Friends, welcome to your personal space of peace and positive thinking, just for you, each week. Its here to bring you back up on those days when life may be pulling you down, or to simply keep your spirits uplifted,week after week.

ENCOURAGING OTHERS

When you are most in need of encouragement, offer your own encouragement to someone else. Nothing can lift you more surely and genuinely than your own imputs to lift another.

Try and think back on times you remember most fondly; and you will notice that the brightest days were those when you gave most generously of yourself.

Focussing only on our problems and challenges puts us in a negative and helpless state of mind. But if we turn our attention towards helping others, we naturally become more positive and effective.

So, the next time you feel sorry for yourself, REDIRECT those energies, TRANSFORM them into compassion for others, for there is always something you can do?besides being an effective way to lift our spirits as well.

GIVE the encouragement you would like to receive; and in time you will indeed receive it in double measure.

Till then????Keep smiling!

<B>By Ruby KAPOOR</B>