10 Tips For Spiritual Growth

10 tips for spiritual growth:

1. Read spiritual and uplifting books. Think about what you read, and find out how you can use the information in your life.

2. Meditate for at least 15 minutes every day. If you do not know how to meditate, it is easy to find books, websites or teachers who can teach you meditation.

3.  Learn to make your mind quiet through concentration exercises and meditation.

4. Acknowledge the fact that you are a spirit with a physical body, not a physical body with a spirit. If you can really accept this idea, it will change your attitude towards many things in your life.

5. Look often into yourself and into your mind, and try to find out what is it that makes you feel conscious and alive.

6. Think positive. If you find yourself thinking negatively, immediately switch to thinking positively. Be in control of what enters your mind. Open the door for the positive and close it for the negative.

7. Develop the happiness habit, by always looking at the bright side of life and endeavoring to be happy. Happiness comes from within. Do not let your outer circumstances decide your happiness for you.

8. Exercise often your will power and decision making ability. This strengthens you and gives you control over your mind.

9. Thank the Universe for everything that you get.

10. Develop tolerance, patience, tact and consideration for others.

Spiritual growth is the birthright of everyone. It is the key to a life of happiness and peace of mind, and the manifesting the enormous power of the inner spirit. This spirit is equally present within the most material person, and within the most spiritual person. The level of the manifestation of spirituality is dependent on how much the inner spirit is close to the surface, and on how much it is covered and hidden, by thoughts, beliefs and negative habits.

Remez Sasson writes and teaches about spiritual growth, meditation, self-improvement, positive thinking, creative visualization, success and mind power. He is the author of several books about success, creative visualization, affirmations and the development of inner strength and power.http://www.SuccessConsciousness.com for articles, quotes and e-books.

Put The Shit Down And Move On (How To Let Go)

Just let go.  No plans.  Nothing.  No reason.  No other motivation or end goal but just as a meditative process in and of itself.  Maybe like a declaration of centeredness in the NOW.  A demonstration to the Universe of your completeness in the present moment as YOU ARE.  You are perfect, here, now.  You have everything you need.  Trust yourself to allow emotions to come + go, like thoughts, like leaves floating down the river (including anger + energy of destruction).  Maybe allow the dark side.  Embrace your whole self.  Declutter more.  Gain a new energy, when you let go of the old.  Take a break.  But beyond semantics, words, or reason, it is a decision or a feeling.  Something new.  Get rid of it.  Minimalize more.  Wake up.  Think less.  Give up.  Let go.  Quit.  Just breathe.  Lighten the load.  One less thing.  Easier.  Freedom.  Allow, but don’t seek or grip.

Its just a long habit.  Are you bored?  Ready to be born again again, or whatever?  Next phase.  Greater mobility.  Free up energy.  Circulate the chi.  Experiment.  Allow the excitement + enthusiasm, and even the boredom perhaps.  Try another level for the same reason you rose to your current level.  Keep exploring.  Let it go.  See what else there is.  By letting go, you make room for more, or less, but different and better, for what you need now.  The old life is dead + buried.  Bored of it?  Let it go.  If your energy changes, so be it.  Be committed to your happiness first + foremost.  Therefore, if you are  happy doing something totally unthought of, or previously unenvisioned as not leading to happiness, then do that.

Let go of this.  Let go of that.  Let go of any attachments.  Be centered within.  You don’t need anything.  All you need… is to be.  You are complete now as you are.  Clarity.  It would be better to meditate for weeks and loose all worldly possessions.  Let it all go.  Put it on the market.  Tomorrow is a new day.  Be open with wonder, like a child with hope and enthusiasm.

Ребятки, что за розовые сопли? Не ждите лёгкой жизни. Лёгкой жизни не бывает. Легко лишь тому, кому трудности привычны. Никакая победа не вечна. Вечна лишь борьба. В этой борьбе важна любая победа, даже малая. Хочешь победы- готовься к борьбе. Поражение – не конец. Кто не смирился, тот не побеждён. Бояться ничего не надо! Всё можно изменить к лучшему. Укрепляйте в себе всё живое, и в первую очередь волю к жизни, уважение к себе, уверенность в coбственных силах, честь, чувство человеческого достоинства. Воля укрепляется в борьбе. Надо запомнить, что лучше быть здоровым, умным и богатым, чем бедным, глупым и больным. Самым вопиющим недостатком является безволие. Не стойте, праздно наблюдая за происходящим, а делайте жизнь такой, как вам надо. Что сделаем, то и будет. Если мы ничего не будем делать, то будет так, как сделают другие. Жизнь не идет сама по себе. Она делается. 

Very Wise

When you want to reach a floating ball in the sea, if you swim towards it, it will go further away from you. If you stay calm and still, the waves will bring it back to you.

Lost In Thought

"Most people spend their entire life imprisoned

within the confines of their own thoughts.

They never go beyond a narrow,

mind-made,

personalized sense of self

that is conditioned by the past.

In you,

in each human being,

there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought.

It is the very essence of who you are.

We may call it presence,

awareness,

the unconditioned consciousness.

In ancient teachings,

it is the Christ within,

or your Buddha nature.

Finding that dimension frees you

and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself

and others when the mind-made "little me"

is all you know

and runs your life.

Love,

joy,

creative expansion,

and lasting inner peace 

cannot come into your life 

except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.

If you can recognize,

even occasionally,

the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts,

if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns

as they happen,

then that dimension is already emerging in you

as the awareness in which thoughts 

and emotions happen -

the timeless inner space in which the

content of your life unfolds.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can

easily drag you along with it.

Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

It wants to draw your attention in completely.

Here's a new spiritual practice for you:

Don't take your thoughts too seriously."

~Eckhart Tolle

When Overwhelmed

1. Practice acceptance – Some degree of anxiety is “normal”, healthy, and motivating. It is what helps us get to appointments on time. It’s “normal” to experience some degree of anxiety when stressors are unfamiliar, unpredictable, and/or imminent. Anxiety, in itself, feels bad, but is not harmful and always passes. Think of it like a wave of the ocean; allow it to come in and ride it out.

2. Dismiss your thoughts – We all have moments in which we increase our own anxiety by worrying about that which we cannot completely control. These thoughts are often unrealistic, inaccurate, or to some extent, unreasonable. Catch those thoughts, think about them and how they affect you, and change them to more helpful, adaptive thoughts.

3. Be in the “now” – Too much focus on worrying about what may or may not come and you will not be able to enjoy the present moment. So, schedule some time to plan for what is to come, but take in all that is your present moment and enjoy the present.

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Also, u are a high self monitor You constantly need approval of your actions and motivations Simply put, you gotta give a lot less shit about what others think And concentrate on yourself