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It can be discouraging to keep New Year spirits bright with reports of dismal year-end financial reports and new strikes of violence bubbling over in the Middle East. There are even some who see the violence as a necessary part of "End of Days" mentality. Please, DON'T THINK THAT WAY. Keep your mind inspired during troubled times by all of life's beauty. Be daring to think about how peace might look. Use your mental energies to visualize a better reality--DO NOT become fatalistic.
If this is a struggle, you find yourself glued to CNN coverage, your mind spinning into negative thinking, give yourself a limit, and then use a mantra. Either the universal mantra "om," or a more powerful one, one that is supposed to have vibrations that support peace is "Om Namo Narayanaya [Om na-moh na-ry-ya-ny-ya]. By saying these vocally or mentally (suggested in repititions of three), instead of thinking negatively, you take back control of your mind. Yes, that's what I said--when we become too all-consumed with news coverage and/or worries, we give up control of our minds to these events. Not a good thing for the mind, really. (Write me if you want to know more about this.)
God does not want us to worry, and if you don't believe in God, then simply think how little it serves you to worry. Either way, let it go. Think of peace. Visualize peace. (Join a peace movement!) Feel peace in your own heart, in your own life, and feel that inner peace expanding outward as you contemplate on it.
If you cannot find that inner peace, try the chants. Or, download my relaxation therapy--this is not a shameless plug, just a suggestion. While it is something sages have written about more extensively and more intelligently than I could ever hope to be able to do, simply said: Don't let outside influences take control of the inside of your head. Period.
Have a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Namaste.
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