Thought of the week

High light
(1) Why you don't realize that there is a tooth,when U'r without tooth ache?. Why you have to remove your oneness to be happy?
(2)Can you allow your hair or beard to grow, without cutting?. Why pruning allow you to be better?.what pruning actions you take during this lent,for(a)yourself(b)your society(c)world as one society.
(3)Why you should NOT allow, your comfortable thoughts and actions,going against God commandments(10 comms+7 vices)?when you prune such comfortable wrong things, why your life become comfortable?
(4) When your life become COMFATABLE, why you forget yourself and happy?.then why all you actions are going to be based on LOVE?
(5) Why Jesus climbed a hill, to show transfiguration of HIM?.when you follow God's Will,is your life going to be shined?. For that what you should do?
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Reflection for 12th march 2017, celebrating 2nd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your God given body that is Me, to lead a comfortable life.

How to lead a comfortable life? For that you should be healthy! Hence you should
 analyze the value of maintaining your body weight!

If you want to increase your  weight by 1 Kg, you need 9000 K calories of energy. This is very easy to achieve by eating 1 kg of butter or margarine which has been made by oil or fat. Otherwise if you eat just over 1kg of pork

 BUT TO REDUCE WEIGHT IS VERY DIFFICULT. Any hard labour worker can burn only 3500 K calories,if he work for a day. Even he need more than 3 days full work to reduce on 1kg of his weight.
 If you do exercise for 30minutes/day, you need at least 1 month to reduce 1 kg. You become over weight due to the accumulation of additional energy you take by food. Controlling the food intake becomes essential for your happy life,it does not mean not to eat!.

Over eating:
over eating is a weakness and you will become fat. Also food consumed in excess accumulates at different levels in the digestive track and ferments. Due to this impaired condition of toxins build up in the body leading to several diseases. Normally in their tummy for men, while at the hip for women. Hence shedding weight is necessary to add years to life and life to years!.

One method of shedding weight is walking.
Most common exercise one can do is walking:


Let us analyze the value of Walking
Human Body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier,when you Walk atleast 30 minutes/day(cumulative). It reduces risk of having strokes,hypertension(reduce blood pressure by five points for over 20 hours),diabetic, breast/colon/prostate cancer,blood clots in your legs,deep vein thrombosis,hip fracture& need for gall stone surgery,catch colds..With walk,human body will resists diseases& heals faster. It improves your{biological, physical,psycho social & emotional}health. ALL ACCUPRESSURE POINTS ARE IN THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.JUST LIKE YOUR HANDS !!.

Having identified the need to maintain your body, you ought to manage your mind, to be healthy.

Another method of shedding weight is fasting.
Fasting require will power,mental discipline and capacity to withstand the emotional desire to eat!.

What is the difference between fasting and starving?

Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted,it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilising the reserve food in store is called fasting. But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!. Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system & throwout the toxins(poisons) present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhoea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins present that are produced on account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.

In order to lead happy and stress free mind, one has to be clear how to control his mind.

Let us analyze Effect of mind control

People have worldly passions which lead them into delusion and suffering. There are 5 ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions. They should have the correct ideas of things, based on the principles of creation!(Given by Catholicism).
Then they can get rid of these mistaken observations and resulting worldly passions by careful and patient mind control. With efficient mind control they can avoid desires arising from the stimulation of the eyes,ears, tongue,skin and subsequent mental processes and by so doing, cut off the very root of all worldly passions, which is not based on Jesus' teachings.

There are 5 groups of desires in the world.
Desires arising from the forms of the eyes see
From the sounds the ears hear
From the fragrances the nose smells
From the tastes pleasant to tongue
From things that are agreeable to the sense of touch
FROM THESE 5 DOORS TO DESIRE COME THE BODIES OF LOVE OF COMFORT.

Most people, being influenced by the body's love of comfort, do not notice the evils that follow comfort(by craving into it) they are caught in the devil's trap like a deer in the forest caught in hunter's(Satan's) trap.

There is no one way to get free from the trap of worldly passions. Suppose you caught a snake, a crocodile, a bird, a dog, a fox and a monkey, 6 creatures of very different natures, and you tie them together with a strong rope and let them go. Each of these 6 creatures will try to go back to its own lair by its own method.

The snake will seek covering of grass, the crocodile will seek water, the bird will want to fly in the air, the dog will seek a villege, the fox will seek a solitary ledges,while monkey will seek the trees of the forest. IN THE ATTEMPT OF EACH TO GO ITS OWN WAY THERE WILL BE A STRUGGLE,BUT, BEING TIED TOGETHER BY A ROPE, THE STRONGEST AT ANY ONE TIME WILL DRAG THE REST.

Like the creatures in this story, a man is tempted different ways by the desires of his 6 senses,EYES,EARS,NOSE,TONGUE,TOUCH AND MIND, and is controlled by the predominate desire.
If the 6 creatures are all tied to a post, they will try to get free until they are tired out, and then will lie down by the post. Just like this, if people will train and control the mind there will be no further trouble from the other 5 senses. IF THE MIND IS UNDER CONTROL PEOPLE WILL HAVE HAPPINESS BOTH NOW AND FUTURE!.
Identify the rope for each desire in this example then tie that rope to Post of God, to see Happiness in this life too!. Lent period is there for you to do that, and be progressive happiness in your life!
Unhappiness occurs only when actively,knowingly, and willingly centering our joy in temporal objects rather than in God. But joy for the sake of Joy,ignoring the source of joy, can be detrimental to real Happiness. John writes: many today, in various ways belong to this category of seeking joy in temporal objects. Out there in the world, their reason darkened through covetousness in spiritual matters, they serve money and not God, and they are motivated by money not God, and they give first consideration to the temporal price and not to the divine value and reward. In countless ways they make money their principle God and Goal; and give it precedence over God,their ultimate end.

To day's reading:
Book of Genesis says(Gn 12:1-4)"the call of abraham,the father of God's people"
Paul to tiimothi(2 TIM 1:8-10) says" God call and enlighten us"
Mattew 17:1-9 says' HIS face shone like the sun"

Reflection: every so often we catch the glimpse of the"something more" that God has in store for us. These fleeting experienced are to be treasured. the birth of my first child, falling in love,a sense of being held by God's presence. Such experience may help us the transfiguration. Like all transcendent experience, it is fleeting and yet it etches a memory and leaves a longing. what should we do? Practice listening to HIM. Be not afraid. We cannot always be" on mountain" and yet what happens on the heights can help us on lowlands of the every day.

In conclusion:
Today it allows us to analyze,
What is the most expensive bed in the world?SICK BED. Someone can be employed to drive a car for you but you cannot have someone to bear an illness for you. When material things are lost,they can be found. But one thing can never be found when lost-LIFE. When someone has to undergo an operation,he realizes that he has yet to finish reading the BOOK OF HEALTHY LIFE. When you become a different person during this lent,by regular fasting(exercise+ drinking water)+NOT to have dialogue with temptations against God given laws,you convert your sick bed to a comfortable bed. Your Body has over100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier when U walk atleast 30 minutes/day. Pruning yourselves during this lent will help you to preserve your God given body to be healthy. Whichever stage in life you are at now,with time you will face the day when God will ask curtain to come down for you to hand over your Body.

 In order to control your weight
(1)Identify the need(develop interest) and determine to achieve that- love your body,understand it is your duty to manage your body: since it has given by God to you! You have responsibility towards God to maintain your body, to carry out HIS will.
(2)Control of your food intake-(mind control)
(3)exercise(physical control)
(4)happy and stress free mind(Christianity)

Finally rainbow is having 7 colours, representing that you will forget God, even if you follow God's command but attracted to 7 wises in your life(anger,sloth, pride,lust, envy,avarice,gluttony). Catholicism gives your the shortest path to be happy even in this world!

Thank you!
GBU

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