Having grown up in differing environments, receiving different experiences and messages about ourselves, about others and about life, each of us has developed an unique personality with different needs, desires, beliefs, habits, attachments and roles which we play. Many of the behaviors we have developed can be called defense mechanisms, which means that they are behavioral mechanisms, or ways of thinking and acting, which we hope will protect us from various dangers. Continue reading “A54 Roles Conflicts Celestine Prophecy: How to deal with people who are playing the roles of intimidator, interrogator, victim and aloof”

Everyone wants to have a healthy body. Health is wealth. A healthy body makes a healthy mind. No one likes to be ill, or tired and run down. No one likes pain and illness. A healthy body is an essential toll for living a happy and fulfilled life. Life is beautiful when we feel good and have plenty of energy. Life is dark and negative when we suffer continually from a malfunctioning body. Continue reading “A70 You Can Overcome Illness: We need to pay attention to how we live, think and eat”

It will be useful to dedicate a chapter to understanding some of the most common happiness and peace destroying emotions. We will look at a few of them examining briefly the psychology of each. Continue reading “A22 Getting to Know Our Emotions: An analysis of how negative emotions are created and how we can understand and transform them”

I have often quoted the sayings of Sathya Sai Baba in various books, and at lectures. Who is this man? What does He do? How does He do what he does, and why? What does he teach? How does he live? What is his advice to us? We will look into all these questions in this book which will be presented in three parts. In the first part, we will discuss his miracles and what part they play in his mission on earth. In the second part we will discuss his way of life, example and activities and projects. In the last part of the series we will give a brief introduction to his teachings. Continue reading “A39 Miracles of Sai Baba: This very powerful spiritual being has performed many miracles which cause his followers to believe in his teachings”

A SIMPLE LIFE

Sai Baba lives in a small room about three meters square located in the main temple of the spiritual community where he has created housing for tens of thousands who visit him seeking physical, emotional, mental and spiritual help. In addition he has two other such rooms which are empty except for one chair on which he sits while giving interviews to groups of people who come for help. Continue reading “A55 Sai Baba’s Mission: How this spiritual teacher is manifesting his mission of transforming mankind”

GUIDELINES FOR EATING HEALTHY

In seeking to incorporate the following guidelines into our daily eating habits let us remember that each individual is unique and that his needs will be somewhat different from those around him. Let these suggestions steer you onto the right path, but then discover from within, through your own inner voice, what is right for you. Continue reading “A71 Healthy Eating – Basic simplified thoughts on eating”

Look around you. What you see is creation. There is a cause for this creation. There is a Creator. The Divine Creator however, is continually creating, sustaining and expressing Himself through his creation. The existence of God is the only ultimate, unchanging truth. Everything else which exists is a temporary modification, expression, projection or aspect of that one Being which we call God. God, in the ultimate reality, is neither male nor female, nor a being in the way we are used to perceiving beings. God is pure consciousness, which is the basic reality in every object, being and situation. God is the creating power, which is continually creating everything we see. I use the word creating rather than creative power because it is important to get free of the belief that God is a being who created the world and then left it to continue on by itself as He watches on. God is the power which is continually creating the world we see. If this creative power stopped, the world would simply cease to exist, just as in the case of the movie projector when the light goes out and the movie stops. The light doesn’t start the movie and then sit back and rest, it must continually shine in order for the movie to continue to be projected. In the same way, everything that we see is the projection of the One Divine Consciousness which we call God. Continue reading “A23 God Is In Everything I See: God is the consciousness in all beings, objects and situations”

Models, examples and parables are often more effective than word descriptions in enabling us to understand new concepts. You have heard the saying that a picture is worth a 1000 words. Well, the same holds true for a mental picture. It facilitates our comprehension of a new subject by using a example with which we are already familiar. It helps to understand mental or spiritual concepts in terms of material examples. We have already used a number of examples in the previous chapters, such as the example of the river grasses, the boat on the sea, the fire in the bedroom, the pressure cooker and others. Here we will offer a few more examples, which we have found useful in understanding the various aspects of meditation and its benefits. Be aware, however, that no model or example can ever be perfect. There will always be flaws or possible contradictions. Their usefulness, however, is not diminished by that fact. Continue reading “A40 Models of Meditation: We can understand the process of meditation through various examples and models”