Love, forgiveness, and healing

The main message is taken from Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish's audio recording, but re-told by me in my own words.

Love, a powerful human emotion, has inspired writers, artists, and musicians to cherish the healing power of love.  People felt "unloved", or people who live alone often die prematurely; either they may do something to hurt themselves, or by other causes that are still unknown.

The best way to receive love is to offer love to other people.  This attrusive nature not only benefits the person who has received love, but give us ultimate happiness.  It is said that "To love another person, is too the face of God."

Providing forgiveness to other people, or to ourselves also provide us love, happiness, and healing.  Holding grudges against other people or to ourselves, is not healthy and has to be replaced by forgiveness.

Empathy, Compassion, Love, and Healing

The following message comes from Dr. Deepak Chopra about empathy, love, and healing.

One of the most powerful way for spiritual growth is to change the way we perceive the world around us.  By learning how to accommodate another person's perspective, we remove our person's blinder, expand our view about the world.  Rather seeing ourselves in the world, the world is actually part of us.

Look at some stranger and talk to ourselves.  Like me, that person has moments of joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure.  Like me, that person has moment of difficulty, and dream to fulfill.  Like me, that person is loved by someone, yet has relation problems with other. Like me, that person will die someday.

By experiencing other people's sorrow and joy, we are expressing compassion.  With the blood of compassion, we are un-descending. With the blood of compassion and un-descending, we receive and offer love.  When there is love,  there is healing.

Take Care of Ourselves

The following message is from Deepak Chopra

When we heal, we heal those people surrounding us.  Therefore, it is not selfish to take the time to take care of ourselves (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) because it affects everybody around us, just like dropping a stone in the middle of a pond that creates waves of peace and hope transformation around us.  We will become  examples; that when people look at us, they see a light within us.  They will ask, "What did you do?" , "What can I do to heal my problems?"By our examples, we help to transform the world, in the world, and the world around us.

Quotation of good prayers

Prayers are good for the soul, especially if they are good prayers.  Here are two good prayers that I like to share with my readers.  One was the Mohandas Gandi's prayer.  The other, Deepak Chopra.

Mohandas Gandi's prayer:

May I be loved, be happy, and be peaceful.
May all of my friends be loved, be happy and be peaceful.
May all of my perceived enemies be loved, be happy, and be peaceful.
May the whole world be loved, be happy, and be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra's prayer

Make sure that not a single word coming out of my mouth has the capability of hurting somebody.  Make sure the purpose of the word is to bring the blessing to the person I speak to.  Make sure the words I spoke are nurturing, caring, healing and affectionate to the person I speak to.