Maintaining your mental balance in difficult situations(1) - Lose not your Heart series.

The enclosed inspirational quotes provide  tips on how to maintain our mental balance while coping  with stressful and difficult situations  in Life.
"Lose Not Your Heart" - is a small pocketbook with great quotes from Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya's writings and thoughts. Acharya ji states that "One fourth of Life's problems can be attributed to previous Karma or circumstances outside of our control, but three fourths of our problems can be attributed to our own attitudinal flaws". Therefore if we can correct the way we THINK we can correct our Life's circumstances and situations and restore our mental balance in difficult situations. 

Quoted Text:

The Combination of Contemplation and Character:

Instead of looking for faults in others, discover your own faults. There is nothing to be gained by finding faults in others. You are only responsible for the mental and physical weaknesses of your own person. One- fourth of the circumstances you receive are a result of your own past actions. Three -Fourths of the situations life gives you are a result of your current outlook and the effectiveness with which you are fulfilling your duties. If you take up the task of correcting yourself, you can solve many of your own mental and physical problems. 

No one is impressed by those who talk a great deal and accomplish very little. Those who have incorporated contemplation and character into their lives , however can influence many people. Such people are the ones who make a difference to their environment.

Believe in the Strength of Your Soul:

It is useless to complain that circumstances are not favourable, or that no one helps you, or that there are no opportunities for you. People say  things like this only to blame their misfortune on others or cover their own personal shortcomings. Some people even blame such things on their fate or luck and beg for better fortune from various deities. This is all because the lack confidence in themselves.

We often fall prey to jealousy and fail to consider that others have achieved happiness because of their own hard work. God does not play favourites. He has given everyone the opportunity and the strength of the soul to make progress.

Awaken your Self Confidence:

When you find yourself in adverse situations and you feel that nothing is under your control, take it as a sign that you lack self confidence.

Until you change your mindset , you cannot be rid of these adverse situations. You cannot create favourable conditions until you fully believe that you are fully capable of doing so. If you do not change your thinking now, the divinity in you will diminish. Tell yourself that the divinity within you is working in your favour and replace your mental weakness with this awakened self confidence.

You are your own friend and enemy:

Do not dwell on repeated failures. You have plenty of time before you. Start afresh and keep performing your duties regularly and diligently; Success will be yours in due time.

Do not beg others for help, because in reality no one has the capacity to truly help you. Likewise, do not blame others when you are depressed as no one has the capacity to cause you pain. You are your own friend and enemy . Every situation you find yourself in, whether good or bad is of your own creation. Change your outlook towards a situation and right away the fear surrounding it will vanish.

Self Confidence and Perpetual effort:
Great Men have always begun as ordinary people.They did not despir or lose self esteem based on their ordinary status. They kept going on the strength of their self confidence and perpetual effort. Even when faced with adverse situations they did not remove their sight from their goal. Even with limited resources and strength they continued to offer their lives up for their country, religion, society and humanity.

Dear readers- if you liked the above  inspiring and motivational quotes  on how to maintain our mental balance and peace of mind while coping with stressful situations , we also invite you  to explore  other articles posted on the blog in the "Lose not your Heart" series. 

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Further Reading - Lose not your heart series of Quotes
1. Lose not your heart ( series 2)
2. Lose not your heart   ( series 3)

Source and Credits : 
The above Quotes are from Acharya Shriram Sharma's book : " Lose Not Your Heart". To read the complete pocket book online please  click the link below:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56434985/Book-of-Motivational-and-Inspirational-Quotes-Lose-Not-Your-Heart-authored-by-Shriram-Sharma-Acharya