julielomas

I am sure we all like to say we are honest and we are truthful and I am sure you are most of the time. We always know when we are being told the truth or we are being lied too or misled. The truth and honesty always sits better with us, even if maybe you don’t really like what your hear in some cases.

Spirituality is to be serious about one’s connection to the Divine. It is not something you do today and not tomorrow, it is not something you do part time, it is not a passing fancy or thought; it is for your whole life.

Spiritual sincerity when used or even organized properly can accomplish any goal and it can bring you true happiness. You cannot be spiritual only part time. It encompasses your whole life – not just a part of it

Most of us believe that the only way we can change our lives is through tedious work and drastic measures-retraining ourselves, breaking habits, divorcing ourselves from others, changing jobs or even moving to a new area. Many believe that we can’t change our lives as we are born to be poor, or to struggle, or say things such as ‘we should be happy with what we have got’ or ‘our class of people can never be rich or expect anything different’  or similar negative beliefs. In reality if you change your thoughts- you can change your live.  You just have to change the way you think or look at situation.

When you change the way you think, you’ll discover that your sadness, fear, frustration, anger and any other troubling feelings cannot last. Even nature can’t create a storm that never ends!

Ask yourself do your fears stop you from doing what you really want to do? Are you always defending or explaining yourself? Do you worry too much about what other people think? Are you growing tired of always fixing situations for everyone else? Are you ready to do something just for you?

Hidden in all the storms of your life is the peace you desire. You and only you can bring that peace, as it is within you. Only you can walk your life, and you have the complete power to think how you want to think.

If you change your thoughts, then you can and will change your life, and you are more than able to weather the storms and challenges in your own life as the changes happen. Don’t think nothing can change because everything can, you just need to think in the change. Think positive the storms can not last forever, and spring always comes Good Luck

How can we inspire and make a positive difference to the people around us ?

We can do so,  by making our own lives inspirational and by always interacting with all others with tact and wisdom.

The first drawback of anger is that it destroys your inner peace; the second is that it distorts your view of reality.

If you think about this and come to understand that anger is really unhelpful, that it is only destructive, you can begin to distance yourself from anger

Dalai Lama

I have struggled this week to stay calm and peaceful with biased, negative and untruthful widespread media coverage here in Bahrain over the Formula 1 car race and the anti government protests.

Only negative images of Bahrain have been portrayed and only the thoughts and demands of the misguided young thugs throwing Molotov cocktails at the police, burning and destroying their own neighbourhoods and business’s and property and trying to bring this beautiful peace loving island to its knees.

There has been no coverage on the  lives or of the  voice of the majority of the peace loving citizens of Bahrain who go about their daily lives working hard and wanting the country to grow and prosper. No coverage of anything positive at all. No coverage of all the other wonderful things happening here and no coverage of the vast numbers of Bahraini’s attending the F1 races and the family entertainment around it. Only one sided, biased, irresponsible and very negative reporting.

So I was thinking about why it is deemed we only want to hear about negative things. Why the press and media want sensalization over truth and facts. Therefore the few decide what the majority want whether that be true or not. The few make the decisions. Media can make or break a person and a Country so easily. I so often wonder where real journalism went to. Why do they feed us only negative stuff. There is rarely if ever unbiased responsible reporting of both sides of the stories.

We ourselves also can break or make ourselves with our thoughts and negative self beliefs, and by listening to what others think of us and only listening or thinking about the negative side of the self.

A further entanglement that occurs in the face of these ideas about who we are and what we want, is that the negative is usually taken to be the truth.!

After all the negative is so compelling and seems so deep.

The positive is regarded as superficial and temporary but ah the negative! When it arises we believe we are really in the presence of truth!

It is as if we want to only believe negative.

When someone refuses to share a problem or something difficult in their lives we are told they are withholding, or cut off or even untrustworthy. When their problems are known however they are thought to be revealing the truth about themselves.

People take their worst fears to be truth and no one seems to point out to them that that’s what they are just fears, everyone seems to be convinced or believes that what is negative about them or their life is the truth, that they carry something rotten at their core, that they are bad deep down and will always return to the negative.

Perhaps this fear is what journalists and media moguls feed in us, and the world. They can make millions and they don’t care whose lives they ruin. They make the world a more negative place and we let them.

If they did think that would make them feel something inside which maybe an unsavoury truth would surface. But truth cannot be heard or positivity, because they won’t fill the pockets and the bank accounts and they couldn’t possibly let the truth be known because holy smoke they just then may be out of a job, and holy smoke it would mean there are two sides to every story! And there can never be two sides to a story…there can only be the negative..negative sells media space and builds more fear and anger..and so the cycle begins again..

Be truthful with yourselves, know that there is always two sides to everything and then stay with the positive, it makes for a much happier and peaceful life.