Illuminate Inside

A light bulb illuminates the outer world. What does one do to illuminate the inner world? What does one do when there is darkness? We turn on a light. Get rid of the darkness and can be productive. OR do we sit around in the darkness, not using the gift of electricity that we have?

The same way, we can illuminate our inner world through clarity in thought which comes about through awareness of breath and each moment which happens through meditation. Instead of living in fear, anger, living up to others expectations, ideas of who we are, beliefs shoved down on us about how we must behave, we can simply start accepting who we really are. What we feel. Acknowledge moment to moment our feelings of fear, anger, hatred in the same way as we accept happiness so readily. Isn’t that what we do? We are able to accept happiness so readily and welcome it with open arms but we resist all other emotions. The resistance draws such emotions even more into our reality. It confuses us. The reason being that we are not able to accept it just like we do happiness or pleasure.

Hooked

It’s so funny the things that distract our attention. The things that get our goat and the things that really cause our brains to stick on to it.  Something we don’t like happens and our mind starts to feed it with further  unwanted stuff to add fuel to the fire. It takes only a slightest and smallest thing for this to happen to us.

The tree and the blade of grass

When i was a kid, i was asked if i want to be a tree or a blade of grass. I would immediately say tree. Why? Because a tree indicates strength of course! I wanted to be a strong person and that was it. Years later, I was asked again but with something added to it, do you want to be a tree and stay steady in one place or would you like to be a blade of grass, flexible to things in life. I was taken aback. I never looked at it that way ever. I wanted to be a blade of grass of course!! 

Perfectly Imperfect

Perfection. Its like an affliction some people have. Everything has to be perfect . If things are not perfect, things are just not right. People find it difficult to accept their own mistakes and give themselves no relief and make life miserable for the ones they love too, wanting no mistakes. Unable to accept mistakes they harm relationships. There was a famous series of books written by Richard Carlson, which went by the name of : Don’t sweat the small stuff. Makes so much sense and such good advice packed in such a small sentence!

Life is colourful!!!!

Colours carry a lot of meaning. Emotions have colours. For example, red indicates anger or passion. Practical purposes indicate red to be a colour depicting danger. There can be many interpretations for all the different colours. Imagine a colour completely in its depth and richness. Meditating with colours helps remove negativity and reinforce positive balance to our being. When you meditate with a particular colour, focus on the energy of that colour. There are 7 colours that we generally meditate with. When you sit to do this, sit quietly and relax every part of your body. When you are ready, breathe in the positive aspects that you want in your experience, and those which are associated with a particular colour. Breathe those in, focussing on them completely. Breathe out the negative qualities which are associated with that colour, as given in the list below. You can do meditations with a single colour repeatedly or you can meditate on all the colours. As you like. Make some personal affirmations associated with the positive attributes too, if you so wish.

Just a poem…

 

Under The Orange Tree

 

As i lay, under the orange tree

Images of a happy time

Overtake my sense and my mind

Take over my entire body.

 

I’m gone

For a long long time, in that time

Longing for that touch

Longing for those kisses.

As the gentle breeze caresses me

The Potter’s Hand

The word of the Eternal, (or rather the word which came to Jeremiah from the Eternal, saying : Verse 2: "Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words."

Pottery making was commonplace in Jerusalem, during the times of antiquity. Though no longer, so we can still today understand and relate to. God used this illustration to teach how He works with people. So there's a direct correlation and analogy of how a potter works with clay, how God works with people.

We all have a lot to learn. Whether we are going to be open to it, is a choice we have to make.  Life has its unique ways, effective teachers, and interesting tools to teach us the things that are meant for us and we unknowingly implore upon to be taught to us, shown to us, be lead to. Lessons we must learn, remember and apply. They say : God is a potter and we are clay, being moulded by his mighty hand.

In my life too, there have been many people who have walked in and unknowingly made me think about  myself. About who I am, about  who I want to be, about my life, my love, my thoughts, what makes me.. me  :)