Spiritual Practice

praying to Doc

Request: for help and guidance.

holding in mind the master...

…potentiates mastery within the student -- request.

doing something you're afraid of as a spiritual practice

Request: After walking through fear, we find that we are safe. Doing this as a spiritual practice may help us surrender our fears and experience life with more ease and joy.

"let go and let God"

Turning control over to God.

reflectiveness

Request: "is the quality of being thoughtful, contemplative, or given to quiet meditation and careful deliberation. It refers to a deep, often calm, state of thinking rather than impulsive action" -- Google AI.

nonresistance as a spiritual practice

By request.

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.