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The Shift and Broken Hearts

In the last three years I have been consulted to enable many to heal on a physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual level. Apart patients suffering from ‘stress’ or the ‘flu’ I have never heard of any therapist who has been approached by multiple patients in the span of a few weeks to help reach a resolution and heal from an emotional issue.

It all began in October in the span of three weeks I had a suspiciously large number of people consult me to enable them to heal from a broken friendships, broken hearts and shattered illusions. Oddly almost all of these people have been greatly hurt and their love, respect and trust has been shattered by a close friend, colleague or someone else they held in high regards and they loved and respected.

I honestly had to sit down and think why in heavens is there an epidemic of broken hearts. Would you believe the answer came to me from something I am not quite convinced on, what some call “the shift” towards 2012. Now in all honesty I have no compunction to state I have never believed the physical world is likely to end in 2012. My intuitive feelings have always led me to believe that at most what will happen to us is that we will need to take a good long and hard look at ourselves and out lifestyles and change it drastically. We will need to take care of our environment and other external factors but this “shift” if you will, in my opinion will commence within us. It will start out as a form of self-evaluation and improvement and foster a closer connection with our soul and spiritual quotient.

“Shift” enthusiasts have been going on for over a year that it’s already in motion. Much to my ignorance I did not pay much attention to the date 10/10/10 which they say was quite a monumental date. On 10/10/10 at 10:10 am I was blissfully enjoying a theta class.

Now I am told that we are now already at the phase of the shift where we will feel it and this is what I feel those suffering form the “epidemic of broken hearts” are going through. It is said that we are and will be exposed to certain truths that were concealed from us and at present it seems like it relates to our interpersonal relationships, i.e. friendships, marriages, the teacher-student relationship, guru-disciple relationship and relationships with our colleagues etc.

So what exactly is the purpose of this epidemic? I feel it is just a jolt to our already awakening conciousness and awareness as part of our energetic and spiritual evolution. Unfortunately, every evolution is accompanied by change, which, in turn translates, into discomfort and the pain. In the evolution of the senses of my patients to perceive the nature and actions of their loved and respected ones has led them to see the truth and resulted in what I have called “the broken heart syndrome”.

You may ask why am I sharing this with everyone today? Very simply because I feel there are a lot more broken hearted people out there too hurt to share their pain. I just want to ensure that this does not lead to lots of wonderful loving people becoming distrustful and retreating from social activity and interaction.

Yes lots of people have had their feelings and egos hurt so what is the resolution. The only way I can think of extricating ones self from this pain without creating more pain and heartbreak is simply to be true to oneself and continue to follow the path of forgiveness and loving-kindness.

When we forgive and bless those who have wronged us we let the situation go and we are able to move on and focus on our lives and the people that matter the most to us and adjust quickly to new situations and scenarios. Without forgiveness we get stuck in a never ending cycle of resentment, anger, depression and a lot of other negative feelings and emotions which can eventually lead to hormonal fluctuations that can manifest as illness in out physical body. The most common of such illness rooted in deep resentment and angers is cancer!

I advise anyone who has gone through such heart break to consider it as an event of their evolution, a blessing that enables you to cleanse your physical, emotional, mental and energetic space of energies that are not required in your life. Once this space is clear it leaves space for something or someone far better to occupy it. Its simple physics the vacuum caused will be filled so not to worry you will not be alone for long.

Until such time as that vacuum is filled always be aware that you are not alone. Apart from the fact that we are spiritually all one and are connected there are beings and energies beyond our comprehension that are always there to protect, support and nurture us. So no matter how great the physical loss one is never abandoned and alone, at the end we are all one and connected.

The importance of the Guru

Like so many people around the world I was always vary of the word “Guru” and associated it with someone of dubious repute. It was not until I was deep into my spiritual quest that I discovered I already had acquired not a Guru but a few in the real sense of the word. So would make a sceptic like me realise and recognise my own Gurus?

First it is essential to understand what the term ‘Guru’ means. The term Guru is derived from the Sanskrit words “Gu” which means darkness and “Ru” which means light. It is a term used to describe someone enlightened enough to lead others from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge.

A Guru is simply someone who has the knowledge of something of profound importance that the rest of us are unable to even imagine. A good Guru is able to explain complex subject matter in it terms that anyone of average intellect and spiritual growth can understand and remember. A true Guru is also one who practices what he teaches and is of such pristine character that he or she is able to inspire others to do the same and make a positive change in the world.

I will be honest about my experiences with my Gurus. I have never met them in the physical form they all passed away before I knew they existed. My only interaction with my Guru’s is through the teachings they left behind. It is only recently when I actually not just understood the teachings but applied them to my daily life that I experienced profound change in myself and more surprisingly in everyone I interact with, that I acknowledged my Guru’s.

At first I always felt the distinct loss of never having physically met or interacted with my Gurus. It was only after deep meditation over a period of that time I came to understand that I was very well acquainted with my Guru’s as I interacted with them every single time I practiced or spread the teachings. It then dawned on me that the actual person who elft the teachings behind, the physical body of the Guru was infact just a physical body. The real essence of the Guru was only in the teachings.

Every Guru from ranging from Christ to His Holiness the Dalai Lama has always focussed on the teachings. It is the message of loving kindness, mercy, forgiveness that they work to preserve in perpetuity. All they want is to lead us from the ignorance of our ways into the light of knowledge, which automatically sets us on the right path. I honestly think not one of these great Gurus wanted anyone to waste time focussing on their physical form. What they wanted was for us to practice the teachings in perpetuity.

All the greatest Guru’s, Prophets and Saint’s have always given credit for their miracles to their Guru’s, God of some higher spiritual being. They are full of humanity, humility and they are very clear that their mission is to serve others. I am sure that none of these great beings wanted anyone to worship the physical form that most of them considered so inconsequential to the existence of their souls. In my heart whenever I see huge amounts of money being expended on glorifying the physical bodies of such great beings I feel that they would much rather have had the same amounts spent on the poor and needy.

I must stress here that the Guru needs money to live. He or she is after all a human so they have to satisfy their basic bodily needs and any other reasonable human needs that they may have. Unless one supports a Guru financially buy purchasing their books, buying tickets to their lectures, donating to their ashrams the Guru will not physically be able to sustain themselves. If the Guru is not in his physical body then the Guru’s teachings need to be spread by other individuals who represent the Guru and unless their needs are met they will not be able to keep the teachings alive.

If you are happy to pay for the services of your doctor who tends to your physical body, a psychiatrist who helps with your emotions and mind, why should you grudge money to someone who helps uplift your soul and bring about profound changes in your life.

What upsets me is when there is a free mediation, talk or lecture and then there is dissent when donations or charitable contributions are asked for. Why should that be an issue someone has taken time to help you meditate or provide you with some spiritual knowledge so why grudge them something. If you have a voucher for a free meal at a restaurant don’t you tip the waiter for serving you? Is that not the decent thing to do? Wont you automatically do that? So why be mean when it comes to someone serving you spirituality?

Most Guru’s never exert any ego. They are beings of knowledge and love and have little time for self-glorification and they are not known to describe themselves as God or Godmen. They are great souls with pure hearts through whom messages are passed from the divine. They are specifically chosen for those tasks as they are so spiritually advanced that they will not distort the messages and convert them into simple teachings that can be comprehended by the masses.

There are and will be occasions that certain fanatical disciples or certain individuals seeking to make money off their associations with the Guru, especially after the Guru’s passing acted in manners contrary to the Guru’s teachings. It is not uncommon for even close relatives of the Guru to claim that they are the Guru’s successor.

The Guru is a spiritual being that has incarnated in a physical form. It is the greatness of the soul and not flesh and blood that makes a Guru. The Guru may train teachers, instructors and even confer titles on others but they are not successors but disciples. It is not uncommon for a Guru to acknowledge other great souls or Gurus but not really a successor. If you are even in doubt my only advice is forget every thing and focus on the essence, the principles and teachings.

Oneness, Individuality and Life

They say we are all born knowing we are one. Most children I know refer to themselves in the third person when they learn to speak. I always dismissed this as one of the cutest things I have ever heard. As time went by and I came into contact with more children I realised that this cute grammatical error seemed to plague children all around the world.

It was not until I began to tread down the path of yoga and spirituality that I realised that perhaps it’s the small children who have the grammar right and we have it all wrong. After years of study I began to acknowledge the fact that we are all born as individual souls but we are all part of the same source or we simply we are all one.

As we live in this materialistic world, through our environment we are encouraged to identify with the physical body our soul resides in. It is a process whereby we are convinced with time that we are not one but all different. Western Psychologists call this the development of an “ego”.

Ancient Indian philosophies have always maintained that we are all born chanting the mantra “So Ham” which translates as “I am that”, or I am one with the supreme being or I am one with all. As we age we tend to forget “Soham” and then our mantra seems to be “Hamsa”, which translates as “Who am I”. Most people when they get to a certain age feel something is lacking and they then try to focus on “Hamsa” and make it their quest to try to find out who they are by focusing on their individuality when its actually all they need to do is focus on the aspect of oneness.

I love the concepts of free-thinking and free will. So I don’t tend to follow any principal the way its set out and I truly value my individuality and that of others around me. Life would be so terribly boring if we were all the same. However, I thrive on yoga and spirituality so my belief in the fact that we all are souls, which arise from the same source is unshakable.

I reconcile these two very divergent almost opposite concepts by knowing that spiritually we are one and that is unchanging. However, the powers that be have blessed each soul with its own chores and to perform those tasks we have all been given different personalities, physical appearances, intellects etc.

For those who believe in the principle of Karma and Life After Death, basically believe that in every life we are provided the opportunity to improve and it is due to the fact that one wants to get to the next level that one are provided with certain circumstances. These circumstances can make attainment of the lesson or next level easier or harder as it is willed and these circumstances leads to one’s individuality. The aspect of oneness never alters that remains the same. Certain philosophies tend to stress on the fact that when one has perfected themselves one automatically merges with and becomes part of the divine or the one.

I feel that the trick to life is to strike a balance between ones individuality and the fact that one is a part of all. Its simple all it requires is for one to be true to one’s self and the natural abilities and gifts given to us by the supreme, while acknowledging the fact that one is more then their physical identities and one is actually the same and a part of everyone else.

Turning to a spiritual path is the simplest way to attain the confidence and knowledge to acknowledge oneness. However one should not get carried away and loose one’s individuality. It is also a great way to re-connect with that part of you that is lost when you convert from “I am” that to “Who am I?”.

Yoga or just breath awareness is simply enough to get one started on this track too. All one needs to do is sit still and watch one’s breath. As the breath goes in you can actually hear the natural “Soooooooo” and as you exhale “Hummmmm”. It helps clear the mind of clutter created by intrinsic human ability of identifying with our physical body.

I always begin my yoga therapy sessions with breath awareness and it has worked wonders. I don’t always take the time to tell all my students about what they are doing or explain the Soham mantra. To be honest I never really focused on the mantra much when teaching myself but it works as if by magic.

The effects are nothing short of amazing. Even though we may not consciously know the meaning of the mantra Soham as “I am that”, our being or soul remembers it on some level. It resonates through our physical, emotional and mental states and brings about an unimaginable change in a very short duration of time. It enables one to let go and release tremendous amounts of stresses that one has created by identifying with the physical body.

The next time you feel completely stressed or cant sleep try to watch your breath and hear the your breath chant “So””Ham” and experience the change for yourself.

Friendship…

As I began packing up my belongings to move across a sea to another land Iit dawned on me that I had grossly undervalued most of my belongings. I have moved twelve times in the last ten years always with two or three suitcases carrying all of my personal possessions. However the acquisition of a family and the possession of grown up stuff like furniture and other grown stuff led me to think of how far away I have strayed from the yogic principle of “Vairagya” or detachment.
Strangely what I failed to account for to the shippers were all the presents I had been gifted by my family and friends. As each item was padded in paper and put in a box I remembered the energy of love and giving in which I had received them. There is something very special when you receive a gift from a good friend not just because you are receiving a gift, but because the giver is so very excited and happy to give it to you.
The present giver has put thought, money and time to attain whatever it is that they thought would make your face light up with a smile. There is a whole process of love, which is expressed in giving a gift to a loved friend, which is actually more valuable then the actual gift itself. What people call “sentimental value” is priceless and even if the gift is broken, lost or stolen when you remember the gift you remember the love with which your friend gave it to you.
I have always been very attached to my friends and I even have a lot of the same friends I did in nursery school. The one thing I always felt I would never be able to master is detachment when it came to relationships especially with my friends.  As silly as it sounds I always felt rather ashamed when I thought of the attachment I had towards my friends.
Now as I watch the things my friends gifted to me over the years, I think of the friends I leave behind and feel very sad at the thought of moving away from many good friends. I have been thinking of my friends a lot this last week of my departure honestly they have not given me a single opportunity not to think of them. I have been spoiled rotten with lunches and dinners, presents, flowers and cards. All this love and attention has got me thinking of past friends whom I have left behind in other lands, places and in some cases times.
Then I had my Eureka moment. It came to me out of the blue and became crystal clear to me that the concept of friendship and detachment are not mutually exclusive. If one is a friend one does need to practice detachment. Actually in order to be a good friend one does need to practice a great deal of detachment. Not detachment in the sense of detaching your feelings of love and care towards your friend.  On the contrary one needs to be consistent in the love for their friend however this is most successfully possible when one can detach from all the things they don’t like or appreciate of their friend.
Friendships tend to last for a season when we are not wise enough to discount or detach from the characteristics and habits we don’t like or cant tolerate in a friendship. After all a true friend is one who does not abandon their friend at the first sign of trouble, or a disagreement or something that irritates you about them.
I have always believed in the principle that friends are for a lifetime and true friends last no matter what. Unfortunately as we age most of us tend to grow cynical and less patient and tolerant with our friends. Instead of letting friendships develop we put up obstacles in the path of any relationship that is likely to bloom. The concept of “unconditional friendship” is almost extinct these days most of us have expectations from our friends.
Lots of people tend to seek friends with an ulterior motive, in the days gone by people with an intellectual or artistic background tended to seek other intellectually or artistically inclined people to be friends with.  These days it is not uncommon to hear of people seeking to cultivate friendships with those that socially and financially considered their equals, people who wish to mutually assist each other in their business ventures, people who one perceives can help them get ahead with their profession and in some cases even people who they consider as physically attractive as themselves.
Under these circumstances how can such friendships possibly last a lifetime when social status, wealth, fame, business ventures and physical beauty are all transitory and fade. How can a friendship based on something that does not last have a chance of survival?
I have had friends whom I have loved and lost touch with for many reasons. Today I look back on those friendships and the only regret I have was my own lack of wisdom to discriminate what I considered things I did not quite like about them. The previous statement I made was with reference to friends lost not those relationships that were insincere and based on some ulterior motive cultivated to incur some financial or other gain. I like anyone else have felt nothing but relief for the termination of such relationships. However even these unfortunate false friendships teach us a valuable lesson, of gratitude for the true friends one is blessed with.
There is nothing I can think of then the last few lines of St Franscais of Assisi’s prayer, which sets the criterion of a good friend:
“…may I not seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive and;
it is pardoning that we are pardoned…”
God bless all my friends who have stood faithfully by me, and my family when we take these next uncertain steps into the unknown. Your prayers, love and kind wishes and eternal friendship makes us leap forward blindly to the future. I love you all so very much and want to tell you today that each and everyone of you are blessings from God.

Versions of the Truth

It was night, I sat under a lamp in the Indian outdoors with mosquitoes feasting off every exposed part of my anatomy. Although I was technically in an ashram listening to a lecture nothing stopped the cacophoney of sounds that accompanied an Indian wedding in the background. I heard nothing and for once I did not even feel the winged pests suck the blood out of my body. I sat transfixed and totally intrigued by the lecture I managed to hear above all the other sounds that enveloped the early summer evening and what I learnt that day is something that I have not forgotten till today.
The ancient Jain theory of Anekāntavāda is something that changed me forever. Its very simply I means there are versions of the truth.  That enchanted me and as a lawyer too fascinated me. But as a human it consumed a self-righteous black and white thinking person like me. I never believed in the gray, the possibility of perhaps and maybe’s. There was the truth I believed in and everything else was a lie.
I struggled with the idea of many truths for a long time. Mind you the many truths not in the spiritual sense which I have always prescribed to but the many truths of the smaller trivial day to day things in life. Over a period of time after meditating on the concept night after night I got slower in pointing out when others were not telling the “truth” or not in knowledge of the truth as I knew it. I began to be conscious of the layers and facets of truth and the illusions of perception.
Then one day I had my Eureka moment. It was a random thought on how humans only use a very small capacity of their brains, only 1/9th of our entire capacity! And then there is always the fact that we pre-judge everything and further we never really focus on anything we are always distracted and multi-tasking so not really completely concentrating on any one particular thing. Unfortunately our modern lives dictate that we achieve a multitude of things without really being given the time to perfect anything. Its our way of life we can’t help but function this way as it’s the way our living and working environments have evolved. So as we multi task more and try to do more in a shorter period of time we technically we use much less then the 1/9th of the capacity of our brains.
If all of us use so little of our brains or more appropriately the mental capacity we have and we pre-judge everything and are continually distracted by modern tools that make life easy, a great example being the mobile phone, most of the time our concentration and awareness is definitely affected. So obviously it is very unlikely that we will be able to fully experience anything that happens to us. This leaves us open to experience different things from the same situation, which in turn is a very logical reason why it is likely that different people will experience different versions of the truth.
Further there is even a possibility of different people experiencing different levels of the truth due to their unique attributes be in intellect or spirituality or even something as simple as our cultural and religious conditioning. Age also factors in a great deal when assessing the truth. In society what is deemed as “normal”behaviour or rather socially acceptable behaviour is that which is the mean average or rather what the majority behavioural patters are. Obviously as the accepted behaviours change from generation to generation the ones of the previous generations remain the same and we suffer from what is referred to as a “generation gap” or more commonly family strife!


Life is about so much more then being right because really is there a one right or one truth? The realisation has finally dawned on me that everyone will perceive things differently according to their unique mental, emotional, social and spiritual makeup. It may not always be to my liking that someone else’s views differ so much from mine but due to the fact that the every person’s brian decodes the information or truth’s differently it is highly unlikely that any two people can ever really experience the very same thing or realise the same truth. 


Principles, values, character and ones intellectual, emotional and spiritual make-up tend to bind people together for the very fact that similar people are likely to experience similar truths or experiences thats why we tend to have a lot in common with some people or just manage to co-habit with some people without ever disagreeing with them. The statement, one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter now seems to make so much more sense to me. 


These are the same things that usually contribute to misunderstandings between people that lead to a lot of the world’s troubles. Just imagine if we could all just sit back and appreciate that none of us is really that well versed in the truth as none of us consciously engages a minimal capacity of our brains and all of us are incapable of actually perceiving the truth in its entirety due to this major handicap.


The only thing that makes us all bind together despite these variations and difference is tolerance, love, kindness and a lot of forgiveness without which we would be at continual strife with each other. The world would be full of disagreement, irritation. anger and just an awful ego fuelled place to live in. 
Very recently a someone I know posted the following as her Facebook status: “In every situation, there are always two stories—the story you see and the story God sees” … an appropriate statement to conclude this discussion on the Jain principle of versions of the truth that only a realised soul or a God can see through the illusions we mere mortals assess as the truth.

Why is the World a Bad Place ?

Why should the world be a good place?

Children grow up in unimaginable poverty in most countries of the world. They grow up with nothing and I don’t just physical possessions but the basics like love, food, clean water and safety. These children are continually and constantly abused and in some countries they are even born into slavery and traded as commodities to be used for manual labor or are continually traded as sexual instruments.

Most of these children have never even see their parents and have no idea what love and safety are for they have been tossed onto the streets or abandoned at a time when they were so young that they have no memories of their parents. Others grow up seeing their parents murdered in wars, physically, verbally, mentally and sexually abused by their employers or owners and most in turn they get abused by those who are supposed to love and care for them. For most families living on the streets or in dire poverty the parents or guardians of these children are unable to provide their children with any form of safety by virtue of their slavery and helplessness to fend in a world that ignores their very existence.
In third world countries people get used to poverty and beggars and most people bring up their children look or acknowledge these non-humans who knock on windows begging for food or money. Just imagine the superiority complex such parent’s fuel in their children by teaching them that other children their age are to be ignored just because they have nothing. Imagine the thoughts flashing through the innocent minds of both sets of children who inherently desire nothing more then to play with other children their age.
We are always told don’t give to beggars. You encourage them and its not a form of charity to give to beggars as they work in gangs pool money or they are made to work by beggar pimps who take all the money they beg for. So why don’t people give food? I have carried chocolates and crisps in my car and I have never seen such joy and gratitude in children’s eyes when they get some of those treats. If you have a meal and waste some food ever thought of a doggie bag for these kids or their family. I assure you that you will sleep better that night from the blessings you get.
I am usually labeled as insane but when I see an 8 year old in rags, wearing no shoes, carrying a 2 year old or a baby in her arms and my heart breaks. I die of shame sitting in an air conditioned car because I know a child should not have to care for another above herself when she herself is a child.  But when I see my daughter smile at them to make friends as she would with other kids her age I and I see them smiling back at her I just want to burst out crying. I feel like such a waste I am just like you someone who has so much and complains and wants more while having so much and doing so little.
What I find amazing is the snobbery and disdain even the socially less privileged have for beggars who are just kids forced to live off the streets who eat garbage and drink out of sewers. How even chauffeurs of the posh cars that drive on the streets that they beg in turn their noses up in the air and abuse the street children and shoo them so the fancy car’s they drive wont have their dirty finger marks. Very similar marks to that which your child or grandchild makes on the inside of the car’s window when they sit in the care for all kids love touching the cool glass. But I suppose when a homeless kid who is supposed not to have any feelings does its deserves abuse what would make an adult blush and you will commend your chauffer for caring about your car and its aesthetic value.
So what happens to these children when they grow up? They are all easy targets for those who want to propagate all the things we dislike in life. They will get recruited or forced to do all those things we all gasp in horror at. There will be those that are kidnapped and sold into prostitution and inevitably get infected with AIDS and infect others who at some point in your life will be a threat to you and your family. No that will never happen? Do you have anyone who works for you that’s on the slightly poor side and may have cause to visit a brothel a male member of your domestic staff that was recruited from a village and sees his wife once every year when you grudgingly give him time to go there? A maid who’s husband may have visited a brothel and then infected her?
Some of those other children will be recruited by gangs that rob from you by holding a knife to your throat when you go for your evening walk, or they may grab your purse from you when your at the market. Others will be part of some organization involved in drugs perhaps they will sell your children drugs and when your children cant pay up they may even sell your children for what is owed to them. Will never happen to you don’t doubt it, its happened to the children of millionaires all over the world so how are you immune.
Then there are those who may do anything from kidnapping your children or spouse to simply abusing or raping them out of spite. You may hire some as your servants and they may just go insane when they see the opulence of your existence so even if your really nice your wont be immune to having your throat slit when you sleep at night so some of your material goods can be sold for money.
Like mosquitoes are bread in stagnant pools of water, the pools of poverty and abuse that encapsulate the underprivileged children are fertile breeding grounds for terrorists. And financially its so much more lucrative to recruit a terrorist from the neighborhood then to import them into the country? Ever had a thought why someone may become a suicide bomber or a terrorist? What actually propel them to have such little self worth for their and other’s lives?
Do a bit of research into the lives of most terrorists they are usually young adults who have their whole lives to look forward to but they have suffered so much hardship and loss and feel that they have nothing to look forward. To them life is just worthless and when someone they trust convinces them that they can sacrifice themselves and kill a few people along with them for the greater good of the earth and that is what their life’s purpose is they usually comply. It’s the same scenario whether its Palestine, Pakistan, Angola or any other place on earth. Unloved, unprotected, broken souls in the bodies of children roam the earth lost to the essence of their being. 
It takes one person looking to manipulate them and earn their gratitude and trust with something as little clean drinking water, a loaf of bread or even just said a kind loving word. Once these people gain the trust and affection of these children the brainwashing begins and those children are groomed to come and ruin your perfect world as you experience it.
Just imagine if our government could do the same and recruit these souls into some well meaning tasks instead? Send them to repopulate rural areas and train them in agricultural activities? At present it seems like every person with the power to make such a change in the world is busy feathering their own nests and climbing up the social ladder. Why blame them are you any different? At least they have an excuse they recuperate their investments which got them elected, after all it costs so very much to win an election. The only costs we hear about are those we pay for in taxes, the legitimate ones that pay for the poll booths etc. etc. there may be so many hidden costs to winning an election that we have no clue about.
So when you or your family members get robbed, murdered, kidnapped, hooked on drugs or are victims of terrorist attacks don’t moan “Why us?” Try to be honest and say, “What did I do not to deserve this?” “How could I have prevented this?” “Could our government have prevented this?” and end with a “How can I make a change now.”
So next time you see someone who is disadvantaged, especially a child, instead of pretending you don’t see them or digging into your wallet for a few pennies you can well afford toss into a fountain look into your heats and souls and say what can I do to make a more permanent change? If each and everyone of us do that then I am sure we can come up with a solution which will change the existence of some of these children and will lead to the world becoming a better place.
Another approach to this problem is to continually demand that these children be provided with certain rights that most democratic countries claim they provide each citizen with.  Make sure that you continually barrage those empowered with making decisions in your countries until they do something to at least guarantee such children shelter and safety if not the education, food and other necessities every child should be entitled to.
Until such time as something is done to rectify this situation the world is guaranteed to be full of dangerous people and places. And know this the only person you can blame is yourself because you did nothing to make that change.  

Deeds, Words, Thoughts…Religious Prattle or Powerful Tools

The moral trinity of “Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds” are incorporated in some way or another in every religion and are the core of every spiritual practice without which one has nowhere to proceed.
There is a huge misconception that Good Deeds are hardest of the three to perform and once satisfied the other two requirements pale in comparison. After all when you are doing good why should anyone care what you say and who cares what you think that’s private anyway as no one knows whatever your thinking.
Good deeds are considered such an achievement that they have been accepted and incorporated by society as something to aspire to. Every child if taught to admire a good deed and everyone aspires to be the good guy. When there is a chance to do something good-deedish most people jump at the chance.
Even the most hardened terrorists and drug dealers within their society will always try to confirm to the norms of what is a good deed, be it looking after the elderly or donating funds for an orphanage or to their cause which cause pain and anguish for others. In all honestly these days a good deed is simply an easy opportunity to be admired and feel important and special, an easy ego trip.
As society accepts good deeds, with exception to Afghanistan, Saudi and Iran where time has been regressed or has just been held on pause, Acts of violence or physical abuse are just not socially acceptable anymore. Even the man who beats his wife everyday knows this so he hits her in places others cant see.
Now lets examine how “words” effect an individual. Ever noted how you feel when you are complimented or when someone has encouraged you to do something. Just thinking back on the occasion you can feel the positive energy, the surge of invincibility and confidence.
Now think back to a time that someone said something to hurt you, deliberately, or not. It may even be an incident when someone said something and had no idea what that you would react very sensitively to something you were saying but all the same it caused you a great deal of embarrassment, pain or offence. Do you remember how you pondered and mulled over it for a while after it was said?
Just imagine you are one of those overtly sensitive people who cant let things go and what was said haunts you just cant get it out of your system. Such sensitive people are usually good at pretending they are ok but the fact that they can’t let go of what was said to them which eventually results in them getting angry or depressed and stresses them out.
A human being is designed in a way that it only functions at its optimal best at a certain level of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. If the balance is lost then there is a lot more happening then most people can imagine. In very simplistic scientific terms the brain sends a message out to the nervous system that all is not well and then the body prepares for the flight or flight mode. So essentially the body is physically being pumped with adrenalin or nor adrenalin and a whole lot of other hormones which are not physically required by the physical body at the time. The excess hormones will cause anxiety, mood swings,
anger, depression and various other manifestations from the mental state of imbalance to the physical state. This is commonly referred to as a psychosomatic ailment an ailment, which commences a psychological symptom and culminates into the soma or physical body.
When anyone suffering from such an ailment visits a medical doctor the doctor can only treat the physical symptoms so the ailment goes unresolved as the cause is psychological and the person keeps suffering from the physical ailment until both the physical body and the mind are treated.
If the person does not get over what you have said then that state continues and the excess hormones and other secretions can affect them physically as their body does not require them they can affect organs causing physical illness, they will also continue to plague the person mentally and emotionally.
The affected person will not be able to function at their optimally best at work or within their relationships. They suffer psychologically to the extent that that they may not be able to function properly at work and may not perform at their optimal best and may loose out on a promotion or worse loose their job.
In summary words can actually cause more damage then acts of violence because particularly hurtful words can cause upsetting thoughts which in turn lead to physical upsets and if prolonged they may eventually get a very severe ailment in few cases it may even lead to death. You can also destroy someone’s personal relationships and careers. So do note that verbal abuse is far worse then physical abuse for the damage has more lasting effects.
Energy healers have known for a long time that every time one says something nasty, unpleasant or abuses another or even has an unpleasant thought their energy body is greatly disturbed and actually diminishes in size. Astonishingly the same applies to negative, unpleasant and abusive thoughts. The same thoughts most of us think are incapable of harm as they are personal and private.
A continual stream of negativity, anger, resentment and inability to forgive leads to cancer. There are so many people who claim never to have smoked a cigarette and have no genetic disposition to cancer and they still end up with lung cancer. This will seem like a strange phenomina to the practicioner of Western medicine but this can be proved when one views the effects of negativity, anger, resentment and inability to forgive on the energy body over a period of time.
This can be corroborated by Krilian photography in which one can prove every living being has an aura or an energy body that surrounds it and that every human is an energetic being and their words and thoughts have great power to assist or injure others. Whenever we have negative throught’s about someone we actually transfer that negative energy to those we are thinking of. If you find this hard to believe think of this as a corollary to the principles of attraction used in the very successful Secret franchise.
The basic concept in the Secret is to attract wealth and riches to you by sending out positive thoughts and meditating on what you want. So if we send out negative thoughts and feelings and constantly focus on them, we are meditating on that and actually projecting these thoughts to others. Similarly if we project these negative feelings to ourselves we self sabotage ourselves and our own physical health.
Thoughts are very powerful energetic weapons which can lodge in our aura and unless released they can work their way from the energetic body to the physical body and manifest as an physical illness. It is actually the thoughts that do the most damage for even when “words” are used as weapons it’s the thoughts that lodge in the aura and cause damage.
It an empowering to know that everything we do, we say and we think can be manifested. We have to power to do good or evil literally with our deeds, words and actions. If we do good we feel good and if not our consience gets to us at some point or another the same principle applies when we say good words and have project good thoughts.
If you believe in the theory of Karma, which literally means, what you reap is what you sow, you will reap benefits or losses in accordance with your acts, words and thoughts. Karma can also be used as a positive tool to alter your life if you want a good life as Grand Master Choa Kok Sui says the tools are at your disposal just do good.