefore, the approach is patient and loving. But what happens when we see adults making big-little errors? It's true that adults have to be more responsible for their actions but that's not always the case. It's in our best interest to accept that no matter how much we correct people, they are likely to change at their own time. At times, we all come under the influence of our personality traits (sanskaras), which compel us to act against better judgment. As we are in the same boat, keeping faith and good wishes for others (and ourselves) is the best way to guide and bring about good transformation.

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Brahma Kumaris

Happiness :Most of the happiness in life today is UP happiness

Happiness

Most of the happiness in life today is UP happiness, and is closely followed by DOWN sorrow. UP happiness is usually influenced by and dependent on something outside ourselves – a person, an event or a substance. It's always followed by a DOWN sorrow. And that's why UP happiness is not real happiness. Its just stimulation. It's not true happiness, it's artificially induced, which means it can't last, it has no staying power. Very very few people have found true, stable, lasting happiness, which is why most of us live lives of UPS and DOWNS! You can choose to keep bouncing from UP to DOWN by saying that it's normal. And that's fine, because it's your choice. But watch carefully if you do make this choice – the DOWNS gradually become more frequent, deeper and longer, and the UPS become shorter and shallower. The other option is incredibly simple, possibly too simple if you are so used to roller coaster happiness. The regular practice of meditation helps you become content with whatever you are feeling at any given moment and with the way things are outside and around you. If you keep choosing this contentment with what is, you will begin to experience real happiness, an inner happiness that has an enduring strength and stability. It is not a boring happiness it is a nourishing happiness.

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Brahma Kumaris

Detachment brings the power of realization

Detachment brings the power of realization

Detachment brings the power of realization, which enables recognition of one's mistakes. Detachment means to be detached from our old ways of thinking and habits. When we are detached, we have the power of realization, which enables us to correct our mistakes without giving excuses. If not we'll just continue to prove to ourselves and to others that we are right even if we are not. When someone points at our mistake, it is good to get detached from our old nature and ask ourselves if there is anything that we can do to correct ourselves. When we are able to do this we can learn and continue to improve ourselves with every criticism that comes our way

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Brahma Kumaris

Soul Consciousness: Meditation For Experiencing Soul Consciousness

Meditation For Experiencing Soul Consciousness
Read over the following words slowly and silently. Using the power of visualization, aim to experience them in your mind:
I withdraw my attention away from the physical limbs and sense organs........
I focus on myself........
I am listening through these ears........
I am looking through these eyes........
This instrument of mine, the physical body, is a precious vehicle........
a valuable instrument, a medium........
But, that which is more valuable and more precious is the being making this instrument function........
Within this assembly of bones and muscles and amazing organs is a being of light........
In the centre of the forehead is a point of light ……
I am this being of light........
I the being of light express myself through this body........
But the body is not I........
I am light........
I emanate rays of peace in all directions........
I become aware of the power within this point of light........
Within I the being of light is everything that I am and everything that I have........
Within my own being are my virtues, my powers, my talents........
In the awareness of who I am I radiate this light within........
and in the awareness of this inner light........
I hold my head held high in dignity........

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Brahma Kumaris