Birthdays can be a great opportunity for inner transformation.

On your next birthday, try this.

Go out. Sit under a tree. Or just lie down on the ground/grass -- embrace the earth, hug it.

Imagine you are lying on the chest of your mother and breathe.... let the body breathe like an infant...

(When a child is born he is rooted in the navel. Look at a child breathing -- his navel goes up and down. He breathes with the belly.

The first thing a child does when born is to inhale, and the last thing the same child will do when old, dying, will be to exhale. On this earth, the first thing you did while entering life was inhalation, and the last thing you will do will be exhalation. No one can die inhaling. When you die you have to exhale, you die with exhalation. And no one can be born with exhalation, you have to start by inhalation.)

The Human body is like a shell supporting an inner being/soul. When the inner being has evolved, the shell will hatch and you will flower. The seed will become the tree. But only when the time is right, the inner being has evolved, the shell will not be required. And this inner being keeps changing the shell/body until its fully evolved.

Love, meditation and prayer bring that warmth to your inner being which is required for its evolution.

And the day you inner being takes birth, that day will be your REAL birthday!! And the whole Universe will celebrate on that great day :)