When we use our mind to analyze and form an opinion about something or someone, we disconnect our attention from reality.
Having developed a habit of thinking about everything, we have to remember that in order to enjoy something, in order to see the innate beauty of someone, we must be in a state of meditation.
“Are Your Friends Making You Fat?” is an article in the September 10, 2009 New York Times Magazine by Clive Thompson.
The article says that there is some research that indicates that how we behave, how we live, influences not only the people who directly know us, but people who may only indirectly be connected to us — “friends of friends.” It’s possible that each person can have an effect on 1,000 other people. If this is true, this means that if, through Sahaja Yoga Meditation, we become calm, if we start to express our inner wisdom and generosity, we can affect hundreds of other people in a positive way.