I’m Not Religious – I’m Spiritual!

Shed Your Dogmatism And Legalism In Order To Live Meaningfully And Passionately

Synopsis

Every person’s life is a profound mystery. Deep and invisible currents make us who we are, and the world around us is full of secret purposes and laws. One reaction to all this mystery is to treat it as a problem to be solved, and to do everything possible to be informed and in control. But another way is to bow down in ignorance and confess our limitations. Religion and spirituality, for eons has been closely connected and offered creative ways to become individuals of depth and compassion by embracing spirituality. The religions have a cherished cargo, but they often fail in their job by moralizing, intellectualizing, and defending themselves to such an extent that their real intention is clouded. Today individuals all over the world are deserting the religions in disgust and anger. Still, everybody has an instinct for transcendence. Individuals know that some kind of spiritual life is essential, and so a lot of people are exploring on their own or joining new churches and communities. They differentiate between their own personal spirituality they’ve found and the religious institution they’ve abandoned.

Table Of Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1: The Argument – Is There a God?

Chapter 2: Being Spiritual

Chapter 3: Spirituality Vs Religion

Chapter 4: Techniques of Spirituality

Chapter 5: Affirmation and Spirituality

Chapter 6: Finding What’s Right for You – Inner Guidance

Wrapping Up

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Chapter 5:

Affirmations and Spirituality

Synopsis

Prayer, chanting, repeating a word to concentrate, or meditation can lower blood pressure, decease heart disease, cure infertility, and decrease AIDS symptoms. Relaxation and meditation reduces the number of doctors visits a person needs to make by up to 36%. As many as 40-50% of infertility patients conceived after starting the practice. Pain and surgical healing time are lessened with this approach. Meditation can de-stress your life and allow the negative impact of stress on the body to dissolve. While many people have known and believed for years that meditation, visualizations and positive affirmations can keep your mind, body and spirit healthy, it wasn’t taken seriously by the established medical community. Then a Harvard medical professor published findings of his study using these techniques. Finally, scientific proof had shown that Spirituality heals.

Affirmations and Spirituality

Prayer, chanting, repeating a word to concentrate, or meditation can lower blood pressure, decease heart disease, cure infertility, and decrease AIDS symptoms. Relaxation and meditation reduces the number of doctors visits a person needs to make by up to 36%. As many as 40-50% of infertility patients conceived after starting the practice.

Pain and surgical healing time are lessened with this approach. Meditation can de-stress your life and allow the negative impact of stress on the body to dissolve. While many people have known and believed for years that meditation, visualizations and positive affirmations can keep your mind, body and spirit healthy, it wasn’t taken seriously by the established medical community. Then a Harvard medical professor published findings of his study using these techniques. Finally, scientific proof had shown that Spirituality heals.

Whatever the reason, progressively more and more individuals are now understanding that the way to mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health is through the mind. Just as our spirit is what we are so is our health what we are. Being healthy is normal and natural; being ill is not. We all have the power to take control of our lives and manifest our own destiny. A healthy destiny, not the one that the world looks upon today. That normal is pain, suffering and disease.

The initial step on the road to health is to believe that you do have control. This does not mean that medications or medical intervention is never necessary. What is does mean is that you are able to reduce the use of both and in some instances, such as high blood pressure, even eliminate it. To learn to believe, you must visualize it. Visualization is an easy yet very powerful tool. Close your eyes and see yourself as a healthy, vibrant person.

See the fit way you do things. Life is a joy because you have the energy and vitality to do all the things you wish to do. See it in your mind. See yourself doing favorite things. See yourself going for a medical check-up and the doctor telling you everything is normal and you are healthy. See these pictures. Take yourself through the scenes just as though you’re watching a movie. The difference is, this movie will play over and over again – until you believe it’s real. Then you will make it become real.

The next step is to affirm the visualizations. Many of us are so used to viewing our health through a negative scene that this may be difficult. We may be around people who think negatively. Affirmations are statements of acceptance that one uses to allow the manifestation of your destiny. They’re powerful and positive thoughts and statements sent out to the universe.

To do positive affirmations, you need to eliminate the negativity around you. If that means going to a different room, going for a walk, or finding a quiet space that’s all yours. You must get away from negative thoughts and energies around you so that all your positive thoughts remain positive. As you say them out loud and to yourself, the affirmations are becoming a part of your conscious, then subconscious mind.

Repetition will drive them deeper into your being so that they become a vital part of you. You must affirm every day that there’s one more powerful than you, be this the Universe. Whatever your belief system, it all still fits. Next, you need to know that healthy is normal. Third, to know that your spirit, which is you, is connected to the all-powerful being in your life. You will repeat everyday: “I am a valuable person. I deserve to be valued. I am a healthy being. It is normal to be healthy and vital. My health is part of my being and my being is connected to the higher self. “Soon, this will be the normal way you approach your health. Not the negative way the world has made it.

Visualizations and affirmations are important, but how do we bring it all together and de-stress. The answer is very simple – meditation. During meditation, you will re-play the movie you have set up. During meditation, you’ll repeat your affirmations. Meditation will de-stress you. Several people don’t have any idea how to meditate.

Meditation is easy, yet requires concentration, preparation and some items to make your thoughts clear and positive. The preparation is both psychological and physical. The psychological means that you must talk to yourself and give yourself permission to have 30-60 minutes of time where only you are the concern; that all other activities may cease; that all other thoughts can be left until after your time with yourself.

Once all the preparations are in place and you’re relaxed, sit and concentrate on your object while slowly breathing in – and – out. Empty all thoughts from your mind so that all you can see or think of is your object and your breathing. With each breath in tell yourself that your are breathing in the energy of the Universe. Breathe out the stress and relax each muscle of your body beginning at your feet and moving up. Do this until your entire body is deeply relaxed. Then begin the movie in your mind, repeating your affirmations as it plays. Allow yourself to SEE and BELIEVE. At the end of your meditation session, you will be surprised at how refreshed and invigorated you feel.

By practicing these techniques 30-60 minutes a day, you will soon notice that you’re feeling happier and healthier than you’ve ever felt. You’ll also find a peace within yourself you have not known before. This is because the realization that you manifest your destiny gives you a power that you have never known. Once the method is very familiar to you and you’re ready, you will be able to move on to other visualizations and affirmations for your life.

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