Should I listen to my heart or brain?

There is a left brain and the right brain. Two parts of the brain should work together. Heart and brain should be aligned. In simple words, align thinking, speaking and doing and listen to your inner voice.

Meditate for cleaning of the baggage of feelings you are carrying, look at those feelings for the motive behind it, then heart will point you in the right direction.

Emotional feelings are a strong force.

Do meditate and connect with the pure feelings that you already have.
Do not get carried away with your feelings. Logic cannot deal with emotions.
Use Meditation.
Pure feelings (of love and truth) and emotions can change the negative feelings and emotions and
bring you back on track.

Example...
You are bit greedy one day and you want to have an extra cookie from the pot luck you are at. You take an extra cookie for yourself and hide it in your purse as your heart wants it. There were only 1 cookie per person. Now you meditate for a minute and connect with your feeling of love and you realise that one person did not get one cookie. You are very loving at this point after you connected with those pure feelings, you take out the cookie and give it to the person and that person is very happy. It changed your negative feeling and pointed in the right direction.

Short Meditation

Be aware that you are a soul. Detach from the physical world, turn your thoughts inward and towards the supreme soul a being of light of love. I connect my thoughts to the supreme. I find myself surrounded by his light. Light envelopes me and I am absorbed in the ocean of love. As the waves of God's love washes me , I feel all the dust that I have accumulated has been cleansed. I discover my own pure self. God's love uplifts me. His love empowers me so I can return to my original state of purity. His love heals the soul and pain and sorrow that I have been carrying is removed. I come back all pure, transformed. I choose to stay in this awareness.

What is my relationship with myself?

We all know the " Human" part which is our gender, height, weight etc and millions will fit into that category. We usually identify with our body.

"Being" is your spiritual part of life or your inner being. It is a internal part like thoughts, emotions, personality that you cannot see but makes you unique.

We only know the physical part but not the inner part which is half the story. Earlier we know, better then we start to live Whole life.

Actually, BEING within has the ownership of this body.

Develop the relationship with your soul. Get to know yourself by meditating.

Listen to your inner messages.

Move On

Try not to keep anything heavy and dirty on your mind. Sometimes we move away from God because situation trapped us and we get angry with God. Do not repeat to your friend again and again or replay in your mind. One of my friend repeat one story after every six months. Situation or the story has changed the scene but she is holding on to it in your mind.

Leave the situation behind.

Elevate your soul so much that people get that illumination from you. It will not happen unless you let go.

Do not talk about it again and again to fill time( may be hard to do)
Do not run the tape in your mind.

Why Am I in so much pain?

Question is why is God making me suffer.

God is like an Ocean of peace. He can never give you pain. Look at the bigger picture. Do not be too closed or blame others. Your world is your own creation.

Develop your relationship with God. It is a two way street. Fine tune your transmitter to make connection with God to catch messages in silence. Be soul conscious and focus on the original qualities and not get distracted by the money, possessions etc.

Meditate to make connection between your soul and the Divine. He is going to cleanse your mind and bring your original qualities back. Every human being has goodness within them. We blossom in the goodness of love, peace, happiness, knowledge, pure etc

God is full of love, he can never give you pain.

Cannot loose weight.

No matter what I do cannot loose weight is what I hear all the time. We have tried weight loss diets, pills, .......name it, we have tried it. Sometimes we loose for a while and then back comes the weight.
Let us see this from yoga philosophy point of view now.
Yoga talks about body consciousness and soul consciousness. We are not trying to feed the soul here. Soul is made of mind, intellect and value system. Feeding the soul would be feeding the mind, intellect and value system.

We are here talking about the body. Think in terms of body consciousness now.

Is my weight because
I am feeding my body or my soul or my mind or my intellect? (Listen internally, try to do distinction)
Answer obviously is body.

When you eat, ask your body
What do you want to eat body?

Answer should come from your body.
Respect hunger but do not just eat anything.
You may eat lot of food and still not satisfied.
Eat what body is asking. I know it is hard for me, but I do try sometimes.

Body may be full, may not be asking anything.
May be you still want to eat because you feel like.
But food will go to body. Stop right there. Body does not want food.....................

If you eat now, will add pounds to your body. It is called comfort eating. Try to find what triggered comfort and find the right way to deal with it in future.


Make your decisions.

No food needed.........
No food needed.........


You can feed your mind with positive thoughts
You can feed your intellect with wise decisions
You may feed your value system with some good hobbies that you have or can go and learn few.
Go to the mall and walk, listen to music, take a nap, take a bath.
Ask yourself, What is the one thing you can do right now that would take your mind off eating?
What can we do without food.

Try reading section on " Silence" connecting your food thoughts to feeling, emotions,belief's,
Conscious, memory, personality traits. you may be able to connect to your habits and why.

I know it is not easy, may be we will fall few times, but get up and walk again.

How do I get rid of not so good feelings.

I am what my past has made me. I may be carrying the feelings that I have not dealt with, it means I am carrying the baggage of those not so good feelings. I may not be a very open person, not giving others chance etc.

How do I cleanse myself?

It is SILENCE. In silence, I connect the silence of my own with the silence of the Divine. God listens to you when you meditate. Silence helps you to go beneath the dust so you can connect with the goodness of being.

How to stop the chattering going on inside.

You may go to a very quiet jungle to avoid noise but there may be chattering going on inside.
Mind create thoughts but we can choose the speed and the quality of thoughts. Practice to move the thoughts in the right direction. You are the incharge of your thoughts , so create good thoughts and create space between thoughts to give you silence and relaxation.

Silence gives us strength and heals us too. Sometimes without realizing we wound ourselves with our own negative thoughts. At that time, quickly generate positive thoughts to come out of hurt.
One minute we may be happy but other minute we may become critical of someone and we become negative.

As negative thoughts come when you see this person, move your thoughts in the + direction.
Try to focus on the pluses of that person, look at her as your brother or sister and remind yourself that we are all souls and connected and use power of silence with gaps. In silence, remind your self that both are souls. Healing happens with that connection.
Power of silence can heal us.

Meditate to slow your thoughts and choose good thoughts.

How to Recognise God?

When You meditate on a regular basis and fine tune your tuner and make connection with him, you get peace, happiness , purity, knowledge, love, clarity, positivity etc makes me feel that he is there watching over me.

Relationships

We have relationship with our mother , father , brother, sisters and friends. They should be nurturing each other in the relationship. But these days it is hard to find those relations. You are very lucky if you have nurturing relations as they also do not last for ever. We cry when our parents die. In relationship, sometimes there are huge expectations from either sides. They are becoming more taking taking kind. We cannot go to jungle or Himalayas and cut off from the world. We have to resolve our karmas here.

We should try to develop relationship with God. It is all in our favour. You will benefit from this relation. Relationship with him does not finish as he never dies. Try visiting him in your mind everyday more often.

Quieten your mind and connect with the divine, it is like a receiver trying to catch the station, when you tune in and connection is made with the Divine, he is going to heal your wounds, clear your minds negativity, empower your soul, fill you with those inner qualities that you own anyway.

Base your identity on your inner being.

We identify ourselves with our job, position of authority, title, wealth. When it is gone, then we feel that our self esteem is gone because our identity is taken away. If all is gone, then our soul is going to go through non healthy feelings. Base your identity on who I am at the inner being level.

Ask yourself "Am I loving, happy, will power person, knowledgeable, blissful soul".
Answers will tell you about your identity.

How to heal the feelings that are not good.

I am what my past has made me. I may be coming with a baggage that I have not dealt with. It means I am carrying lot of negativity. I may be carrying fear, memory of a place or a person that is not so good. The best way to cleanse yourself is by SILENCE.

It is the silence of my own that connects with the silence of the Divine will heal those feelings. Meditation is the path.

It is the silence that helps us to go under the dirt so I connect with the goodness of being. When I connect with love , peace, happiness, all these transforms me from negative to positive person.
Choosing the quality of thoughts and finding the peace within is able to remove the heat of negativity( jealousy, anger...) . If negativity( jealousy) comes in your mind, in silence you always find its remedy which is(love) positive.

Silence is the richness of treasures within.

Let us meditate to remove the pain that we hold on to.

Sit in a comfortable pose. Take your attention away from your body.
I am a being of light.
I feel the presence of Divine of love. happiness , truth of joy around me.
These are waves of love surrounding me. These waves can heal the pain that I am holding on to
as I did not know how to deal with them. Love is like a balm to cool the soul and ease the pain.
Love feeling empowers and nurtures so I can be strong again.
End........

Choosing Thoughts and healing yourself

You can choose the quality of thoughts and speed of thoughts.

Our mind goes through 60,000 thoughts per day. 95% are what we had yesterday. But we are the incharge of this body. I can choose positive thoughts or negative thoughts. Practice to choose the right thoughts and direct them in the right direction. Thought are very powerful.

Negativity of this world is so strong that our thoughts have become negative too.

We do not realize that we wound yourself by thinking how funny this person is ( you are feeling happy)and next minute we start to look at their weaknesses and a minute after we are feeling negative.
Let us try changing this negative thought.

Look at the person and try to look at their pluses by directing your thoughts in the positive direction. Look at her as your brother or sister. Remember, every person has goodness within them. I am a soul and so are they. Relate to them as a part of your family. Sit in silence and change quality of your thoughts to positive. Remind yourself that this person is a soul too. Whatever thought you have for this person, look for a neutalizer(to counteract the effect of this poison) thought in silence for the same person.
So we say that healing happens in silence. It works, try it. Try really hard not to go back to negative thoughts about that person again after 2 days. It is hard work, I know it.

Silence helps us to go beneath the dust( negativity) so I can connect with the goodness of being ( which is love, happiness, knowledge, will power).

Try this meditation on choosing positive thoughts.

Sit in a comfortable pose.
Detach yourself from your body. You are who runs this body.
Watch your thoughts on the screen of your mind. Speed of it will slow the thoughts down.
I select my thoughts of peace. Peace is my natural state. Peace is within me. I am a being of peace. Let peace reach out to the world.
Peace peace peace.......
I am going back to my physical body and I keep peace with me.
Done.............meditation.

What is Intellect ?

Intellect should be still and stable. It is soul when it does the job of deciding wisely.

Purify your intellect by opening your third eye.

God's company opens our inner eyes called divine eye and gives us wisdom called divine intellect.

Intellect means follow your fathers footsteps. You say to God that you are my father and mother. But these physical form fathers and mothers die. God is your father and mother who does not die. To summarize it...

1. Remember God and follow his footsteps. Impressions from the previous life or bad karmas will be dissolved.
2. Make real effort to become as pure as gold is. Listen to God and implement his teachings. Do not get too attached to physical things. When you die, you will be going with nothing.
3. Get rid of negativity from your life so you can do positive things in life for yourself and others. Help yourself and others will benefit too.

Intimidated by authority or by accomplished people

Do you feel less of a person when you meet people in authority or very accomplished people?
Do you get mental and physical tension in their presence?
Are you uncomfortable beside those people who overawe you?

Distribution of wealth, power and authority has very little to do with your inner values of your soul.

When you meet them, remind yourself that you are born with happiness , love, bliss, will power , knowledge too just like other human beings. They are also trying to cope and survive in this physical world but born with same qualities as you are. Their innate needs are same as ours.


We all are worthy of respect and consideration.

Raised as an Independent person but work as a team

We have to blend them. Sometimes you have to be independent and sometimes as a team for the collective goodness. In physical world, you co operate and get the job done , but in the subtle world, you have to show your cooperation by having the right attitude, right thoughts and feelings (thinking).

When you change your attitude towards a person, person actually changes.

I create the world around me through my perception. Thoughts are seeds. Attitude is the highest kindness. If that is right , everything should go right.

In cooperation, you adjust your attitude towards a person or an issue. Like I am passionate about negativity. I have to be willing to overlook the weaknesses of the people to achieve my objective.

To have a common vision, remember

1. Cooperation
It is a path of life long learning. Everyone you encounter teaches us something.

2. Be a server
I serve through my attitude, thought and feelings. But I must connect with the divine to serve myself first so I have the right attitude etc. Meditation is the key.

3. Trust and have faith
God works through us. Do not let EGO come in.

4. Communication
So people know why and aware of a good vision of yourself .

Can we live without experiencing any sorrow? ............... Good vision

God Says.....

Do not JUDGE others. You cannot say she is right or he is wrong. You are not a lawyer or a judge.
Do not INTERFERE in others business, people and situations.
You grew up in a home of peace.
God teaches us to speak less.
He watches us 24 hours.
Clean your heart first.
Learn to open your third eye ( eye of wisdom, eye of intellect).
Stay in silence if you need strength.
Teach your mind to be peaceful. Stay in a good company, otherwise it will affect your personality.
Develop relationship with me and get all the benefits. Relation with God in eternal. Implement his teachings in your life. All your bad karmas will be forgiven.
Make real effort to become like real gold. Become so pure and truthful and positive, loving, happy that it removes all the rust ( bad karmas) from your soul.

Feeling safe

When a little boy walks with his father at night , he feels very protected as none can snatch things from him or no one can bully him. Same way, when we walk with God, we have good company and we have the protection .

We are born with love ,power , peace, happiness, knowledge, purity, bliss. I own them. This is my property. Jealousy , greed etc surrounds our soul. We feel we have no power. We cannot make connection with God. Make an effort to get rid of greed, jealousy. Think of yourself as a soul. then you can connect with the God. If you think yourself as a body, then you think of all kinds of stuff in your mind when you meditate and you cannot connect with God. Thoughts of your mother, father, shopping etc comes in your mind because you are focused on body consciousness. So think of God in soul consciousness.

Bring out your inner powers which is your property by getting rid of other negative stuff and then you know that you are walking with God and you have his protection.
Do meditate in soul consciousness.

Meaning of Silence

• Silence means peace, love, happiness, bliss, willpower, knowledge and purity. You emit those vibrations around you is you practice silence. People will tell you that from time to time.
• Scientist apply their intellect in silence to do new inventions.
• Power comes from staying in silence. Have faith and you will find solutions in silence. God teaches us to speak less. God answers their prayers in silence as a miracle happens inside. All you have to do is develop relationship with him by visiting him more often.
• If you get so much from God in your life, try doing something for him in this life. Inner voice is very powerful and determined. It will make it possible for you. Try it once for his sake. I had so many excuses when I wanted to volunteer, guess it has worked out every single time. Do it unconditionally.

Develop interest in silence and you will have lots of benefits.

Tapasyya

Inner work or soul work is called "Tapasyya".
It means you meditate, stay in silence, focus on God's teaching, get knowledge from God,
He is getting this work done through your body, attention is to body purification and soul purification, silence, fasting, following yoga and self control.

After this, soul is purified, gain knowledge from God and are ready to spread the knowledge to the world.

Power To Withdraw

It does not mean to avoid or getaway as we all think but to disengage from the physical self and engage with the inner identity. You can use this when you come home tired from work. You withdraw from the world and be meditative to regain energy. Your boss is yelling at you, withdraw and be there and connect with your inner qualities to draw strength.

You can withdraw at work with your eyes open to connect with your inner qualities like love, peace etc 1minute per hour just to come back with more energy and with a different perspective on things. It is also called meditation or the power to withdraw from my own story.

You are in a car accident. People are hurt. Disengage from the accident( no anger, yelling etc) just be an observer and stay connected with your inner self, get energy and reengage and do whatever needs to be done like calling doctor etc. Remember no one wants to hit intentionally.

You will be a Saint if you stay stable during crises time.

Let us review all of them.

• Power to withdraw is like to withdraw strength from your saving account. It helps to experience joy by connecting with it.
• Power of detachment means you are physically there but as an observer.
• Power to tolerate means to stay in the battlefield,or hang on by not giving up, it means power to give.
• Power to face is power to confront your own weaknesses and responsibilities.

When to face and when to withdraw depends on the situation.

Taken from teachings of Brahma Kumaris

Where is Laxmiji and Lord Krishna

These are Indian deities or divine souls. Hindus pray to them. These are pure souls. When Universe started, these pure souls came on the ground as pure souls. With rebirth , they get bit impure and again rebirth, got more impure as they are here as human being looking like us now. Those souls have turned from ordered state to disordered state. They need to be purified like all us. I could be one of them.
So Laxmiji is like an ordinary women now, but we say that do so good karmas that you become like a divine soul from an ordinary soul.

Past Imprint ( sanskars)have a very big impact.

Try having a meeting with 15 people and one idea. There will be 15 different opinions. It is because everyone's response is according to their imprints (past recordings also called Sanskars).

Thoughts come from your personality. Then your intellect decides whether it is good or bad decision and then you take action then impression on the soul is formed called the recording( imprint).

Now if thought comes , it bypasses intellect as we are beating the clock these days, and action gets taken without traffic controlling done by intellect then it means our intellect is asleep, the bad habit can get stronger and stronger.

Meditate to awaken the conscious (intellect).

To break a habit, break pattern between thought and action by waking up our intellect..

Intellect is your check point like traffic light. If no traffic( intellect) light, there is chaos..

Silence

Thoughts come from all different places, could be from your brain, impulse from the soul, information etc. People are too afraid to sit in silence as thoughts will come in your mind and they do not want to be left alone with their thoughts.

First you become aware of your

Thoughts, then
Feelings
Emotions
Belief's
Consciousness
Memory( from the past)
Personality( all imprints acquired in your journey)

These are all recorded in the soul not in the body. If soul is gone, body cannot work.

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