Power To Face

Power isn’t just a big force that comes. Power comes from understanding myself. I need time to look at my thoughts, feelings, emotions, words, actions. So I acknowledge worries, negative energy patterns, fears, and the way that I blame others for my bad feelings and misfortunes.

To see this clearly, I need to feel supported. I sit quietly, think of myself as a soul, and also feel the company of the divine, a pure and peaceful soul. I feel safe and ready to be honest with myself.

Transcript

Okay welcome,

I'm Shanti,

This is Rose from Brahma Kamaris in Glasgow.

Welcome to Soul to Soul and we're now going to look at the power to face.

For Madura yoga we see that there's eight powers to practice,

Some of us will practice these.

And time to time we take a particular power and have a really good look at it.

Everyone wants to be powerful but power isn't what we think in a physical way,

We think there's like a big power like electricity,

Like a big force.

It isn't just a big force that comes.

We're looking at soul power.

Soul power develops from the soul,

Power in the soul and power in the soul comes from understanding,

From understanding many things but also from understanding myself.

If I look at my thoughts and my feelings and my words and my actions I will begin to acknowledge that I have worries and negative thoughts,

Fears and I might even observe the way that I blame different situations and other people for my bad feelings and my misfortunes.

First of all I would question myself and say what do I do,

Why do I think that,

Why do I have these worries and negative thoughts etc,

Why do I blame all of these feelings that come through me on other things and I would say the reason is,

And this is good,

It's a good start,

It's because inside myself I am good.

Each and every one of us have such goodness inside and slowly,

Slowly,

Slowly we've lost sight of that inside goodness that belongs to me,

Real goodness,

We might have physical goodness that we think is good but the energy of goodness,

That understanding the self as a beautiful soul,

That slowly,

Slowly disappeared from the surface of my thinking and because of that but somehow inside because it's the truth I know it's there somehow deep inside so when something comes it's going to be my fault,

I can't take it that it's my fault so I have to look for something to blame and I blame it on something that's round about me and then I say it was because of this or because of that.

So if I start with this part to face and look at myself,

And what I want to do is I want to truly look at myself to see what kind of energy patterns I have that are causing me worries,

Fearfulness,

Negative thoughts,

Bad feelings and feeling that I have a lot of misfortune and what I think is causing all these things,

If I look at all this so as to know what kind of energy is in me,

Keep disrupting and causing me fear and worry because everything will be fine when everything's going fine but the minute something changes that I don't like or the minute something new that I'm not sure of comes on the scene I may find my apprehensions come back and when that happens I start to worry and think what could it be it must be this it can't be that it must be this I wonder what let me see and I would spend a huge part of my time looking at energy patterns that are causing me concern I wouldn't be looking at me the real me I wouldn't even be spending so much time in meditation or if I did I'd be looking in the wrong way still in body consciousness maybe so to clearly see myself I need support but first I have to have looked at the energy patterns that I want to check so I have to use the power to face sit down determined to do this and have a look at these fears and worries and the blaming of others and situations and things that create me a lot of despair and bad feelings and feelings of misfortune concerning situations and others I have to be honest with myself and if I clearly see myself I will also see that I need support if I'm going to go further with this I am a soul and I'm a naturally peaceful being I want to be tranquil and peaceful and so I can then remember that there is another soul the divine energy and I could invite that energy just to support me on this journey of facing those thoughts that make me unhappy and I could venture into seeing myself more honestly so that would be how I would start and then because I've looked at the energies that caused me concern I can move on because from there I want to finish those energies I want the power to pack up I want to finish worrying fears and remove the defenses that I've built the feelings that make me feel that others are my enemies so how can I ever have good wishes for anybody how could I ever have good wishes for myself how can I ever feel I'm getting stronger and clearer more peaceful if I still feel I have so many enemies and are they truly my enemies if I feel I don't want to live like this I need to be free this is like a relief for the soul to dissolve the blame and to find happiness again positive qualities now this is a work in progress it's like a spring cleaning and returning to the real me and then I feel I'm actually less afraid because I've faced something and now to the best of my ability I'm doing my best to pack up these energies I can feel also that sense of humor can start to come when I see oh silly we Billy you've really got carried away there and I can choose calm thoughts I can relax I'm having authentic wish to bring benefit to everybody everybody I've had these feelings against I've not been able to have good wishes for because it's one thing to say good wishes good wishes good wishes or saying good wishes but what are the good wishes and from my experience I would see this they have really good wishes I will see some good qualities in a soul everyone has good qualities something even someone who I think was my bitter enemy I've seen me sitting and saying what can I do here and then I would say well they are actually very clever and they're actually very strong and then I could it starts to go on it let's say actually quite kind and actually you know they're good at this and actually that there's quite good at something else and actually they keep going and you know before you know it you've got a whole load of virtues for the one that was really you felt was giving you a hard time but you were giving yourself a hard time and unfortunately you were using that one to blame for giving you a hard time which is not very auspicious so when I relax and have authentic wishes to bring benefit to all I can go beyond selfish motives such as pleasing myself please myself what about me what about me when I start to think like this I can become unique in today's world very few people are able to have the courage to start to do these things and feel really feel feelings the well-being and love emerge from their thoughts and we have a saying in Rancho guys you know if someone is really harsh with me garland them with virtues or show them with flowers so to garland someone with virtues is to do your best to see their good points even if they're hard to find that they're there even just to say well they're very determined and they're very very powerful at least you started and from then I'm sure you'll find that you'll see something they do that is special and you'll keep going and there's a there's a law of energy but if I can manage to see some positive traits in everyone no matter what they're like the rule of energy is that effect on them it does affect them you might not see it because we're looking through the eyes of the soul we're not seeing a physical enactment here but that energy will touch the soul and if that one was playing a role of being a bit of an awkward person for many others wouldn't just be for the self well very few people would have these good wishes for them and they would feel the force of those good wishes and the rule of energy is that if I do something to someone I will feel the result to that back so if I kick someone or pull someone down I will feel the result of it which is why I can feel bad for having bad wishes when I have bad wishes I will feel so bad myself and I don't know why because it's other people I'm having bad wishes first so why am I feeling so bad but I will feel terrible because the result of my bad wishes will come to me so there you go now the opposite if I start to have really good wishes for those that are really awkward for me or for everybody not just the awkward people well the results of these good wishes will come back to me and I'll start to feel quite light-hearted as if someone's giving me a good wishes but my own good wishes will come back to me so it's a very good exchange and it's an offering of generous vision and it creates a good soul connection and the law of energy says that this soul connection of goodness not the ones that are your enemy you'll have turned your enemies into friends against their conscious wish and that will go on for a long long time in Raja we believe in birth after birth after birth but you don't have to believe that but it will go on for birth after birth after birth so this creates a good soul connection and it's like an energy fingerprint it's like your thoughts have touched their soul so these thoughts that have touched their soul comes back to touch your soul so you become very similar there's certain areas you won't be completely the same as each other but there'll be areas in which you're very similar so to remember that we are all souls and we come from this old world and also her brothers okay so I think that there's some questions coming for me could you say something about laziness I find when I check myself it's kind of a form of laziness when I blame others if I don't have a good feeling inside I look outside for a reason what is the laziness connected with the late you want to see what was the laziness when I have a bad feeling inside me I instantly look outside to find a reason to blame it on the weather or the government or the person next to me it's become a really huge habit to look outside for everything because we've become body conscious and we look for everything with you always such a rotten day or oh because that didn't happen or oh but and it takes a little bit of not being lazy a bit of making a decision that's another power of the soul to sit quietly and think about it what was the reason for that did that person really hurt me or am I blaming them for no reason at all and it when I think like that I can feel ashamed of myself I have to say that I've been blaming us so for maybe for years for something that I haven't actually done and then the blame of that's come back to me and made me absolutely determined that definitely that soul is causing me a problem can you see how that works because as I blame them it comes back and then that makes it definite that that soul has been causing me a problem because I feel it more strongly and then if I feel it more strongly and I keep going down that track I'm blaming them again worse and they'll come back to me again and again so no wonder we're ending up really sad and traumatized worried or negative thoughts and fears and and this actually creates absolute terror in the soul and if any of you listening can realize that the fear when fear comes it is dreadful it's like you don't know we out you could be looking always and thinking oh my goodness what is this and we give it all sorts of names under different banners and it isn't really that there's nothing wrong with our health there's nothing wrong with our mental health it's that we're not thinking in the correct way and we keep giving out these blames which are coming back you could say to haunt us almost and it makes things heavier and heavier and heavier then we think it's us that's having a problem and it is us because it's us that's created it but it's not as we think if that makes sense and I can soon correct that by sitting and being determined I'm not going down that track but I do need the support of the Supreme Soul in this I can't do this by myself okay so yeah that was my next question could you say something about that you said I can invite the divine to assist me yeah so how do I do that how do I invite the divine I'll tell you what I do I would just sit with the topic that I'm thinking about this and and have a few minutes meditation and in my mind I'd say I'm so concerned about the way I think I'm concerned because I feel worried you know I'm concerned because I'm blaming others for this and that and I want to put it right and that's why I'm going to look at how to destroy these negative energies in myself so I'm telling you so as you can come with me and and oversee it and and give me assistance give me that extra power of that it's needed that's lovely so it's a very natural yeah yeah yeah yeah you also create a nice picture of a garland of flowers or showering some with flowers so you can play with the ideas as well you create visuals in your mind to help you remember well you can there's lots of saying and put the hand in Indian if someone becomes forceful with you share them with flowers and that means keep telling them nice things about themselves so that they're ashamed to be shouting at you so in a very practical way you'd say oh gosh you are gosh I never thought you would be saying that to me no I do apologize and you're so lovely and if I hurt your feelings and you have to be a bit humble shower them with flowers but the other thing is this and they have a thing on the path of devotion where they put garlands around people's necks and I have had a garland literally put around my neck which was their huge roses fresh and the smell of Indian roses is something to be believed they really do smell of roses and those cool on a warm hot day the coolness of these huge blossoms which they've had in water up until the time they put around your neck and the smell of that fragrance and they put them around your neck that's supposed to be you garlanded with virtues so I started thinking of what it was like to have that garland around your neck of roses rose flowers fresh fragrant and thinking that that's a quite an easy way and just taking garland someone with virtues so think of them as cool and fresh and fragrant because in their natural state everyone is beautiful everyone is cool and fresh and fragrant and it's a nice image the image of the rose flowers okay and just finally and you've mentioned as well the importance of when I'm dealing with all of the negativity and stopping the blame I need a little bit of humor with myself and you said I can laugh at myself and say I'm a wee silly Billy and also maybe even with others too because I know sometimes if I've not been at my absolute most virtuous sometimes you'll say something like okay goddess yeah actually that's a good thing to say with to yourself even but even to others if they're really annoying you in a light way that could bring it because it gives them a wee shock if you say something really beautiful to them and they're calling you all the names of the day so and also to yourself if you're thinking a lot of rubbish and then you stop you say yourself okay oh so conscious sister you're doing wonderfully well here if you really want that vision to really want to keep thinking that so and give yourself and have a laugh I have to say I can laugh quite a lot during the day I've been known to Marlin's nodding her head she knows she hears me laughing and it's usually when I've seen myself could have done better kind of thing and I pull myself up and I have a wee laugh I think oh gosh that was a near thing okay thank you and now we're gonna have a couple of minutes this is how to go into meditation to look at these things so sit in stillness concentrate your mind on being the soul and then if you're a soul it's easier to think that there is a support to define so so I think of that divine one and I would say to that divine one this is what I'm going to do and I know I don't ask for the support because that's so it always remind me that they're always there to give support but I would say I'm looking forward to your support and I know you'll be supporting me and I really do want to sort this out because I don't want to keep creating bad energy patterns or karmas anymore I want to start really bringing useful energies into the self over and over to use throughout the day and to feel the souls don't deserve everyone's been on a journey the last thing they need is me to be judging their journey and the last thing they need is me to be negative about them or around them so because I'm sincere I know that I will definitely get the help of that highest soul and so I see myself as peaceful and I see whoever or whatever the whole world give out good vibrations because they'll be souls that I don't even know that I have wounded with my thoughts so with a feeling of humility and love closeness and sincerity I send out peaceful vibrations into the world feelings of peace and love trust harmony and belonging because we all belong together through this meditation we can feel lighter and lighter lightness gives us resilience and strength power whereas the opposite takes all that away I feel supported empowered and loved and happiness grows I'm chanting you

Reviews

A gentle and candid meditation. I especially loved the message about the floral garland. Thank you so much and Namaste.