Someday everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason - Paulo Coelho
Do we really take a moment everyday to thank God for his blessings in our lives? Have we ever felt content at heart and mind? Have we looked at our lives, our selves?Most of us have lots of complaints, many things, we take it for granted. To list a few, we have been blessed with healthy body with all the senses sound and active, we are not handicapped. If we make a list of Gods blessings with every minute details, we would be surprised and really feel grateful at heart. Not everybody is blessed the same way. Not everybody is left out too if we really be God's child. When we be his child, he's always with us. What looks like injustice done to us, it really has some purpose behind it which we may not know or understand now. It would be revealed to us later. Do we really punish our kids if they do any mistakes? Dont we forgive? Dont we accept them when they come back to us? So is God, ever loving, ever merciful, if we look up to him, he looks at us. When we ask him, he answers us.
Its at our end we have problem with the receiver, if we can't hear him. It doesn't mean he is not answering us. We always blame it outside us, but the real problem is "inside us", inside our head!.
1) ACCEPT :
Accept what we are!!. There itself lies the conflict.We dont accept and love ourselves, we always hurt ourselves. Hurting doesn't mean physically. It is emotional hurting, psychologically. If we do some mistake, can we forgive ourselves? Can we treat ourselves like a child which has committed a mistake unknowingly? There is a popular saying " Believe in Yourself". Unless we connect ourselves to those words , it really wouldn't mean anything. It would sound good, make us feel good for sometime reading positive affirmation kind of. But we must " connect" , for that we must accept ourselves without any conflicts inside. Genuinely asking oneself, how we feel about ourselves, our thoughts about ourselves, we would be surprised to know what we really think/feel about ourselves.
Whatever we are first we must accept ourselves genuinely. There are something we can and cannot change. Like we can't change the genes we have, we can't change the karmaphalam ( fruits of our deeds). We can't change but WE CAN ACCEPT IT.
Do we really take a moment everyday to thank God for his blessings in our lives? Have we ever felt content at heart and mind? Have we looked at our lives, our selves?Most of us have lots of complaints, many things, we take it for granted. To list a few, we have been blessed with healthy body with all the senses sound and active, we are not handicapped. If we make a list of Gods blessings with every minute details, we would be surprised and really feel grateful at heart. Not everybody is blessed the same way. Not everybody is left out too if we really be God's child. When we be his child, he's always with us. What looks like injustice done to us, it really has some purpose behind it which we may not know or understand now. It would be revealed to us later. Do we really punish our kids if they do any mistakes? Dont we forgive? Dont we accept them when they come back to us? So is God, ever loving, ever merciful, if we look up to him, he looks at us. When we ask him, he answers us.
Its at our end we have problem with the receiver, if we can't hear him. It doesn't mean he is not answering us. We always blame it outside us, but the real problem is "inside us", inside our head!.
1) ACCEPT :
Accept what we are!!. There itself lies the conflict.We dont accept and love ourselves, we always hurt ourselves. Hurting doesn't mean physically. It is emotional hurting, psychologically. If we do some mistake, can we forgive ourselves? Can we treat ourselves like a child which has committed a mistake unknowingly? There is a popular saying " Believe in Yourself". Unless we connect ourselves to those words , it really wouldn't mean anything. It would sound good, make us feel good for sometime reading positive affirmation kind of. But we must " connect" , for that we must accept ourselves without any conflicts inside. Genuinely asking oneself, how we feel about ourselves, our thoughts about ourselves, we would be surprised to know what we really think/feel about ourselves.
Whatever we are first we must accept ourselves genuinely. There are something we can and cannot change. Like we can't change the genes we have, we can't change the karmaphalam ( fruits of our deeds). We can't change but WE CAN ACCEPT IT.
2) UTILIZE :
" Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you car" - Garrison Keillor.
Mere possessing the resources or treasure does not really help unless " it is utilized". Having collection of great quotes, volumes of good thoughts, words, is not knowledge, unless its applied and acknowledged.
Utilize the resources. We have been blessed with resources. Anything can be a resource. Our sound mind, senses, energy, time, etc. But what do we do with those? Do we really use them for useful things? We may have question in our mind what is useful then? We must ask ourselves and find it. Anything under Gods law, which makes us move and progress in our lives, is useful for us. Useful doesn't always mean connecting in terms of financial things. To say an example,making a our character better, working towards it is so useful.
3) INDIVIDUAL EGO:
We always blame somebody or something or time, for our own things. How many of us have really taken responsibility on our shoulders? ( like I always try to go to gym, but in this cold weather couldn't go, and i blame it on the weather. Oh its cold, let the spring begin..then i will..i blame it on weather..its not right actually. Its my ego..it just finds a way out not to do something. I have seen a person who every single day has gone to gym even during snow and rains!!. It is the same weather for that person too.. so the problem lies in me and not in weather!).
If everything is easy and smooth, if there is no fight, what is victory then? what is learning then?If there no sweat behind the bread, we really wouldn't know the taste of it. Now I get it, everytime either i blamed somebody or time or something but now i know its not anybody or anything else but MY EGO.
It is really useful and helpful to understand our ego.
A GREAT TOOL TO LOOK AT OUR REAL SELF
4)EGO IS THE BASIS OF MY BEING , WHICH PRETENDS TO BE MY REAL SELF:
Like if we say IM LAZY. It is not that. It is not us, but our ego it makes or pulls like that.
The following article opens up our mind and helps to identify our ego.
OH I THOUGHT IT IS ME. I AND MY EGO ARE DIFFERENT.
" Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you car" - Garrison Keillor.
Mere possessing the resources or treasure does not really help unless " it is utilized". Having collection of great quotes, volumes of good thoughts, words, is not knowledge, unless its applied and acknowledged.
Utilize the resources. We have been blessed with resources. Anything can be a resource. Our sound mind, senses, energy, time, etc. But what do we do with those? Do we really use them for useful things? We may have question in our mind what is useful then? We must ask ourselves and find it. Anything under Gods law, which makes us move and progress in our lives, is useful for us. Useful doesn't always mean connecting in terms of financial things. To say an example,making a our character better, working towards it is so useful.
3) INDIVIDUAL EGO:
We always blame somebody or something or time, for our own things. How many of us have really taken responsibility on our shoulders? ( like I always try to go to gym, but in this cold weather couldn't go, and i blame it on the weather. Oh its cold, let the spring begin..then i will..i blame it on weather..its not right actually. Its my ego..it just finds a way out not to do something. I have seen a person who every single day has gone to gym even during snow and rains!!. It is the same weather for that person too.. so the problem lies in me and not in weather!).
If everything is easy and smooth, if there is no fight, what is victory then? what is learning then?If there no sweat behind the bread, we really wouldn't know the taste of it. Now I get it, everytime either i blamed somebody or time or something but now i know its not anybody or anything else but MY EGO.
It is really useful and helpful to understand our ego.
A GREAT TOOL TO LOOK AT OUR REAL SELF
4)EGO IS THE BASIS OF MY BEING , WHICH PRETENDS TO BE MY REAL SELF:
Like if we say IM LAZY. It is not that. It is not us, but our ego it makes or pulls like that.
The following article opens up our mind and helps to identify our ego.
OH I THOUGHT IT IS ME. I AND MY EGO ARE DIFFERENT.
5)HABIT IS THICK:
Without experience its just words. but we can understand its thick, for long time when we try to break some habits and some patterns , if it can't be touched or broken, it means our ego is thick and its in layers. ( I had a very strong habit of staying on laptop for long time every single day, for so many years. When I tried to question why, it showed a few reasons in my mind. But to break the habit it was hard initially but it was not impossible. Those times whenever I was awake it was on, when i went to sleep, i shut it off. When decided to change that habit, it can't be changed overnight all of a sudden. after all its a habit of so many years.. IT is thick.. to break. But slowly like we break a huge rock, little by little, slowly I practised staying away from laptop for one day a week. The first week was too hard, the next week by n by, got habitual to the new habit..If its monday, I would stay away from happy. Today, I can stay away from laptop)t was not overwhelming as it was not too much to do. It was a bearable change to take up. Tiny baby steps makes a journey. Its not the pace, but the continuity would bring in the change. And With the great support, motivation from my well wisher(s)it felt like an easy task to do. Every habit has an impression as its root. To break our habits for good, we must remove the root, until then it wud sprout up in some or other way. Our thoughts, emotions, feelings are different, we are different. we are not that. Like to put it simple, when we are in anger mood, if we say " I AM ANGRY" we identify ourselves with that anger emotion, which is not right. It actually is " " I FEEL ANGRY" .
Knowing about ourselves happens with God's blessings, the path seekers ( who wanna walk on God's path), not for ego seekers. God gives us all the resources we need to fight our demons in our mind. Our duty is to fight constantly and keep walking. God doesn't do injustice ever to anybody. If there is any pain its all because of our own deeds. When we are God's child, he takes care and he blesses us and protects us.
Without experience its just words. but we can understand its thick, for long time when we try to break some habits and some patterns , if it can't be touched or broken, it means our ego is thick and its in layers. ( I had a very strong habit of staying on laptop for long time every single day, for so many years. When I tried to question why, it showed a few reasons in my mind. But to break the habit it was hard initially but it was not impossible. Those times whenever I was awake it was on, when i went to sleep, i shut it off. When decided to change that habit, it can't be changed overnight all of a sudden. after all its a habit of so many years.. IT is thick.. to break. But slowly like we break a huge rock, little by little, slowly I practised staying away from laptop for one day a week. The first week was too hard, the next week by n by, got habitual to the new habit..If its monday, I would stay away from happy. Today, I can stay away from laptop)t was not overwhelming as it was not too much to do. It was a bearable change to take up. Tiny baby steps makes a journey. Its not the pace, but the continuity would bring in the change. And With the great support, motivation from my well wisher(s)it felt like an easy task to do. Every habit has an impression as its root. To break our habits for good, we must remove the root, until then it wud sprout up in some or other way. Our thoughts, emotions, feelings are different, we are different. we are not that. Like to put it simple, when we are in anger mood, if we say " I AM ANGRY" we identify ourselves with that anger emotion, which is not right. It actually is " " I FEEL ANGRY" .
Knowing about ourselves happens with God's blessings, the path seekers ( who wanna walk on God's path), not for ego seekers. God gives us all the resources we need to fight our demons in our mind. Our duty is to fight constantly and keep walking. God doesn't do injustice ever to anybody. If there is any pain its all because of our own deeds. When we are God's child, he takes care and he blesses us and protects us.
