Well-being
True Yoga: The Discipline of Mind and Intellect
The greatest legacy that Indian culture has offered to the world is undoubtedly the science of Yoga. It is so profound and comprehensive that it can enable a person to lead a life that is balanced, complete, and even divine. Yet, the question remains: have we truly understood the real essence of this science? This…
The key to ultimate freedom
This world, in truth, is a grand drama on a cosmic stage. Each soul plays many parts across lifetimes. Just as an actor puts on different costumes for different scenes, the soul takes on new bodies and roles. Shakespeare’s timeless line captures it well: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women…
The Real Union: Celebrating International Yoga Day with the Power of Rajayoga
The Spiritual Power of Rajayoga: Healing the Self, Society, and the Earth In celebration of International Yoga Day – June 21, we explore how the ancient wisdom of Rajayoga offers practical tools for inner healing, outer harmony, and planetary transformation. Rooted in the teachings of the Brahma Kumaris, Rajyoga is more than a practice—it’s a…
The Human Heart – A poem on love
If its deepest chamber could be opened What we would see? Some other kind of strength perhaps. A way of loving that wraps harmony around the human family A heart that holds sunshine inside Like the sunniest, strongest flower imaginable Stay still enough, Look deep enough inside And you will see it. A memory…
Global Emotional Warming and Climate Change: A Spiritual Approach
As COP29 is in full swing, the annual United Nations conference where nations pledge to address global warming, it’s inspiring to see world leaders gathering to make a difference. But as I reflect on these efforts, I wonder, how can I, as a spiritual individual, contribute to healing our world? We all know the tangible…
Celebrating World Values Day: How Our Values Can Transform the World
The world today can feel like it’s spinning faster than ever, with so much change happening all around us—whether it’s social, economic, political, or environmental. We’re constantly faced with news of conflict, natural disasters, and uncertainty, which can be overwhelming at times. But amidst all the chaos, there are glimmers of hope. People everywhere are…
Nourishing the Soul: The Link Between a Healthy Mind and Diet
From the earliest stages of our lives, we are drawn to the profound mysteries of the human soul. This innate curiosity about the essence of our being often leads us on a journey of self-discovery, seeking answers to life’s most profound questions. One aspect of this holistic approach to wellness is the role of diet…
Cooking with Compassion
Cooking with compassion The spiritual element “As a person eats, so he thinks. As a person thinks, so he acts. As a person acts, so he is.” So how do I get the passion for cooking with compassion at the Brahma Kumaris encourages individuals to take a more spiritual approach to all aspects of life including…
Create a “Team spirit” to be sucessful
The successful industrialist of the world, Henry Ford, gives the credit of his life’s success to the team spirit and says that – “Getting together is the beginning of progress towards success, staying together is the development and working together is the beginning of success.” The achievements of any institution, organisation or association are the…
The Illusion of FEAR
How many times have we used the phrase “I’m afraid I can’t do…” or “if I go ahead with this I’m afraid…”, I’m afraid so and so will…”. I’m sure many of you may be nodding your head right now, thinking yes I have used these phrases. Well let me tell you, by using the word afraid…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Yield
There are two meanings for Yield. One is to cultivate that is to produce good results, two is to surrender – this sometimes means to give in. In the spiritual context it means to dedicate. The two meanings go hand in hand, when we dedicate our lives to a higher purpose or power that of goodness…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Unity
Everything always works better when there is unity. Whether in our home or workplace. Unity is a mutual respect that is to see all as equal and individual. It is an acceptance with less expectations. It is when each one comes together and cooperates with each other. When there is unity there is naturally strength.…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Tolerance
True tolerance is about respecting and accepting differences. It means giving up any expectation that we have or want over people and situations It requires the realisations that we do not need control people and circumstances to make things go right at that time. We need to be able to create a space for quality…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Joy
Human beings have lost the experience of true, lasting joy. There is a state of being or experience that transcends the need to engage or indulge in sensual pleasures. It is not dependent on situations or people’s behaviour towards us. It is much more than happiness–it is known as supersensuous joy – this is what…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Introspection
In a world where things have become showy, noisy and full of superficialities, it is difficult to appreciate the power of introspection. Though it is the greatest means to refresh ourselves, we sometimes forget to use the art of introspection which simply means becoming still for a few moments. When we experiment by using a…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is a quality that naturally belongs to us, it is found within the spirit, and it just needs to be ignited from time to time. Much like the muscles in the body, they need to be exercised in order to be toned and shaped. So when we raise our level of consciousness, we raise…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Determination
When you believe in something deeply – you will find that you easily have the determination to see it through, no matter what obstacle comes your way but in-order to keep the determined thought active you need ensure you are checking-in various times of the day to ensure you are on track in fulfilling your goals.…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Contentment
Contentment is when I show love and appreciation for myself and the role I am playing. It is looking at my own goodness and spreading that good vibration around. Contentment allows me stay in my self respect and having faith that everything I need is provided in abundance and therefore I can give unconditionally and…
Creating a non-violent community
Recently the safety of women has come to the frontline in the news and this is because we are still experiencing threats to our lives due to the growth of vice. However if we understand who we really are, that is a spiritual being made-up of values we would never come to see such actions…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Beauty
Todays virtue on Beauty teaches us a lesson that Beauty is light personified – that is light/ a star being given life and form which can be experienced. Beauty within – has power and this power can only grow when you recognise the light you are within, the spirit is filled with many qualities and has…
Self-Soothing – Stillness in the Storm
Welcome to our Stillness in the Storm (SITS) blog. Each month we look forward to introducing you to one of the seven tools for coping with fear and uncertainty explored in our recently published SITS book. We aim to briefly introduce a theme and give you a selection of practices you can try out during…
Your A-Z Guide to Divine Virtues – Accuracy
We are all made of innate divine qualities. These contribute to both our mental and physical well being. Understanding the importance of each of these allows us to start using them in our everyday activities. We will be exploring the A-Z of divine virtues in these series. Posted once or twice a month. Todays…
Compassion Challenge Day 7 – Good Wishes
Good Wishes Our thoughts have power, this power can transform the vibrations in the worlds and these vibrations in turn can bring about the change required to shift any obstacle. We often live unconsciously letting these thoughts go to waste. In meditation we are consciously becoming aware of these thoughts and start using them more…
Compassion Challenge Day 5 – Giving
Giving Nature is always giving to us the support of light, food, water and a place to live in. It’s important to acknowledge how the earth has supported us. People around us are also giving, it could be through the services we receive or the support we may require. If you look at the bigger…
Compassion Challenge Day 4 – Forgiveness
Forgiveness and Reconciliation Forgiveness means to “give” this means to offer compassion love, affection, good wishes and have pure feelings towards the self and others. It is also about letting go of the past and focusing on the now. It’s also vital not to play the blame game but to accept what is and see…
Compassion Challenge Day 3 – Positivity
Positive Thinking The mind likes to think, to explore, to ponder and to consider. It is, of course, necessary to think. However, it is not necessary to overthink, but that is exactly what, only too often, we do. If we think wasteful thoughts, the mind will go into the depths and breadth of that waste thought, turning it over and…
Compassion Challenge Day 2 – Letting Go
Letting Go In order to bring about permanent change there comes a time when we need to look at what are we holding on to that is holding us back. Reflecting on this can allow dependencies to become supports to help us move forward instead. To be truly free there is a level of faith…
Compassion Challenge Day 1 – Gratitude
In today’s world, we need to change our focus from “What is wrong” to “What is right” when we make this shift in our consciousness then we automatically bring new light to our very being. Gratitude lifts the spirits and when this occurs your health improves and relationship become healthier. Consequently, the vibrations around you…
Compassion Challenge
With a turbulent year in 2020 Wellbeing is now at the forefront of all our mind. The hope of a the New year ahead in all of our hearts is igniting the feeling of positive change. One way we can go about doing is this to start our New year with our Compassion challenge. We welcome you to join us for this 14 days challenge to start the 2021 with a Compassion. This deep emotion plays a massive part in our lives, for our being the soul to survive. In order to grow your compassion for yourself and other as well, it is vital to work the compassion muscle in your mind and get it toned and tuned up for the betterment of our world.
As the Dalai Lama quotes ” Compassion , connotes love, affection , kindness, gentleness, generosity of spirit and warm-heartedness. We will send you a short daily challenge that will ensure you imbibe and inculcate the goodness of this special virtue.
Boundaries
In this time of the pandemic, boundaries have surfaced in public consciousness. Quarantine and lockdown have meant that we may no longer have private physical spaces to retreat to when we feel it is necessary to ‘step away’ for a moment. Having our physical movement confined and restricted has made us more aware and sensitive…
Attitude in relationships
Our attitude creates our perception of what is happening in our relationships in life. If I have the attitude that someone is irritating, I will always find something irritating in that person’s behaviour so my attitude is a mind set that determines my experience of the relationship. That attitude of irritation comes from the ego…
Freedom – Part 1b
Relationships We are all social beings and so we all interact with one another. It is helpful to adopt the attitude that we are all actors playing our different roles in the drama of life. I may be playing the role of a mother, a teacher, a householder and so on. This analogy enables us…
‘Live Well with Happier Cooking and Eating’
Tasty vegetarian and vegan recipes from our event ‘Live Well with Happier Cooking and Eating’ 29th July 2018 GCH, London WATERMELON AND FRESH MINT JUICE Ingredients *Watermelon, chilled and chopped into large pieces, some with rind, some without *Fresh Mint with large stems remove Method for Juicing Process in a juicer, one half of the…
How to overcome adversity?
It is true that in life challenges and adversity are a certainty, but do they have to overwhelm and overpower us? Some respond to adversity incredibly well, dealing with them skillfully, optimistically, enthusiastically and appropriately. Whilst others often feel disheartened, perhaps defeated, disempowered – with feelings of “why me?”, as though life holds a personal…
True friendship
They say that true friends are hard to find, we all want true and good friends in our lives but are we that to our own self? The most important relationship in our life is the one that we have with our self. We tend to be kind, caring and thoughtful towards those around us,…
The Power of Tolerance
There are different situations that come in life where the power to tolerate is necessary. One is bad words and assault from others, one is when it comes to trying to establish the truth, one is discontent in small or large matters.Tolerance is required when going through sickness. If you speak about a sickness it…
Experiencing the Power of Silence
In my free time I am practicing silence more and more. It is helping me to stay peaceful and calm my mind. As relationships, health and wealth are not a reliable source of happiness, I am finding more and more that spending time with the supreme soul the highest energy in silence is my main…
Creating Heaven on Earth
Yesterday I had a great time at work and managed to create a peaceful environment for others. The return of that was my colleague seeing me as a “special soul”. I work with children so it is no easy feat to create peace for others. Here are my top tips for creating heaven in your…
Health Awareness
I recently attended a seminar on health awareness so that I can improve my health condition. I learnt some very useful things. The morning was divided between the three health care speakers: Dr. Prashant, Coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris Cambridge Center, Dr. Isabella Llewelyn, GP in North London, with a special interest in nutrition, cancer research and…
International Yoga Day
Last year was the first time that the world celebrated International Yoga Day officially. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi asked the world leaders to adopt an International Yoga Day, saying that by changing lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change. ”Noting that Yoga is “an invaluable gift of…