Few days back a gentleman called up. He is doing well for himself. But he was not happy. I asked him, what is bothering you. From outside you look very happy. He said that I am earning a good salary but I want more and that is a good thing. Very sheepishly he doubled his salary and I asked him are you sure. He sat don and said that actually i want more but i feel bad for asking more. Why? He did not have an answer. May be some child hood conditioning. This reminded me of my child hood incidence. Whenever I used to express something big I would want in my life my father would say, you should keep your desires in check. You should not ask for more than you need. It makes you greedy, if you desire money and many things like that. I guess we all go through such things in childhood.
What are we taught? Suppression! Suppression of physical needs, suppression of mental need, emotional needs. I wish we were trained on freedom and love. I wish we were trained to ask so that we could learn to give. If we would ask for only what we need we would always feel that we have only for self. We would never get a feeling that we have abundance and we must share. When we desire abundance, we ask for it, we would get abundance, we would have the feeling of abundance and we would so much more happy to share. But we are told not to ask.
More over, without asking for something, how would we get that?
So what do we need to do:
1. Get a clarity of what you desire
2. Accept it that you desire it truly
3. Read it loudly every day that you are asking for it (If you want write it down)
4. Be ready, do not hesitate. (Do not become modest)
5. If someone asks you or makes fun of you do not put down your desires. Be ready to receive and openly accept yes i desire it and I am proud of it.
When you would learn to accept it, be open about it, you would see your desire also would be happy to come to you.
Have an abundant life.
