Personal-Development

“…solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition…”
Amelia Barr

Solitude

The best prayers come from a place of solitude where one can better connect to their source. Often we spend our time immersed in outside activities, the affairs of others, and noisy distractions.

True wisdom reveals itself to those who take a few moments each day to sit in quiet reflection away from the hustle and bustle of busy thoughts and activities.

When we allow ourselves those silent solitary moments we are able to relax and connect fully with Spirit. In this calm, we are better able to seek the answers that are otherwise elusive in the outer world.
People often equate alone with loneliness. The truth is as  much as we need each other, we also need time alone, where we can connect with our soul. Time well spent alone is therapeutic and necessary and allows us to find a sense of completion that outside sources can’t fulfill. When we begin to flourish in this new sense of wholeness, we are better able to extend ourselves to others.

 If you learn to meditate you’ll discover a place inside your self where you alone can get access to and you’ll find you’re never alone and you’ll find an eternal happiness.

Love is a multi-faceted concept we as humans are ever trying to understand and express. In our society the concept of love is often limited to images of romance and sexual expression. We tend to focus our ideas of “true” love around the phenomenon of “soul mates” or “love at first sight”, and rarely depict the multi-faceted aspects of the concept of love. Love entails so much more than we often realize. It is a combination of so many powerful aspects of human nature, and isn’t easily defined or labeled as it changes and evolves constantly, just as we do.

It is a popular misconception that we must find things or another person to complete or fulfill us. The truth is the greatest love comes from within, it is a choice in any given moment, and not a condition that has to be acquired, achieved, or  manipulated. If we feel we must be loved by others to be whole, then we will never feel complete. Only self-love and all that it entails can provide this. At any time we can choose the many necessary components of this thing we label “love” : acceptance, respect, compassion, nurturing. All of these qualities and many more, are what make us whole when we first learn to give them to ourselves, otherwise we cannot possibly give them fully to others. How can one give what one doesn’t already have? Love is most powerful when it radiates and overflows from within, than when a concept of it is projected outwards. When we work on consciously manifesting love at it’s deepest levels, we find more serenity, a deeper bond with all that is. The result becomes the deepest kind of joy and prosperity.

Focus on all of the components of love. Really look at this concept. What does love mean to you? Many find this hard to answer completely. Identify what you feel is necessary to experience love more fully? When you think of the concept of love what are all the thoughts and feelings that come up?
Try to make a meditation focused on “love”. If you don’t know to meditate go to my site and see about the possibilities to learn it. Through Meditation you get to know your self, it’s not possible to love something if you don’t know it.

If you not love your self, you’re not able to love anyone else.

Acceptance:

Sometimes things are not going to go according to the plans we make. There will be disappointments, but the key to a healthy, balanced life lies in acceptance.

Acceptance, far from being complacent, is actually very liberating. Acceptance means letting go of the “victim” mentality, and acknowledging our role as leaders in our lives. It is the first stage of the healing processes of release and forgiveness. Acceptance is a necessary component of growth that keeps us from remaining stuck in the past.

Choosing acceptance over denial enables us to be more objective, opening the door to alternative solutions. It allows us to live for today, fully in the moment, with no regrets. Valid solutions are elusive when we fight life’s circumstances as opposed to empowering ourselves to manage them. What we resist persists, and in the act of letting go we attain clarity.

Happiness:

Today I want remind you to the fact that happiness is a choice and not an attainment.
Many of us tend to postpone joy.

We spend our time focusing on future plans or acquisitions believing that will be what finally brings us to that elusive goal of happiness.

Peace and joy come when we stop waiting for the next thing to come galloping over the horizon and recognize our power to choose right now - in this moment, to experience joy.

In a consumer society, it is pushed through aggressive marketing campaigns that we always need that next thing, that next “fix” to make life easier. We depend on products to make us more intelligent, more beautiful, to provide security, etc. and therefore allow us to “achieve” happiness.
The truth is happiness that is dependant upon acquiring things is fleeting and temporary. Its effects wear off quickly and leave the individual feeling empty and seeking the next “fix”.
When we attain joy through the conscious effort of choice we become empowered, and that results naturally in becoming more at peace and centered in our daily lives.

Think about:
Happiness and unhappiness are situations of our whole personality, which expresse to its self often in somatic reactions and that in a more obvious way than our conscious feeling.
The long face of a person, the unwillingness, the tiredness or the physic symptoms, like headache or more serious forms of illness, are frequently expressions of unhappiness, exactly like ”feeling good” in a physical sense, a symptom for happiness constitutes.

In reality is our body less disposed to accept lies relating to the situation of our happiness than our mind.

Joy is a conquest, probably of an interior effort, an effort of active productivity ( like personal development).
Happiness is also a conquest, predetermined from the interior productivity of men and not gifted form deities.
Happiness and joy does not only consist in the satisfaction of a psychological or physiological lack, does not consist in the elimination of tension which come up from such a lack, but accompanies every productive activity, be it thinking, feeling or any other action.

Joy and happiness has not different qualities. Theire only difference is in the measure in which joy refers to a single action, while we can say that happiness is a continue and integrated experience of joy. We can talk about joy in a plural form but about happiness only in singulars.

Happiness is the sign for that men has find his answer to the quest of existence:
the productive realization of his potentialities and in the same time to be “one” with the world and in a constant integrity of his self.
Spending his energy in a productive way grows up his potentialities, he burns his
energies without to consuming them.

Happiness is the criterion, for excellence, in the art of living, for virtue, in the interpretation which is given to it in the human ethic.
The opposite of happiness is not pain but depression, what derives from a deep sterility and unproductively.

Focus your attention on consciously choosing joy and a sense of satisfaction moment to moment. Watch your thought patterns, best to do during meditation.
When you think of joy does it feel distant to you?
Is it centered around things or other people?
Are there conditions placed on it?
Often we speak of unconditional loving, but many of us dont’ reflect on “unconditional peace” or “unconditional joy”.
Today, allow yourself to discover true happiness.
At the end of the day reflect on your discoveries in your journaling.
Try to look deep inside your self, try to recognize why are you not happy in your life.
The pathway to happiness is meditation!

Calm

Today i want speak of finding our center, the place within
our being where external conditions do not affect our true spirit.
We have all heard of the phrase “eye of the storm”, the center of
solitude and calm in the midst of the chaos of nature’s furies. 

Each of us also has a place of calm centered deep within our being,
the place at the heart of us that is always tranquil despite outer conditions.

Those who practice meditation/relaxation techniques work to
access this place of peace. Many struggle with life’s upheavals
and “storms” without knowing how to find that center which allows us to
make more informed decisions and choices, free from the whirlwinds of
thoughts and emotion.

Today’s word reminds us that mastering our world involves
finding our place of peace, that silent center that is our connection
to our source and to the Universe. True power lies in this silent
center and not in struggling against the forces of nature & external
circumstance.

Exercise:

Reflect on methods that you can use to help you find your
center. Take up a new activity that is relaxing and grounding:
breathing techniques, meditations, journaling, gardening, walking in
nature are just a few practices that can help restore a sense of
connection and inner peace.

Get more information on my site: www.meditation-and-yoga.com

As my first post on this blog I’ll make you to know a poem from a father written to his son in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling.

This poem express exactly what “personal development” does mean, as a process of evolving and developing ones own personality since:
“There is no Being; there is only a Becoming”.

My blog will treat everything about such question: What is life? What for we’re coming here to this world? What can we do to celebrate our lives? since it is the only one we have gotten.

[IF]
 
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!
–Rudyard Kipling
 

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