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My Spiritual Path

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Love.  Love is my spiritual path.  It started years ago after reading a book called, "Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It", By Kamal Ravikant.  It is a short and inexpensive book that I downloaded from Amazon.com.  This book might change your life, I know it changed mine.   The book suggests a few things like chanting "I love myself", over and over again.  Of course I resisted it.  I thought I could come up with something more clever and personal to me like "I am love" or "The Universe loves me", or even "Love, Love, Love".  These thoughts kept me from repeating the mantra like I was supposed to.  I simply couldn't decide on one.     Instead of chanting I found myself thinking about self-love.  I mean, what would that look like?  I found myself asking lots of questions like:   Is this food loving for my body?  Is being with this person a loving experience for me?  Is thinking this thought a loving act?  The
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Kundalini Yoga for Removing Fear

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 I have found Kundalini Yoga to be so helpful in my life and think it a valuable tool.  If you haven't tried Kundalini Yoga, give it a try!  It is very different from other forms of yoga.  In my opinion, it is about balancing energy more than stretching the body.  Give this meditation a try.
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June 14, 2015

It has been years since I have posted anything on this blog and I feel badly about that.  Fear is a difficult issue to deal with and from my current perspective, one that must be dealt with in a loving manner.  I see people everywhere experiencing fear (and other very destructive emotions).  When you are experiencing fear it is because you are perceiving an illusion.  You think you are separate from God (your higher power, the universe, whatever you choose to call it)...which is really impossible.  This is all explained in great detail in a wonderful book called A Course in Miracles .  I have found A Course in Miracles to be infinitely helpful in my spiritual growth and I cannot recommend it highly enough! http://www.acim.org/   A Course in Miracles, Foundation for Inner Peace https://www.facim.org/   Foundation for a Course in Miracles.  This is Gloria and Kenneth Wapnick's website The above are just two of the many websites devoted to this amazing book.  At first glance it
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The State of Ease

Free e-book from Doc Childre.  This book contains the "Inner-Ease™  Technique" which can be very helpful in times of stress.  Check it out! http://www.heartmath.org/free-services/downloads/state-of-ease.html The book is also available in 6 languages other than English.
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Helpful Books

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The Breath of the River.

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The   breath of the river   slowly   rises   from the banks and spreads   toward the   sleeping countryside . Music from the movie, "Home", sung by  Adèle Carlier
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The Mind-killer

I was speaking with my sister recently when I remembered a class I attended where it was said that the Buddha taught that some people are born (or develop the capacity to absorb or experience) pain or fear for another person.  I like that idea.  I like that my fear might be a good thing, that I might be helping someone else by processing my fear or pain. My technique for dealing with fear is to let it pass through me (like in the movie "Dune", "fear is the mind-killer...").  I surrender to fear and let it wash over me.  For me, it feels like I am opening up my chest and letting fear in.  Resistance to the fear is what causes it to escalate.  Resistance can certainly cause suffering, all by itself.  I find that by surrendering/accepting fear, I am much more present.  I am much more "in the moment" than I have ever been before. I say bring it on!
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