Welcome to the October edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month we share insightful thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda on how to bring out the best within you, and invite you to experience a new guided meditation.
Paramahansa Yogananda on How to Bring Out the Best Within You
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality....So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now. You can instill any trend in your consciousness right now, provided you inject a strong thought in your mind; then your actions and whole being will obey that thought.
One must never give up hope of becoming better. A person is old only when he refuses to make the effort to change. That stagnant state is the only “old age” I recognise.
Look within and determine your main characteristics....Don´t try to change in yourself what is good. But those things you do against your will, and that make you unhappy after you have done them, are what you want to get rid of. How? Affirm with conviction, before going to bed and on arising in the morning, “I can change. I have the will to change. I will change!” Hold to that thought throughout the day, and carry it with you into the subconscious land of sleep and the superconscious realm of meditation.
Very simply, all you have to do is to think away the thoughts you want to destroy, by replacing them with constructive thoughts. This is the key to heaven; it is in your hands.
Experience a new guided meditation, “Creating an Inner Environment for Success,” and put into practice Paramahansaji´s guidance for developing new patterns of constructive thought.
