Monday 30 October 2017
Get a life!
When there is drought, even a few drops of
rain have the power to cause excitement. The kindness of people is similar.
Every little sincere act inspires gratitude. The absence of genuine kindness is
like a drought. So, suddenly, when you come across people who you haven't had a
close connection with but who spontaneously offer help, it makes you can feel
those raindrops fall on your heart.
Life has become very clinical, mechanical
....like dance without expression, like music discordant, like a house which is
not a home....I guess, I find the soul missing in many around me. And I often
feel that souls on the earth must be experiencing much loneliness. Imagine
being connected and not realizing it! Being lonely when there really is no need
to be so. Deliberately hurting someone , not knowing that it is definitely
coming back to you...or often knowing it but still doing it...succors for
inviting grief.
Oh! Humans! Get a life!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday 26 October 2017
Vicious cycle
Many
people tell me they have moved on. The tones of their statements hit me
sometimes. They don't realize it but often, these statements are laced with a
defiance that hides deep hurts. Their eyes, too, fail to support their speech.
Some others say it very proudly, hoping to fool others and somewhere, deep
down, even themselves.
Is
it so easy to move on? If it is, then how come everywhere and every day, we
witness breaking bonds, relationships fraying around the edges, warring
families ...and the like? Should these not heal if we have really moved on?
Actually,
we have not really moved on. Rather, we have let the energies of people move
in. Simultaneously, we have literally donated our energies to people. So,
naturally, we don't feel well within. But as usual, we have to show bravado
outside. So, we do just that. And we cannot feel peace and harmony under these
circumstances.
So,
it is becomes yet another vicious cycle. At some point, you have to break the
cycle by just telling yourself that you will throw away all that does not work
for you and start afresh.
I
hear people saying, "But now I am too old to start afresh." Really ?
Is that a reason or an excuse? Think it through! The feeling of being old again
hides very, very old "scar" tissues which get thicker and thicker
because you let them.
Hmmm....hard
work releasing old pains, right? And yet, there is no choice and no other way
to reclaim your invaluable soul.
Therefore,
let's wake up NOW, from whichever stage and state we happen to be in.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Medication vs. meditation!
Medication vs. meditation! We can heal
ourselves. Once you start on medication, we fail to trust our capacity to heal our
self and start using medication as a crutch.
It has been proven that intention is the
core energy. It can change the composition of the cells. Reiki, the energy that
works on faith and acceptance, very often heals in a few minutes. But many
don't believe miracles can happen this way. But I speak with personal
experience and that of several others.
It would be ideal for every school to teach
one energy healing technique along with leading a spiritual life while also
being in the real world. Just imagine how wonderful it would be if, along with
Math and other subjects and languages, we could heal ourselves with the
techniques taught so early in life that we are able to live as healthy and
positive people all through our journey.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday 23 October 2017
Cleansing exercises
Don't say what you don't mean. Don't
misread the words of another.
Don't insult people even if you don't like
them very much.
Don't add fuel to fire unnecessarily.
Don't be dishonest. Don't be untrue to
yourself.
Don't keep grudges.
These are a few energy cleansing exercises.
The real core of life are these unbelievably simple rules which are so
unbelievingly difficult to follow today.
Every day, we battle with such conflicts.
Both within us and with others. When it is cloudy, we raise our eyes upwards to
look for the sun to come out. When we have polluted energies, why don't we look
for ways to clean them?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday 19 October 2017
Learning
I have learnt that what is inside is
outside and we attract people, events and situations accordingly to inevitably
experience our karma. I have this personal theory that every road we choose to
traverse will have some karma experience for each of us.
This reminds me of many tales we heard as
children. I am able to relate to them and connect with them majorly. The Wizard
of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and many more. In each of these, so many wonderful animals,
nature and other creatures came out to help unconditionally. These tales are
really like life. On every path, help is available in different forms. And
every experience a new learning. We see new signs.
So, even today, I go back to the fairy
tales with joy in my heart because they were simple and profound and are
symbolic for us even now. And they make you a child again which is a real bonus
. Most of us have forgotten how to become children again. As they say, a child
is the father of man.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Conversions
The current debate...conversions! We are so
hung up on religious identities and intolerance of other religions that there
are dedicated groups actively engaged in conversions. To what gain? Power? Controlling
minds?
Isn't it strange that no one thinks of
conversion of their thoughts, destructive emotions, speech and actions? Even if
we gloss over the conversion part, I don't understand what kind of believers of
a religion would want to convert others. Because enlightened people would live
and let live.
Recently, there has been a picture of a
temple in Dubai making rounds on whatsapp which shows a Hindu priest conducting
a pooja and a Sheikh holding the pooja tray next to him. How beautiful and
truly spiritual is this!
Conversions are so superficial. The soul
has no religion. We just need reasons to ignite fires to control the masses. If
you really mean business, why don't you convert yourself, first from prejudices
and hatred and second, from any kind of emotional negativity?
If this happens, conversions
will be a thing of the past.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday 16 October 2017
Sunday 15 October 2017
Group behavior
The
human mind can be really fickle if we don't watch out! Its likes and dislikes
oscillate much more than the changing seasons. Maybe, in current times, the
seasons are also becoming as unpredictable as people.
We
must really ask ourselves why we are so lacking in consistency and why should
our will prevail each time? This seems to be a huge reason for our
inconsistency. "I"..."Mine"...Yes sir! We salute you. It is
and has to be only you and you... amazing! And this would also be fine if there
were no frequent variations in what came out of that "I" and
"mine". But the inconsistencies within short term consistencies which
I am calling "fickle" here seem to be endless.
Especially
when in a group. Group behavior, if you notice, is a typical example. A few
days back, I wrote about insecurities. Frequently changing parameters of
emotions are directly linked to the very same insecurities.
Often,
we misinterpret, and sometimes, wantonly misinterpret the words or acts of
people we are not too fond of or are even envious of. Where is the core issue? Of
course, within us. We actually don't have the courage to be ourselves and fall
short in our own eyes.
So,
fickleness leads to oscillations, and this soon becomes a chain. Like riding a
bike downhill without a break. We don't know how and where we are going to end
up. Because the bike is driven by "I" and "mine" whereas
the consistency is due to the ability to control the brakes .These are the "we"
which we fail to activate.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday 12 October 2017
Controlling mind
The current debate...conversions! We are so
hung up on religious identities and intolerance of other religions that there
are dedicated groups actively engaged in conversions. To what gain? Power?
Controlling minds?
Isn't it strange that no one thinks of
conversion of their thoughts, destructive emotions, speech and actions? Even if
we gloss over the conversion part, I don't understand what kind of believers of
a religion would want to convert others. Because enlightened people would live
and let live.
Recently, there has been a picture of a
temple in Dubai making rounds on whatsapp which shows a Hindu priest conducting
a pooja and a Sheikh holding the pooja tray next to him. How beautiful and
truly spiritual is this!
Conversions are so superficial. The soul
has no religion. We just need reasons to ignite fires to control the masses. If
you really mean business, why don't you convert yourself, first from prejudices
and hatred and second, from any kind of emotional negativity?
If this happens, conversions will be a
thing of the past.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Rejoices
"I've
noticed that a lot of people don't notice the obvious.
Then
I found that it's not their eyesight, but their prejudices, that clouds their
vision."
Thank
you, Pankaj, for this insightful post. You hit the nail on the head. Prejudices
blind us to everything good within us and outside us. Blinding prejudices. Hate
inspiring prejudices. Arrogant prejudices. Obsessive prejudices.
They
dehumanize people and make them forget who they are. God decided to make this
fantastic specimen, the human being, and then played mischief. He gave him an
ego as a huge obstacle which would actually make the human feel good on the
surface, so much so that it would ultimately camouflage the real pitfalls.
On
the other hand, the soul which humans are meant to seek was embedded within
each human but man would seek only what he can see outside of him with his
eyes. The inner eye was disabled by the ego.
…and
so, man is overpowered and misled constantly by his own sense of self
importance and a lack of cognizance and understanding of his inner world. He
revels in artificial light and rejoices in the myth that it is real light.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday 9 October 2017
Compassion
If you look back at your life events, you
will always find some people that you have had issues with. Some you forgive
and from some you seek forgiveness. And you also forgive yourself for hurting
people and mistakes made.
However, I wish it were that simple!
Actually, it IS that simple to my mind. But not so to other people. In
everyone's life, there are some people who refuse to forgive. Hmmm... out of
our control, right? But how do we react to this non forgiveness? Arrogantly?
Humbly? Aggressively? With compassion and understanding?
You might say, "But it is not about
me". But really speaking, it IS about you, too, because you were a party
to the interaction.
It is interesting to see how such incidents
confront you and how you need to make peace with them, at least from your side.
You are not responsible for the emotions or decisions of others. You can only
clean up your slate. And that's what should be done. When things and people
stop affecting you is when you are on your way to real freedom.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday 5 October 2017
Writing and sharing
Writing and sharing is such a cleansing and
elevating experience! Each time I write, I add a new thought to my own thought
bank. Something to chew on. Like, wow! I have unearthed another aspect, another
angle, deepening my understanding that much more.
After a while, it tends to become an
addiction. There is always an excitement before developing a thought. Like,
what will I discover next?
Thoughts being the prime energy, this
energy expands into new horizons as we write, think and write again. Every
spoken word, every line read somewhere…just about everything is available for
thought application if there is enough awareness and interest.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Regressive
A very positive way to look at life and its
unfolding. The dice turns regularly even in a dice game. But the two situations
are so different!
The dice game is happening for a while only
and on the outside. Externally. Life situations have each of us at the core. It
is very difficult to externalize situations as if they are happening to someone
else. We can smile sportingly if we lose a game like Ludo or Snakes &
Ladders and move on. But can we equally smile away losing in real life circumstances?
Failure becomes the repeated theme of our minds. And moving on a completely
unavailable option to the mind at that point.
What this post says is to understand that
every throw of the dice in life, whether "1" or "6" is
designed to teach something. And a lesson learnt is certainly a step forward.
When people talk of being
"regressive", it only means lessons are unlearnt and repeated
negative patterns established.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Physical level
All our lives we try and try and try...to
grow and grow and grow...
We run to every opportunity there is...for
healing. Different methods, a rehash of similar methods, meditation camps,
workshops, tarot cards, astrology, angels, pranayama, pranic healing, reiki, hypnotherapy...etc....
And once you have been everywhere, you
realize that nothing really changes if you don't change yourself through self
practice. At that stage, you feel you have read enough, listened enough,
imbibed enough. And now it is time to experience. This is perhaps the starting
point for change. And this is what is the most significant landmark in your
life. Whatever else you may do with your life on the physical level.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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