Practicing Gratitude

admin The Spiritual Path June 16, 2018June 20, 2018emotional wounds, gratitude, gratitude journal 0 Comment

If you are looking for a powerful spiritual practice, you might consider gratitude. Practicing gratitude will make you feel better, be happier, more connected to others, improve your relationships, be less depressed and believe it or not, actually lengthen your life! Want to be more compassionate? Work on gratitude. Want more inner peace? Practice gratitude. Want more patience? Get intoRead more

Being Angry

admin Life Experiences June 9, 2018July 10, 2018boilng over, collapse, emotional wounds, false anger, fear, rage, reacting, wounds 0 Comment

Do you get upset easily? Do other people set you off? Do you get angry, explosively so, at your partner? Worse yet, are you unremittingly harsh on yourself? What about other drivers? Or, conversely, are you withdrawn and totally timid? Do you live in abject fear of being hurt if you speak your mind? A certain amount of anger isRead more

The Costs Of War
Annapolis grad and nuclear submarine commander, former President Jimmy Carter famously said, “The United States is the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” We don’t like to see ourselves cast in this light, but the truth is that America, more than any other nation on earth, is the great promoter of violence. […]
Gratitude
Gratitude changes the lens through which you view life. It pulls you out of the morass of your daily ego struggles and reminds you of how much you are loveland supported. It also helps protect you from the destructive influences of envy, resentment, greed and bitterness. […]
What Are You Worth? Part II – God’s View
This will be hard for some of you to hear, but everyone gets the life they need in order to advance their spiritual development. If you didn’t have a great deal of work to do, you could choose a life of minimal struggle. Others needed to do more work, so they chose lives that offered more conflict. And then there are those who, for whatever reason, chose to eat the whole whale in one sitting. […]
What Are You Worth? Part I
We are never sure about our worth, but the doubt of our worthiness is always lurking about in the shadows. And feeling unworthy is a measure of the state of our consciousness. […]
DEALING WITH PROBLEMS
Whatever path you choose, recognize that your pain comes from your reluctance to embrace and move with The Universe’s greater truth. It isn’t about “them,” and it isn’t about God, your pain is yours. You create it. […]