Spirituality course: week 0
The first assignment for anyone wishing to seriously explore and to personally live the New Spirituality will be to go within.
Begin a schedule of daily practice in meditation, deep prayer, silent listening, whatever you are comfortable with. You can begin this right now, this instant. Fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes at night can change your life...
...Second, exercise your body. Your mind does not fully and easily take in new data if your body is lumping through the day. If you are not on a regular exercise regimen, establish one now. This is something you can do within the next twenty-four hours. Twenty minutes a day used in this way can change your life...
...Third, eat well. You are dulling your mind and killing your body with what you are ingesting. This effect is slow, and it is insidious. You do not know it is happening until it has happened, and then to reverse it becomes extremely difficult...
...Fourth...Seek, on a regular basis, spiritual inspiration and sustenance for your soul. Find a way to recognize - that is, to re-cognize, to know again - the sacredness of all life, and to honor that which is divine, and which is divinely inspired.
Do this in whatever way feels fitting to you.
...When Life, rather than Instant Gratification, becomes your Prime Value, you will know that you have become truly spiritual...
- Tomorrow's God, Neale Donald Walsch p 223-228 (excerpted)
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If you have yet to take a meditation course, I recommend signing up for the course here. You will learn many different types of meditation, one of which will hopefully fit you. I personally prefer using a biofeedback computer game that gives me visual feedback and specific goals to reach. I can talk about this more later, or you can check out my blog for my training notes.
There's no specific homework for this post, but it would benefit you to incorporate some or all of these into your daily life. Feel free to include ways that you experience spirituality so we can all learn. Perhaps we'll all learn some new and interesting ways to experience the divine. :-)
Begin a schedule of daily practice in meditation, deep prayer, silent listening, whatever you are comfortable with. You can begin this right now, this instant. Fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes at night can change your life...
...Second, exercise your body. Your mind does not fully and easily take in new data if your body is lumping through the day. If you are not on a regular exercise regimen, establish one now. This is something you can do within the next twenty-four hours. Twenty minutes a day used in this way can change your life...
...Third, eat well. You are dulling your mind and killing your body with what you are ingesting. This effect is slow, and it is insidious. You do not know it is happening until it has happened, and then to reverse it becomes extremely difficult...
...Fourth...Seek, on a regular basis, spiritual inspiration and sustenance for your soul. Find a way to recognize - that is, to re-cognize, to know again - the sacredness of all life, and to honor that which is divine, and which is divinely inspired.
Do this in whatever way feels fitting to you.
...When Life, rather than Instant Gratification, becomes your Prime Value, you will know that you have become truly spiritual...
- Tomorrow's God, Neale Donald Walsch p 223-228 (excerpted)
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If you have yet to take a meditation course, I recommend signing up for the course here. You will learn many different types of meditation, one of which will hopefully fit you. I personally prefer using a biofeedback computer game that gives me visual feedback and specific goals to reach. I can talk about this more later, or you can check out my blog for my training notes.
There's no specific homework for this post, but it would benefit you to incorporate some or all of these into your daily life. Feel free to include ways that you experience spirituality so we can all learn. Perhaps we'll all learn some new and interesting ways to experience the divine. :-)
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