JOIN USSometimes, your secure, orderly world rocks a little, sending tremors of insecurity through you. So, please prepare wisely for such eventualities — that is, when the going is good, hold firmly to the conviction: “Things always work out and balance is restored.”
Believe it because it’s the absolute, luminous truth. When we fill our mind with its glow, there is no sudden darkness, neither nervousness nor fear when things get rough. Rather, a new, freer consciousness arises, borne aloft on the wing of this wisdom.
Yes, occasionally, you have to contribute to balance the situation — take medicines to remedy an illness, stretch to lubricate a kinked joint, tighten your belt or work
extra hours during some financial ebb. And sometimes you don’t have to do anything except relax and feel the stiffness in your back ease, the fatigue in your bones drain away, or watch the trickle in your financial flow re-gather momentum and gush in like a river in full spate!
Tough times
It’s while riding on life’s lows that you get to know great stuff about yourself. For
instance, that your wealth lies not in how much you have but how few your wants really are. Or that calmness is not from the absence of problems but the presence of resourcefulness. And that when pride falls you feel naked for an instant before peace clothes you.
Our immune system, hormones, pancreas and organs are sensitive to suggestions. Give them fearful thoughts and they become dry and lifeless. Give them loving thoughts, visualise soft golden light entering from the crown of your head and filling your body with its healing softness and the cells liven up and reverse the disease process.
It also helps enormously to hold an ocean of goodwill in your heart. When your world seems a bit shaky, rejoice in other people’s success and lovingly contribute to it. You’ll be surprised how quickly your problems shrink and dissolve like kidney stones under a laser! Simply put, you become part of the universal grace that facilitates their efforts. It’s a matter of joy to be a piece of grace.
Life lessons
It’s good to humbly, humorously introspect when things don’t turn out the way you planned: “Hello! I’ve been knocked on the head! What is it I have to learn? What do I need to change? What do I have to look for?” Again and again, keep looking for the answers. Here are some of the vital answers life will offer:
n Make peace with life: Learn to constantly make peace with life. To make peace is to make health. Know that the mind can deal with only one dominant thought at a time. Make that dominant thought healing, always loving. Positive self-communication gives every small thing a great luminosity. For example, “I nourish myself with fresh, whole-
some food” seeps in gently and is well-absorbed by the mind and heart, unlike the negatively framed “I shouldn’t eat fattening food if I want to lose weight.” Optimised thinking energises, focuses and even uncovers possibilities you hadn’t noticed before.
n Change your attitude: Change the sad, futile phrase “If only…” to the vibrant, can-do “Next time…” “If only I’d seen this coming” weakens; “Next time, I’ll be more prepared!” rings with robust promise.
Look constantly for things to be grateful for. Feel warmed by the sun’s rays; be thankful for the caring people in your life. Fashion a gratitude net in your mind to catch all the good things that happen to you — the bus trundling towards you the moment you reach the bus-stop, a neighbour greeting you with great affection…It’s like catching a bit of sunshine and making it yours.
Above all, remember this: when something in your life, some material prop,
is being destroyed, something new, more meaningful, more healing, of deeper
value is simultaneously being created. This is the law in this world of opposites. So, make peace with ‘what’ is gone and wonder in awe at the new, unknown ‘that’ being intangibly yet surely created just for you!