Spiritual Practice

clean slate (spiritual practice)

request: leaving behind what you thought you knew and starting afresh.

relax and let God handle it

Request: This seems to be a powerful posture of surrender that ultimately gives over responsibility to God which allows one to finally let go and relax. It is in God's hands so you can relax in that certainty.

"The Work" by Byron Katie

Calibration of this method of self-inquiry.

prayer: may all be healed in me and through me by thy energy, O Lord

In this case, "me" is a non-dualistic expression of oneness which comprehends no spiritual separation between forms and bodies.

Being Aware of Being Aware, by Rupert Spira

"The knowing of our being—or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being in us—is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience."

forgiving the lower astrals that have inhabited my being for everything

Priority request: Inspiration and sudden influx of compassion for all suffering …also the realization that naivete is not compassion.

The Buddha's four domains of mindfulness

Request: Practice leading to full enlightenment.

dismissing all suffering as an illusion

Request: A simple and quick way to move past spiritual blocks. Just dismiss it as an illusion.

Hara meditation

by request: "David R Hawkins mentions it in Healing and Recovery (in regards to using it during intimacy)."

Vipassana meditation

"to see things as they really are... observing your thoughts and emotions as they are, without judging or dwelling on them" -- healthline.com.

surrendering something we want in the hopes of then being able to receive it

Hope suggests an incomplete surrender, yet the result is still positive.

deciding something is yours

"You can just decide something is yours, without desire or any other negative position. Then it's a highest-good decision, meaning good for everyone. In this scenario, attachment doesn't come into play. Attachment doesn't occur in the context of the highest good" -- Brian's comment.

contemplation: from what experience do I derive the certainty that I am?

Request: Suggested contemplation by Rupert Spira.

a quote from St. Arsenius about reading scripture

A monk complained to St. Arsenius that while reading Holy Scripture he does not feel, neither the power of the words read nor gentleness in his heart...

Jnana mudra

A contemplative hand gesture.