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Positive Reflections messages from Awakening consciousness
The Spiritual Sculptor And The Piece Of Art
A sculpture is a three-dimensional artwork created by an artisan, a sculptor, by shaping materials which may be hard like wood or stone or soft like clay. God or the Supreme Being also has been remembered as the spiritual sculptor. With that consciousness, I being like a rough living block of wood or stone or a plain piece of clay, place myself in his safe hands. There are three types of faith in this consciousness:-
1. the faith in the Sculptor,
2. the faith in myself and
3. the faith in time.
It's my first faith, my faith in the Sculptor, in his vision of his finished work i.e. a perfect and complete me, which he foresees, waiting to emerge from my present imperfect self, that allows me place myself in his hands. His vision of perfection is so clear that knowing it, I feel I must regain my original condition. Also when I come in front of God, who is a perfect spiritual being, his love and the knowledge he gives me makes me aware of myself as a spiritual being similar to him. This awareness then reminds me of my original qualities and the spiritual beauty and perfection hidden inside me, which helps me in having the second faith, the faith in myself. I am able to trust the Sculptor, knowing that the knocks I receive will chip away at my weaknesses, and restore my truth and beauty. Initially, I may not know myself completely or have full faith in myself, the second faith, but God, the Sculptor, knows me and has full faith in me, all the Sculptor wants me to do is to be still and patient. Being still means having complete faith in myself and him and being patient means having the third faith - the faith in time. His knowledge and power gives me the strength and courage to be still and patient i.e. strong in all three faiths while he continues his work on me. I should not move or be impatient i.e. not let any of my faiths waiver, otherwise I will not become perfect. There is a vast difference between how God sees me, and how I am at the present moment. Holding the vision that God has of me, I have to just surrender my mind to the Spiritual Sculptor and keep myself in his hands. When I do that, the thoughts inside my mind get focused spiritually on him and as a result I receive his spiritual energy, which reshapes and transforms me. That which is highest and most beautiful in me begins to emerge gradually.
Increasing The Power Of Discrimination To Improve Karmas
Many people feel internally and complain that their intellect is not as clear as they would like. One of the aims of meditation and spiritual knowledge is to make the intellect strong, clear and clean, as a result of which there is an increase in the power of discrimination. An increase in this power helps us maintain a sense of what is right and wrong while performing actions and implement that awareness.
Meditation brings about self-realizations whereby you realize what is happening inside you. Sometimes, while observing someone, we use the phrase: He/she doesn't know what he/she is doing, referring to someone who is acting in an incorrect way. If we are to act in an appropriate way, we need to be aware and be awake to the consequences (results) of our actions. The voice of the conscience brings with it that state of awareness, awakening, realizing and discrimination. This is because, in meditation you feel quiet and you focus your thoughts inwards. In that state, the sound of the voice of the conscience is perceived and heard. It is a voice that is not affected by material worries or a preoccupation about one's image and public appearance. During meditation, you are completely focused on the present moment of spiritual empowerment and not distracted by: karmas which are necessary but unnecessary to be thought of that time, noise, unrelated ideas of the past and the future, mental chatter, etc., basically everything that separates you from your true spiritual self. In this way you can listen to yourself within and as a result ensure to the maximum extent that your karmas are appropriate and accurate.
Let’s Become Messengers Of Love And Joy (Part 3)
4. You are not only God’s child but also God’s friend. So every step you take, dedicate it to God and make it special and inspiring. Also, hold His hand and show others the way of holding His hand with you. Behind all the material success and modern lifestyles, there are many sorrowful hearts. Relationships are deceptive and misleading. Physical and mental illnesses are on the rise and good and important roles in any sphere of life can leave you in a second. There is One source of love and joy who does not leave you, no matter what happens in your life. That is God. By trusting Him and giving Him your life, you smile all the time. Otherwise, life’s happiness is ready to leave you occasionally because it is based on changeable factors like relationships, possessions, salaries, positions, and even one’s physical body. A person who keeps God as His constant companion is full of love and joy. Such people will fill the world with love and joy, the abundant treasures they possess.
5. Lastly, we are all actors on the world stage. Always remember that at every moment, people around us are watching us. All of us are loving and happy souls originally. As we have come down the steps of various births, our actions on the world stage have been reducing in quality. We have wronged people in many ways in many births. That is why today we receive negative energy from others, in the form of negative behaviors and words. To convert the negative energy into positive, we need to become hero actors on the world drama stage. Hero actors are careful that their every action is beautiful and praiseworthy, which touches everyone’s heart. Such a hero actor whispers the message of love and joy in everyone’s ears through every action of theirs.
Let’s Become Messengers Of Love And Joy (Part 2)
2. Life is a rich collection of attainments that make us feel loved and give us an experience of joy. There are so many things in life – the people we spend our time with, our education, our physical health, our career, our physical personality, our wealth, etc. Now happiness does not mean that all these things will always be perfect. In fact, it is the opposite. They will never be perfect. So, every day talk to yourself positively and don’t absorb the negativity of all these things, when they exist. On the other hand, make your inner nature divine and full of immense love and joy. In a world of uncertainty and ups and downs, God wants us to be messengers of love and joy for everyone. Some people are more sorrowful than us and even less loved. Hold their hand with your care and support. While meeting people, always remember – I am an extraordinary soul full of love and joy, which is God’s invisible property I inherited from Him. I will remain stable in different scenes of life and help those who are unstable or disturbed by their negative scenes.
3. Create No-Anger Zones in your workplace and home. There are offices in the corporate world where such zones have been created. In such places, positive thoughts are shared by email or through mobile phone chat or social media and everyone starts their day with messages on positivity, which lays the foundation of a positive day. Also, everyone remembers that they are in a No Anger Zone and it is displayed in some way to remind everyone. In such a zone, angry outbursts and over loud talk, aggressive behavior, revengeful behavior, and negative talk about others are not allowed. This can be done in your office or in your home with children and other family members. Such zones will then become Zones of Love and Joy instead.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Let’s Become Messengers Of Love And Joy (Part 1)
Life is a beautiful journey in which the best experience for all of us is one of love and joy. Love and joy accompany us right from the time we are born and we grow up with them in our hearts. We live our complete life sharing these two lovely emotions with everyone and receiving the same. Also, it is seen that every purpose that human beings have, is focused on these two emotions and their experience. Yes, they are important and the foundation of a beautiful life experience at any age, but at the same time it is important to note that love and joy is not increasing in the world with time, but decreasing. Today, people are moving away from each other much sooner and more easily than before and also everyone’s hearts are not as filled with good wishes for each other, as before. In fact, expectations and desires are two main negative energies, which are reducing love and joy in the world, the most. Let’s become messengers of love and joy for the world by doing the following:
1. Every morning, create a pure feeling of love for everyone in the world and each and every person whom you meet and come across the whole day – your friends, relatives, office colleagues and of course family. As you wake up in the morning, take a morning pledge – Everyone is my close one and I have a beautiful relationship with them, which I want to make more beautiful with my every nice word and action and every other gesture. I am responsible for making every life relationship work well and without problems. Also, create the affirmation regularly during the day - I want to make every relationship of mine rich with qualities of contentment, understanding, acceptance, humility, sacrifice, and an attitude of giving.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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.
ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℝ𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕕 - 𝔸𝕣𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝔻𝕚𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥?
Regard and respect are different, contrary to popular belief. Regard is an external gesture of courtesies and protocols, given for people’s roles and positions. Respect is internal, a feeling and vibration radiated for who the person is. Regard may vary, but respect should be equal for everyone. What are your parameters for respecting people and giving regard to them? How well do you treat someone who is junior to you by age or designation, or has achieved lesser than you? Do you believe regard is same as respect? Our roles and positions in society are different. We called the roles higher and lower. We also mixed respect and regard. Respect is a feeling for what a person is. Regard is an outer gesture for people’s achievements, roles and possessions. We need to extend courtesies and follow protocols externally, according to people roles and positions. So regard is for people’s role. Respect is for the being, for who we are. Since we are all equally pure, equally beautiful and equal beings, respect should not vary. Every individual is to be equally and uniformly respected. Radiate nice thoughts, speak well and behave cordially with people. This is how respect radiates to them. Your regard can vary based on what they have, but your respect for them shouldn’t.
Respect is the foundation of your relationships, separate respect and regard. Give respect for the Being and give regard for their Doing. Extend regard for people’s age, knowledge, achievements, wealth, roles or position. Do not equate regard with respect. Your respect should not change according to people’s role. There can be differences of opinion but you continue to respect them. Respect yourself and radiate respect to all. Respect every individual for who they are, for their qualities, nature. Your every interaction should begin with a pure vibration to the individual. Before meeting anyone, first create a thought for them as Beautiful being or Peaceful person and then you talk to them and come into action. Respect everyone by accepting their behavior and not questioning it. Connect to who they are and before connecting to the roles they play, build a foundation of authentic respect. Your vibrations of thoughts, words and behaviour should be the same for everyone, your respect should be uniform for everyone.
Keep Your Aura Clean And Clear
Just as we ensure protection and wellness of our physical body, we also need to take care of our energy body or aura that surrounds our being. Our energy of intentions, thoughts, words, attitudes and behaviours create our aura. Our aura is like a lens through which we perceive our world. It’s also like the perfume we wear, radiating to everyone around us. Holding on to our own negativity or absorbing negativity from people and situations, dirties our aura. Releasing them cleanses it. Your aura is white and clean, it shines brightly around you and has a footprint of your divinity. Energies from people and situations shouldn’t harm you and stain your aura. Your energy field is stronger than all other energies. With regular meditation and spiritual study, you can empower your energy field. Your happiness, peace and power are protective shields around it. Keep your aura untouched by lower energies of anger, fear, stress and pain. Rise above them. Do not entangle with other people’s auras. Let what they did in the past or what they are doing today not affect your energy field. It’s a part of them, not a part of you.
When someone gets angry at you, do you protect your energy and stay calm? Or do you react, lower your energy and stain your aura? We are responsible for keeping our aura clean, just as we keep our surroundings clean. In all our interactions, let us be the ones to think and respond with stability. Let us see goodness in others and radiate our goodness. This is the easiest way to protect our aura and experience health, happiness and harmony. The emotional clutter of unwanted thoughts, negative emotions, unpleasant memories, unforgiving attitudes and limiting beliefs stain our aura. We need to release them regularly to cleanse it. Remind yourself everyday - My aura is perfectly white. I clean it and strengthen it every day. I am a powerful being. My clean aura helps me experience ever-lasting peace and happiness.
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.
#brahmakumaris
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.