Focus Affirmations: ways to remember the goal
We have so many things pulling us away from our focus. Here are 14 reminder Focus Affirmations to get us back on purpose.
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creative spirituality
Creative spirituality is observing that we create our own lives and spirituality.
Creativity is spirituality. Explore your unique spiritual journey. Keep your mind and heart open without judging ideas or situations. Learn to believe that in spiritual terms all is equal, that labels like good and bad are barriers to that equality. Practice by doing what you love. Get the spirit tools you need to support that journey of spirituality.
Creative Spirituality Big Ideas
- Every creative journey is unique. We are all on a creative journey.
- Don’t judge ideas or dreams, your own or those of others. Unnecessary labels are judgments.
- Negative emotions are needed as part of the journey. Learn to embrace them, and use them to grow. Release the fear of the unknown.
- Our spirit is practiced in what we think about and in the actions we take. You cannot hide who you are. Your spirit reveals all.
- Spiritual practices should be custom made to enhance your needs and goals.
- Positivity enhances life, but it cannot be your only view.
Spirituality theme family
A few ways to focus on spirit
| spiritual concepts | positivity | spirit tools | |
| what | Ideas that represent actions and ways if thinking from a spirit based point of view. | The belief that the world is better when we spread positive energy. | Creative spirituality can be practiced with tools that focus our attention on our spirit. |
| examples | attachment, belief, forgiveness, motivation, unity | compliments, pay it forward, putting someone at ease, smiling | affirmations, journaling, meditations, prayer |
Positive Focus: Positivity as a purpose
Negativity vs Positivity I have always thought of myself as a happy person. Always consider myself to be an optimist. I believe in the basic good of people, and of myself. But at times I have been confronted with evidence to the contrary: parents growing up, spousal arguments and good friends risking our friendship to
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Creativity Meditation Questions: ponder the process
These questions are for meditation in this sense of “to think about, ponder, contemplate.” They are not questions with immediate, easy answers. But they are worth thinking about. Let me know how you use them, and what kind of answers you come up with. You could just sit and think about these things, write them
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Simple Meditation Practice: God in the Familiar
This is a guest post by R. Glenn Guillory A Simple Meditation Practice Every day I am in the practice of walking outside and standing under the 4 a.m. sky. I stand on a stepping stone on the path that leads off into the garden and the small wood at the far end of the garden.
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Evolving Faith and Doubt: One Seeker’s View
This is a guest post by R. Glenn Guillory Standard Faith The accepted definition of faith is believing in something without any evidence of it. “Trust in your own mind,” or “sans- Christ” faith is then believing in the unity of all sentient beings. Faith For Me To me faith is a complex and ever-changing
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December Affirmations: Lights for the Descent into Winter
December contains the shortest day of the year, it also contains the celebration that is supposed to be the happiest. We celebrate in the darkest part of the year, not in spite of it but because it is the dark, gloomy period. To make this work, we have to be conscious in lifting our own
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Elder Wisdom: finding advice and guidance from the past
I often wish I could talk to the people who influenced me. My grandmother knew me better than anyone. There have also been writers from the past who I feel such a kinship with that I wish I could communicate with them, or maybe find a whole new undiscovered cache of their work. Then come
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Empathy: learning to walk in another’s shoes
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone else. Empathy: the other person’s perspective If we want to show empathy to someone else, we have to recognize that we are like them. We cannot be empathetic to someone if we don’t feel the basic bonds of humanness with them. In addition
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Community Affirmations: Encouragement for Building
We all have the desire to be part of a community. This search for connection is universal, and exists even among people who think of themselves as loners. To become part of this sense of community, we have to be proactive and put ourselves out there. We have to be open to being different from
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Ending Friendships: When is it time to give up?
Taking Stock of Your Friendships If only we had unlimited numbers of friendships and all were perfectly encouraging, life would be ideal. But we all know that is not how it works. Sometimes ending friendships is the only way forward. Reasons for Ending Friendships: You Grow Apart Often this happens with friends from your
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