8 POWERS

UOCA

MIND TRAINING COURSE

EIGHT POWERS

Based on Teachings of Raj Yoga from Brahma Kumaris


SUMMARY of COURSE

1. Power to Let Go

Before you can change your life, she said, 'first you have to -
Giveup the negative patterns holding you down.

The process -

a) Recognise the -ve and +ve.

b) Be prepared to change the thought patterns to more beneficial ones.

c) Put closure on the negative patterns through letting go of them by whatever processes are necessary.

d) Make a definite decision to leave behind those patterns and a committment to keep to that let go.

e) Start again with ONLY these positive thoughts and patterns.

f) And so travel light into the future.


She continued saying it all stemmed from our Mind.

We could become Master of our mind or its Slave.

One led to Freedom and the other to being our own worst enemy.

She went further into helping us recognise these negative and positive thought patterns that had to be discarded as over-weight baggage.

Thoughts that were bringing about the following patterns were:-

Positive Negative
Stillness Persecutor
Calmness Anger
Quietness Lose self respect

Conditioning, she said, arose from the following cycle -
1. thoughts,
2. words,
3. actions,
4. habits,
and then became part of our character. Therefore it was vital how we used this cycle for creating positivity or negativity.

Waste thoughts lead to worry, anger, resentment and depression. Lack of self esteem and an inability to love or appreciate others.

Her main point was we do not need to wallow in these negative thought patterns, and we have to take strong affirmitive action to pack them up.


2. Power to Tolerate

Allowing space,empathy in face of hate.
1. Tolerate
2. Flex
3. React intelligently

3. Power to Accommodate

Adjust
Let in


4. Power to Discriminate

Stop
Silence
Observe
Understand
See the uniqueness
Determine what is what


5. Power to Face

Fear of not wanting to rock the boat.

Power to face - when to confront - respond intelligently.

Breathe into it.
Feel fear.
Recognise the danger and prepare for it.
Step into it.

6. Power to Co-operate

Work together - always achieves more than alone.

7. Power to Judge

The decision

Not judgemental.

Compassion / wisdom
courage to act, to not procrastinate


8. Power to Withdraw

Connect supreme soul, spread love, thru silence.

Step back.
Meditate.