7 Steps to a Harmonious Life

Yesterday is only a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; but today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Here are seven concrete steps that you can take to bring about positive change. Based on ancient Hindu wisdom, these steps can help anyone to begin exercising their free will constructively to create a better, happier, more fulfilled life.

Remember, it can take time before a conscious mode of behavior filters into your subconscious and becomes automatic.

1. Breath

It is your breathing that gives birth to your thoughts. The breath, without which you cannot even exist, is necessary to transform an idea into a living reality. Deep breathing indicates healthy lungs, which in turn manufacture prana (प्राण ), the subtle form of breath or life force, responsible for giving you strength and energy.

2. Thought

Deep, balanced breathing “in which the cycle of inhalation and exhalation is effortless “creates a state of inner calm in which clear, objective thinking can occur. You can become more focused on the immediate issue without losing sight of the greater context.
3. Action

Once you are able to think clearly about a situation or a problem, you will know how to act. You will be able to discriminate between what you want and what you need, between attraction and love, and between what is really good for you and what is not.

4. Habit

Repeated appropriate actions create a positive habit. While these actions may require conscious effort at first, over time they become second nature.

5. Character
Habits provide the foundation of your character. Once a series of repeated actions becomes unconscious habit, you realize that you have begun to change your past tendencies.

6. Behavior

Your behavior reflects the changes in your character. Others will perceive you as wiser and more loving.

7. Circumstances

With a more positive attitude and behavior, the circumstances of your life will improve. You will find greater harmony in your work, in your personal relationships, and in your spiritual life.

When my time comes

I have been thinking for a long time about what we do in our life…we spoil our health to accumulate money through out the whole life and the same money which we accumulated in our life is being used to cure our health at the end….

We spend a great part of our childhood studying. We start by being taught in school how to become a good citizen. And finally we get the diploma that will ensure in “The position we deserve.”

We participate to the unemployment, until we find a job, through hard tests; we are accepted in the world of work. We perform a good professional carrier filled with action lies and efforts, a lot of efforts, till we fell down exhausted. But we are great professionals with our valuable market share. This keeps on passing and we select new targets. We meet the sweet heart of our life, and promise a never ending love. Dammed night couldn’t close my eyes. After passionate hugs…. and here comes a baby into our home.

We keep on advancing in the society, trying to make the best of our time. We are the stars wherever we go. And we are finally RICH. But we need some more times, to triumph completely.

Gosh ! One day they tell they can do without you. By this time you are getting crazy. You feel collapse. You lost means of communication, you realize you are cut-off from everything, now times does not pass any longer, whereas you are loosing it. You realise you’ve been living in the fog. In search of a silly target, you become a walking ghost, trying to escape your enemies. You are the only one longing for the hour to pass, till your time comes. Upon this evaluation, an idea came to my mind on how to improve my life.

I’ll take things easy, I’ll try to open my heart to my love, and I’ll listen more to the ones surrounding me, I’ll save more time to spend it with my friends. I’ll try to travel more, no karaoke I’d never done, but I believe I’ll sing more, I’ll go more time to sea side. I’ll make my best to cook tasty food. I’ll join my friends warmth, a bit love more. I’ll be happier to get news from my friends, and achieve together common objectives.

I can’t be sure, but I believe it worth trying. “Well say what you want, but I am a nice guy !” I’ll co-operate clean the world from nasty people. No harm from a glass more HIC ! And I hope they won’t stop me, when my time comes.

I do not know whether it is good for everybody, but I’m sure that at least I will have had a wonderful time---which by the way is what counts more.

DON’T YOU THINK SO ?

Please have good care for your good friends. Show your friends how much you care.

HOW OUR EGO SOMETIMES MISJUDGES A PERSON
A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Harvard.
"We want to see the President "the man said softly.
"He'll be busy all day "the secretary snapped.
"We'll wait" the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president.
"May be if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave" she said to him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus."
The president wasn't touched....He was shocked. "Madam "he said, gruffly, " we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."
"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building ! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. May be he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a University ? Why don't we just start our own?"
Her husband nodded.. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, travelling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name. Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our potential good friends, employees or customers.
Remember
In our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share & grow our thought process. But because of our inner EGO we miss them forever.

It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in day to day life.
I end this beautiful story with a note:
Small people talk about others,
Average people talk about things,
Great people talk about ideas.

Emotions are a part of Life
Life is like an unsolved puzzle. No one can define what life is because it is a very complex thing.

Life is something that makes you happy and proud at times and makes you feel so low at times that you say to yourself, "Why was I born?" But whatever it is, it is real fun.

In Life, in every moment, something new happens; something that you never expected, something that you were waiting from a long while to happen and something you were expecting to happen. It is a combination of happiness, sorrow, joy, love, anger, enjoyment, loneliness, fear, excitement and many other emotions.

The definition of the word life can't be completed without using the word emotions. Some people work in emotions whereas others work with emotions. So it's very important to understand how people are using their emotions.

If they are letting emotions get control over them, then they'll be dragged by others and situations all the time. But, if he is controlling his emotions in a proper way, then no one will ever have control over him.

The way a person uses his emotions is what we call attitude.

Someone has correctly said, "Your attitude determines your altitude in life". Attitude, as I already defined, is the way an individual uses his emotions and directly related to the psyche of a person.

Some people use their emotions in a positive way and some people do it in a negative sense.

When people use emotions in a positive way we call it positive attitude and when they use it in a negative way we call it negative attitude.

It's up to an individual to decide how he uses his emotions. Which way will you decide ?

LIVE ON Purpose with a Purpose and for a purpose.