Knowing how to pray for others and what to pray for can ease your heart and lift concerns from your shoulders. When someone we care about is struggling or hurting, it’s natural to pray for a solution. But if we remain in a state of worry or project images of helplessness onto our friends and …
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You don’t have to wait until you die and leave this body to surrender to your spiritual self and the God of your heart. Instead, you can choose to trust your higher self to guide you through life. Why not experience the peace, joy and freedom of being cared for and looked after every day? …
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We can learn many life lessons on love from Mother Teresa’s dedicated efforts to help the dying and destitute. Through simple acts of kindness and charity she taught the world to be more loving and compassionate. We don’t have to do missionary work in India or Africa to help heal the world – we can …
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When we started this spirituality website six months ago, I don’t recall asking, “What is spirituality?” So, here are several ideas about what it means to be spiritual from several spiritual leaders, with a special focus on my Christian faith-based perspective… But just because I follow the Christian religion doesn’t mean I’m religious! “Let’s distinguish religion from spirituality,” …
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Prayer can help bad relationships at work – especially if prayer is combined with spiritual ways to cope with toxic coworkers! Spiritual wisdom can be applied to most work problems, including negative coworkers, demanding bosses, or gossips. “We all need to be each other’s heroes – generously doing good for each other and treating one another with the respect and dignity …
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Stress affects us mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. When we ease stress with meditation, prayer or creative visualization, we become more mindful of what we need in order to create balance in our life. “Cultivating mindfulness can lead to the discovery of deep realms of relaxation, calmness and insights within yourself,” notes Jon Kabat-Zinn in …
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Deepening your relationship to the God of your heart will take you into a fuller experience of yourself as a spiritual being and open you to an abundance of love, joy and trust. These higher states of being are always there for us to tune into, but like the sun obscured by the clouds, our …
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Spiritual prayer has the power to release people from their suffering, to blanket them in compassion, and create miracles in their lives. Praying takes many forms. For some it involves reciting scriptures or taking part in religious rituals, for others it is a communion with nature, and for many it is a heartfelt conversation with …