Recharge

Recharge. Do you ever feel tired? Confused or just unmotivated? Could it be possible to recharge your energy? Energy is always needed to Re-FORM something. Entropy is a law of thermodynamics. It basically says that everything moves from order to chaos.

There’s a gradual decline into disorder.
It also applies in spirituality.
The soul loses energy over time & becomes old.
Can we find a source of pure energy or power to recharge the battery of the soul?

Transcript

I'm Shanti.

Welcome to Soul to Soul.

I'm Rose from the Brahma Kumaris in Glasgow.

And the subject we're going to talk about tonight is recharge.

So I thought we would start at the beginning of the recharge.

Why would we want to recharge?

Our original energy is peace and we have an abundance of peace and that abundance of peace gives us the power to go on our journey.

And we use that peace in all the different interactions and actions that we perform.

And that peace turns into peacelessness and to disturbance.

And when I start to look at this,

I wonder how can I recharge this peacefulness that I had and why has it changed?

It's changed because we don't know that we have all this peace and we don't know that we're forgetting that peace.

And if I don't know I have that energy of peace inside me,

I cannot use it.

And if I don't know how useful it is,

I will forget it.

So I'm starting with peace because peace is our foundation and peace opens the door to love.

And love is our interactive energy.

So peace and love are the two energies that we use,

I would say the most on our long journey.

And peace opens that door to love.

And within love it means the way I interact with others can be very helpful and can create happiness for us.

So if we were to look at ourselves at the end of our journey,

We might find that our peace has turned into a lot of disturbance.

And if I was to ask myself how loving am I in my day-to-day relationships,

I might find that I have a lot of irritation,

Annoyance,

Dislike,

Gossip,

Etc.

Don't trust someone,

Avoid someone,

All the different things.

Now relationship is very important.

We have relationships all the way down the line.

So if I was to recharge,

Is it possible that we could recharge our energy?

And energy is always needed to reform something.

I can't just say yeah I think I'll do that because I could have the thought but I need the power.

And we look at this law very briefly of entropy which is the law of thermodynamics which basically says that everything moves from order to chaos and there's a gradual decline into disorder.

And this also applies in spirituality because the soul loses energy over time and it's the soul,

The energy of the soul that becomes old.

And it means we need to find a source to recharge our energy.

So how can we find something or someone that could recharge the spiritual energy of the soul?

Can we find a source of pure energy or power to recharge the battery of the soul?

And so this is where Raja Yoga meditation becomes invaluable.

And through time the peaceful and powerful soul has become completely weakened and sad and disturbed.

And some people think that it's not possible because I'm really good and here we can think that in the old way.

And we can be in denial that a recharge is required because the physical ego takes over.

But the thing is I am not a physical being.

I'm a soul.

So it's the consciousness that begins to become recharged.

So we need that external source of a new energy and also new information is needed.

So not just energy but I need to know what it's all about.

And if I'm lucky I'll tick the box that a recharge would be useful.

And newness is not familiar and we can feel ourselves to be maybe uncomfortable.

We don't like change because it takes courage to walk against the tide.

And brave souls will think outside the box.

And if I want to go further and faster it would be wise to hang out with spiritual people.

And the main thing is to connect with the source of peace and power.

The divine.

There's one soul who does not lose peace and power.

So I need to spend time with that one to recharge the battery of I,

The soul.

Why do we lose inner power?

Because we forget.

We forget we are energy and we focus on physical.

And because of this I'm constantly losing energy and not refreshing my energy.

And do I need to understand the details of my past?

And how I lost my energy?

Do I need to know all these details?

I would think not.

I just need to know that I'm energy and the details will come enough to me for me to see them.

I'll have all the understanding.

I'll never forget my past but I don't need to go and dissect it but rather focus on the newness and freshness of my energy.

Now I need the new energy,

Not the old energy.

So not to look at how I lost it but how I've now found a method to recharge.

So how do we develop and sustain spiritual power?

How do we do this?

The method of Raja Yoga is to have meditation.

I can have meditation every morning.

That would be good.

Meditation focusing on the one beyond.

At that point try and put aside everything that's physical and try and teach yourself to focus on the point.

The point of peace and power,

Silence.

The more I think in this way the more I bring back my own power.

As I bring back my own power more and more I feel that that door to love opens and my relationships definitely take on a different sparkle.

And when I encourage that silence inside and when I think of love,

Real love,

Which is understanding,

Accepting,

Being considerate,

Then I also open another door.

I open a door to happiness and that happiness is feelings of well-being inside.

Feelings that everything's okay.

And so to reform something energy is always needed.

And so I need to look at the source of pure energy if I want to recharge the battery of the soul.

It won't just happen by magic.

And so the meditation of Raja Yoga can be very,

Very valuable.

But I have to do something you see.

I can't just think,

Well I know that.

Because I'll still just,

You know,

Not have the energy to put these good thoughts into practice.

I need the energy.

I'm a soul.

And most definitely I need a source of new energy and new information.

There is the one soul who does not lose peace and power.

And I need to spend time with that one.

And this enables me to recharge the battery of I,

The soul,

And to develop and sustain spiritual power.

I need to make a deal with myself.

We have a lot of hours in a day.

And if I can spend a little of that time bringing back my strength in meditation.

And the more I do meditation and develop and start to appreciate the change that comes into my energy,

I can develop love for myself.

But I can also start to be more loving to others.

And I can feel deep appreciation and love for the source of that strength,

The divine.

When we start to practice rational meditation we can become more light-hearted,

More confident.

And again if I want to go further and faster,

Then it's not something,

It's not a lonely journey.

It isn't really something to do alone.

It's wise to be with spiritual people.

And we've looked at how we lose our inner power.

It's very,

Very natural.

It's our journey.

We lose it because we've had a long journey and we forgot.

And we used our energy to live our lives on shanty.

So as we recharge it sounds quite simple,

The process.

I think experience for most people as well is that it's not a steady increase.

It doesn't feel like a steady increase in energy.

It feels more like a bit of a general increase but a bit of an up and down.

So it's almost like there's good days and bad days even though my efforts are the same at the same timetable,

Daily meditation,

Studying some new information,

Keeping good company and all these things.

But some days just I feel that the recharge is really working and other days it can feel like I'm not back a bit.

Why is there this up and down?

Okay,

Whatever you've practiced to recharge your energy you will never lose.

But what happens is the day comes in front.

Every day is a different day and it has different trials or tests you might say which pull and tug you in different directions.

And depending how much you have allowed yourself to be pulled and tugged,

That much you'll be more caught up in your older energy.

But if whilst that's happening,

Whilst those challenges are happening,

You remember what it is you've been doing,

That can actually help and pull you back into remembering again.

The whole thing is about remembering what your energy actually is originally and who you actually are and who the divine one is.

And whatever you do,

You haven't lost,

It's still there.

It's just getting covered by today's events.

And if we could keep remembering that and try to remember even while the events are happening,

It will feel like quite a relief.

I liked when you said it was a natural process to lose our energy.

So yeah,

It's been a long journey,

But that's just part of the natural process of life that we do lose energy.

So not to mourn that loss of energy,

But now just to think,

Well,

That was that,

And now we're onto a new section of the journey,

Which is the reclaiming of that energy back.

Yeah.

That's a nice way of seeing it.

Could you say something more about why is it now that I start to understand I've lost my energy and it's time to reclaim it?

It's a natural part of your journey because we reach a stage where we have to become not so spiritual conscious,

But more conscious of the physical world.

And it's the being,

Coming totally conscious of the physical world and totally unconscious of my spiritual self that I begin to lose my power.

So it's not that we're bad,

It's happening to everyone.

Everyone will lose their energy.

And then the challenge is for who's going to start to reclaim and recharge their energy again.

Some people will really go for it and feel such a benefit,

Others a little bit and a little bit,

But we're all different.

And again,

If we do the best we can,

But it will never be lost or lost rather.

Whatever it is we do will stay with us because it's our real energy.

And now that we've brought it back,

It's there to stay.

And you said that there can be a denial that a recharge is required and ego takes over.

So I just find in lots of areas that as a general overview,

Yes,

I can see a recharge is required.

I start the process,

But it's almost like there's millions of different sections or doorways in my energy.

And some of them I still use more ego and refuse to admit that a recharge is required.

And for me,

It's when I get upset if someone points that out in some way or that life points that out to me,

I can see where I'm still using more ego.

So could you say something about that?

Like why?

I mean,

We have to in the journey,

We just develop more and more physical consciousness.

So what's the easy way to just sort of own up and go,

Right,

I can see there's too much ego here and to work in a different way,

Look at things.

Okay,

Well,

Our physical journey was a journey where we lost our energy.

Our spiritual journey is a journey where we reclaim our energy.

Our physical journey,

We developed ego in all different ways.

We became smart,

We became clever,

We became streetwise,

We became beautiful,

We became creative,

We became musicians,

Artistic,

Whatever.

And therefore we start to look after these energies and think it makes us clever and different and unique,

And which it would.

And we're somehow very lost to let go of these things.

If anybody scratches any of these,

Oh,

It affects us.

But more and more we start to say,

Well,

Fine,

That's fine,

I can do it in a better way.

I can still be it,

I can still do it.

But let me kind of lose the irritation bit or the fearsome bit or the holding on to it or the ego that is making me terrified of losing.

I can't lose anything when I'm on my spiritual journey.

I can only lose the stuff that was causing me harm,

The stuff that made me very,

Very physically conscious.

And now I'm looking at reclaiming my spiritual consciousness,

Which is a vast upgrade.

If I could remember it,

It's a vast upgrade that I'm actually wonderful.

Wonderful.

I don't need to defend myself anymore,

But that can take time.

It's a journey,

Also a journey.

Because it can feel unfamiliar as you were saying.

Yeah,

Unfamiliar.

Yeah,

It's newness and it's like,

Oh,

I don't know about that.

But slowly,

Slowly you become reassured that it's all okay.

You're actually rather wonderful.

So we'll do a few minutes of meditation.

So bring our spiritual energy into the center of our forehead in the form of a point.

Because I am the point.

And my original nature is peace.

And the wonder of this peace is everything.

The more I can remember I'm the peaceful soul.

The more that energy develops inside me and grows and becomes a source of strength and power.

The strength and power that accumulate begins to motivate me to continue to see things differently.

To see the benefit of myself as the being of peace.

A wonderful being of peace.

I see my relationships with others through different eyes.

I want to be kind and gentle and supportive and understanding,

Loving.

It's the energy of peace that opens my eyes,

Opens my awareness,

Opens the door to love.

And then I discover that feelings of lighthearted happiness enters my consciousness.

These feelings will always stay with me because I am recharging.

I'm growing my beautiful own energy back again through my connection with the one above.

The ocean of love.

The ocean of peace.

The ocean of happiness.

Aum Shanti.

Aum Shanti.