Your Most Effective Spiritual Practices
Because we're each unique, the spiritual practices that work best for one person, may not be helpful for another. Nevertheless, we certainly can and do learn from each other. In this discussion, please tell us about what works best for you, and perhaps what doesn't work.
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Permalink Reply by tessa lynne on -
Along my spiritual path I have encountered external challenges when I reveal/act on my beliefs/sources. It has been essential for me to return to what I have experienced from and in the depth of my being, realizing there the truth. As the impact of astounding experiences of some years ago lose their initial force, and encountering resistance/contradiction, I can find myself as if adrift on a stormy sea. Returning to daily practice calms the storm, anchors me in the quiet, still depths where I first knew the truth of my experience. I find meditation and prayer most valuable, and more so while hiking or in a walking meditation.
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Permalink Reply by Cathrynn on -
Graham, that seems to be reallly so good, to be able to allow your journey to enable you o walk through situations and experiences beyond your normal capacity and still remain full present and in touch with God.............I have been blown away rather by situations these last years though am coming back to a quietness now and able to 'let go and let God' as I have heard said somewhere. I would love to practice Qi gong...have meant to do that..and maybe I will. Tessa - I had an experience that changed my life as well, 24 years ago and set myself on a path that seemed as though it was a pathway I needed to follow - and I have done that. I agree, that the experience can fade and lose a certain momentum because of the bustle of life coming in - but, I can always return to this, cant you? - to realise there is some purpose, even when life is a tumult. For me, it is reasonably calm now, but with possible tumult in the future - I want to prepare myself as Graham has been able to - to be able to tread the pathway of tumult and manage better.....take care....Cathrynn x
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Permalink Reply by Graham Edwards on -
i seem to be on an journey with each step along the path being important and progressive.
My spiritual practice arising out of a need to confront , embrace and walk through situations and experiances beyond my normal capacity. thus out of need to seek a scence of awareness and connection beyond myself.
"Listening prayer" coming as fully present before god as i a currently able, has led to enabling, healing and
guidence acted upon through surrender.
Currently practing Qi gong with" active awarness as unto God" is enhancing and unfolding me,
To summerise:" Hopes deep longing .... now fulfilling,
Deep yearning ... deeply breathed,
Determination yielding to embrace"
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Permalink Reply by Cathrynn on
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When I was younger I seemed more in tune with spiritual practice than I am now, in my sixties. I became very involved with my own business, then my husband died four years ago and life became almost impossible. I am now starting to come into the daylight and endeavouring to come back to the spiritual life that I seemed to be part of years ago. I find it extraordinary that the older I get the more difficult I find this. Well - I say this in one way - but in another I feel very in touch with another realm that guides my life. I must learn to be still again...:) I would be grateful to learn of other people who have had similar experiences and how they returned ... ? Cathrynn X
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Permalink Reply by tessa lynne on
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Cathrynn, you give several indications of already being on the path that you seek. Perhaps your mature self is more cautious, but your search is likely to have lasting effects. In the last year my life has changed completely, habits & contacts that kept me spiritually grounded were undone. I ran across Inner Frontier and visted several times to reacquaint myself with what I have known, to renew my practice. You wrote of being still. I find that a key to the truth within, but also find an even deeper expression of that truth in reaching out to others. It has helped me to realize that what I seek is always there, eternally present, waiting for me to reach out. tessalynne
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Permalink Reply by Rejean on -
I become still, stall my thinking process, feel the active life force in the emptyness of matter, feel it go through the form I have at this moment...activating my body cell, my organs, my brain...and then I reboot my thinking capacity and use it to share my awe, appreciation with God who is the manipulator of this 'life active force' . I then 'enter' into His peace, joy and love. Nothing matters then! I am a unique entity, other than Him by fully complete with Him. Rejean
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