Joy

                                

"Our natural state of being is joy, and it takes so much energy to think negative thoughts, to speak negative words, and to feel miserable. The easy path is good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.
Take the easy path.

May the joy be with you,"

Peace

                                                                 


"Do you feel well? If you're feeling joyful, content, grateful, alert and expansive,  your system is faring well. If you're not quite so comfortable, you're up against energy thieves that are enjoying a feast at your expense. You know that solution: Plug the leaks, drop resistance, face fear, banish worry or practise forgiveness, as the case may be.

Once you plug the leaks, your energy system immediately begins to recover. As you continue to detoxify yourself, your self awareness increases. You begin to choose your responses and hence shift the whole paradigm you're living in.

You assume total responsibility for whatever state you find yourself in and know that only you, and not external circumstances, can resolve any problems that may crop up.

In actuality, this journey is about letting your mind, the small one that you're familiar with, dissolve and expand into the Big Mind, the place of infinite potential. Tapping into it allows you flow, surrender, co-creation and higher guidance.
The heart, remember, guides you to increasing connectivity,
joy and love. It replaces pain as a habit. The journey has to be lived, not merely understood.

You can start on your journey right now by doing some of the following:

Every night write 10 things that youre grateful for in a journal kept especially for this purpose. It gets you to focus on what's good in your life, not on what isn't. And it's a proven energy rule. What you focus on expands. This is the easiest way of attracting more of what makes you happy and being open to receive.

Meditation provides the break that your mind needs and deserves and helps you cope with stressful lifestyles. When you meditate, brain-wave activity slows down and depending on the depth of your meditation, you can access more profound levels of creativity, healing, relaxation and de-stressing. This is the time when the small mind plugs into the Big Mind, gets recharged, and accesses an area of infinite potentiality.

Breathe : Make a small placard that displays this one word. Put it on your office desk or at home where you can see it frequently. Every time you do, just take two deep breaths with awareness and continue with your regular activities. This is an incredible awareness exercise.It helps you create the space you need to make conscious choices.

Cut cords: This is a magical practice. When we interact with people, we're automatically connected with them by a cord at the solar plexus, the area just below the rib cage. We exchange energies through this cord which is strong in the case of people we're close to. To keep your energy system clear, you must disconnect and terminate this exchange each day with every person you interact with.

It's an excellent practice if you've had an unpleasant conversation with someone. This is what you do: Close your eyes. Visualise the cord. Imagine yourself cutting it. Mentally say: I cut and release all connections with you at the solar plexus level. Reconnect the cord at the heart level. Say the words: Only love remains between us.

Steal joy: This is an amazing practice that you can use to trick yourself into changing your mood or state when youre feeling miserable. First, accept that this is so and allow it to be. Don't fight it. Converse with yourself; take a break from your misery, for just a day.

Injecting these little exercises in awareness into your daily life will make you feel in charge, starting immediately."

Death of Father

                                                                                                                     

" Death makes no distinction between old and young. Whenever it has to come, it comes. We are helpless against death, and that helplessness has been the very source of all religion. If death can be destroyed, then all religion will disappear from earth. Death is a reminder not to take life seriously; it is momentary. Only meditation cannot be destroyed by death.


So, don’t cry and don’t feel sorry for your father, because whether one dies at 55 or 95, it makes no difference. Somebody’s dream is a little shorter and somebody’s dream is a little longer, but a dream is a dream! The length of the dream does not matter in the final analysis. In the final accounting, how long you dream does not matter. You can be 55 or 95, but whenever death comes, the whole is annihilated. It is just as when you wake up in the morning and the whole night and the dream world is simply no more meaningful — it loses all meaning.


Look At It In The Eye
Whenever somebody like a father or a mother dies, something in you also dies. A father is not just outside; his being overlaps your being. You have come through him. He has been the vehicle to bring you to life and he occupies some inner space. When a father or mother dies, something in you also dies with them. You will never be the same again — a gap will be there. A father cannot be replaced, a mother cannot be replaced. So rather than crying and feeling sorry — because those are tricks of the mind to avoid death... if you look at death directly in the eye without letting emotions interfere, then death becomes meditation.


Your father has died — this is a fact. Now, whether you cry or not makes no difference, so what is the point? Death has happened; you cannot undo it. So, rather than wasting time, look deeply into it, and in the death of your father you will see your own death coming, and the death of your children, and the death of your grandchildren.


Death is a universal fact — nobody is an exception to it; all are included in it. Look into the fact of death and you will see whole existence dying, and that will give you deep insight — not only about death but about life, because it is life that brings death.


Why Waste Opportunity
Death is implied in life, inbuilt; it unfolds. When the child is born, he starts dying from the very first breath that he takes. When he has taken one breath, he is one breath old — something has died. Just in the very birth, something starts dying. It will take 70 or 55 or 90 years for death to unfold, but it seems that life carries the seed of death in itself.


Look into this death; meditate over it without any interference from the emotions. Face it, and that very encounter will give you a deep understanding of life. Then your life can never be the same again, because what is the point then? What your father was doing is meaningless. You will be doing the same, and death will come and destroy everything. So, do something which death cannot destroy.


Meditate And Go Beyond
I say to you that there is only one thing which death cannot destroy, and that is meditation. Everything is vulnerable to death, only meditation is not.

The deeper you go inwards, the further away you are from death. The further out you move, the deeper you move into death. At the innermost core, there is no death.... Look out and you look into death. Look in and you look into the deathless. That deathlessness is what meditation is all about. Ordinarily, nobody thinks about death, but when something like this happens — these rare moments have to be used, these rare moments should not be wasted.


Love And Death
So get out of emotions, because it is futile. The further away you are, the more death will become a memory and you will accept it and then it will not be possible to use it. You are still close to it; it is still fresh — the wound has not healed. Before it is healed, use it. And this wound can become a message to the beyond.
Just meditate about it — and love more. Love and death are very similar".

Dream

"Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow."