crying as a spiritual practice
Request: Letting yourself cry can feel wonderful. Let it all out!
Spiritual Practice
Wim Hof Method
Cold therapy, breathing, commitment.
zazen, shikantaza meditation
Styles of Zen meditation.
forgiving others for their past mistakes
Priority request.
visualizing the desired outcome, then surrendering it to God
Priority request: spiritual teachers advise to be unattached to outcomes. I found this approach useful. It lets the mind settle because I feel like I got something "off my chest" and then there is peace that God will bring about what is supposed to happen, independent of my desires and fears.
asking God to help others
Request: When you see the suffering of another person, ask God to help them. Is it good to do it or is it better to believe that God will help them anyways and not pray for them?
praying for the animals whose meat you've just eaten
Request: Feels like the right thing to do. But is it?
Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
a Christian devotion to the Divine Mercy from St. Faustina Kowalska of Krakow, Poland. Priority request.
The Welcoming Prayer - Thomas Keating
"...I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself. I open to the love and presence of God and God’s action within..." (excerpt)
closing one’s right eye as a spiritual practice
Request: to facilitate switching to right brain.
mindfulness of speech
Request: asking oneself if what one is about to say is true? Kind? Necessary? etc…
kundalini yoga
Calibrated at 510 [highest awareness] in Truth vs. Falsehood. The ADAP calibration measures effect in all dimensions.
listening to positive affirmations every day
Request: Making a short list of positive affirmations such as "Everything is always working out for me," or "My life is ruled by order and harmony" then recording them and playing them on repeat for 10 minutes or so. Is this an effective way to use mantras and align with a positive field?
T/F: wearing a cross protects against demons
Request: We know that making the sign of the cross dissolves demons in one’s aura. Does wearing a cross offer similar protection?
Kriya yoga
"controlling prana (life force) by distilling prana from the breath and thus recharging the body cells... the cells are recharged by the reinforced bodily life-force and the cosmic life; the physical cells therefore neither change nor decay" -- Yogananda.