by baLooT on July 17, 2008
We have all heard about, read about and told others about the importance of rest. I didn’t realize how important it was until I had gone 6 months without a day off. After 6 months of working a minimum of 12 hours a day and 7 days a week, I had not taken one single day off. Here’s a sample of my daily routine and the observation to follow.
1. I wake up at 0400 to read my Bible and have a cup of coffee. My morning used to include journaling but that had gone by the way side.
Observation - I was at the point that I couldn’t focus, comprehend or retain anything I was reading in my Bible. I was now praying that God would help me to wake up so I could hear Him speaking to me but I couldn’t close my eyes to pray because my mind would start drifting off elsewhere or back to sleep.
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by baLooT on June 6, 2008
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Many people in our modern times have what they describe as memories of having lived past lives. Remembering a past life has a potential profound healing effect on one’s health, relationships, life work, spiritual understanding and sense of Self. A past life memory can also be an opening for one’s spiritual evolution and growth. I know because I have remembered many of my own past life experiences and I have facilitated thousands of people while they were in a hypnotic state as they remembered their past lives.
Both spiritual traditions, Hinduism and Buddhism, have versions of reincarnation in their theologies. In both traditions there is a belief that the soul is eternal and that it takes different forms through out the process of birth, death and rebirth. In each tradition there is a belief that the incarnate form and life experiences one has is the effect of past lives. The concept of Karma, cause and effect, is also universal to these traditions. It is interesting to me that in the class readings reincarnation is never addressed as a part of the spiritual precepts or beliefs. In both spiritual traditions reincarnation is a basic component of the theology. The ultimate expression of spiritual growth is moving beyond the cycles of death and rebirth, to a state of re-emergence with the divine.
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