ABOUT GIVING AND RECEIVING

 THE TRUTH ABOUT GIVING AND RECEIVING

True generosity is not only in giving but also in receiving. Our love and graciousness in receive gifts form others is a wonderful way of bringing the giver a powerful soul satisfaction. If there were no one to receive what you give, how will you know what generosity is?
I am reminded of the experience of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the internationally famous psychiatrist, author and researcher of near death experiences. She had shared this experience with Dr.Brian Weiss, who mentions it in his book "Messages from the Masters."  Dr. Kubler-Ross's mother was a beautiful, caring person who never accepted anything for herself but would give everything to others. The last four years of her life she suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed, but her mind was intact and alert.  She had to rely on others for most of her basic needs. She died after four years without regaining her physical functioning.
 Dr. Kubler-Ross was very much angry with God that her beautiful, strong, proud, and extremely self-reliant mother should go through this condition.  Despite her anger she began to meditate and in her meditation she asked why her mother had to go through the paralysis. The message came to her as a strong inner voice.  The message said that "the paralysis was a gift to her mother, a gift of grace. Love must be balanced. If nobody were there to receive love, who could get the experience of giving? The voice also said that her mother learned this truth in those four years instead of coming back for one or several lifetimes severely retarded or physically impaired where she would have to accept the love of others. Since she learned this she can now move on."
Life is an opportunity to learn to practice love, giving, forgiving, receiving, understanding, and achieving oneness with each other and with the Divine. It is all about learning, there is no punishment here. Everyone of us are in a spiritual journey of achieving this oneness.  Our soul guides us and chooses particular challenges in our life for us to accelerate our spiritual growth. Hence, this life time is an opportunity for us to learn through the joys and pain of relationships and interactions with each other.
Let us choose to be generous in giving and in receiving gifts, in receiving compliments from our friends and loved ones. Let us go beyond the action of giving and receiving and understand that we are One in Spirit and that what we do for others we do for ourselves.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

REMEMBERING OUR PRESENCE

REMEMBERING OUR PRESENCE

People call me with many different names and it is extremely joyous to hear. There are people who call me Poppy, there are some who call me Premlatha, there are some who call me mummy, some who call me as sister, as aunty, as friend, and the list goes on... I am so very grateful for this because if there is no one to call me by a name, or acknowledge my presence, I become meaningless, I become invisible. This lifetime in this beautiful physical body is just a moment in eternity. We are travelers beyond space and time, and in the soul realm we insisted that we get a physical body and come and play this physical game by being the unconditional love and joy that we are.
But as we descended into this physical realm and entered a physical body with a mind we forgot the eternal beingness of our essence. We attached ourselves to the body and mind and began to think that we are this body-mind and started playing this game called "I do not know who I am". This game of the mind is a game of duality, the game of likes and dislikes, of good and bad, and hence by classifying people and situations we created something called 'knowledge', yes knowledge was created only from duality. And knowledge and cleverness are there to help the physical body to survive and experience physicality, but knowledge will not help us to live the "truth" of who we are, only wisdom can, because wisdom is beyond likes or dislikes. Who we are is "unconditional love and unconditional joy", when we say unconditional that means that we are beyond the concept of likes or dislikes, our love and our joy does not depend on the game of duality, because duality is conditional.
So for this lifetime, a small moment in eternity, we decided to come into the physical body to emanate unconditional joy and love from our beautiful presence. If we have forgotten this decision and get attached to the physical body and mind we continue to play the game of duality which limits us from being the truth of who we are.
Involving ourselves seriously in the game of duality has three major disadvantages, we forget to notice the gifts around us, we forget to appreciate, and so we forget to do what we came here to do in this physical body (i.e. be the unconditional love and joy that we are)
Appreciation and gratitude are the two important aspects that anchor well being for the physical body and the Planet. We came into the Planet as anchors of well being and joy by emanating unconditional love and joy in every experience of life. Attaching to the game of duality we forget to appreciate people and things and situations that come into our space, due to duality we judge them as good or bad according to our likes and dislikes. Because of this our unconditional love and joy falls into an attitude of love or joy for a reason or for attachment. Unconscious practicing of love or joy for the sake of reason, extremely limits one to live life fully in this lifetime. When we give the power to love or be in joy for a reason, we cannot experience the fullness of life. The physical experience has to wait for a reason, and by judging things in front of us we forget to see the gift in everything around us and forget to enjoy the moment.
Every moment we forget to be the love that we are, we have lost a moment in eternity, we have lost the opportunity that we asked for, the opportunity to experience unconditional love and joy in the physical. When we judge a human we forget to give them the gifts of understanding, of love and of joy we came to give, hence the moment is lost, when we judge a situation we forget to see the gift in the situation and hence forget to appreciate, and hence the moment to live our truth is lost.
All the mindless playing of the duality games take their toll on the physical body. This body is unconditional love, it is like a little child who looks up to you the master essence, the commander who can guide it to anchor well being. The body listens to all the judgments of the duality game and goes into fear and discord and creates dis-ease within itself, it is simply obeying the master- which is you. The best way to get out of the dis-ease of the body and help it to anchor well being is for us the commander and captain of our body ship to wake up to the truth of who we are and do the reverse technology of dropping focus on fear and judgment and totally focusing on looking at the gift in every situation, living in gratitude and appreciation every moment, and celebrating life.
Celebrating the people, things, and situations around us is the powerful reverse technology for healing every aspect of our life. For, everything around us gives us the meaning of who we are in this space and time, we are absolutely and unconditionally supported and loved by life, when we choose to celebrate life with unconditional love and joy we find the meaning that we are seeking for, our physical body gets the message and flourishes with well being and joy, when the body is in joy all abundance is attracted into our life.
I find that this reverse technology of directing our focus and giving our attention to the gifts of the sacred encounters with every human, plant, animal, nature, and every situation around us, appreciating and living in gratitude, and going an extra mile to joyously celebrate every moment, will surely remove all kinds of dis-eases of body, mind, and soul, and it will attract abundance of every kind in our life, and we will be the anchors of well being for this Planet and hence we would satisfy what we came here to do.
Let us choose to awaken from attaching to this game of duality and anchor well being for ourselves and this Planet by living as the unconditional love and joy that we are.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

SOWING GOOD SEEDS IN THE SOIL OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

SOWING GOOD SEEDS IN THE SOIL OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

Our Inner being/the mystical power within/ the Divine Presence/the Creator energy is the wisdom of the Universe, it is the internal source of supply and it can solve all problems. It can completely transform our life spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, and financially, placing us on the path to freedom, peace, and joy. This mystical power within is our birthright, it is a gift given to everyone by birth. Through the ages many from all walks of life, who connected with this inner power found their true place in life, released their hidden talents, were inspired into new thoughts and ideas that healed and balanced every part of their life and helped themselves to live more abundant lives.
Recognizing and acknowledging the Creator within as the true source, and allowing this peaceful, harmonious and joyous Creator energy to flow through us will help to manifest harmony, health, peace, infinite riches and abundance in our lives.
The road-blocks that stop this energy from flowing into our lives are self-condemnation, remorse, and judgments about oneself or others, judgments about situations or even about God, resentment or any form of negative thinking. These roadblocks trap and stop the flow of Divine Energy within us and thus all sorts of problems get created. The energy does not expand until it is released. If one is attached and mesmerized by the mind and its stories one becomes blind to these road blocks and the mind stories continue to create more roadblocks.
It is important to be very alert and notice our inner mind chatter. Our inner mind chatter is powerful enough to bind us to it with our emotions if we are not alert. When emotions play with mind chatter the Divine Presence is forgotten and everything that we do not want in life gets created in our reality.
Thoughts, feelings, and emotions are powerful ways of connecting with our Divine Presence. To remove negative mind chatter one can practice affirmations/prayers morning and evening with complete emotion and feeling every word as truth. This is one of the many affirmations I like to do to remove negative thoughts:

Affirmation:
I forgive myself for harboring any negative thoughts about
myself or anybody else. I radiate love and goodwill to all people and all beings everywhere. I choose to live in the love and light of my Divine Presence."
This affirmation makes us a clear and open channel for the Divine Presence to flow through us.

Prayer:
“I claim that God’s, light, peace, harmony, truth, beauty, abundance, love, freedom, and security flow through me freely and joyously, and I know that I am now being prospered and blessed beyond my fondest dreams.”
Repeat this prayer aloud or silently throughout the day many times with feeling. As you diligently do this prayer with feeling many times during the day and night, this prayer will be engraved in your heart and all negative thoughts and emotions will be erased and replaced with peace, harmony, joy and this will help the Creative energies to flow within and through you into your reality and you will experience infinite riches of the Divine in all phases of your life.

The art of sowing and reaping is universal; sowing good seeds in the soil of our consciousness will bring forth abundance of good fruit in our reality. Practicing the art of sowing and reaping one has to first give before getting anything. In giving we cannot give the Creator anything physical because everything exists through Creators essence and energy. The most important gift we can give the Creator is to recognize the Creator within as the true source, and give our complete attention, loyalty and trust to the Creator, by choosing to let go all our fears, worries, concepts, ideas, and judgments about ourselves, our situation, about people, or about the Planet. This is the good seed that we can sow in the soil of our consciousness. Once the seed is sown wonders happen, the Divine energy, which is the power and supply of life, freely flows into your life. This Creator energy is the true source out of which this Planet and everything on it is constantly created from the beginning of time till now. Once we have aligned our thoughts with this Creator energy within in full trust and devotion, we have opened the door to an instant and everlasting supply of joy, peace, freedom, and infinite riches.
Let us choose to sow good seeds in the soil of our consciousness.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
Copyright © 2013 Premlatha Rajkumar

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