Reflect, Reveal, Resolve and Relax

It is likely that each day usually has a number of minor and perhaps major anxious moments. We tend to accept those moments as a part of normal life and do little to understand and resolve them. Little moments eventually grow into big moments and suddenly we are in crisis. By responding honestly to the questions you see here you will gain insight into whatever the situation is and as a result begin to see possible ways to resolve.

Questions

What was your most stressful moment today?
What do you think was the cause of your stress?
Were there any emotions present? Describe those emotions.
Why do you think you responded in this way?




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Do you Know How Self-esteem and Self-respect are connected??

Self-esteem and self-respect are intimately connected. One is an integral part of the other. One is not possible without the other. In relationships, when other people are throwing all their negative energy at us, if we can maintain our own self-respect we will be able to remain stable, positive and unaffected. In fact, if our self -respect is strong, we will not feel the need to return like for like, but will be able to return understanding and compassion instead. To restore, build and strengthen our self-respect, we need to practice giving respect to others – no matter what they are like, or what they do. What we rarely realise is that in the process of respecting another, we are first of all respecting ourself.
Reflection: What does showing respect look like? (imagine different ways in which you can convey respect to another person) - What do you think is the biggest inner barrier to developing the ability to give respect to others?
Action: Whom could you consciously choose to respect more today than you have up to now? (remember that to be respectful you will need to be non-judgmental)

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I HAVE to go to work, I HAVE to do this and that

Most of us learn to live life reluctantly, (I HAVE to go to work, I HAVE to do this and that); few of us realize we drain our own power by forgetting we always have choice and free will. Instead we make ourselves feel like prisoners of our culture, our environment or 'the system', and as a consequence we fall asleep to our choices. Start to consciously choose the day every day, consciously choose to do everything you do. Even if you don't particularly enjoy what you do, choose it. Remind yourself that joy is not something you get from a particular place or activity, true joy is something that you generate as you give yourself whole heartedly to whatever you do. Be whole hearted in everything you do and watch how it transforms life from 'have to' a 'want to'. The first word on your lips as soon as you awaken in the morning … YES!

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Self Awareness: Self Awareness Simply Corrects Your Relationship

The soul is a small point of pure, spiritual light, which is conscious, and self-aware, whose eternal and true nature is peaceful and full of love. Located above and behind the eyes, we receive information about the world through the five senses of our body and the brain. If you find this hard to understand, just ask yourself quite naturally, "Where do I do my thinking?" The chances are that, if asked to point to where your thinking takes place, you would point to an area somewhere in the middle of your forehead. The brain is like your computer and you (the soul) are the operator.

This awareness of your self as soul does not diminish (decrease) the value of your brain and body in any way. It simply corrects your relationship with them.

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Brahma Kumaris

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One Thought -----One Feeling

Create a positive thought about yourself. For example - "I am a peaceful being" or "I am a loving soul" or "I am filled with constant contentment".

Now find an object, associate the object with the thought and meditate on both together. Allow the object to open and deepen the thought and the feelings, which may come with it. Use different objects with different thoughts.

For example "I am peace" ..... and .... a tea cup!
I imagine filling the cup, not with water but with liquid peace...
It fills to overflowing...
Spilling peace is not a problem for I have an unlimited amount of peacefulness to pour...
I hand the cup to someone I know who is having difficulty with stress...
I see them drink from the cup and smile...
Already they are feeling more relaxed...

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How to Say Goodbye to Yesterday???

The most powerful anchor on our potential to soar high in life is the past. The past consists of our experience, learned beliefs and all our mistakes. Life cannot truly begin until we are able to say goodbye to yesterday at will. Like a filing cabinet, the past is a resource of information for learning, but it is not a place to live. When you go to work do you spend your day in the filing cabinet? How often will you/did you live in the past today? Say goodbye and make it final. Saying farewell to yesterday, last month and last year is the sign of a person who wants to live for today and is truly alive to all the possibilities of 'the moment', while fully aware that all they think, say and do right now, creates tomorrow.

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Self Esteem: What is Self Esteem?

The rebuilding of 'real' self-esteem is an inner process of self-realization, self-knowledge and self-awareness. We need to spend sometime seeing our own inner qualities and appreciating them, and most importantly expressing them for the benefit of others. In this way we gradually come to know our own true beauty. Are you ready to rediscover what is already there?

Question: Imagine five people in your life were asked to identify a specific positive quality/trait within you. List the five different qualities, which you think they would see in you.

Reflection: Now spend a few minutes with each of these qualities/traits and visualize yourself expressing them in your life.

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True Potential: Who want to know about True Potential?

The potential of a good team is buried in the people that make up the team. It will emerge as a combination of talent, skills and character. It will be seen and felt in the quality of communication as the team rises to the challenge of fulfilling its purpose. Similarly, your potential is buried within, but in order to allow it to emerge you will need to stop putting blocks and barriers in its way.

While talents may be evident, and skills can be learned, both will be fine tuned with practice from 'outside in'. The deepest potential of any human being is spiritual in nature, and it comes from 'inside out'. The regular practice of meditation helps us in harnessing our true inner potential.

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How to Restore Freedom: Who Wants to Know About Restoring Freedom

There is nothing more certain in life than the eventual loss of whatever you become attached to. If you cannot yet be detached then you can prepare for the moment the universe will come to take away your attachments. This is also a moment of freedom, although we do not appreciate it until after the event.

Make a list of all the things (ideas, objects, people, circumstances etc), which you are attached to.
Take one item at a time and complete the following statement:
If the universe took away/changed/or altered (insert attachment)...............................then my response would be as follows. I would feel....................................... and I would (what would you do)..................

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Secrets & Practice for Healthy Relationship

Proof of seeing the best in others is shown when we naturally thank and praise rather than criticize those with whom we interact at home or at the workplace on a daily basis. Keep a percentage wise record of your progress in this area, for a period of one week for the following points:
1. Name of person and relationship
2. How did I thank or praise him/her?
3. What was this person's response?
Remember that although you may be constantly positive with others, constantly seeing their original spiritual virtues, it may take time for them to do the same.

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Re-discovering Internal Strengths.....

Make a short list of your truest internal strengths, which you believe you possess but do not use in your practical life.

Ask yourself whether any of these strengths can be used to remove unnecessary stresses, tensions or contradictions in your practical life? Now determine that you will bring these strengths into practice at your workplace and at home - where everyone will see the use you are making of them.

Believe in these ideas as symbols of your essential character, rather than thinking of them as separate from yourself. Using this hidden wealth of your strengths in your practical life will help you realise your complete potential and fulfill your goals in your personal as well as professional life.

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Meditation In Action:: Powerful way to strengthen the mind

1. At different times within your daily routine of action, practice going beyond sound in one second. Stop, pack up all your thoughts and spend a couple of minutes in silence. This is a really powerful way to strengthen the mind and the intellect. After a few minutes, return to the world of sound with the reinforced awareness of being an incorporeal (non-physical) soul, an actor and the body, your corporeal (physical) costume or instrument.

2. Practice seeing all those who come into contact with you as souls, tiny sparkling points of consciousness, whose inherent virtues are peace, bliss, love, joy, power, etc.. In this way the soul is not pulled by the others' imperfections, and will avoid any negative interactions with anyone.

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Brahma Kumaris

The power of silence can bring peace to any situation!!

The power of silence can bring peace to any situation. The instruments for the power of silence are pure thoughts and pure feelings. We can give others an experience with the power of our silence. When we understand and experience the power of silence we will become more powerful. We will then be able to experience peace that will naturally spread to others too. When we have to correct someone in any situation we first need to remind ourselves that words will not work but silence based on pure feelings and love will surely work. When we accept the person as he is with love we will be able to bring about a change in him.

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Meditation And Health::Peace:Joy:Love:Bliss:Knowledge:Purity:Power

Each virtue of the self or soul is specially required for nourishing and empowering one human body system. The virtue of peace is responsible for sustaining the respiratory system, joy for the gastrointestinal system, love for the circulatory system, bliss for the endocrine system, knowledge for the brain and nervous system, purity for the immune system and the five senses and power for the muscular and skeletal systems.

Each one of us has at least one body system, which is most susceptible to disease. When our mind is under the influence of stressful emotions, there is a decrease in the flow, from the soul to this body system, of that virtue which is required by it for its upbringing, which leads to the development of disease in this system over a period of time e.g. when an individual with a weak respiratory system is in a negative state of mind, there is a decrease in the flow of peace to the respiratory system which in turn can lead to a disorder like asthma.

Self-Empowerment:: To know your weaknesses, perform the following exercise!

To empower the self we need to realize and review our weaknesses or those aspects of life that are holding us back in some way and/or are causing us some sorrow or discomfort. The next step is to use techniques of meditation to remove these weaknesses.

To know your weaknesses, perform the following exercise:
A. Remember the darker times in your life, when you experienced failure. What was the common weakness present in your behaviour at those times?
B. What are the negative or destructive trends in your behaviour because of which you or others experience pain or sorrow?
C. Sometimes certain traits or behaviour of others can arouse a negative response in us. What is that negative response?
D. What are you most frightened of?
E. Now review your answers and summarize. What are your three main weaknesses?

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Anger Management:: I have no choice but to get angry??

There are some false notions (ideas) about anger that we have acquired, which we use to justify and nourish our anger:

1. I have no choice but to get angry.
Fact: You do not know how to understand, manage and choose your feelings, especially when something happens that you do not like.
Tip For Transformation: Meditation increases your self-awareness. It makes you realize the beliefs that you possess and that possess you and enables you to see and make your choices much more clearly.

2. Anger gives me a surge of positive energy.
Fact: Anger temporarily heightens your attention and alertness. But it results in mental and emotional exhaustion and over time will end in burnout. However it is the 'hit' of adrenaline that you have become addicted to which also makes you believe that a bit of anger is good.
Tip For Transformation: Every time you become angry visualize a white sail on a calm sea and a gentle, cool, breeze blowing against your face.

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Role Consciousness to Soul Consciousness

List the main roles that you play in your life today either at your workplace or at home or otherwise. Then rank them in order of importance.

Which of these roles do you find most challenging and why?

How do you think the practice of meditation may eventually help you to play that role more effectively?

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Spiritual Vision :: Regularly Affirm Your Spiritual Qualities!!

A spiritual vision in the context of our relationships means we see the highest spiritual qualities in others despite what they say or do. This is difficult until we are able to see the same in ourselves. This simple exercise is a beginning. Write down the names of three people you know (family, friend, colleague) and then three positive qualities that you see in each of them.

Now imagine they are doing the same with you - what would they write down for you - write down a few positive qualities you think they would see in you.

Regularly affirm your spiritual qualities, which they generate. The more you learn to see them within yourself, the more you will see and appreciate them in others.

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Just-A-Minute (J-A-M): Transform Your World

What can a minute's quiet reflection every hour do for you?
It can be used for reflecting on a simple inspiring thought or for silence and meditation, to reconnect with the self and relax.

It takes just-a-minute to transform your world.

Just-a-minute (j-a-m) is a dynamic campaign to create personal peace in a global climate of ever-increasing chaos and change. It introduces regular one-minute periods of silence into people's lives, whether stressed out city executives, busy mothers or high profile public figures. Taking just-a-minute has helped people in every aspect of their lives regardless of age or background.

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