Todays thought

Strength If things are not turn­ing out right, even when you feel you are doing all the right things, then just con­sider it a way to make you strong. Be in­spired With all the stresses and strains of mod­ern life, and the feel­ings of in­ad­e­quacy and cyn­i­cism these can gen­er­ate, it is easy to for­get the good things of which human be­ings are ca­pa­ble, such as friend­ship, char­ity, and self­less­ness, and to for­get how re­silient we can be. Peo­ple's hearts have be­come so hard they are not able to feel. Human be­ings have be­come so sen­si­tive and del­i­cate they are not able to tol­er­ate the slight­est thing. But this is not what human be­ings should be. Human be­ings are so clever, they can make the im­pos­si­ble pos­si­ble. If some­one does some­thing with in­sight and faith and trust, it is going to work out. Be in­spired by oth­ers and re­mem­ber that all human be­ings are ca­pa­ble of great things - in­clud­ing you. Self Es­teem Self-es­teem comes when I re­ally value my­self: When I place value on my­self, then oth­ers, too, will value me. When I don't value my­self, how can I ex­pect oth­ers to value me? If I con­tin­u­ously put my­self down, say­ing * I'm no good or * I am not ca­pa­ble, other peo­ple who hear this will start be­liev­ing it. So what do I do? The key word is 'con­scious­ness'. As I start to make my con­scious­ness pos­i­tive by cre­at­ing pos­i­tive thoughts many times in the day about my­self like * I am the most for­tu­nate soul in the uni­verse or * I am a vic­to­ri­ous soul, I can­not ex­pe­ri­ence fail­ure in any step in life or * I am a self sov­er­eign soul, ruler of my sense or­gans or * I am a de­stroyer of ob­sta­cles or * I am a spir­i­tual rose flower who spreads the fra­grance of di­vine qual­i­ties or sim­i­lar thoughts, I be­come spir­i­tu­ally alert, then I am in a po­si­tion to start valu­ing my life and as I start valu­ing my­self, I de­velop self-con­fi­dence. The ef­fect of this is that I start valu­ing oth­ers, un­der­stand­ing that every­one has their own po­si­tion: not higher or lower, just dif­fer­ent. Each one's unique­ness has its value. Soul Sus­te­nance Con­scious­ness There are two dif­fer­ent basic lev­els of con­scious­ness; * I am a body (which is il­lu­sory (false)) or * I am a soul, (which is real). When the feel­ing is * I am a body, the thought process is trapped in the lim­i­ta­tions, prob­lems and vi­sion of the phys­i­cal iden­tity. Its re­ac­tion to oth­ers is on the same level. Given below is an aware­ness-thought-de­ci­sion-ac­tion-re­sult cycle in the case of a typ­i­cal fa­ther-son re­la­tion­ship. You will no­tice the dif­fer­ence con­scious­ness can make to the cycle. Aware­ness Body Con­scious­ness: I am the fa­ther. I know the most. Soul Con­scious­ness: I am a soul. My nat­ural state is love and peace. Thought Body Con­scious­ness: My son should lis­ten to me as he is my own flesh and blood. Soul Con­scious­ness: My son is a soul too. As a soul he is my brother. De­ci­sion Body Con­scious­ness: I will teach him a les­son. Soul Con­scious­ness: I will re­spect his idea also. Ac­tion Body Con­scious­ness: Fa­ther ar­gues with son. Soul Con­scious­ness: Fa­ther and son dis­cuss with re­spect. Re­sult Body Con­scious­ness: Ill feel­ing be­tween fa­ther and son. Soul Con­scious­ness: Re­spect main­tained. Mes­sage for the day Pa­tience brings har­mony in re­la­tion­ships. Pro­jec­tion: When there is a mis­un­der­stand­ing in a re­la­tion­ship we hardly put in any ef­fort in order to un­der­stand the other per­son. We tend to be­come im­pa­tient and we don't lis­ten to the other per­son to un­der­stand them. Be­cause of which we start in­vent­ing things about them. This only fur­ther in­creases the mis­un­der­stand­ing. So­lu­tion: When we have a dif­fer­ence of opin­ion with some­one, we need to give some time to un­der­stand and lis­ten to the other per­son. Only then will we be able to un­der­stand the other per­son's point of view. This prac­tice will en­able us to fin­ish any mis­un­der­stand­ing we have with oth­ers and brings har­mony in re­la­tion­ships.