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※ Main: All about Calories ...............2 & 3

※ Inspirational: How long can you keep hatred in your heart? ...............1

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※ Spiritual: How to create an Exciting future - Sadhguru ...............4

A kindergarten teacher had decid-ed to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag

containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates. So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will de-pend on the number of people he/she hates.

So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes, some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the potatoes in the plastic bag with them wherever they go for 1 week. Days after days passed, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 pota

toes also had to carry heavier bags. Af-ter 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.

The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?” The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.

Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: “This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherev-er you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?”

Moral: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not car-ry burden for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take. Negativity about someone will keep peace of your mind away from you. Remember the good things about him/her, and let go of the hatred.

Source:http://www.moralstories.org/long-can-keep-hatred-heart/

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For the kind of possibilities human beings hold, life is a brief amount of time. Only for people who do not explore the full depth and dimension of who they are, for those who are miserable and depressed, life is long. This is because time is a relative experience. If you keep yourself vibrant, exuberant, and joyful, it is a very brief life. There is no point in dwelling on yesterday, as long as you did the best you could do. The important thing is that what you thought was the best you could do yes-terday should not be good enough to you any-more today. What you are doing today should be much better. That means you are growing.

If you act to the best of your ability and in-telligence, every day will be an explosion of possibilities. If you are driving fast, there is no time to look back. Only those who are living in a parked car keep looking in the rearview mirror, because they are not going anywhere. There is no point in doing post-mortem on yesterday. Crafting tomorrow is what is important. To create an exciting fu-ture, you need to be at your best. Growth means to make yourself the way you want to be. And how you want to be may change as you mature. Determine what the highest levels for you are in terms of body, mind, and emotions. That is what you should go for.

You do not have to be better than someone else, but you should not be anything less

than what you can be. If you think your life is worthwhile, you must be at your best – any-thing less than that is wasted life. If you live exuberantly, life is fantastic. If you are half alive, everything is miserable. In a way, it is a preparation for hell. If you make yourself wonderful, wherever the hell you are, you will be fine. Otherwise, you may be in heav-en but turn it into hell. If you want to create a future, it is important that you use your past as a stepping stone, not as a load. The more miserable your past was, the wiser and more mature you should become, sooner than others. When things happen to us, ei-ther we can become wise or wounded. This is the choice we have. Do not sit in a corner, hoping nothing bad will happen to you – life does not work that way. Whatever happens in your life, you can turn it into a fortune.

When we began establishing the Isha Yoga Center, it created a stir in town. People start-ed gathering around us, and a few influential families did not like it. They met and came up with the plan to come here with a few hun-dred people and demolish the Yoga Center. But there was a wise old man who said, “You don’t know whom you are dealing with. If you throw stones at him, he will build something out of it. Don’t make that mistake.” What life throws at you, what kind of situations come your way is not always in your hands. But what you make out of it is always yours.

Take charge of this in your life – no matter what someone says, what life does to you, what the world does to you, turn it into well-being. For this, you need balance, and you need to function at your highest level. In-discriminately, whoever it is, whatever you do – always give your best. Learn to look at everyone and everything with the same in-tensity and the same involvement. Selective involvement means being half alive. To ma-ture into a full-fledged human being, always strive to function at the highest possible level of your capability, in every little thing you do.

Unfortunately, ninety percent of humanity is functioning well below their potential – to some extent because someone else said or did something, or even just because they are afraid someone else may think something. That means you are getting into other peo-ple’s mind – what a filthy place to be. What-ever anyone else thinks, says, or does, what-ever comes your way, learn to turn it into your wellbeing. If someone throws poison at you,

you must know how to use it for your wellbe-ing. Poisons have been turned into medicines, because people paid attention and realized the source of the problem is also a solution.

There is a saying in Kannada that if some-one did something wrong, and other peo-ple talk about it, the negative effect of it will be greater for the people who talk about it than for the one who committed the act. Let them carry your burden. If someone abuses you, only their mouth gets dirty. That is not your problem. What someone else says, does, or thinks should not af-fect you. If you are giving your best, all the time, you will be able to look through what-ever they say. What is significant, you can take as a suggestion. The rest, you can drop.

If you are giving less than your best and someone says something about you, you will get confused as to who you are. This does not mean you should establish your way of being once and for all. Growth is a constant process. It is about building yourself up to the highest possible level. Most people are volatile, in the sense, one moment, they are wonderful – the next moment, they are nasty. Instead, determine what the highest level for you is at this time and strive to get there. Just bring this into your life – in ev-erything, give nothing less than the best.

Source:http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/how-to-create-an-exciting-future/

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