It's all about YOU this Valentine's day!

Ahoy folks!

It's been a while since I performed the live experiment (which I claimed could make - or - break your life.)

Just to remind you, in the experiment where any object is burnt by focusing the sun's rays on it through a magnifying glass:
Replace the magnifying glass with your mind;
Replace the paper/leaf with an object or anything that you crave for or absolutely detest, could be something positive or negative, conflicting or pleasing, anything;
Replace the sun with your thoughts which in a sense is energy;
But keep you as YOU only...

Now that you have a gist of how the experiment applies to your life, it would be great to know how you can really get the desired results and score a 10 on 10 (if someone were to grade you for it.) And as I mentioned in the last post, it boils down to YOU!

So,
Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? What am I doing here? Why am I doing it? What do I want to do with my life? Why is life this way? Why is it not that way? Why me?

These are just some questions that I have asked myself and I'm sure many of you must have asked yourselves too. In fact, for the last post (the experiment), a friend raised a question: 'Why is life unfair to some and overly fair to others?'

According to me, there are 2 ways of looking at it:
1. Life happens to you or
2. You create your life.

If you believe in point 1, then it doesn't matter what you think because all the instances and happenings in your life would be attributed to destiny (which again is a topic very close to my heart and will be exploring it in detail soon)

However, if you vouch for point 2, then it's a matter of thought power and action which is shaping your life every minute.

So how can life be more fair to you? How can you start the process for creating a wonderful life for yourself?

Being Valentine's day, I'm sure everyone is busy sending out sms's, greeting cards, gifts etc to others to express their feelings and love.
Good.
Any sort of love expressed is good because it is a positive feeling which is beneficial for the lover and the loved.

But in all this hush-hush, have you ever stopped by to spare a moment for your own self?
Though it may sound obscure, but have you ever loved yourself?

Unlikely.
This is because as always, we never thought it was important or it never occurred to us at all.
Knock-knock.... it's very very important and the process of creating a wonderful life for yourself begins with you loving yourself and all that you have! Only when you love yourself will you be able to love others and appreciate all the things that life has to offer.

I mentioned above, 'any sort of love expressed is good because it is a positive feeling which is beneficial for the lover and the loved'. The positive power is thus multiplied if you love yourself!
Spare a moment for yourself now and appreciate all the good things that have happened to you and the way you have developed. Praise yourself and feel proud of all that's good about you or all the great things you've done. Look into a mirror and smile. Feel good, feel loved!

So this Valentine's day, shed all your inhibitions and simply love yourself. It's not funny to do so, really!

In the next post, we will take one very important action step to make life better instantly. I'd like to hear from you on how it felt to be loved (by yourself)...
And before I end,
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!

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Watch out- 'This experiment can make - or - break your life!!'

Greetings!

So, did you just 'be'? Even for a while?
Haha.... For those of you who are wondering at this abrupt start can read the previous post by clicking here.
For those who have already read it & still haven't tried out 'just being' please give it a shot soon.

Getting back to the topic: 'This experiment can make you - or - break you!' I've been a Science student and will write in true Journal Fashion.

APPARATUS: A Magnifying glass, a paper/ leaf, the sun and you.

EXPERIMENT: Take a magnifying glass (one which has that round glass lens at the top and a lollypop type handle at the bottom, got it?) and hold it. Look through it and you will notice that things are out of focus and hazy.
Adjust it at a suitable distance from your eyes and bingo: you get a clear magnified image of the object you focused on. Now take a paper or a leaf and focus the sun's rays on it such that you get a small, bright yellowish spot on the paper/leaf. Give it some time and you see things go black. Smoke appears and you might end up burning a hole through the object. You want the real hibbie-jibbies, try focusing the sun's rays on your hand...not for too long off-course!

OBSERVATIONS: As the sun's rays converge on the object, there is focus of tremendous amount of heat, enough to burn a hole. When you look at objects by focusing the lens on them, their image converges to form a clear picture on your retina giving you a clear picture..

CONCLUSION: The Magnifying Glass is a Magnificent instrument with a variety of uses.

TEACHER'S REMARKS: The title of this post needs correction. The correct title is- 'THE EXPERIMENT THAT CAN MAKE YOU - or - BURN YOU!'
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Yeah folks, we all are performing this experiment every single moment & either getting made or getting burnt. It's happening all the time & yet we don't realize it. Still don't get it?
No problem.

In the above experiment,
Replace the magnifying glass with your mind;
Replace the paper/leaf with an object or anything that you crave for or absolutely detest, could be something positive or negative, conflicting or pleasing, anything;
Replace the sun with your thoughts which in a sense is energy;
But keep you as YOU only...

Ringing any bells??? You bet...

You look at everything, attach objectivity and reason out stuff with the most powerful magnifying glass- your mind. Just like different lenses have different optical strength's, each one of us has a unique mind which is different from other minds courtesy our up-bringing, our past conditioning, our knowledge & skills and various other factors.
As a result, people have different mindsets and tonne's of ways of looking at life & facing situations that form part of life. (Just like the famous adage- 'the glass is either half empty or half full')

However, the basic purpose of the magnifying glass is- 'expand that which is focused upon' and your mind being just like a lens- 'expands everything that it focuses on!'
This simply happens because your thoughts (energy) positive or negative, good or bad, are converged by your mind on the object or thing or circumstance or absolutely anything you crave for or have aversion against. As I said- WHAT YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS and hence you get more and more of those things into your life. If you focus your thoughts on good, positive things, you will be able to see a good picture which will MAKE your life in the way you want.
However, if the power of your thoughts (burning like the sun's scorching heat) are focused on negative or self-detrimental issues, then god bless you, you will BURN!

Ponder over this thought and you will realize that 'its worth its weight in platinum!'

If your thinking has done good for you till now, then really, GOOD FOR YOU!
But what if you've already done enough damage to yourself by negative thinking?
Well, there's a way out and the answer lies with the last apparatus- YOU!

Tooo much of a good article ain't good so you'll have to wait for the next article where I talk about the powerful- YOU and how you can direct your 'thought ray's' to creating the picture of your dreams! Before I give you that, I need you to help me out by 'focusing' your mouse pointer on the 'tell-a-friend' icon below and 'expanding' the reach of this article and this blog to your friends. Do this if you want to spread this thought. Do this if this article got you thinking. It only takes a while! Thanks.

The next few posts will explore this 'life-experiment' further so hold on till then. In the mean time, I'd like to know your comments on this experiment.

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Howdy, Suckers. Take note…

First thing anyone reading the title would say ‘why sucker?' or ‘what can you note anyways?' Valid questions I must admit. And I shall try to throw some fresh perspective to this sucker.

You walk into a restaurant/pub/bar or whatever place you desire. You look at the menu and order for your drink. After some time, the waiter gets you that gleaming liquid which might help in making your wallet lighter, but that does not deter you. Your pricey drink comes with a humble straw whose primary job is ‘to suck.' Straws are of various shapes, sizes, colors, materials, etc but they have two ends. You have the liberty to choose the drink you want to suck through the straw. You move your straw from drink to drink (if there are others on the table) and try to see if there are other drinks better than yours. At times, you suck directly from another person's straw. Most times, you get drunk and get lost in the ecstasy. You have options when it comes to the choice of your drink and the pleasure you derive from it but no one would bother changing a straw!

So what's the big deal about the straw? And why talk about it?

Because the straw has a huge impact on the kind of individuals we are & the lives that we live. Simple.

Baffled! Confused!
So was I until I let the sucker inside me talk to the sucker in my drink.

The straw is analogous to our minds. We enter this world with one and we leave this world with the same one. Throughout the journey of life, we condition it in ways which are acceptable or comfortable to us. Just like the suckers (you and me) use the straw to suck in the drink of our choice, the intellect (the sucker) uses the mind to suck in circumstances, consequences and effects from the surroundings into our bodies.

If you like a drink, you drink more. If you don't like a drink, you might even spit it out. Similarly, pleasant situations/ events draw us more towards them. But when it comes to an undesirable event, we suck & repent as spitting it out isn't an option. We only have to learn from the mistake.
Sometimes we also use some other persons mind (straw) to base our judgements.A unique situation arises when you get so heavily drunk that you don't even realize what or how much you suck in. There are instances in life when your mind is so badly cluttered/ flustered/ befuddled & out of control that you behave like a straw with a suction pump on one end and go on slurping anything from anywhere and at anytime without realizing what's happening. This is a garbage dump situation. This is where we are lost and our intellect takes us for a ride. This is where we infuse negative circumstances into our lives without realizing the harmful effects of our uncontrolled sucking. Remember, spitting is really not an option then. That's when you puke.

We train our intellect to guide our minds in the right direction but circumstances are so tempting that we lose control. The suction pump within us attracts and sucks in all that we think about or talk about or crib about. Also we move from event to event in life and base our judgements on our intellects perceptions just like we move from drink to drink. We may think something is right while something is wrong. But the reality is that there's nothing right and there's nothing wrong when it comes to life. Everyone wants to change the world but no one wants to change their way of looking at the world.

The straw tells us to look before we leap and suck in only those events into our lives that are beneficial to us. For this, we need to be aware at all times and keep our conscience alert and alive.

The bottomline is that I suck! You suck! In fact, we all suck....BIG TIME! And the worst part is we suck without even realizing! So please realize and avoid getting drunk and losing it.

People say ‘mind your tongue, it's in a wet place and likely to slip.'I say ‘Mind your straw. It will take care of your tongue too!'

17-12-08