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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Believe in yourself and have Faith that you will rise above...!!!!!!

We will all feel pain in our lives at one time or another and we will all suffer from that pain. However, do we really need to suffer to the extent that we do? There's no getting around pain in a human existence. We will have physical pain and emotional pain but the level of suffering often is something that we can change. 

I can speak only of my own experiences when I write this message. I know that I have endured pain in my life. Illness, loss of a loved one, pain from watching a loved one suffer, just to name a few. What I now know is that the level of suffering that I do at the hand of each of these experiences is something that I can let get out of control or I can keep under control. I've lived a life based on fear. Fear of what could happen, fear of letting people see me as the sensitive person I really am, fear of this, fear of that. I worry about things I can't control, I worry about things that happen to other people, the list could go on and on...

I know that I can't stop challenges from presenting themselves but I also know that I can control how far I let that suffering go. I have found that my mind goes out of control at times, lost in the "what could happen" from this scenario. I lose sleep thinking about things that I have ZERO control over and I know it. It's taken a lot of self work to get to the point where I recognize my mind taking the leap off the cliff into bedlam. I recognize it as it's happening and am able to put the brake on. 


However, knowing it is happening and putting the brake down doesn't make it STOP. It slows the process, it gives me time to look at the situation and face what is happening. You can't hide from these things because that just makes them come back again and even stronger. You have to learn to recognize the backward movement and face it. See it for what it is and then adjust your thinking so you focus on what you can control and let go of what you can't.

Some of the things that have worked for me are to look at the thoughts running around in my head. Are the worries realistic and do I have control over the outcomes. I ask myself why I am feeling as I am. What am I afraid of? What will my worrying about it do for me? Most of the time after I have this little conversation with myself I realize that my worries are unfounded, based on outcomes that are out of my control, or are not my worries at all and not mine to carry. I, like you am a work in progress and I make wonderful advancements and then I have days where I fall back. It's all part of the growing process. Even though I wish that I was just moving forward and making advancements all the time, that's unrealistic. I can be proud of the fact that I am moving forward, that I am aware when I fall backward and that I can face what is in front of me and bring it back under control. You can do it too! I have Faith in all of us that we can make our lives better and in turn affect the lives of so many others.

Believe in yourself and have Faith that you will rise above. There are lessons in every aspect of life and we all have to learn them. We can learn them through immense suffering or we can learn them with less. The choice ultimately is ours when we recognize this truth.

Just keep believing...!!!

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

You won’t be the same person...!!!!!!!

And once the storm is over, 
you won’t remember how you made it through, 
how you managed to survive. 

You won’t even be sure, 
whether the storm is really over. 

But one thing is certain. 
When you come out of the storm, 
you won’t be the same person who walked in. 
That’s what this storm’s all about.

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Feed your self esteem..not your ego...!!!!!!!

In this relationship called society, every human being is cutting himself off from another by his position, by his ambition, by his desires for fame, power, and so on; but he has to live in this brutal relationship with others like himself, so the whole thing is glossed over and made respectable by pleasant sounding words....!!!!

In everyday life, each one is devoted to his own interests, though it may be in the name of country, in the name of peace, or God, and so this isolating process goes on....!!!

One becomes aware of this whole process in the form of intense loneliness, a feeling of complete isolation. Thought, which has been giving all importance to itself, isolating itself as the `me', the ego, has finally come to the point of realizing that it's held in the prison of it's own making...!!!!

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

It takes a great man to be a good listener...!!!

It is important to know how to listen, not only to me particularly, but to anybody. It is important to know how to listen because if we know how to listen truly, something extraordinary happens to us, because then without any bias, without any prejudice, we can go to the root of the matter immediately. But if we throw up a lot of arguments, concoct devices or contradictions to see who is correct and who is not correct and carry on with our own particular idiosyncrasies and ideas, then we will not discover the truth of the matter at all. We shall only be concerned with our own particular conclusions, with our own point of view. So if I may suggest, it is important that we should listen truly because if we can know how to listen, the truth will reveal itself. We do not have to explore the problem, but if we know how to listen to the song of a bird, to the voice of another, if we can listen as to music without any interpretation or translation, it definitely clarifies the mind; so similarly, if it is possible, let us listen with that intention - not to confute or to conform, but to directly find out the truth for ourselves.

Monday, 3 November 2014

Present lies between past and future..!!!!

If you watch your own mind at work, you will see that the movement to the past and to the future is a process in which the present is not..!!!

Either the past is a means of escape from the present, which may be unpleasant, or the future is a hope away from the present.

So the mind is occupied with the past or with the future and sloughs off the present. It either condemns and rejects the fact or accepts and identifies itself with the fact. Such a mind is obviously not capable of seeing any fact as a fact. 

That is our state of consciousness, which is conditioned by the past and our thought, is the conditioned response to the challenge of a fact; the more you respond according to the conditioning of belief, of the past, the more there is strengthening of the past.
That strengthening of the past is obviously the continuity of itself, which it calls the future. So that is the state of our mind, of our consciousness. a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards between the past and the future..!!!!

Take risk and Conquer your fear...

Do not let fear paralyze you, do not allow it to make you weak. You are still alive as long as you live, you are not yet dead. Yet in your mind you act as though you are crippled, you act as though your body is ill. You tell yourself you cannot do this, and you cannot do that. But that is not the case, you have only accepted fear. Fear has made you this way. It is not one's own doing, it is what comes of fear. So the answer is simple, rid yourself of the fear. Stand opposite the power that you have given fear to weaken you. Be Great, for you are strong. Cast out the doubts, conquer your thoughts!