Spiritual Practice

contemplation: who am I?

Request: Ramana Maharshi said the way to enlightenment is to ask yourself daily "Who am I?"

spending time in nature

Priority request: linked to a number of physical and mental health benefits, from improving mood to reduced risk of disease. But how effective is it as a spiritual practice or with the intention to heal?

asking for a miracle, then forgetting about it

Priority request: In the linked video, Doc encourages us to tell God "I of myself am unable to do this, and I ask for a miracle" then to completely forget about it.

shadow work

Priority request: “Working with your unconscious mind to uncover the parts of yourself that you repress and hide from yourself” — betterup.com.

"Lord, you know what is best. Let this, or that, be done as you wish"

Priority request: This is a prayer I have been using lately from the Hallow app. It's short, to the point, and brings peace of mind.

talking with someone close as a spiritual practice

Friend therapy.

meditating with marijuana

Request: Sometimes I take marijuana to be able to speak to God and Jesus without any resistances or blocks from lower levels of consciousness. What is the calibration of this intention/practice?

asceticism

Request: a lifestyle of strict self-discipline and giving up worldly comforts and physical pleasures to achieve a higher spiritual or religious goal.

letting go by yawning

Request: noticed I yawn much more after starting letting go.

pathway of the heart

Request: Doc talked about this. What is the full field of this pathway?

confession as a spiritual practice

"Confession brings reconciliation between God and the penitent, between the penitent and others, and to the individual penitent" -- hallow. Priority request.

praying for the same thing over and over

Request: Is this a desire thing or maybe a pragmatic way of staying aligned with something meaningful? I usually feel better when I talk to God about it but it seems kind of compulsive at times too.

volunteering as a spiritual practice

Priority request: Helping a specific group of people who are suffering. Usually to practice spiritual qualities like lovingness, caringness, graciousness.

consciousness calibration as a spiritual practice

Request: practicing consciousness calibration seems to help on the spiritual pathway in all points of observation.

12-step programs

Calibrated in Truth vs. Falsehood at 540. The motivation, awareness and focus is high, but what about the overall effect, all things considered?