Spiritual Disciplines
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The Call To Discipline - Volume 2 List Price: $13.99 Sale Price: $13.99  |
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Where the six songs on Volume One focused upon the process of starting up a daily sitting meditation practice, Volume Two is all about the expansion and integration of meditative discipline into the active areas of everyday life, including being with others... |
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The Call To Discipline - Volume 1 List Price: $13.99 Sale Price: $13.99 |
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The six songs of this CD take the listener on a musical trek across the mystical landscape that you find and explore when you begin your personal journey into a lifestyle of spiritual discipline.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media... |
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Daria's Inferno List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $39.99 |
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Voyage through the five circles of Daria's netherworld, as she finds herself lost in a nightmare she can't escape. Only you can help her wake up, by solving the mysteries of Miss Li's missing stuff. Five levels of gameplay feature all of the characters from Daria's show, as well as her characteristic commentary. |
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The Life You've Always Wanted: Six Sessions on Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $12.82 |
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In this six-session small group DVD curriculum, award-winning author John Ortberg teaches participants the skills essential to "running the marathon" in the Christian life: slowing down, celebrating j |
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Stretch and Pray: A Daily Discipline for Physical and Spiritual Wellness List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $10.88 |
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Chakra Yoga to Strengthen Your Immune System List Price: $19.95 |
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) List Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $3.96 |
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Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors... |
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life List Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $6.99 |
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In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us... |
Spiritual Weight Lifting
When we want to strengthen our muscles we lift weights. During this process our muscles become stronger in response to the need to cope with the strain, which is put on them.
However, if we increase the weight or the number of repetitions abruptly, we not only will not strengthen our muscles but we might seriously damage them.
One the other hand, if we do not lift any objects at all, our muscles will atrophy. If we lift the same weight everyday, they will remain at their present strength without any improvement.
The same holds true for our emotional, mental and spiritual muscles. If we continually avoid facing problems by hiding from them, or ignoring them, or by seeking external and superficial solutions such as tranquilizers, drugs or other external "security blankets", then our emotional, mental and spiritual muscles will atrophy daily.
We will become weak, fearful and dependent with a poor self-image. This leads to an ever-accelerating vicious circle of weakness, fear and dependency.
On the other hand, if we suddenly try to throw away every external support, we may fail so painfully that we shall fear trying again. This may then support our basic belief that we cannot make it on our own, that we are not strong enough. Of course this is not true. That would be like saying that, because we fell the first time we tried to walk, we would never be able to walk.
The solution, then, is to choose our weights correctly. We must continuously choose new goals of greater self-sufficiency, developing our inner strength gradually.
Life itself offers us from moment to moment the opportunities, which we need in order to grow. We need only to respond to these opportunities. We do not need to look for problems or difficulties. We can, however, examine our lives to check for problems which we have been hiding or avoiding. We can start working on these.
Also very important for weight lifting is regular practice. In our case this means daily exercise of the body, breath and mind.
So you might want to choose a challenge that you want do deal with more consciously and create a plan for meeting it.
Answering the following Questions will help:
1. Make a list of your present life challenges - such as problems, goals etc. (Consider health, family, profession, economics and social and spiritual life)
2. Chose the one you want to work with this week.
3. What will be the first step you need to make?
4. Are there any inner obstacles (fears, procrastination) which have obstructed your progress in the past?
5. If yes, what are they?
6. If yes, What will you do to overcome these obstacles?
7. What will be your first step this week towards that growth and change which you desire?
Daily positive projection, prayer, meditation, self analysis, and other mind strengthening techniques, are an absolute for those who would like to eventually lift the heavier weights on our evolutionary path.
Practice, Patience and Perseverance
About the Author
Robert E. Najemy, author of 25 books and life coach with 30 years of experience, has trained over 300 life coaches and now does so over the Internet. Become a life coach.
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