State of Lightness

 

To reach the state of lightness of being, you have to pass through so much heaviness of being that it finally exhausts you! And finally, when you can take no more, you let it drop! You just let go! That moment, you experience that lightness, that freedom from the inflated baggage that had taken over your life.

The problem is with the mind. It holds only one thought in each moment and if not changed quickly, deepens that thought until it becomes baggage. This is more so with the baggage of negative thoughts because they are the ones that give pain and discomfort.

Each day, you train yourself to let go. Some days, you can and others are not so successful but you need to go on trying. And one day, it will clear.

Surekha Kothari

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Perspective

 

The mantra for life, I have discovered, is “that was THEN, this is NOW”.

If we reflect on our thoughts, how much of our thinking patterns come from past experiences? A maximum percentage, I would imagine.

We judge people from past experiences.

Our relationships, more often than not, are dictated by the past experiences too.

Our trust factor also comes with time, again only from the past.

Our behavior stems from early conditioning.

Our guilt comes from what we did wrong earlier.

Our lack of forgiveness is because someone has hurt us and that becomes a negative past memory.

So, the past, which is really a ghost, rules over us even though it has passed.

It is incredible that we still won’t let go. Irrational that we won’t give our present a chance. The more we read about living in the NOW, the less we actually do. The past has occupied so much space within us. It actually lives there; like the cobwebs we have no time to clean. We are so busy planting pretty fences and flowers in a garden which is full of weeds.

Popularly said, “nowhere” can be changed with a new perspective, “NOW HERE”. But our mind is here and there all the time. Never in the NOW.

Awaken, people, to what we are doing to ourselves during our life here! Improving every moment in the present, trying to clean each such moment is the only thing we can do.

As we clean, and declutter, we create new spaces to attract the energy which can change our lives and bring in what we call miracles”.

Surekha Kothari

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Purity of Intention

 There comes a time when you don’t need to prove yourself to anyone. Being yourself is the best because it simplifies YOUR existence. And basically, you need to live to improve yourself.

So, improve and prove to yourself who you are or can be. If you need to explain yourself to others again and again , you will never become steady within your own space. You will be walking out of yours and into their space. This is not productive.

So, use purity of intention and thought before you act so, you don’t need to please anyone else. If people don’t understand you, that is normal. They are not expected to, from where they are standing. So, just move on.

Surekha Kothari

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Meaningful Existence

If I could select a theme for an epidemic, it would be love and light. I have discovered that our inner light dims because we allow it to. Because we depend on the external world for happiness but invariably get disappointed. And why not? That dependency is the wrong path. There is no permanency if anything out there. We feel incomplete around people. Because we compare, react, become needy and cloud our intrinsic selves with a whole lot of unwanted , undesirable layers of futile thoughts and reactions. It is when our light is shining bright that we can envelope everything else within it, like the sun that illuminates everything it touches with its rays. We can also be like the sun. Each one of us. If we stop focusing on our body and mind and identifying with it under the spell of a mass of illusion which takes us away from our true selves. The sooner we start dwelling on such thoughts, questioning our existence and reflecting upon it all to get some sound knowledge, the better we will feel. And the quicker our worlds will change into a meaningful existence. Surekha Kothari www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com surekhakothari.wordpress.com Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Choice

 As water chips away a stone bit by bit, so do our egos get chipped away slowly, with every experience that knocks us out. Specially, when we thought WE were the doers with arrogance.

We all have been endowed with the gift of free will, but you know what ? We MUST choose the straight path of ascension. Choice is also an illusion like everything else.

And we are seeing the results of not choosing the right path. Drop all layers of mind pollution and the path will be seen shining brightly.

How do we benefit in the long run, by running away from reality ?

If we don’t climb down the ladder of our egos steadily, we could fall with a thud. Sometimes, the cussedness of personal choices is really amazing ! But, the fact is, every soul is on a journey. So, let it be. Mind your own journey. One does not go in groups to The Divine.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Conversation

There is an academic world out there which keeps your cerebral movements stimulated. Sometimes, you meet people who you can listen to for hours. And there is always so much to learn if you have an open mind during interesting conversations.

The world is such an incredible place if you observe all its features.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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Happiness

Happiness is when we are comfortable in our emotions. Things have worked out our way. People are nice. We are well. Everything is nice.

Bliss is on a higher level though when we live within our high vibrations. When nothing happening around us matters or is important to us either. When we reach that point, this state has more permanence, like when we actually reach the mountain peak that we were happy just at the thought of climbing.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Personal energy

Taking the blame heaped on you by others is not necessary. Life is complicated but we can make it simpler by just choosing happiness over conflict and drama which gets to be exhausting. It is impractical to expect anyone to understand our levels of exhaustion, and therefore, better to sweep our energy clear of anything that causes any dents in our peace even if it means keeping to oneself and saving valuable personal energy.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Journey in darkness

From small excuses to big lies is a journey in darkness with many pitfalls and no one to light a candle. Everyone makes excuses once in a while. The danger is when these excuses become frequent and become lies because the formula works each time!

But the difference between lies and truth is a big one. Truth is clear and you live by it. Lies however, need a hiding place. Truth is never “found out”. Lies ARE Truth, even if harsh, is respected. Lies are not.

So, we must bring in more awareness into ourselves and try and clean up our act, our habits which don’t really serve us in the long run, and may ruin our relationships as well.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Thought and Action

Have you noticed that our thoughts, our actions are mostly based on the expected responses? Have we thought or acted for the sake of thinking and acting? That anticipated response or the expectation of a certain kind of response is vital to our basic health. Because the result is either a “feel good” one or one that brings out our fear and insecurities.

We are so dependent on other people! Their opinions, their good will, their liking (or not) shape and even create us. Quite scary, actually, because we all believe we are independent, thinking individuals pretty much in control of our life.

Yes, we have to live amongst people, but what percentage of the self can we salvage after succumbing to all the influences?

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Educational Institution

At some stage, you realize that life is to be lived like a game. That's why they say, sports builds up character. This now winning no, now losing syndrome has to bring in the ability to take both in your stride. Isn't it?

And that's what we go through in life, now being successful and now, not much. As a young girl, I asked Mr. Vijay Merchant to write in my autograph book. And he wrote:

"It is not about how you win or lose

It is how you play the game".

And this always stayed in my mind. Truly, it is how each one of us chooses to conduct our lives that are the single most important thing. There may have been several pitfalls looking back, but you also see how you handled those and how much you learnt along the way and how far you have come. And nothing is a waste of time. Life is the largest educational Institution. You can give exams as many times as you want but hopefully, each time, the preparation will be better and better.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

SpeakingtreeBlog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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