Fw: Seven Habits Of Enlightened Souls..!

[Hemaxi Patel]

THERMOMETERS AND THERMOSTATS

Do you know the difference between a ther­mometer and a thermostat? A
thermometer simply measures the temperature. It doesn't do anything
about it.

A thermostat measures the temperature and then responds. If the
temperature is too high, a thermostat may shut off the heat. If the
temperature is too low, a thermostat may trigger heat to turn on. It
measures temperature and it does something about it.

While a thermometer is a passive tool, a thermostat is an active tool.
They both experience the temperature, but a thermostat responds.

Some people are like thermometers - they passively allow what may harm
them to just hap­pen. They have problems and difficulties and they
believe there isn't anything that can be done about it. They feel
helpless as they watch life happen. They feel as
if they have no power.

Others are more like thermostats. When they are faced with difficulty,
they kick into action. They believe that something can be done; a
solution can be found; a hurt can be healed. They respond; they make
decisions; they go into motion.

Advice columnist Ann Landers said, "If I were asked to give what I
consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it
would be this: expect trouble as an inevitable part of life. When it
comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I
will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" In other words,
re­spond courageously and creatively.

Do you know that you can be bigger than any trouble that comes your
way? If you have be­come stuck because you feel frightened or
helpless, it is time to respond. It is time to go into motion. It is
time to activate your faith. When you become big­ger than your
problem, it cannot defeat you.

Today - will you be a thermometer or a thermostat?

SEVEN HABITS OF ENLIGHTENED SOULS

1. Be quiet. At least once a day, sit down. There is a source within each one of us called the spirit or soul. It is a crime to disturb the inner peace. This peace is our power to create positive things in our life.
Try speaking softly and slowly than your usual way. Speaking this way is more powerful because it attracts the peace in others. Just be aware of your words.
Savor their energy and rhythm.
2. Let go. Don't hold on to anything with your hand or with your mind.
Many think that doing this means losing. If you don't release the old, you can't get anything new. This requires detachment.
Letting go means moderating excessive attachment to material possessions, to emotions,
or to the status or comfort zones in our lives.
Let it be. We are great fixers of other people's lives. We're trying to write somebody else's script. We are absent from our own lives because we're busy living the life of others. Acceptance and contentment are the first steps to healthy relationships.
An example is our appreciation of the moon, which is beyond change. We never dream of wanting to change or influence it, nor have we the slightest remorse that the same face of the moon is always turned toward us: We have no need to see the dark side.
Extend this deep feeling of acceptance to the people we meet.
4. Listen in. Use your intuition, the inner tutor and the voice of wisdom.
Because we have held on to our false beliefs for so long, we ignore and distrust our inner voice and tell it to shut up. The process of enlightenment is the process of learning to trust that inner voice once again.
Example is the conscience as intuition at work. When we misbehave, the voice of conscience alerts us to our mistake. We may shut that voice, engaging in reason as the
ally of ego to justify our deeds.
Yet the troubling intuitive disapproval of conscience will go on to make its rebukes.
We can either suppress the advice or repair the wrong.
5. Wake up. Habits are programmed by our external conditioning. Write down your habits then decide which ones to strike out and replace them with virtues. Visualize the virtue you want to create and empower that image.
For example, if you want to develop patience, visualize yourself as a patient person.
Watch, feel and manifest patience in every action you do until it becomes your behavior. Waking up is to consciously choose your behavior and thereby create the personality you want. Never believe anyone who says, "You can never change."
6. Know yourself. Look behind the "I want" attitude, those desires that make us need things that are not necessary.
The truth is, happiness is a choice, not a chore, a decision to bring out from the self.
Affirm that you are happiness, a source of happiness.
7. Pass it on. Take one idea from this article then pass it on to another.
You empower yourself and the other as you share this truth. This is also giving value to the time you spent reading this.
Life is like a river, constantly flowing. The highest purpose of rivers is to nourish plants and people who are fellow travelers in the journey of life. Our highest purpose is to nourish others.
Like the river, the greatest gift one can give is wisdom. Through this, you empower yourself as well as others.
Try these habits, one by one.

                

 

 

 

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