Are you people watching Oprah’s Lifeclass on OWN like I told
you to? Are you, are you? I can't stress enough the importance of filling your mind with positive life-affirming information. ( Remember: garbage in=garbage out.) But just in case you’re not watching, I’ve been taking cliff
notes for you.
Last night was a great two-hour class with Deepak Chopra,
who spoke about spirituality and karma, or, if you prefer- the Golden Rule. The
class was live in New York City, where they packed Radio City Music Hall.
Here are the gems I picked up from last night:
“Problems come from a contracted state of awareness.
Solutions come from an expanded state of awareness.”
How can you improve your state of awareness? Meditation.
Even for a few moments each day. Slow your breathing. Slow your mind. Feel your
heart. Get in touch with gratitude for what is good in your life. Even if your
life is hell right now, you have food, running water, shelter….all things to be
grateful for. Not everyone in the world has that.
When persistent negative thoughts plague you, here is what
Deepak suggests:
Stop the thought.
Take deep breaths,
and feel a smile in your heart, spreading through your whole body.
Observe how this
feels
Proceed with love
and kindness.
With regard to karma, here were the lessons:
“The worst thing you can say about another contains some
truth about yourself.”
“You can never feel good about yourself by bringing someone
else down.”
“Everyone does the best they can with where they are at in
their own spiritual awareness. Hold them in compassion, for when you judge, you
are also judging yourself.”
“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe
without judging.”
“The story you tell yourself creates your experience in the
world.”
“If you live your questions, life will lead you to your
answers.”
“If you want love, be love. If you want change, be change.”
“Change yourself first. No social transformation can take
place without personal transformation.” (peace begins with you…)
And here’s what I loved most of all. The Hindus believe (and the Christians do, too) that even if you have some karma from the past to
work through, you can pay off some of that karmic debt by doing good in the
world now. By being kind, loving, charitable, some of that debt will be
forgiven. So in other words, Karma is a bitch, but she’s at least reasonable
and willing to strike a good bargain.
Have a great, good-karma, non-judgy kinda day!
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