Rules for Eating

• Sit down peacefully to eat. Close your eyes and allow your mind to leave aside all other subjects and return to the food before you.

• Choose the fuel for rebuilding your body with care.

• Thank the universe for creating the food that will give you the energy to accomplish your goals.

• Focus on the sight, the smell, the feel and finally the taste of the food you are eating.  As you chew, be completely assured that the food is gently repairing all the cells of the body.

Happiness Traps

         Expect too much from others. 

         Not accepting yourself as you are; wanting demand too much of yourself.

         Not being content with anything.

         Feel you are not contributing.

         Not Feeling incuded.

         Play politics and being manipulative.

         Feel you cannot prevent another’s suffering (Eg mother’s pain)

         Constant craving for food.

         In a rush all the time; in a hurry. Toomuch hurry

         Excessive anger.

         Lethargy and inactivity.

         Too much tiredness.

         Ignoring others and harm the world (selfishness).

         Being too self-absorbed.

         Promising more than you can deliver

DHARMIC LIVING

Dharma is the law of right living. Unless you live by your own internal standards you can never be happy. When you bend the rules you reduce your chances for true, pure happiness. 'Flexibility is bending rules without breaking them’, proclaims a smart hoarding, showing a gymnast’s impossible stretch. It all depends on what your internal monitor will allow.

LEAVING A LEGACY

We all fear extinction. So we seek to leave a legacy that will endure, a footprint, which will leave the world a better, happier, place. To be born a man, is a privilege, let us thank the God for this gift of life.

Affirmations for Social Bonding

I have a harmonious relationship with most of the people I meet.  I am lovable and love others.

            I enjoy the pleasure and happiness of others. I am conscious of the metta bhavana (joy in the happiness of others) and consciously cultivate it.

            I look for what is positive in others.

            I consider most situations to be learning experiences.

            I make others feel comfortable.

            I am aware of the needs of others to be appreciated and I make it the basis of my relationships.

            I am sincere.

            I express negative emotions in as non-destructive a way as possible.

            I draw a magic circle around those who interact with me, to include in safety and affection all those who touch my life.

Life Enhancing Experiences

·          Receiving affirmations from significant others.

·          Going on a holiday with loved ones.

·          Enjoying nature.

·          Completing a task to your satisfaction.

·          Overcoming obstacles.

·          Being loved.

·          Doing something anonymously for others.

·          Acting courageously.

Life Destroying Experiences

·          Fear of losing your job.

• Anxiety about not being able to keep up with your peers.

• Working every day so long and so hard that you are barely able to think.

• Working in a hostile atmosphere where there is competition.

• Receiving discounts from those you love.

• Betrayal.

• Feeling trapped.

• Feeling abandoned.

Raudra (Hostility) Rasa

People with hostile personalities have five times the death rate before the age of fifty than people who are less prone to these negative emotions.  Cardiologist Cleyer Freidman suggests that time-pressure is at the core of the hostility, as is a sense of insecurity. Both fuel this feeling.