Self Empowerment.
To fill your self with a quality or power, which you feel you do not have or one, which is lacking inside you, try the following exercise. Suppose you feel that you lack contentment (satisfaction). To increase this quality inside you, sit comfortably in a pleasant room with your eyes open.
Withdraw (remove) energy mentally from everything around you – turn your attention inward. You might think of how a tortoise withdraws into its shell to detach itself from the outside world, but carrying the experience of the world with it inside its shelter.
Create a point of consciousness. Focus on the centre of your forehead. Think of this point as a bright star, a sparkling jewel, a flame or a being of light. This will radiate positive energy, making you feel good about yourself.
Affirm (strengthen) this positive energy through positive thoughts and images about yourself such as ”I am a contented soul, I shower everyone whom I meet with the quality of contentment”, “I am a jewel of contentment”, or “I am the child of the Supreme Soul, the Ocean of Contentment”.
Focus your energy on contentment, and let this become the object of your meditation. As you focus, you will give contentment life, turning a thought into a feeling.
Experience this feeling by giving your conscious attention to it.
During the entire day, you could visualize yourself performing each action in the canopy (shelter) of the Ocean of Contentment. Now perform this exercise for different virtues like cheerfulness, courage, humility (egolessness), tolerance, forgiveness, determination, etc. especially for the ones you think are lacking inside you. For the qualities already existing inside you, you could use this exercise to strengthen those features of your personality and bring them more into your actions and interactions.
Withdraw (remove) energy mentally from everything around you – turn your attention inward. You might think of how a tortoise withdraws into its shell to detach itself from the outside world, but carrying the experience of the world with it inside its shelter.
Create a point of consciousness. Focus on the centre of your forehead. Think of this point as a bright star, a sparkling jewel, a flame or a being of light. This will radiate positive energy, making you feel good about yourself.
Affirm (strengthen) this positive energy through positive thoughts and images about yourself such as ”I am a contented soul, I shower everyone whom I meet with the quality of contentment”, “I am a jewel of contentment”, or “I am the child of the Supreme Soul, the Ocean of Contentment”.
Focus your energy on contentment, and let this become the object of your meditation. As you focus, you will give contentment life, turning a thought into a feeling.
Experience this feeling by giving your conscious attention to it.
During the entire day, you could visualize yourself performing each action in the canopy (shelter) of the Ocean of Contentment. Now perform this exercise for different virtues like cheerfulness, courage, humility (egolessness), tolerance, forgiveness, determination, etc. especially for the ones you think are lacking inside you. For the qualities already existing inside you, you could use this exercise to strengthen those features of your personality and bring them more into your actions and interactions.
Negative situations cn b transformd into positive
Projection
When faced with a negative situation, usually the mind gets
affected. Lot of questions arise in the mind that don't allow
me to be stable at that time. Because of the thoughts in
my mind, Although it is in my hands to work at transforming
the situation I don't make use of this opportunity but only
end up adding to the negativity.
Solution
In a negative situation, it is necessary for me to maintain my
own inner stability. I need to free myself from wasteful thoughts.
Then the negativity in the situation will finish, first in my mind
and then in the situation itself. My own internal stability will help
in finishing the influence of the external situation.
When faced with a negative situation, usually the mind gets
affected. Lot of questions arise in the mind that don't allow
me to be stable at that time. Because of the thoughts in
my mind, Although it is in my hands to work at transforming
the situation I don't make use of this opportunity but only
end up adding to the negativity.
Solution
In a negative situation, it is necessary for me to maintain my
own inner stability. I need to free myself from wasteful thoughts.
Then the negativity in the situation will finish, first in my mind
and then in the situation itself. My own internal stability will help
in finishing the influence of the external situation.
Overcome weakness by reminding positive qualities.
Projection:
When we make a mistake we usually realize the need to remove that
weakness but our identification with that particular weakness is so
much that we are not able to overcome it.
Solution:
Instead of reminding ourselves again and again about our weaknesses
we need to remind ourselves of our positive qualities. The more we
do that we will slowly be able to emerge these qualities and work
with them and slowly we'll be able to overcome our weaknesses.
When we make a mistake we usually realize the need to remove that
weakness but our identification with that particular weakness is so
much that we are not able to overcome it.
Solution:
Instead of reminding ourselves again and again about our weaknesses
we need to remind ourselves of our positive qualities. The more we
do that we will slowly be able to emerge these qualities and work
with them and slowly we'll be able to overcome our weaknesses.
Where there is courage there is success.
Projection:
When we are involved in a task, we sometimes experience setbacks. Such setbacks often make us lose our confidence and we no longer have faith that we will succeed in the task. We then lose all courage to go ahead with the task and lose every chance of achieving what we have to.
Solution:
We need to remind ourselves that we achieve success to the extent that we have courage. We need to make effort to maintain our courage even during the most difficult circumstances. Only when we do this will we continue to put in effort, which will bring us
success at the right time.
When we are involved in a task, we sometimes experience setbacks. Such setbacks often make us lose our confidence and we no longer have faith that we will succeed in the task. We then lose all courage to go ahead with the task and lose every chance of achieving what we have to.
Solution:
We need to remind ourselves that we achieve success to the extent that we have courage. We need to make effort to maintain our courage even during the most difficult circumstances. Only when we do this will we continue to put in effort, which will bring us
success at the right time.
To transform oneself is to be victorious.
Projection:
When in a discussion or debate with someone, we usually want to have the last word. We want the others to understand us. When we succeed in this we feel we are a winner. But we find that neither is the other person satisfied with us nor are we able to learn anything new.
Solution:
In order to be a winner in all situations, we need to pay special attention to keep learning from each situation. We need to see in what aspect we can bring about transformation in ourselves instead of trying to prove ourselves right. This will make us truly victorious.
When in a discussion or debate with someone, we usually want to have the last word. We want the others to understand us. When we succeed in this we feel we are a winner. But we find that neither is the other person satisfied with us nor are we able to learn anything new.
Solution:
In order to be a winner in all situations, we need to pay special attention to keep learning from each situation. We need to see in what aspect we can bring about transformation in ourselves instead of trying to prove ourselves right. This will make us truly victorious.
Always keep mind happy . . .
Projection:
When we have some difficulty with our body, we usually find our mind becoming dull, too. When the mind becomes dull we no longer can fight the sickness. It, thus, takes a long time to get well and the time during the sickness seems long and painful.
Solution
We need to make sure we keep our mind happy under all circumstances. Where the mind is healthy no illness will attack us. Even when we fall sick we will be able to be stable which will help us to fight back and overcome the illness very soon.
When we have some difficulty with our body, we usually find our mind becoming dull, too. When the mind becomes dull we no longer can fight the sickness. It, thus, takes a long time to get well and the time during the sickness seems long and painful.
Solution
We need to make sure we keep our mind happy under all circumstances. Where the mind is healthy no illness will attack us. Even when we fall sick we will be able to be stable which will help us to fight back and overcome the illness very soon.
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