THE BEST GIFT

THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE TO YOURSELF OR A LOVED ONE IN TROUBLE

As humans we seek for happiness, and in our seeking we get lost in the games of life. Every situation whether the mind labels it as good or bad brings us the gift of wisdom. We can gather this gift only when we are awake and alert. Due to the busyness of life we forget to be awake. 
At this point in time many are asking for a way out of the trials and challenges that they or their loved ones are facing. From my spiritual journeys these are the two main keys that work amazingly for me.

The first and foremost thing in any situation or trouble involving finance, relationship, health... etc. is to realize that we are not only our physical bodies but also a greater part of us is our consciousness. Whatever we hold in our consciousness, the Universe will match it abundantly. We are the beloved children of the Universe and the Universe understands only the language of the consciousness, not the spoken language. Hence it is very important to notice what we are holding in our consciousness.

Whenever there is a problem we focus more and more on the problem and the mind chatter goes on and on about the problem, we give our life force energy through our attention to the problem, we feed it and make it come alive, and the problem becomes bigger and more bigger, till our entire consciousness is on the problem only. The moment we notice this, it is very important to drop all thoughts about the problem, because these thoughts of thinking again and again about the problem is not going to help us or anyone else. We need to stop talking about it to others and also to ourselves in our mind.

The mind is full of fear so it will bring these story thoughts again and again, I found that at this time the best way to get rid of these thoughts is to take a full deep breath, place your hand on your heart, or recite a small mantra like "Om Shanthi" or "I trust my Higher Self/God" .... these are tools that would help erase these fearful story thoughts.

The next important step is to move out of the box of the story of what happened and imagine/visualize/create in the mind's eye everything that can bring in harmony, balance, and peace. Just imagine in your mind's eye your loved ones or yourself who is going through the challenge... smiling, laughing, being at peace, tell them/yourself in your mind's eye "you can do it", "you are getting better and better".... Be creative use all your imagination and pour your feelings into this picture of peace and harmony as many times during the day as you can.

These are the two most important energy work you can do easily, these are the greatest gifts you can give yourself and your loved ones. For whatever you choose to hold in your consciousness will be manifested big time, you will witness magic and miracles.
Let us choose to be the miracle makers of life!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

THE SKY, YOUR MIRROR

THE SKY, YOUR MIRROR
A POWERFUL EXERCISE FOR TODAY:

Sweet Friends,

This exercise is simple but very powerful. Just try it.

Take a walk outside, or open a window where you can see the open sky.
Now close your eyes and think a positive thought for yourself.
Think of the sky as your mirror, your mirror reflects to the world who you are and what you believe about yourself, as well as your ability to receive.
Everytime you think a thought, imagine that the thought is immediately being written in big letters with red ink on this huge mirror, hanging above you for the world to see.
If you think, " Today I create more beauty and joy in my life", then those words will be written on the mirror of the sky in huge red letters. The more times you write it on your mirror, the more your life will reflect it and you will have a life of abundance, because your energy follows your thought and your mirror reflects it multiple times.
Some powerful thoughts to write on the sky, your mirror:
"I am wonderful and I am open to receive all the abundance of existence"
"I create peace and harmony for myself"
"I am safe and centered no matter where I am"
"My life is blessed and I am so grateful"
Just try your own mantras to write on your sky mirror with beautiful, empowering, and positive words like Happy, capable, gracious, kind, blessed, joyous, peaceful, well being etc.
May your moments be filled with joy and wonderment dear ones!
Blessings!

THIS GRAND PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE

THIS GRAND PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE

Have  you ever looked at your hands and appreciated them? I see my hands as being unconditional love, they move and do so much for me, without my hands my experience in this physical planet would be very much limited. My hands do not have any desire of their own but by their unconditional love they are there ready whenever I want them for me or for others!  What an amazing love this is! My hands, feet, and my entire physical body remind me to be unconditional love.
In this physical planet we are the hands, feet, mouth... of God.  That which is God/Creator being, is experiencing itself through us.  This moment in time as a physical being is truly a grand experience!
Extending our hands, feet, and mouth as a blessing for others is a grand experience. We came into this Physical body as unconditional love. Unconditional love is the truth of who we are. Unconditional love is not emotional love focused on someone or something from the mind, it has no likes or dislikes, it is not about extending love to someone in particular, but it is about being love. Being in the place of readily giving kindness, compassion, appreciation, acceptance, and understanding to yourself and everyone around you because you know that you are the well spring of unconditional love. Unconditional love has no need or dependency on anyone or anything, it is powerful, magical and sufficient unto itself, it flows as a beautiful sharing from the heart.  It is the tantra or mystical experience that transforms the whole world into lovers!
Living as unconditional love is a choice that comes from connecting with the inner being and experiencing oneself as the inner being/God within. And experiencing oneself as the inner being can be done only from totally living in the present moment. If the present moment is interrupted by allowing the mind to wander to worlds of the past or the future, we miss the present moment and also the experience of unconditional love.
Let us choose to experience and live our lives as unconditional love every moment!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar   

CONNECTING TO THE BODY'S INTELLIGENCE WITH EMOTIONAL COMFORT

CONNECTING TO THE BODY'S INTELLIGENCE WITH EMOTIONAL COMFORT

Healing begins when we are able to understand that the world around us is created by the thoughts and feelings we choose to agree, encourage, and tie our emotions with. The body and mind respond to the quality of food and the kind of emotions we feed them. It is time we treat our body and mind with responsibility.

 The human body is a magnificent, mysterious being of immense wisdom. Connecting with the body’s wisdom brings greater healing in all levels of consciousness. The body holds the consciousness of all levels – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, psychic and cosmic.  Unfortunately, many of us think that we are the body and so we never take time to connect with it. We are not this body; this body is like the vehicle or the car that we own, the body is a magnificent tool that helps us to expand our consciousness and have a relationship with this physical world. Hence it is our responsibility to treat our body and mind kindly.

Connecting with the body's intelligence can happen only when there is emotional comfort. Emotional comfort is kindness in the form of thoughts that are happy and joyful, feeding the body thoughts that involve beauty, trust, gratitude and laughter. The emotional comfort helps the body to secrete its chemicals, juices, enzymes and hormones in a balance from its exotic pharmacy. This helps to strengthen the immune system and maintains physical well being.

I have noticed that my body dutifully gives feedback of the effects of my thoughts and emotions.  When I feed my body thoughts of joy and laughter, the body laughs and feels comfortable, but when I feed my body memories of some pain that happened yesterday, a few days ago, 20 years ago, or even 40 years ago, the body cries, becomes anxious and goes into fear; the body does not know that this is only a thought, and it also does not know that this situation is not happening right now, so it reacts by secreting hormones and chemicals to balance the anxiety and worry.  If we are living with the stress of the modern world of proving, pleasing, achieving, striving for more, more, and stressing ourselves with deadlines, we are actually feeding our body and mind more anxious and stressful thoughts everyday, this triggers the body to  secrete excess of hormones and enzymes to balance the anxiety and worry.

Excessive secretion of the anxiety hormones create pain and disease. Pain and disease are messages from the body to slow down, take time to laugh and enjoy every  moment of life. The most wasted of days is the one without joy or laughter.  Laughter and joy from the place of gratitude is one of the greatest prayers, and they are one of the grandest medicines that can heal the body and bring it to the state of youth, vitality, and well being.

The body loves it when we trust its intelligence and consciously connect with it. The body is a beautiful tool. The body is a beautiful programmer, I have noticed that I can program my body to wake me up at a certain time and it would wake me up exactly at that time.  I have also seen that while I cook, I can tell my body to remind me when the cooking is done and do some other work at that time, I do not need any timer, my body will automatically alert me when the cooking or baking is done, I do not need a timer, my body loves it when I consciously connect with it.   The body's intelligence can work with us with any situation that is in front of us, for it is a beautiful tool that needs a wonderful master who can trust it and guide it gracefully.  In this physical world the body IS our grand vehicle. Forgetting the body and trying to multitask our way through life is unkindness to oneself.

We go into dis-ease because we did not learn the art of eating food or the art of feeding the right thoughts to the body.  We eat in front of the TV, we talk or read a book while we eat, we gobble up our food without munching and mixing it with the saliva, we eat while we are not hungry, or we encourage anxious and fearful thoughts in our mind while we eat.  The body responds to our thoughts and emotions and secretes chemicals.  If we think about things other than food the body secretes the wrong kind of chemicals and our food does not get digested properly, our cells are not supplied with enough nutrients they need and they remain hungry and we continue to crave foods and continue to eat unconsciously.

While eating if we encourage all good thoughts about food,  the body will secrete its digestive juices and digest the food and use the food in the most balanced way to bring in good health and well being.  When we choose to consciously connect with the body by bringing our awareness and appreciation we create peace in our body and release it from dis-ease.
I have noticed that when I consciously sit down with my food, working out my gums and teeth with every bite, enjoying the taste, being in the process of mixing the food completely with saliva and following the food mentally all the way to the stomach, I feel extremely satisfied.   I also add a small affirmation "I enjoy every food I eat, I love every cell of my body."  Practicing this everyday has brought grand healing and vitality for my body, I also lost all the extra weight I put on due to mindless eating and stress. Now when people see me they say that I look younger and happier than before.

Patients usually have strong trust in their doctors, there are instances where the doctors sometimes give them a sugar pill (a placebo) and say that it is a powerful medicine to heal their sickness. Miraculous healings happen without any actual medical treatment but just by the trusting thoughts of the patient. The patient’s trust in the power of the medication triggers the body to secrete the right kind of chemicals to heal itself!  The body is an intelligent being and it listens to our thoughts and emotions, it responds to kindness, and when we consciously connect with the body with emotional comfort, our body comes alive with health, youth, and vitality.  

Let us choose to provide our body the kindness of emotional comfort by encouraging thoughts of beauty, joy, gratitude, appreciation, laughter, and well being so that our mind and our body temple will be blessed with health and vitality!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar  

A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO SHARE

A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO SHARE:

A sweet friend asked me a question today: Why are some people poor and some people rich?

We are the creators of our reality, absolutely, all of it, 100% of the time. 

Let me tell you about being poor or rich, when someone is poor, all their belief system tells them that they are not worthy and this is how they will live, unless someone wakes them up from their belief system and tell them that they are worthy and can choose to live a wonderful life. If they choose to wake up, they will change their life, they will create it accordingly.

A rich man is rich because he believes that he will always be rich, his thoughts are all about making money. But this does not say that he is living his life in richness. His mind may be on money, he can create a lot of money for himself, but he may not be healthy, he may have lousy relationships, he may have no joy, ...so he is actually living a poor life.

Abundance has nothing to do with wealth or money. Abundance includes good health, good relationship, laughter, joy, wonderment, and every aspect of well being. Every thing in this Planet has been created for you, every person, every situation, every place is there for you to know yourself. There is never any possibility of failure. You can be as creative, good, talented, adventurous as you like and give your energy fully and completely every moment, and come into the realization that what you have is enough and more than enough.

So a person is truly rich if they can choose to live in gratitude and choose to be happy and choose to experience life fully in the moment, whatever the conditions around them may be.

This is living every moment consciously in awareness doing and enjoying whatever you want to do fully and completely, and most importantly being kind and loving towards yourself. Kind and loving means never encouraging unkind thoughts about yourself or others in your mind, choosing to gift yourself with happy thoughts of health, beauty, well being, gratitude, and joy. Then you are the richest person in the Planet you are living in abundance!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

THOUGHTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT

THOUGHTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT

We are pure souls, we are born into this Planet with all the perfect tools we need to expand our consciousness and live as the pure light that we are. When we enter the Planet in a human body we are immediately bombarded by the mind with thoughts, emotions, and sentiments.  We are fascinated with the body and the mind, and we begin a grand love affair with the body and mind, we perceive ourselves as the body and the mind.  We take pride in all that we have achieved through the body and the mind, and we attach ourselves to all these achievements, our possessions, our work, our education, our knowledge, our physical appearance, our abilities, our relationships, our family history, race, religion, culture, nation and the list goes on and on. If we stop to think about it deeply we realize that all these attachments created by the body and the mind are just a surface garment that we put on to live and communicate on this Planet.

The true being, resides in the heart as the watcher, as the one that makes the body and mind come alive, the one that is a silent witness of all things, the one who resides in the inner sacred space of the heart and sees all things and knows all things, this being is never born and this being can never die.   This being is the cosmic traveler whose journey is beyond time and space.  In order to experience this physical Planet this Grand Being of pure love and light, has allowed a tiny part of itself to descend into a physical body and mind, to watch, observe, gather knowledge of the physical experience, expand and grow and to move on.  This being is full of wisdom, power and greater understanding of all things visible and invisible.

This experience as a human being is just a moment in Cosmic time,.... just a moment!  And it will be wonderful and wise if one chooses to spend this moment in conscious connection with the Divine Presence of the inner being.

Enlightenment is making conscious connection with this inner being and living as compassion,.. as pure love. This compassion and love is neither emotional nor is it focused towards any one person or one thing, it is beyond relationships and is no longer addressed to anyone or anything in particular.  It is an overflowing wellspring that flows in all directions and encompasses the whole Universe. It is in perfect tune with existence itself. When one seeks to live in oneness with the inner being one need not strive to be loving or kind or understanding, for all these virtues are the truth of who we really are.  The physical and mental garment of achievements are just that, they are just garments worn for convenience of the physical experience, but to perceive ourselves as these garments and attach to them creates enormous discord in every aspect of life. It is like seeing the world through cloudy, broken glasses.

Attachment to the achievements of the body and mind and perceiving oneself as the body and mind is a dream.  Enlightenment is the potential within every person to wake up from this dream. We have been given the potential to wake up at any moment.   All methods of meditation, prayer, affirmations, yoga, visualizations etc. are tools that can create a situation that shakes us up and we wake up from this dream.

Enlightenment is not a goal that can be reached, it is a moment to moment process of greater understanding and conscious awareness of living in union with the Sacred Presence of the Inner Being. Enlightenment is a path that only you can create for yourself through your awareness. Meditations, prayers, and other spiritual practices are only pointers, but you are the traveler, there are no ready made paths. You have to travel alone following the light of your inner being.  And this journey is sometimes painful for it involves peeling away of all attachments created through the body and mind, to reveal the inner pure being that is the grander YOU.  Peeling away attachments does not mean separation or cutting off, it truly means experiencing a grander oneness with every person and every thing making the living experience more beautiful and joyous.

By awakening ourselves we awaken others just by our very presence, and the Planet responds with new life to the compassion that flows from our heart.  We are the Bodhisattva, and the vow of the Bodhisattva goes like this " I seek my own enlightenment for the sake of all beings."
Let us choose to wake up to the truth of who we really are!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar
    

GRATITUDE HAPPENS

GRATITUDE HAPPENS

True Gratitude cannot be toward anything as gratitude happens for the All. When we live from the place of immense trust and surrender, every single aspect of life becomes sacred, the breath becomes holy, the body becomes holy, the ground we walk on becomes holy, every created being becomes holy, and every encounter with life becomes a sacred encounter.

 Nature and all of creation have been created to serve us, the Creator is serving us in the most wonderful ways, and do we stop to appreciate the Creator? If only we took the time to truly stay and watch and listen, we would be continuously appreciating and thanking the Creator for all of the kind service given to us. I have noticed that appreciation and gratitude are the greatest portals that take us closer to the heart of the Creator.  

At one time during my meditative state I asked the Creator,  
 “How may I serve you more,” and I was stunned and shocked to receive this answer loud and clear:
 “Please allow me to serve you.”  

My heart wept with the understanding of this powerful message. I understood that I had been keeping a distance from the Creator thinking that I was born to serve the Creator and that I was not worthy to come closer to the Creator. After I received the message, I understood that the Creator was waiting to serve me, to please me with all of the most beautiful things around me in my life, and to keep me in love, joy, and excitement. And here I was, more worried about my service to the Divine by diligently praying and meditating, taking life so seriously, and forgetting to laugh or to be in joy. I realized that the greatest gift I can give the Creator is my joy.  The Creator has gifted us this body, mind, the entire planet, and all the beautiful creations on it for us to enjoy and appreciate.

The best gift we can give to the Creator is not any physical thing; it is our Joy.  

As human parents, when we see our children living happy lives, it gives us extreme satisfaction; it is the same with the Creator.
 When we live in gratitude, we see life as endless Joy, and joy is the greatest gift we can give to the Creator.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar