To pack up from the past is to finish the negative impact of the past.

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Message for the day 17-07-2012
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To pack up from the past is to finish the negative impact of the past. 

Projection: We usually find ourselves to be slaves of the past. The situation has occurred and has gone by but we are not able to forgive and forget the past. We continue to think about it again and again. This brings about the same feelings and experience of the past and we are simply caught up in it. 

Solution: I need to free my mind of the past. I need to see what I have learnt from the past situation, take that and be free from it. I need to forgive and forget. I can forget only when I forgive and I can forgive only when I learn. When I take the learning from every situation. I am able to be free from being a slave of the past. 

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Soul Sustenance 17-07-2012
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A Basic Meditation For Beginners 

Sit comfortably in a quite place, which you have chosen for your meditation practice... 
Close your eyes and, for a minute or two, allow your body and mind to slow down i.e. less active, by remaining still and quiet... 
While keeping your eyes closed, take your attention to your toes... 
Clench them tightly for a few moments, then relax them for a few moments... 
Work slowly upwards, tensing and then releasing and relaxing all your body parts… do this for your calves, then your thighs, stomach, etc... 
Be aware that your whole body is now relaxed in the chair and that all your attention is focused in the centre of the forehead, just above the eyebrows... 
With your attention focused only on your thoughts, experience that your thoughts are floating to the surface, now imagine that they are dissolving... 
Allow quietness and peace to fill your mind - as if you were listening to silence inside the temple of your mind... 
If any sensation or thoughts come to distract you, simply let them pass through your mind... 
Then return your attention to the quietness in your mind... 
Acknowledge your inner tranquility with a quiet thought, "My mind is now relaxed, and I feel more peaceful"... 
After a few minutes, bring your awareness back to the room in the present moment. 

Tomorrow we shall explain some of the precautions one can take while doing this meditation, to make it successful. 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris