Here are some points I use. You can review them see if you can use them:
General direction of my
living:
So far I have learnt from different
religions and Brahma Kumaris, and following is gist of the points. Only reading these points may not be able to
give you a lot. To improve your living
and to obtain more happiness, you should watch DVD series like Self Management,
Happiness Unlimited, Going Beyond and Being Bliss by sister Shivani.
I am a soul who is residing
in my body. Purpose of this life is to
interact with other souls with my original qualities, like Happiness, Love, Bliss,
Knowledge / Truth, Peace, Purity, Power / Strength.
Our soul is energy and
comprises of mind, intellect and sanskars.
Our thoughts generate feelings, attitudes, plans, which generate actions,
then sanskars, then personalities and thereby our destiny. Our all thoughts generate positive or
negative energies, which either add or subtract from the energies of our
soul. We should try to generate only
positive energies. Helping someone
generates positive energy. Any time we
are upset or angry, it creates negative energy.
If we understand that every one is CORRECT the way they react (at least
from their own views), we can eliminate angers from our life. We should strive to bring out only positivity
in ourselves as well as in others. We
should not judge anyone because we cannot completely understand what he or she
is going thru.
Self-respect / self-esteem,
self-control and self-confidence are good.
Ahankar is bad. Anger gets
generated mainly from Ahankar. If some one has removed Ahankar from his/her
life, that person will seldom get angry.
Responsibility = Ability to
Respond.
My first responsibility is for
myself to stay stable, then for family, then for all other works in the
world. I understand that outside world
can act in any way, but my response is always in my control. The happiness or sorrow in me is created only
by my own thoughts. If any one becomes
happy or sad because of others and outside situations, has given away his
switch of happiness to others.
We should not confuse body comforts
with happiness. We can obtain unlimited happiness
only from the things that are directly in our control. We should try to understand which things are in
our control and any thing which is not in our control, we should never try to
change it. The direction of our journey
is in our control and destination is not.
Any thing outside of us is not in our control. Some one, who thinks he will obtain happiness
after achieving a goal, will not get unlimited happiness. Unlimited happiness will be created when we
happily keep doing our jobs.
Karmic Rules:
I have made these rules for
me. You should think about them and
modify them as your thinking directs you.
I am a soul which came to
take part of the process of living in a body, interact with other similar
bodies, leave the body when time comes and again take up another body and keep
repeating this cycle for quite long time.
When I took the very first body, I came with a perfect score and I had
no positive or negative destiny. During
my successive body cycles, I kept doing positive and negative thoughts and
actions, which kept creating my destinies for next cycles and also kept
modifying my sanskars.
When I took my present body,
I brought my sanskars and my all the previous karmic accounts with me. The destiny created by my previous karmic
accounts is the reason for whatever came in my life. Similarly, the future things to come will be
because of my previous karmas and the karmas I will be doing now.
Important point to know is
that what ever karmas I have done so far, have already created my destiny, but
I have the option to start modifying my destiny by changing my karmas now.