What's Your Life's Purpose?

Once the elevator reached our floor, my mom assisted me to get on so that I would not trip on the step. There was an elderly man already in the elevator when we entered. He felt extremely emotional when he looked at me, and asked my mom “What is wrong with this boy?”

I responded to him with a smile and said, “I have low-vision.”

I could feel the pain in his heart as he said to my mom “but he is so young.”

We just smiled and got out of the elevator, and went our own ways.

It was on that day that I realized one of my purposes in life – it’s to generate compassion within others. I always used to get offended when others would ask about my condition, or hold my hand while we walk. But today, I have realized that these individuals are not just doing me a favor, I’m also helping them by offering them an opportunity to serve.

The soul has a desire to express itself, and it can only do this through a body and the mind. This is why it chooses to incarnate on earth. It also selects the parents that will offer it the opportunity to express its desires, as well as fulfill the desires of the parents. It is a mutual understanding on a soul level.

Consider the world as a stage and all of us actors. Would you want to play the same role in every lifetime? Of course, every actor wants to attempt a variety of roles so that he can measure his potential. This is why sometimes the soul chooses a role of a hero, a villain, a comedian, or a physically/mentally disabled person. Does this mean that because you chose the role of a hero, you have more positive karma, and because you chose a role of a physically disabled person, then you have negative karma? Haven’t we noticed in so many movies that the best actor award goes to the individual who plays the role of a physically or mentally challenged person?

I invite you to consider this idea when you encounter challenges in your life. You are simply playing a certain role, and your job is to play that role in the best way that you can.

I have chosen the role of an individual with low-vision, and I am going to play this role so well that I win an award for performing in the best way that I can, with all the abilities and limitations that I chose.

What about you? Care to share?

Raise your Vibration

In a book titled Power vs. Force by David Hawkins, he developed a scale of consciousness, which ranges from a level of 20 to 1000 where 1000 is considered as Enlightenment and would be the level of a Buddha or Christ. At the 1000 level, life is perceived as life being simply as “it is”, without any judgment or expectation.

The lowest on the consciousness scale is the level of 20, which is described as Shame. This is a feeling closes to death where a person would prefer to be invisible than to take any action steps to move forward. At the level of shame, life is completely miserable.

Between the lowest levels of shame towards the middle (courage), we can pass through different stages, which raise our consciousness. These include guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and pride. Once a person gains courage, he can consciously raise his vibration up the ladder towards enlightenment through willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, and peace. 

Depending on your current level of consciousness, you may need the energy of an outside force to raise your vibration or wisdom from within. As you raise your vibration, you will also realize the forces, behaviors, and entities that are lowering your vibration or energy level. 

Since all of us operate at a different level of consciousness, the techniques used to raise the vibration also vary. The greatest technique; however, is meditation.

If you are not a frequent meditator, and would like to gain mental clarity, wisdom, a quiet mind, etc., you may experience the transformational power of Life Coaching with Dino by simply clicking here. 

Buddha Purnima 2014 Dream

May 14, 2014, 3.50am – I have been falling in and out of a dream state several times since the past few minutes. Whenever I’m back in the dream Satya Sai Baba appears to me. He does not say anything. As I come out of the dream state, I see a reflection of his head in front of me. This occurred about three times, and while it was happening, I remember thinking to myself, “I better stop meditating, because strange things are starting to happen again”. In any case, as I fell back into the dream state, I saw Satya Sai Baba sitting on my bed. He wasn’t looking at me, he seemed to be busy doing something, as if looking for an object in a box.

I tapped him on the shoulder and said “Swami”.
He turned towards me and stood up. He was looking young, and extremely handsome. He was wearing an orange robe, and the wall behind him was blue.
He was so pleased to see me. He shook my hand with both his hands and said “Thank you Dinesh, Thank you for being there”. As I shook his hand I remember thinking to myself, “Swami, please speak slowly, I will have to remember this to write it down”.

I believe that there was one more thing that he had said, but because that thought was running through my head I could not remember what it was. He then embraced me and said, “Spread my message”. While I was embracing him, I could see the blue wall behind him, which had a poster on it that read, “Be at your Home”. It was a white poster with black text. I then fully woke up, with my heart racing and body sweating as usual when I experience such dreams.

During the next few days, I may get more insights about the significance of this dream, which I will share on my blog Bliss with Sai. Meanwhile, I guess I need to remember Satya Sai Baba’s words “spread my message”.

UPDATE @ 7.00am - To add a little more to this – after I went back to bed, Shirdi Sai Baba appeared in my dream at around 7am, which woke me up. He was tall and wearing a peach colored robe. Honestly, I did notice him, but I was too tired to interact with him.

I later found out when I woke up that today is an auspicious day, Buddha Poornima and Full Moon.

I will share some deeper information on lucid dreaming, mindfulness, etc. in the upcoming blog post.

Sensory Perception

It is said that through our five senses we receive approximately 2 million bits of information per second. This is through our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. The conscious mind is unable to process so much information that is received so it filters it down to only approximately 134 bits per second.  The conscious mind filters the information by deleting, distorting, or generalizing the information that is received. The purpose of the conscious mind is to retain only the sensory information that we feel is important. For example, if we are walking on the street we do not notice the smell of the flowers; remember the benches that we have passed or whether there is a step or a ramp on the pavement. We also rarely listen to the birds singing, or feeling the minor temperature changes in the air.  Moreover, we also have misunderstandings with other people, because the filter of the mind distorted the information that they had presented. Due to this we also generalize the information since we cannot remember the specifics.

Now, imagine how magnificent every moment would be if we could sense the environment around us with a higher level of sensitivity. Fortunately, this is possible. We need to raise our level of awareness and sensitivity of the sensory preceptors.

We can achieve this by practicing on stilling the mind. When the mind is quiet, the sensory preceptors become more receptive. For example, at the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, music is played for about two minutes every hour. This is referred to as a “traffic stop”. During the two minutes, everyone must stop what he or she is doing and become present in the moment. This reduces the traffic of thoughts in the mind, raises the level of awareness, as well as relaxes and restores the body.

By incorporating this simple and profound technique into our daily routine the amount of stress is reduced. Every hour or two, if we pause for a few minutes we will realize that the mind and body have been recharged, and then we can continue working with more clarity.

The Beauty of Life Coaching

Since I started Life Coaching, it has not only transformed the lives of my clients, but it has also transformed my life. Through life coaching sessions, I am able to help my clients achieve their goals and overcome their challenges by offering insights, tools, and techniques that transform their minds and empower them as well. A life coach is not a therapist or a doctor, but someone the clients can connect with on a deeper level, because the Coach has overcome similar challenges. A therapist or doctor on the other hand is more of a subject matter expert, and may lack the intuitive connection with the client.

In this article I am sharing six areas of my life that have been enhanced since I have become a Life Coach.

1. Acceptance - All of us encounter challenges in our lives that leave us confused, depressed, and ultimately drains our energy. These challenges could come as a serious medical condition, relationship issue, or a loss of a loved one.  In such severe circumstances, our friends, family members or any amount of finance cannot bear this pain for us. Being unable to foresee a solution eventually leads to fear and anxiety. By nature, in such situations, we pass through the stages of grief that include denial, anger, depression, and finally acceptance. For transformation, acceptance is the initial step, and this is where I feel that I serve my clients. My clients feel a sense of unconditional acceptance and non-judgment from me, as they know that I’m not a friend or relative with any divested interest. My purpose is simply to help them transform.

2. Compassion – This is a feeling of shared suffering for another form of life with the desire to alleviate that suffering. Compassion is often observed as a type of selfless service, generosity, or kindness. As we practice compassion our hearts open and we experience oneness with all. As I speak with more of my clients my awareness is increased, as I am exposed to such a variety of challenges that it simply opens my heart. This leads me to a feeling of gratitude for myself, while I pray for the healing of the client. Similar to acceptance, compassion has tremendous healing power, and I encourage my clients to cultivate compassion for themselves in order to experience transformation.

3. Sharing Challenges – The fact of the matter is that I am not an expert. Even I am going through my share of challenges. However, the nature and personality of the coach allows him/her to transform and transcend the challenge fairly quickly, while learning the lessons. Everyone has a challenge to share and a lesson to teach. A challenge full of pain and suffering can cultivate compassion within us. A challenge of triumph can inspire us to achieve what we are striving for.  We can feel gratitude and appreciation by hearing about a less fortunate situation, and failures encourage us to try again without quitting. Through these shared challenges, my clients are able to connect with me, as they realize that I am not an expert, I am just like them.

4. Connecting with my Higher-self – Invoking for divine guidance allows me and the client to connect with the divine intelligence. Because of this, both the client and I are in a state of ‘flow’, where we sometimes even wonder from where the wisdom is coming through. This leads to a feeling of comfort and trust between us.  This also allows us to be present in the moment and follow our intuition. Once in a while, it’s important to step out of the way and allow our higher-self to guide us.

5. Making a difference – Very often if you ask people what has made them truly happy, the response would be that they have made a difference in someone else’s life. The soul has a desire to offer its abilities to a cause greater than itself. It is believed that whenever we feel low, we must do something for someone else to make ourselves feel better. One tip that I always share with my clients is that they can easily find a cause that inspires them, and devote their time, knowledge, skills, or talents for at least an hour every week. This act of contribution brings a sense of meaning and significance to our lives.

6. Deep Inner Work – Education does not end after college, it is a life-long pursuit; and as a Life Coach, I have a yearning for learning. The universe can be our greatest teacher if we allow it to be, and all the wisdom is within us. Inner work is extremely important for me, as I can only take my clients as deep as I’ve gone myself. This means having a clear understanding of my thoughts and emotions by developing mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Due to the lack of inner work, many of us are affected by our emotions. If we can compare emotions to the waves of the ocean, the only way to avoid it is by going deep under the water. If we stay on the surface of the water, we will be knocked down by those waves. This is the true meaning of deep inner work – going deep and not allowing the emotions to affect us.

Life coaching is an extremely powerful way to transform our lives. Unfortunately, our education system does not teach us the skills to be happy and authentic. Life Coaching is true education that offers wisdom, through non-judgment and compassion. I invite you to experience Life Coachingwith Dino, it may be the most powerful transformation that you will ever experience. 

Shirdi Sai Baba Healing Technique

In this article, I am sharing a healing technique that was revealed to me by Shirdi Sai Baba in a dream on April 11, 2014 in Taipei.

Since I formed a Relationship with God, I have had numerous interactions with beings of higher consciousness in my dreams, especially Shirdi Sai Baba. Sometimes, he answers my questions, showers me with Udi (sacred ashes), shows me visions of the future, and dances with me. He has also found creative ways to appear to me in my waking state, simply to affirm my faith in him. In the upcoming articles I will share many of the interactions. Previously, I was hesitant of sharing such experiences because these are my private moments with Shirdi Sai Baba and sometimes very strange. These dream sequences have become deeper over time, and recently the dreams continue even after I open my eyes. In addition, I absolutely do not doubt these dreams, as it’s written in the Shri Sai Satcharitra that Sai Baba appeared to his devotees very often in their dreams to give messages.

After these dreams I am unable to sleep as my heart is racing and my body is sweating. I also feel a heavy energy and twitching of my crown and third eye chakra. This is why I decide to type the experience immediately.

In this article I am sharing Shirdi Sai Baba’s healing technique, which he revealed to me on April 11, 2014.

Every evening around 7pm I read 1-2 chapters of the Shri Sai Satcharitra. However, last night since I was busy with other work, I apologized to Shirdi Sai Baba for not being able to read it, as I would not have been able to meet my deadline. Around 2.45am (Taiwan) I had a dream where I was reading the Shri Sai Satcharitra in front of the statue of Shirdi Sai Baba just as I do everyday in my waking state. I may have done this in my dream to compensate for not reading it during my waking state. As I was reading, I heard Shirdi Sai Baba saying to me “I am telling you how to heal yourself. Touch yourself and repeat “Sai Ram”.

My question to Shirdi Sai Baba was “Is it that simple?”. I have learned many healing techniques before, and none of them are so simple. He did not respond to my query, but in my heart I heard him say, “Are you doubting me why don’t you try it?” I then placed my right hand on the right side of my jaw and repeated Sai Ram a few times. I did not have any pain at that time so I don’t know if it worked. I then asked him if I should share this technique with others, he responded by saying “Yes, do not hide healing techniques”. I then asked “what time is it in the dream”, and the clock showed 4.45am. Immediately after that my Guru Baba Hiral Shah appeared. He was dressed in white and his face was glowing with a big smile. My mom then said to him “Did you know that Shirdi Sai Baba was here”. He continued to smile and said, “that’s very good”. He then placed his hand under my shirt and applied Udi (sacred ashes) on my heart chakra. This is where the dream ended, so I thought. When I opened my eyes I saw a being dressed in white, but I could not recognize him. I blinked slowly, and tried looking at him again, but I could not recognize him. I blinked my eyes once again, however this time I saw a being standing a little further away. He was tall and dressed in white, although I could not see his face. After I looked at him for a few seconds he disappeared.

In the dream I was told to share this healing technique with others. If you have full faith, I encourage you to adopt this healing technique.

How to practice Shirdi Sai Baba’s healing technique:

1.     Invoke the Supreme God and Shirdi Sai Baba for divine blessings, guidance, healing, love, and protection.

2.     Affirm to yourself that you are Super-receptive to the healing that is being received (this removes any résistance in your mind/body).

3.     Place your hand(s) on the affected area of your body.

4.     Repeat “Sai Ram” as long as possible or until the pain reduces/disappears.

5.     Affirm to yourself with full-conviction that you have been healed.

6.     Humbly thank the Supreme God and Shirdi Sai Baba for the healing.

"My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me." - Shirdi Sai Baba 

Related Links:

Shirdi Sai Baba Wikipedia

Being Authentic is Attractive

The world and the future generations are in dire need of heart-oriented individuals that encourage uniqueness and collaboration. Authenticity is attractive and contagious. Our beauty and brains will only take us so far, but authenticity will take us all the way. As we become authentic individuals, our virtues will shine from within us; and as we shine, we will unconsciously give others the inspiration and empowerment to reveal their authentic selves.

Here are 5 simple tips to become more authentic:

1. Every day invest a few minutes in silence to go within and quiet the mind.

2. Focus on doing the “Right Thing,” not just simply following guidelines and doing things right.

3. Listen to your intuition. Slowly allow your mind to follow your heart to develop true intellect.

4. When you witness someone standing up for what is right, appreciate and acknowledge them. Inspire yourself with their courage to stand up for what you believe is right.
5. Always be honest with yourself. One who cannot deceive himself, cannot deceive anyone else.

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Unbind Your Mind [Course]

Course Overview: The mind is the cause of suffering and the cause of joy. It is believed that it’s easier to tame a lion than to tame the mind. It’s easier to conquer the world than to conquer your mind. This does not mean it’s a lost cause and we should give up. Those individuals who use their minds to live with a higher level of awareness are able to make better decisions, tap into their creativity, lead a more balanced life style, and handle uncertainties effectively. This is simply because they know how to manage their thoughts and emotions.

I invite you to experience the power of Life Coaching in this one-on-one personalized course on how to Unbind your Mind from unhealthy thought patterns and limiting beliefs. This will be one of the most powerful and intense courses that will awaken you to the power of your mind and teach you how to transform your life.

Course Outline:

• ·      A brief evaluation of your thought patterns
• ·      The importance of mental clarity
• ·      The relationship between thoughts and limiting beliefs
• ·      The connection between the thoughts, emotions, and the body
• ·      The different types of thoughts and how to manage them
• ·      Tips on how to transform negative thought patterns
• ·      Techniques to calm the mind
• ·      Q&A

How the course will be conducted:

This is a personalized 75-minute one-on-one course, as the purpose is to be productive and prepare action steps for you. This course focuses on your past and present thought patterns to clear limiting beliefs. The first 60 minutes will cover the items in the course outline and the last 15 minutes for action steps.

This course can be conducted face-to-face or via Skype, and the discussions during the course will be kept confidential. You are welcome to share a testimonial with others if you wish to help them overcome their challenges as well.

How to Register for this course:

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Drop Your Emotional Baggage

We have a tendency to carry all our memories and scars with us wherever we go. These memories and scars occupy space in our brains and do not allow us to focus on the task at hand. When we are working on a specific project, our minds recall incidents, interactions, and emotions from the past that distract us. To make it worse, worries about the future also distract us in the present moment. For us to perform our tasks efficiently, we must unclutter our brains from unnecessary thoughts.

Imagine holding a glass of water, initially it is very light; but the longer we hold on to it, the heavier it starts to feel. The same concept applies with the emotions that we are carrying. The longer we hold it, the heavier it gets; and eventually when we can no longer hold it, we breakdown.

In addition, we can replace the word “should” in are vocabulary with the word “must”. Often saying that “I should do this or should do that” and then not doing those tasks creates energy of regret. Instead, if we say that “I must do this or that” creates and energy of empowerment, and results in the tasks being completed.

Once we transform our speech and drop the emotional baggage that we have been carrying for years; we will notice a rise in our energy level as well as better focus to complete our tasks.

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