Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Inspiring words from Sai Baba

Service to man can be done in many ways; but, serving the other person, by example is the best of all. Do not be a bad example to your neighbours or family members. Be good and radiate goodness. That is why, when the education of a pupil was over, the teacher in ancient times exhorted the pupil to speak the truth and observe righteousness. Because after the period of study, the young person is to engage in a job, so, he has to be given the most beneficial advice, at the appropriate moment. The truth must be spoken, without hypocrisy and deceit; there should be no motive to injure.

- Divine Discourse, December 21, 1967.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The negative ego is a disease...

I recently had a very interesting encounter with a friend. On the conscious level, I know she enjoys our friendship, but on the subconscious level, there is always a need to compete and compare with me. On this occasion, she attempted to 'humiliate' me in public, putting me down in front of others. I immediately responded kindly to her and the matter diminished in seconds.

I began to see her with even greater compassion because of her discomfort in her own skin; that she needed to feel good about herself by putting others down. And I learned many lessons from this experience.

The negative ego with its negative programmings, behavior patterns, thoughtforms, feelings etc is really a crippling dis-ease. This dis-ease doesn't allow one to love self or others, it dis-empowers people, it makes a person go into moodswings, it makes a person suffer from superiority/inferiority complex, it makes people do foolish things, it creates confusion, it creates conflicts in relationships, the list of psychological dis-eases is really endless.

For the world to change and for peace to manifest, the human race must learn to get rid of this crippling dis-ease. There is no quick cure, but there is a way in which we can heal ourselves and that is through right thinking and not allowing our subconscious minds to be the pilot of our consciousness.

Anyway, my friend and I will always remain friends but I will be more mindful of her dis-ease.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Inspiring Words

By learning to think with your Spiritual/Christ/Buddha mind you can get off the emotional roller coaster of extreme highs and lows and manic depressive mood swings and learn to be more even minded! When this state of consciousness is mastered you will have an unceasing even state of Self-mastery, Self Discipline, Involved Detachment, Unconditional Love, Joy, Happiness, Bliss, Inner Peace, Equanimity, Spiritual Passion and Fun Loving spirit all the time! It is just a matter of changing your thinking. This may sound hard to believe by some but it is totally true! Your thoughts are creating your reality! --Dr Joshua David Stone

Friday, December 28, 2007

The New Year

Every year I believe that the new year will be the best one yet. How can it not be, if my future in truth lies in the hands of God, and that I play just as an important role in co-creating it! New opportunities, new growth, new insights, new learning.....all part of the cycle of life just makes every new year or every new day for that matter interesting.

Every day, I write down one new thing I have learned about myself....this means that in the new year, I have 365 new things to explore within. I know that in understanding myself, I have a greater ability to understand others and this is something of great value that one one else can impart to me.

Then what lies beyond the understanding? I believe, action. So if I understand why I have a certain flaw or a certain good quality, then what can I do about it? So in the new year, I also have 365 new action plans to look forward to.

I may not make new year resolutions but the simple daily contemplations make each new year more exciting and inspiring.

2008 will be the best year ever! Happy New Year!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Vaccinations & Immune System

I receive many emails with the question on whether it is ok to vaccinate their child. I think this is a challenging question and many factors have to be taken into consideration.

We know that there is no such thing as infectious diseases just people with low immune system. But how do we get around this with children who do not have enough antibodies to fight the diseases? We are also aware that some vaccinations are more dangerous than the diseases themselves. And that sometimes, the vaccinations can cripple the good health of a child.

I understand where parents are coming from when they ask me these questions. I too, had to face them when my daughter was born.

Toby and I decided that we would go ahead with the vaccinations for diseases that are deemed more 'life-threatening' but we did try to delay them as much as we could, so that our daughter was getting her fair share of antibodies in her little body from the milk she was getting from me. After each vaccination, we cleared her energy system, and did some healing on her.

We, as adults may know how to work on improving our physical and psychological immune system, but we didn't see how a little baby could do that, even with our help. We are constantly clearing her energy system and chakras and even more so now that she is in child care, but she is still getting all the childhood coughs and colds every now and again. The doctor assured us that she is developing antibodies through this coughs and colds and that this will pass.

The world is still operating very much on fear based thoughts and feelings. And diseases are an offspring of this sort of consciousness. Any soul who incarnates on earth are not automatically immuned to these. Immunity on the physical and psychological levels have to be work on and developed. So, we as parents are not only starting our daughter with a program to develop her physical immune system, we are also training her to develop her psychological immune system.

There is so much debate going on about vaccinations. But I am sure that whatever decision any parent comes to will be the right one for their path and journey of life.