Good Health

From childhood till our old age,we learn from different experiences. Life is a form of language with its own punctuation marks much like the written language where each punctuation mark has unspoken meaning.


Recently have gone through  the difficult phase of my life where i was completely dependent upon others.
With the care and support from my family, I bounced back to good health within a reasonable period of time. I went through a number of check-ups concerning my vital organs. When each one turned out to be in good shape, I felt I was relearning and revising the lessons of life. I would like to share what I learned during that phase of my life.


Good physical health is the valuable gift of nature, position, power, status and acquisitions tend to loose their meaning if we are not blessed with energetic health. So it is important to recognize and nurture all the enabling
 factors which give us energetic physical health. The energetic physical health is person's asset, hence carefully and rightly use it  which would help us to spread happiness everywhere.


for our health, we should consume right and balanced food to maintain our system. The realisation that good health is a precious gift will help us treat the body as a trust, and motivate us to keep it clean and pure as a temple of divinity. 


The mind is a part of body which makes the physical energy, intelligible and gives it its worth.
A healthy mind in a healthy body generates good sound, clean and noble thoughts. 


One of the ways to express our good  health is by serving humankind through helping the sick person. We can start this by caring for the old member in our family, neighborhood,  community and also in hospitals.


Good health should be used to perform the right karma- in thought, word and deed.
        

Heart and Soul

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of your success.
                                                                                                  -Swami Shivanand
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you , heart and soul.
                                                                -George Harrison
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul, it is daily admission of ones weakness. It is better in prayer to have  a heart without words and words without heart.
                                                       -M.K. Gandhi

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The Right Attitude Can Lead To Empowerment

A young girl walks on the lonely street,unhappy with herself.She is not beautiful like others are,my friends have boyfriends and i do not.Since i am not beautiful I don't have any boyfriend.A strong breeze blows against her face and her silky hair starts dancing.It says to her 'Be like me my child,go with the flow and you will glow; The  breeze teaches her to have an attitude which will lift her beyond mere physical beauty.The breeze is constantly moving,so to move with the vastness of life without getting stuck, be like it, constantly move. The breeze says to her "I do not move for happiness but out of happiness, I do not dance with happiness but out of happiness. A youth should learn the art to operate from happiness and not for happiness. Happiness is an attitude. To be a winner in life is also an attitude."
Your attitude is more important than the facts as the right attitude can empower you. When you are empowered, you are bigger than the problem rather than the victim to a problem, And living in such a space makes you a winner.
An easy task becomes difficult when you have a poor attitude. A difficult task becomes challenging when you have a good attitude.

Change your mind. Always entertain healthy thoughts. Positive thoughts are great assets. A pessimist sees difficulties in an opportunity and an optimist sees opportunity in a difficult. Understand that one door closes, another opens. Trust life, insecurity invites you to be alert and not worried. It tells you to be creative and not to complain. One has to know how to take easy and float in life and not fight with life. You can't fight with the ways but learn to float.

Change your emotions. The quality of your life is the quality of your consistent emotions. When your emotion is low just change it, think of a happy incident.

Change your values. Have value that connect to goodness and connect two people. Lots of people fear failure, death, insecurity and rejection, come from a commitment that failure is only postponed success. Failure is the fertilizer  for success. If you bring this energy into your life, it will give you methods of handling fear or failure. Also understand fear is a movement of thought. Thought is nothing but a moment of mental word.
When fear happens, just become totally aware and don't  get identified with that thought with wordless awareness just watch. This watch will not allow the previous fear to affect your present.
You feel insecure because you have a concept of 'what is security!' and from that concept you are seeing life. Anything that does not fit your concept makes you insecure.

You have the spirit of adventure in you then insecurity is a great adventure for you to explore. You will have fun with that insecurity. Learn to trust that insecurity is inviting you to be creative.
 


                                                                                                  Discourse Swami Sukhabodhananda
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Maintain Peace At Home

In todays world, people fight with each other on minor issues.It is commonly seen that spouses are dissatisfied with each other and take out their shortcomings. To maintain peace, there are certain things which each one of us should keep in mind.

 Patience- if someone says something wrong to you, don't  argue with that person. When he/she is in good            
mood, then assert your point in a normal voice tone without offending that person. If there is a
 conflict between the spouses then it is the children's responsibilty  to settle their conflicts peacefully.
 
Respect- remember to give respect to each and every member of the family which is possible by paying attention to their small desires and wants. Remember not to say any word which hurts your spouse.
Ignore your loved ones small mistakes.

Control your Anger- do not confront the anger of the person instead keep yourself in cool temperament and leave the place at that moment. And when the person has cooled down, explain him/her what you wanted to say or do in a peaceful manner.

Help your partner- if your partner is unable to deliver his/her best then help your partner by providing an external employer to maintain harmony in the family which helps to reduce bitterness in the family.

Do not interfere in each others work- do not hold alot of expectations from each other, give your spouse his/her space.

Discuss each others' problems- like financial, emotional, health and other issues like children's education or marriage.Put efforts to deal with these issues.

Discuss your troubles with the elders of your family-their experience will provide you the best solutions for your problems.

Do not say words which would leave a mark in your relationships. Maintain patience during tough times and search for the best solutions to maintain the family's values and development    

 

Celebrate your Aloneness

Waves are not still in an ocean, they come and go. There is a process of life to come and go, thoughts also come and go, reactions come and go and everything on this earth comes and go. Hence one must have a sense of detachment from things. We become serious because of our negativity, even if something that helps us to brings prosperity, we think negative and deny it. We are unable to see the difference between a diamond and a mere stone. What causes you pain often turns out to be the blessing of your life. If any source gives you pain, feel gratitude for that, for suffering creates the opportunity for change. Sometimes, we need pressure and pain to make us change for the better. When a sculptor takes a stone, he removes all the unwanted parts and discovers the figure in the stone. Pain and pressure in life are processes that help to remove all unwanted substances from our lives and realise our true self . We came from One and we have to become one. The highest possibilities of life can come in aloneness. When we are two, then two is pass time. If our life is happy and if it is full of divine blessings, blessed by divine grace, it is because life gives us the fruit of aloneness. Only the divine is alone. The Divine is one.
If someone gives us the experience of aloneness, we should be thankful. When we are alone, we are able to understand ourselves, to know we are aware of ourselves, to see the value of our life. But nobody wants to be alone or to be single. If we become two or three or four then our potentialities gets undiscovered due to our involvement  in the materialistic world.So be happy with your aloneness and play your life with that as it gives us love, peace, happiness, joy, bliss and everything.                 

Power of Positive Thinking

Yesterday i met my Gurudev- Rajendra Muniji. He told us that the inner strength is above our bodily strength. Once we set our goals,it is important to have inner strength in the form of self-confidence and positive thinking.

To achieve success in life, it is important to have positive thinking. In each and every moment in our lives, we see both the good times and the bad times. When there are good times, we spend them happily and we believe that we can achieve any goal in our life. But when we encounter with the financial, health or family problems we tend to assume that nothing will be changed and we become hopeless about future. Whether it is good or bad times, we have to go through it so why not pass the difficult situations with positive frame of mind! With this the problems we face would be perceived less stressful. It is important to know that even difficult or stressful experiences help to refine our personality and if we face with future problems, it would help us cope with it through our experiences.

Each one of us has a hidden power of positive thinking.

         

Destiny

Once there was a very beautiful house near a river. Everyday, the servant of the house use to get water from that river in two pitchers hanging on both side of a bamboo.One of the pitcher had a little crack on it which caused the leakage of the water.Hence only half of the water from that pitcher used to get saved.
One day one of the pitcher told the other  that i feel worthless since i am only able to save half of the water for  my master. On hearing this, the master said-"look at the beautiful path which the servant used to take from the river till the house . On that route i threw some of the flower seeds and because of your water, they have turned into beautiful flowers which has also decorated my house." The master also said that each thing in this world has its own destiny,  each human being has its own problem and ability to solve them. Whatever your destiny gives you, take it happily.       

Meditation

Meditation is the most powerful spiritual practise which enhace ones life dramatically.Each session is a stepping-stone for the next meditation. Sometimes it becomes an addictive activity as one tends to fall in the trap of overexcitement and haste which results in not being able to meditate blissfully.
There are certain rules which one must keep in mind while doing this activity.
The first rule to keep in mind is "do not expect" - people often hold notions and ideas about the experiences of meditation from self or others.Instead they should keep their mind calm and cool without any expectations.
Secondly,"do not compare" your past experiences of meditating with the new one as you will get the new experience of doing it. Regard each session as a unique one.
Thirdly,do not haste or hurry while doing the meditation..Think that "I have all the time in the world, "I am born onlyto do this", "My work in this life is just to meditate", "I am here to know myself", "God please reveal yourself to me".
The last thing to keep in mind is "to breathe as slowly as possible". Take 5 to 7 seconds to inhale, take another another 5 seconds to hold your breathe and exhale to 5 yo 7 seconds. In case one does it in for 2 to 4 seconds it is another way of knowing one is in haste.
 

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Myself Shrilekh Jain,housewife with 3 lovely daughters.I am living in a joint family who are my lifeline.I have learned alot from my life experiences which i want to share with everyone.If my experiences could solve anyone's problems then i would love to write more.

I have saved some of the most interesting articles from the newspaper written by different recognized writers on philosophy, psychology, health, hygine, yoga and cookery recipes along with kitchen tips.
I want to especially thank and give blessings to my lovely daughter-in-law Vidushi who have helped me to create this blog.