Powers of your Subconscious Mind - Positive thinking

Hello,

Yesterday night I finished reading "The Powers of your Subconscious Mind".

As I have said earlier, it is a good book and every chapter tries to reinforce the message that the subconcious controls the conscious and therefore the effort should be create the subconscious that we want.

There are also chapters which basically emphasize our ability to attract to us our fate and fortune.

I have been a believer in astrology and palmistry and I have actually seen lines appear on my palm indicating events in my life.

Just recently I had seen a small line appear almost on the fate line. I became worried as any cut or island on the fate line is considered bad. However, I was in Jaipur so I went to my palmist and he asked me not to worry as that indicated a new source of recognition for me. Now this guy has no idea about what I do for my living and entertainment but he was able to see the publication of my story in "The shrinking Woman & other Stories" much before it actually happened.

When I asked him next as to why the line had appeared all of a sudden he said that it was through my subconscious desire to get the story published. This guy had no idea that I was trying very hard to get my story published.

In another incident I remember how the subconscious affect the future was when long ago we had a family function in which my mother was deeply involved. She was enjoying the company of all relatives and as the host she was working extra hard.

People would tell her that she should not work so hard as she was not very healthy and that there were possibilities of her falling sick and not being able to enjoy the event. Without giving it a thought she would time and again give the same reply: "I will fall sick when the event is over."

Believe it or not she actually did fall sick when the event got over.

After I started reading "The Powers of the Subconscious Mind", which was given to me by my friend I tried to put into practise what I was reading. I started thinking of a publisher appraoching me for a story. I repeated this thought every night. After just a week I got an email from a publisher asking me to contribute in a book to be published. This, to people who are not willing to believe in such things, is just a coincidence but for me it is reaffirmation of a belief that I have had since long.

The Subconscious mind is actually very powerful. In Durga Shaptasati, the 700 odd verses written in praise of Goddess Durga, there are several chapters and verses that appear to look as repetitions when we invoke all the possible avtars of Durga Ma and seek riches and fame. This I now realize is the same hammering of the idea into your subconsciuos. By repeating it time and again our subconscious is made aware of our requirements and it then starts directing the conscious mind to work in that direction.

If you are ready to give it a chance try it for a small thing and see how well it works if you have imagined how it will work out in advance.

Did you miss what God wanted to tell you

Hello,

I came across a wonderful story which illustrates how we can miss God's message because we are short sighted.

How anger can blind us and how sometimes we are too late in realizing our mistakes.

Read this short story to find out:

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car.

Finally, on the morning of his graduation his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Holy Qur'an.

Angrily, he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Holy Qur'an?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy book. He never contacted his father again for long long time.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him.

He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care things. When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and saw the still new Holy Qur'an, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Holy Qur'an and began to turn the pages. As he Read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope taped behind the Holy Qur'an. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss GOD blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? It does not matter what religion you belong to... the message is for everyone.

Best regards,

Manoj

POSITIVE THINKING - FORGOTTEN LESSONS

As I was going through the second chapter I came across several lessons we have been taught in our childhood and youth which we forget once we get into the hurly burly professional arena.

'Think good and Good follows'.
I remember that when ever we used to talk about something going wrong like 'the train may be late', or 'he will loose if he clowns around like this' we would find someone telling us to say good thing only "Shubh Shubh Bolo" they would say in Hindi which translates to "Good Good say".

Similarly the book says 'the subconscious mind does not differentiate between what to accept and what not to. The subconscious mind takes in whatever you convey and then starts working towards it. Therefore there should not be any negative thoughts.'
When we were young I have heard my mother and grandmother tell me several times that I should careful about what I say. It was like when I used to fool around and tell them that I would fail in class that year, they would tell me that 'Goddess Saraswati, the Godess of Wisdom, Knowledge and truth resides on the tongue of every human for a few moments every day and the utterance of that moment will always happen. As we are not aware of her choosing our tongue we should be careful about what we say as any negative thoght also has the likelyhood of being spoken at that very instance.'

Notice how similar are the teachings of the book to what is a daily life occourance in India.

Even while praying we notice that the prayers have positive requests. Give me wealth, give me good health, keep my family safe.

Therefore if we combine ancient wisdom and messages from prayers we will automatically behave in a manner that results in positive thinking.

Try it and see the changes around you.

Best wishes,
Manoj

POSITIVE THINKING - PRAYERS HELP YOU FOCUS

Hello,

After my last post where I have posed the question of what needs to be done when God does not seem to listen and when you surrounded by troubles, I have started reading a book called "The Power of your subconscious mind" by Dr. Joseph Murray.

I made interesting discoveries in the first few pages of the book and these in some way give an answer to the question posed by me.

If you sow thorns will you gather grapes? If you sow thistles will you harvest figs? The book asks. These have been dinned into our heads in childhood but somehow we have always managed to forget.

The Book says "Every thought is a cause and every condition is an effect."

People are always living in the world without not realizing that the world within creates the world without. This is what an individual has sole control over and it is seen that most of the times people are hammering at conditions and circumstances without bothering to look at the causes. To remove discord, confusion, lack of opportunities, limitations in life we need to remove the negative thoughts that create these conditions.

I have had personal experience on this issue and know that it actually works. When I had come to Kuwait, in the beginning I had taken up a job at a salary which looked very handsome at that instant. However, later this salary appeared puny and inadequate to meet the family requirements. The condition and circumstances were clearly tough and I remained sullen for months together. Then I started looking to the cause. I started addressing the cause - a change of job. Believe it or not I always thought that i will get the new job and increase in salary I was looking for.

I kept telling myself that the next job will make the conditions better. I got the interview call almost immediately after I send my resume directly to the Head of the Division in the Bank I am now working. The interview went off well and I was soon into my new job with a comfortable salary.

I have several other personal examples and examples of people close to me where getting a grip of the situation and focussing energies within has helped in success.

Let the Big Me (subconscious mind) be flooded with positive thoughts so that it can prevail over the Little Me (Conscious mind) and bring peace and harmony in your life.

Prayers work wonders in sowing positive thoughts. When we pray we demand that something good happens in your life. You ask for good health, good relationships, good jobs, wealth and when the demand is repeated again and again it starts working on our conscious mind which then starts thinking in a way that is in sync with our subconscious.

Best wishes,

Manoj

Loosing Faith

Hello,

A friend of mine is loosing faith.

During the last few months she has been going from one tragedy to another.

It started with her father becoming seriously ill and then after creating a false hope of recovery he finally succumbed to Cancer.
She had just about recovered from the loss of a parent when her husband lost his job.
If this was not enough, she was once again shocked by the news that her younger sister is also suffering from Cancer.
Finally, she recently had a fall and has hurt her back so badly that it has affected her eyesight and concentration.
To top it all, her husband has found it an appropriate time to go on a vacation and calls her from there saying that he is enjoying the weather in a far away place.
This poor lady is handling her job, her two kids and the households chores all alone and although she is strong, attached to her husband, loving to her kids and devoted to Allah, she is loosing faith.

She is a dear friend and although she is getting some support at work from her colleagues, the absence of her husband at such a critical juncture is almost the last straw on the camel's back.

This is real test of faith and I want to see how God helps her.

My prayers are with her.

Manoj

lessons from Koran

Hello,

Lesson from Koran:
{Keep your covenant; and I will be true to My covenant with you...} [2:40].

The mention of “covenant” has a particular signification. There is a covenant between Allah, the most exalted, the creator and man, the created. This covenant states that Allah would give man whatever he needs in this life to be rewarded according to his deeds: {Those who say: “Our Lord is Allah” and take the right path to Him}. [Fussilat: 30].

{Keep your covenant, and I will be true to My covenant with you}.
Interpretors of the koran say that this shows that Allah doesn’t only elevate man to a high rank of humanity but most importantly it shows that Allah, the most exalted, considers man a mindful being with free will and free choice in spite of the absolute truth that Allah gives man his existence and that He has the power to terminate this existence. Allah, the most exalted, doesn’t ignore man but guides him and to practice his humanity properly. Thus, we are God’s creation of an absolute humanity.

Although God, the most exalted, has made us from nothing, and although he is the generator of our existence, he doesn’t consider us his slaves but His beings. Therefore, he made a covenant with man, with us, and gave us the freedom to choose our relation with Him and to choose or destiny as well.

{Say: This is the truth from your Lord. Let him who will believe in it and him who will deny it}. [The cave 29], and:
{whoever does an atom’s weight of good shall see it, and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil shall see it also}. [Al –Zulzula 7-8].

Allah, the most exalted, calls upon us to behave in this life as we wish, but at the same time He states that our behaviors and attitudes would determine our destiny. For this reason, when God, the most exalted, says that he made a covenant with us, He means that He profoundly respects us and assures us our humanity. God orders us to be free beings provided that our freedom should be controlled against any possible deviation.

Best wishes,
Manoj

DOES GOD ACTUALLY ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS

Hello,

Have you had an experience of something happening to you/ with you after you have left it on your trust in God?

Did someone ever come and extend a helping hand when every door seemed to have closed?

Did you get a message for helping someone is distress?

These are small events of God communicating with you.

It is not necessary for someone you love to be close to you always.
You continue loving some people even when they are no longer a part of your mortal existence.

This is the feeling that should envelope you when you think of God.

God is always around. You have to feel his presence, hear his voice.

Best wishes,
Manoj

DISHONEST PRACTICES IN KUWAIT

Hello,

The financial crisis that has engulfed the world has already striken down well known names like Madoff and Stanford.

Not learning the lesson young Hazem Khalid Al-Braikan, a 37 year old Kuwaiti financier and CEO of Kuwait's Al-Raya Investment Company is alleged to have gone ahead and amassed wealth in excess of US$ 5 million from well-timed trades in the two US firms. (The charges are under investigation)

Harman shares briefly soared after several media outlets reported that a private investment firm called Arabian Peninsula Group planned to buy it at almost double its market price. The incident was similar to a phony offer for Textron in April from a United Arab Emirates-Kuwait consortium. Harman was forced to issue a statement last Monday denying it had been approached by a mysterious Gulf investor known as the Arabian Peninsula Group following a number of media reports. The company's shares tumbled sharply once the hoax was revealed.

In April, rumors and a report in a Kuwaiti newspaper that a consortium of Middle East companies was offering to buy Textron Inc. sent shares of the Providence, Rhode Island company soaring more than 50 percent in a single day. No deal for the manufacturer of Bell helicopters, Cessna jets and turf-maintenance equipment emerged, and shares plunged a few days later.

The SEC said Al-Braikan and the others "amassed positions in the one or both of the securities of the companies shortly before the bogus offers were publicized." They then sold their securities at "prices inflated by the false information to reap their illicit profits

Charges were filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 23 and a couple of days later Al-Braikan was lying dead in his room with a Colt gun in his hand and a bullet hole above his right ear.

"Suicide is unlikely," said Al-Braikan's friend who commented on online newspaper Al-Aan which reported the incident. The blogger, who remained anonymous, claimed to be Al-Braikan's close friend, indicating the deceased "was religious and rational and did not miss a prayer. He was sure of his innocence and had hired an American lawyer to follow up his case. Suicide is out of the question."

Braikan was the chief executive of Al Raya Investment, which is 10 percent owned by Citigroup Inc.

Reached by Reuters on July 25, the day before his death, Braikan declined to comment on the case."I have nothing to say. It is in the hands of the lawyers now."Hours later, he issued a statement saying he had named a US attorney to defend him, declaring: "I would like to confirm on the soundness of my legal situation."

Other defendants include Al Raya, United Gulf Bank & KAMCO, firms affiliated with senior members of Kuwait's ruling al-Sabah family and is the biggest investment firm by assets in Kuwait. They have already refuted having made any gain from trading in the shares of Harman and Textron.


Easy come Easy Go.

Be honest do not cheat,
Manoj

Everyone Loves Honesty, No One Upholds It!

Everyone Loves Honesty, No One Upholds It!

I have heard it often and I dare say from people who have mostly been the 'not upholding' kind.

Does it give us some sort of comfort when we say that 'Honesty' is no longer a virtue people are proud to possess?

Does it comfort us when we realize that we are living in a world where the majority are dishonest?

Are we satisfied when we say that we are dishonest because the world wants us to to be so?

I believe that this is exactly the case.

But why are we not taking the first step? What are we waiting for?

Best regards,

Manoj