Affirmations

Introduction

Affirmations work well when it done in a proper manner. So what is the proper way affirming, to know this we should understand, what affirmations are.

Affirmations are forceful thoughts that are incorporated in our mind to get desired results.

How does this work, basic thing that we have to understand is that our mind is capable of doing wonderful things given that we channel our thoughts in a proper way. We can a have a stress free day just by affirming the same.

Important points on affirmation

• Intensity of our affirmation plays a vital role in the manifestation of the same.
• Regularity of affirmation also plays vital role
• No second thought about the affirmation should be there, i.e. when affirming on sometime at the back of our mind we should not think it is not going to happen.
• Finally the way we think also plays a vital role
• Gratitude to the higher self after affirming is done

Example

Suppose you are travelling to your office and want a smooth way to reach your office.

What we have to do is that we have to calm our mind first and with full intensity we should put a thought in our mind that “I will have a smooth and safe journey to my work place”, what we can observe is that most of the time we will have a smooth journey (like less traffic, easy ride etc)

When Affirmations do not work

If one is supposed to endure something, Karma will not work, meaning one’s Karma always supersedes any affirmations, but it doesn’t mean that we should not affirm, it is at the time of despair that we need to affirm positively as this will mitigate the effect to a certain extent.

What type of Affirmation is Good

Affirmations that are done for the wellbeing of self and others are always good, should not be used for bad purposes as it will create bad Karma and is very dangerous for oneself.

Source my Guruji

Steps in Affirmations

Step 1 Having a clear mental picture of what you want
Step 2 Write it down with specific details - write it in present tense
Step 3 Visualization - add as much details as possible
Step 4 Act and feel as if you have already  - vacuum give away old so that it will be filled by new

Step 5 Action - Inspired action (trust your gut, intuition)

Source youtube

Understanding Who Am I

When any thought arises, say that I want money. The first thing that we understand that, I want money. So if we analyze this further. This thought arises in my mind and then it proceeds to our intellect, Consciousness and finally ego to act on the same.

If, we go in the reverse order.  We can understand the Ego is acting based on the input from consciousness and it from the intellect and finally intellect is influenced by Mind where the thoughts are created.

Hence the source of all thoughts is our mind; it is here where we get information from the sensory organs to the mind and this mind creates thoughts. Mind and thoughts are the same as mind exists only for the sole purpose of creating thoughts.

Then further when we try to understand why are these thoughts created, we realize that these thoughts are created for me. Meaning the mind thinks “I need money”.

Who is this “I”, that the mind is thinking about? Mind usually associates its thoughts to the physical body and hence it thinks that “I - refers to the physical body”. But when the mind is made thoughtless or when we do not create thoughts in our mind then for the mind this body will not exist, but even at that time there is awareness in us. What is this awareness? This awareness is beyond the body as there are no thoughts, since thoughts are created when we interact with the external world. Further in this situation when the mind quiet and if it questions “Who am I”, then mind cannot associate ‘I’ to the physical body or even the mind (as it is quieted), as mind itself does not exist as there are no thoughts. Then who is this ‘I’? When mind is transcended by this way, then what is left? After this stage only awareness exists in our mind. What is this awareness and how does this feel? Will be the question at this point; is this the Brahman that we talk about?

How can I say this as I have not reached this stage of thoughtlessness; to achieve this stage meditation and protecting the mind is a very important requirement; During meditation mind can be made thoughtless, and once thoughtless we become aware of the emptiness due to the lack of thoughts.

These my understanding based on Guruji's teachings. Any mistakes is solely mine for lack of understanding

Positive Thinking for Overcoming Grief

What is positive thinking?

This question has many answers and we can discuss about the same days together.

Simple way of looking at positive thinking is "Identifying opportunity at the time of Despair, which other people fail to see"

Why this is required?

To answer the above question I can give you an example. Suppose one suffers from a Chronic life threatening illness say Cancer, the person now has two options to lead his life. First one being he can curse about his life as to why it turned like this? Why should he suffer when others are happy and become cynical about life.

What good can we find in this approach towards? None!

Neither the person is happy nor the people around him are happy. Also this type of  outlook always invites more problems in life as negative thinking invites negative experiences.

I'm not saying that it is wrong to grieve. But we should accept what is happening to us, only then we can move forward in this life both on physical and spiritual plane.

Our life is so well designed that we have very little control over major events in life (lie marriage, birth, death etc) as law of Karma decides upon these factors and we have taken this birth just to settle the Karmic account, once Karmic account is settled we realize God and liberation can take place.

But the negative approach towards life always makes us to accrue more undesirable actions which leads to accruing more Karma. This will lead to Rebirth and more suffering.

On the other hand if we look at this in a positive way.We will realize that death is part of life and its natural and we cannot control death as Karma is responsible for deciding these things. So if one realizes birth or death is not in our hands, our mind is released from the agony of this impending event.

Once we realize this we are no long bothered and in fact we can think how best we can lead our remaining life. So that the person and people around him/her are happy.

We look at life in a new dimension and see how we can contribute positively.

The above points are my understanding of positive thinking and what I have heard from learned people. This may not convince everyone, but wanted to share my thoughts as this may be useful.