Find help.
A guide or guru can help you on your spiritual journey. Your guru should be a person, whom you trust completely, and in whom you can confide confidently. The trust between the teacher and taught should be strictly mutual and of highest order.
Practice yoga.
Doing this in the morning will improve your mood and spirit. After completing morning chores, it is essential to start with yoga. Perform some easy asana as per your endurance power and availability of time preferably in an open space (rooftop, lawns, or a large room with lot of ventilation). These help in the circulation of blood and fresh air to the various cells, tissues, organs and systems of the human body. A healthy body is a good generator of healthy thoughts and inculcation of values becomes that much easier. For more details on yoga please refer to the wikiHow article How to Benefit from Power Yoga
Be honest.
Lying to others (or yourself) only makes things more difficult. Honesty is not a policy or business transaction. It is the most natural and profitable way of leading life. And it is not as difficult as it is made out to be. Start with an understanding that Honesty is a value and not an attribute. Each value has a denominator. Fix your denominator for this value. Start with the conviction that no one is either 100% or 0% honest. Grid yourself: somewhere in between the extremes. Start being less dishonest every day and slowly graduate to being more honest every day. If you feel that you are more honest today than you were yesterday move yourself up the grid a little. Be very conservative and mean while grading yourself. Let your physical being work hard and deliver definitive measurable results to convince your inner being. Don’t be charitable to yourself, but celebrate small success. This will encourage and motivate you to raise the bar daily and perhaps even many times in a day. Keep comparing the percentage daily/weekly growth and set new goals.
Exercise compassion.
Treating other people with empathy is a key core value. Not every human being is as empowered or as privileged as you may be, people with lesser attributes or lesser privileges are not lesser human beings. They may be children of lesser gods or victims of circumstances. Show compassion, treat them as your equals, and try in your own way to elevate them physically, mentally and spiritually.
Show integrity.
Take responsibility for your actions. Integrity comes out of ownership. Take ownership of your responsibilities both at home and the work place. Loss of integrity means loss of character. And loss of character means loss of your life mentally and spiritually. There is no use being only physical alive.
Forgive people.
Criticize and reprimand actions, not actors. Forgiveness is not only a virtue, but also an act that creates remorse & makes a better person of the person forgiven. It also wins you a friend.
Love thy neighbor.
Spread love everywhere you go and keep an open mind. Spare no one human beings, animals, nature and innate things. Reciprocation will start sooner or later from all living things and ultimately you will end up winning hearts. Donating to a community of your choice can be one way to spread love.
Keep learning.
Upgrade your knowledge everywhere you go. The most knowledgeable also seeks knowledge to become more knowledgeable. Pursuit of knowledge should be a continuous process. Knowledge can not only be acquired from books, teacher, institutions, but also from things around us, including nature. Be an explorer of knowledge and be open to different career options and more hobbies. Try different internships, jobs, hobbies until the ones you fall in love with become eminently clear. And don't be afraid to change course if what you're currently doing doesn't align with your values.
Exercise discipline.
Maintain control over your thoughts and actions. Having time sense is just one part of the discipline. Discipline encompasses every aspect of your day to day life. Your actions, your attire, your speech, you silence, your movements, your treatment of others and yourself. Don’t be undisciplined even to yourself.
Be nice to your parents.
Treat your family with kindness and respect. People think that they are treating their parents properly but in most cases this is an illusion. Please do this small exercise. Draw a table with three columns. First column write Serial no. 123… next column against each number write one thing your parents have done for you and in the next write a value for this between 1& 10. Like this right from your childhood try to recollect and write each and everything your parents have done for you and put a value for each item. When you finish, total the values you have put.
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