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Positive Reflections messages from Awakening consciousness
A strong mind doesn't live in a different world.
It simply sees the same world differently.
Where others see only obstacles, it notices possibilities.
Where others stop, it looks for another path.
Where others lose hope, it quietly searches for the next step.
That's the power of a strong mind—it transforms your perception before it transforms your circumstances.
🌿 Want to strengthen your mind?
Spend a few minutes in meditation every day. A peaceful mind naturally becomes a powerful mind, and a powerful mind begins to see opportunities where fear once saw only problems.
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Overcoming Obstacles With A Powerful Consciousness Of Faith (Part 3)
In the latter part of the birth-rebirth world drama, as our accounts of negative karma or actions have increased, we have experienced large number of ups and downs in the different aspects of life, as explained in the last two days’ messages. All these bitter experiences, which we obviously do not remember today, have weakened us and left deep scars on our subconscious mind and are in fact the main cause of the creation of sanskaras of fear, anxiety, pessimism lack of determination, etc. in the soul. Repeated experiences cause the formation of similar sanskaras (habits). If we experience peace repeatedly i.e. we think about peace, visualize peace, and make peaceful conversations repeatedly, sanskaras (habits) of peace are created in the soul. In the same way each time something went wrong in our life in the past births; due to a lack of spiritual awareness and inner strength, we experienced sorrow, peacelessness, mental tiredness, etc., and that caused the creation of similar sanskaras (habits) in the soul. This is the main reason why today when we find ourselves in a negative situation or scene of life, we are not able to have the faith in ourselves, that we can emerge victorious in the situation.
We have experienced failure in the past births at different points of time and many times and that is why each time something goes wrong, although we emerge thoughts of victory, many times we dilute these positive thoughts with a large number of weak thoughts, of possible failure. This kind of weak consciousness during problems not only prolongs the time duration of our problems but also keeps the solution away from us much longer. Today, with the help of spirituality, we need to inject the power of faith into our thoughts, words, and actions. For that, we need to increase our thought power tremendously, which will positively affect our words and actions as a result. The food of powerful thoughts through listening to or reading spiritual wisdom and the experience of emotional power given to the soul through meditation only can heal the emotional scars in the soul over a period of time, the result of which we can become full of strong determination and will-power to weaken negative situations and make them positive and not let situations weaken us and make us negative.
Overcoming Obstacles With A Powerful Consciousness Of Faith (Part 2)
Having accepted the reality that negativity or negative situations in our mind, body, relationships, wealth and role will arise in our life from time to time (as explained in yesterday’s message), a question arises what kind of consciousness do I keep in these kind of situations and how do I ensure that the situation does not overpower my positive consciousness. Because only a powerful consciousness of faith or victory will keep me protected from the negative emotional and physical influence of these problems but will also become the most important influencing factor which will help me in overcoming the problem and going towards the solution or attracting it towards me, sometimes immediately and sometimes slowly, but steadily, without losing my inner stability during the period that I wait for the solution to arise.
What is a powerful consciousness of faith when we are facing a negative situation? No negative scene or situation of any type in my life lasts forever and this scene shall also pass and I shall emerge victorious over it using the power of thought, the power of positivity, the power of spiritual wisdom, the power of meditation and the power of God’s constant company. My victory is 100% fixed and certain. This is in short a powerful consciousness of faith, which we need to remember many times everyday in the middle of a negative situation. This powerful consciousness will transform the situation from negative to positive and make it completely favorable for us.
In tomorrow’s message, we shall explain what is preventing us from keeping this consciousness of faith and how we can maintain it in negative and uncertain situations, which test our emotional strength and inner stability and resilience.
Overcoming Obstacles With A Powerful Consciousness Of Faith (Part 1)
Almost every day in our present lives brings various ups and downs in our minds, physical bodies, relationships, wealth, and personal or professional roles. Not a single human soul exists in the world today that is experiencing a constant state of positivity in all these aspects of life, mentioned above. All aspects are extremely changeable and every now and then, they seem to bring with them negativity or negative situations. A very simple reason for this is that today we stand at the very end of the eternal world drama i.e. at the end of the Iron Age or Kaliyuga, when every human soul is in its last phase of its journey of birth and rebirth, a journey in which it has committed many mistakes, especially in the latter part of the journey, as it has continued to lose its spiritual power because it has performed many actions in the consciousness of the physical body.
So, the problems from time to time in all the above aspects of life are nothing but a reflection or karmic result of incorrect actions performed by each soul, especially in the latter part of this world drama. If we are expecting a time to come in the present time, when all these will be absolutely fine and they will always be positive at all times, that will not be possible, not until the Iron Age or Kaliyuga reaches an end and we return back home to the soul world or the spiritual home of supreme peace of all human souls, after becoming completely pure. Until we return, for this purification to take place, we will need to settle all our accounts of our past negative karmas or incorrect actions, by spiritual empowerment as well as facing problems in these five aspects of life, not necessarily in all of them at the same time, but in one or more aspects from time to time and overcoming them with ease, positivity and power. Instead of running away from this reality we need to accept it completely and instead of looking at ways of keeping these aspects positive, which we will be able to do but only to some extent because there will be times when it will not be possible for us to change the negativity in these aspects completely, in spite of our deep efforts. We should look to resolve all problems of these aspects and we will be able to do it at times, but it will not be possible each time that these aspects will change for the better as much as we want and at the speed we desire, because a large number of past negative action accounts have to be settled in a short duration of time.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
At Peace With Time - The Key To Relaxed Living (Part 4)
You choose whether, each morning, you want to get up and begin with watching television, reading the newspaper over a cup of tea, or you want to get up and meditate, listen to peaceful music, read a couple of pages of spiritual knowledge that inspire you and you begin the day with enthusiasm and by visualizing it positively: today will be a marvelous day, I shall enjoy it … yes!! Such meditative and spiritual practice will give you a feel of time being elastic. In such a consciousness, a minute will seem eternal i.e. time can seem to come to a standstill (if I am surrounded by a positive set of circumstances which are spiritually uplifting) or can seem an instant, i.e. I get a feeling of time passing very fast (if in a negative set of circumstances). Thus, I learn to be a creator of time; living in time without being a slave to it. True freedom lies in being content now. You can be content in the present moment by resolving the inner dialogue that generates stress and conflict in you. When you are content, enjoying yourself and having a good time, you don't realize how time passes. This means that, if we lived in a state of constant happiness, we wouldn't realize how time passes. Time would be at our service. We would be the rulers and controllers of time and not the other way round.
At Peace With Time - The Key To Relaxed Living (Part 3)
To live at peace with time is to live it with peace, trust and determination. It is different to living it out of conflict and forcing things. In order to live true freedom of being, we have to make friends with time and stop living stressed in time. We have to trust. Trust that you will arrive on time, that you will do it on time and, if not, that a particular problem will be solved. Don't let time be a stress factor. When we live stressed because of time, we lose the best of life. We stop living what is essential and important, and we get lost in the details: I have to go here, I have to finish this, I have to call up someone, and endless amounts of I have tos that consume our mental energy and make us get lost in the details of the trivial (ordinary). As well, in hurrying, we lose quality. You can do everything, but without losing what is essential; do it with love, with care, with interest, with enthusiasm, with motivation and with focus. That way every small action that you take will have a greater impact, will be more fulfilling and will bear a more positive fruit.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
At Peace With Time - The Key To Relaxed Living (Part 2)
Not only is your strength reduced by the way that you live the past and project onto the future, but also how you live in this moment. When, for example, you oppose the present and have resistances, these consume your energy and cause you stress. If you accept the present you can flow flexibly without wasting your energy. Accepting does not mean submitting yourself or feeling a victim of what is happening now. From acceptance, you confront and transform. If we learn to live the dimensions of time in a healthy way we will keep up our vitality, we will heal the past and we will feel at peace with it. Accepting the present and trusting in the future helps us to be well.
Accepting the present means stopping comparing yourself with others; you want what the other has, their money, their talents, their beauty, their personality, their achievements, their virtues, etc. So, instead of being grateful for what you have and accepting yourself as you are, you try to have and be like the other. In this way, you are never satisfied. The dissatisfaction causes you a constant unhappiness that reduces your vitality. When you feel happy and satisfied your energy flows more easily. The most important thing that you should do in this moment is to feel content. Next, what is the most important thing? To be content. Therefore, the priority, and what is essential, is that whatever happens in the moment, the most important thing is to be content. So, tell your mind - Oh, mind, be quiet and don't think so much. Oh, mind, kindly trust that everything is and will be fine. Give your mind the basic instructions and the key thoughts with which to be content. Don't let your own mind create the thoughts that trap you. It is we ourselves who create our emotional cages.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
At Peace With Time - The Key To Relaxed Living (Part 1)
To live in freedom you have to live at peace (harmony) with time; live the dimension of time as a creator of time and not a slave of time; live without being either a prisoner or victim of time. To live at peace with time is to live in harmony with nature, beginning with your inner nature. When you plant a sapling today, you cannot accelerate the process so that the next day you have a tree. When it is summer, you cannot make the earth revolve around the sun quicker or slower for winter to arrive before or later. Everything has its rhythm in nature. We have distanced ourselves from the natural rhythm and our accelerated mind exercises pressure, creates stress and causes anxiety. We plan the future, we are stuck in the past and the present escapes us.
Many worries have to do with how we live time: the past, the present and the future. Worrying about what might happen (future), when the moment has not yet come for it to happen, takes away from us the necessary energy to deal with it when it finally arrives. Living in memories drains our energy; the past already happened and no longer exists, except in our memory. We feed memories, not realizing that emerging the memory in our mind distracts us from the present and weakens us. It is like being a plug that connects to a socket with no current passing through. We lose our energy. We want to relive an experience that already happened, and in the end we feel disappointed, feeling a mental and emotional waste.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Do Love And Pain Go Hand In Hand (Part 3)?
When we feel an intense emotional pain, we struggle to express our true soul power and experience our energy of love. If we are in a situation that is causing pain we need to withdraw from the emotion and stabilize the mind.
The pain is to be observed without resisting or being afraid. It is important to carefully check what triggered it. The answer generally is connected with other people -
- He/she doesn't love me anymore and hence I feel pain
- Things are not like they were before
- The company of this person no longer gives me comfort it once gave.
Once we understand the external trigger, we need to do the following subtle check which is slightly deeper -
- If a person who loved us has stopped loving us, does their behaviour trigger our pain? Or is it our own expectation and desire for that person’s love?
- Do we accept changes or resist them?
- Have we started being comfortable living in pain by blaming other people – somewhat addicted or attached to these emotions over a period of time?
We know from personal experiences that even the most beautiful relationship can turn into a source of suffering in a moment. The truth is that we choose to suffer, the other person cannot cause us suffering. Nobody can wound us emotionally. We remain in the grip of pain whenever our expectations are not met. Spiritual practice like meditation gives us the positivity and power to accept everything as though we chose it. It teaches us to first accept people as they are and then take right action. It also connects us to the source of pure love – the unconditional love of God. This connection helps us heal our emotional blockages so that our love and respect for people starts flowing naturally.
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Mindful Moments
Most of us are of sound mind, but many of us have trouble maintaining a note of harmony and peace. Most of us know how to think, but few of us are able to control our thoughts. We all have the capacity to be creative, to image new ideas, but few of us are able to do it together and co-create in harmony with each other. We could all do with some mental training so that we may use the most powerful energy in the universe, the mind, which is always at our instant disposal.
We can begin with mindfulness. It's a simple way to gently help our mind go where it is best to go, do what is the best thing to do. It begins by simply being fully aware of what you are doing. Mostly we are not fully aware, as our minds wander into the past and then into possible futures. We spend most of our time watching others and so rarely fully focus on what we are actually doing ourselves.
Next time you sit down to a meal, watch your self. Be aware of only what you are eating. Every time your mind wants to wander, bring it gently and lovingly back to the action and sensation of eating. Then do the same when cleaning, when writing, when working. The more you do it stronger and more focused and more rational will be your concentration, the more natural will be your actions, the more peaceful you will feel, and the more relaxed you will be, no matter what you are doing.
Making Every Moment Of The Day Precious
We live in a world where time is a very important aspect of life, around which our life revolves. As we get up in the morning, life gives us a fixed number of hours to do something worthwhile and make every moment of the day precious. How do we create miracles in every moment of the day? Let's explore 5 ways -
1. Make Every Thought Of The Day Pure, Positive And Powerful -
Thoughts are the biggest wealth we have, which make time important because when we experience goodness and strength in every thought and gives others an experience of that, we are creating miracles of positivity, which we see in our actions and relationships. These miracles make our lives and others' lives beautiful.
2. Fill Every Moment With God's Love And Closeness -
The beauty of every moment of the day increases when we feel God and talk to Him and also give others the same experience through our vibrations, words and actions. Having God's experience with us is very important for constant success and happiness.
3. Creating Miracles Through Soul Consciousness -
When we spend every moment of the day in the physical consciousness, we lose touch with our inner being and inner existence and we live life on the surface, because of which our time is used only for physical purposes and we don't nurture the soul along the way. Soul consciousness at every moment make us internally fulfilled, which makes all physical purposes easy to achieve.
4. Bringing Peace And A Smile On Everyone's Face -
The most important service to other souls that we can do everyday is to make them peaceful and joyful. Every moment of the day becomes precious, when we are always doing this with everyone we meet and even with those who may be far away from us but we are connected to them through technology and mediums of science.
5. Creating A Positive Destiny With Positive Actions -
Every moment becomes important when whatever we do in the day is influenced by the spiritual wisdom of the soul, God and the Law Of Karma, which creates a positive destiny for us and others.
Embracing Gratitude: Recognise Your Blessings
No matter the hurdles we face, there's always light to be found. Life's journey is full with ups and downs, but amidst the challenges, there are countless reasons to hold gratitude close to our hearts. Today, let's pause and reflect on the precious gift of life and its many wonders. From the air we breathe to the connections we cherish, every moment is an opportunity to recognise our blessings. Let's count them one by one and hold onto the joy they bring, for in gratitude, we find strength and peace. Cherish what you have, and let the knowledge of your blessings be a source of comfort and motivation.
Do Love And Pain Go Hand In Hand (Part 2)?
Each of us is an embodiment of divine love and that love is meant to be shared unconditionally. Life is about sharing it - loving our body, loving oneself, loving others, loving God, loving nature, loving our work…. That energy of love in the end purifies us and helps us transform. But if we connect love with fear or suffering, the flow of pure love gets blocked. We worry, we suffer and we become afraid. In this depleted state of mind, we cannot help either the right way or to the right extent. Our negative vibrations constantly radiate to the person, although physically we might be doing a lot for them. We tend to suffocate or control them and they soon feel dominated.
If we review our personal life, we are likely to have experienced most pain from loved ones. Such an unexplained pain occurs when there is an energy of possession, control, submission and dependence either radiating from us to them or from them to us. Note that none of these four qualify as pure or divine love. We look up to a few people as a blessing in life. They love us, help us, support us and serve us in so many ways that we feel emotionally indebted. But for some reason if we part ways, we blame that our immense love is not letting us overcome the pain of separation. This is not true. Separation whether by death or any other reason is purely a karmic result. Every soul stays with us for a fixed duration of time depending on our karmic account with them. So, we need to continue radiating pure love to each other, with the right understanding.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Do Love And Pain Go Hand In Hand (Part 1)?
Love and pain are two emotions that touch or move us in life. Both are our inner creation in response to circumstances. With constant ups and downs in life both love and pain seem like addictions, as we almost always feel either loved or pained. There are 3 deep and wrong belief systems about love and pain, that we need to examine:
1. Love Hurts - Love can never harm us. People who do not love us back can harm us, but not love. Losing a loved one can be painful. Separation can be painful. Being lied or betrayed can be painful… but many people feel love is painful. They even decide never to love any human being again. True love never hurts, it only heals.
2. We Obviously Go In Pain When A Loved One Is Distressed - Consider the example of a young child who meets with an accident. Being in tremendous pain and fear he could be crying for hours or days. At that time how would he want his parents to be? To cry along with him and add to his insecurity? Or a strong, stable and brave parent cheering him as - We understand your pain. We are always with you. The best doctors are healing you. Just see how quickly you are recovering. You are the bravest child...
3. Loving Someone Makes Me Possessive And Worried For Them - Attachment makes us possessive or worried. Love lets people be who they are. Pure love vibrates at such a higher frequency where lower energies like pain, fear, anxiety and insecurity cannot reach. At a time, either love can exist or pain - not both.
It is important to get our belief systems right because once we adopt any belief, the very way we live our lives will change considerably.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Rediscover The Essence Of Happiness (Part 3)
When you feel stuck in a hard time, change your attitude by letting go or shedding off your attachment to possessions and people (external attachments) and habits (internal attachments) that no longer work for you. When you get rid of your attachment to physical things and people and emotional habits that weigh you down, and start to feel lighter — you’ll witness how by letting go, you’re making room for new things, new values to enter your life. As a result, your subconscious will be relieved by letting go of emotional burdens or bondages.
To achieve the above purpose, try the short meditation below. Think as well as visualize alongside the following thoughts:
I become aware of myself as a tiny sparkling star of light, an energy, situated just above the eyebrows – a soul... In soul consciousness, I experience the beauty of the many qualities like peace, love and joy; of the spiritual being that I am... Now, with the medium of visualization, I, the soul, travel beyond the world of 5 elements to the soul world, a non-physical dimension of the subtle light of golden red hue (shade)… Over there, I visualize, in front of me – a sparkling Sun of golden light - God, the Father and Mother of me, the Supreme Soul, the ocean of peace, love and joy, which is His eternal nature... He radiates the immense spiritual energy of peace, love and joy... I turn my mind and intellect to His light... I feel the warmth of His presence and the light of His love for me gently healing the wounds of the past that are buried deep inside me, the soul... wounds left by ego, fear, sorrow, jealousy, hatred, anger that have reduced my happiness all this while… I feel a deep feeling of emotional freedom inside me, I feel light and my happiness is restored…
Fortunately, being happy is easy but it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you better stop worrying about it and see what treasures (whether your internal ones or from the Supreme) you can tap into.