Living Wisely Living Well | With Asha Nayaswami

If you find yourself becoming agitated, relax the feeling quality in your heart. There, in what appears to be only a physical organ, lies the origin of all feelings whether excited or calm. The feeling quality is the essence of consciousness. Without that one would be a mere mechanism as materialists in fact insist that we all are. Their dogma teaches that clear understanding demands the elimination of all feelings. That dogma is fatally flawed. Without both feeling and self awareness, there could be no life. The whole universe is a projection of the supreme self in whom lies also the perfection of feeling; absolute bliss. Two things science will never be able to create, feeling of any kind and self awareness. 

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Talk meaningfully. Never chatter as if merely to let poeple know that you are present and would like to be accounted for. Watch your words carefully. Give them the luster of intelligence even when speaking in fun. 

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To inject warmth into your voice, relax it physically then project interest and your concern for others' well being outward to them. Let your voice rise from the heart, flow smoothly through the vocal chords never tensely as if forcing itself through fierce opposition, then outward through your spiritual eye at the point mid-way between the eyebrows. 

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Listen to the subtle undertones in your voice. Ask yourself why peoples' voices express so much variety. The mechanism of speech never changes. One might expect its tones to be as alike as trumpets. Yet each voice has intonations that are uniquely its own. An American once at the airport in Patna India recognized me solely by my voice. He hadn't seen me for 15 years when I had been a teenager in High school. He had no idea I was even in India. Listen therefore to your own voice. Try to expunge it with any qualities you do not like. Sweeten it with kindness. Brighten it with interest. Soften it by heartfelt respect for others. Warm it with consideration for their needs.

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Watch your reactions to others. If you see in anyone some quality that attracts you, try to develop it in yourself.  But if you see a quality that to you is displeasing, then instead of criticizing it work to expunge it from your personality. Remember, the world will only mirror back to you, what you are in yourself.  

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Listen to the melodies birds sing. They express a happiness that is latent everywhere in nature. Reflect then, you too are a part of that happiness. It is the first little cheep of omnipresent joy.

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Assuming that you really do want others to listen to you, show them the respect of listening to them first; of hearing of what they have to say. Even if they say nothing, listen first. 

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In any controversy, test the rightness of your stand by the way it affects your deeper feelings. Such feelings can be trusted as the ever fickel emotions can never be. Calm, joyful feelings will steer your aright. If on the other hand, your feelings are agitated or negative, they will emphasize your lower emotions and will almost always be wrong. Even happy emtions can distort ones judgement. Calm feeling is the safest condition for receiving right guidance.   

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When laughing, laugh from your heart. There is no joy in intellectual laughter.  Indeed, such laughter often becomes only a snicker of disdain. 

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When conversing with people, try always to talk with them not merely at them.

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