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Below we explore spiritual questions about healing of the body and healing of the spirit.
This topic usually involves the word ‘how’. How we can find a spiritual energy for healing our body. How we can stop hurting. How we can better deal with our own negative emotions and discover inner well-being. How some of our unhealthy attitudes can improve. The ways to restore unhealthy relationships. Recovering from misfortune. Finding inner well-being.
Articles address for example what to say to someone recently bereaved. How to alleviate dissatisfaction and discontentment. Healing the tendency to be suspicious. Learning patience when faced with frustration. Finding the energy for sympathy and compassion for the suffering of others. Gaining relief from anxiety and stress. Using spiritual awareness for lifting depressed mood. Working on healthy self-respect in the face of guilt feelings. How to discover gratitude in yourself when this is lacking. Recovering from resentment. Tackling unhappy childhood memories.
We may be aware of an unhealthy attitude that is self-defeating and needs to change. Perhaps we want to be cured of hero-worship or a miserly response to charity appeals. Do we want to improve an indifferent attitude to those in need?
What is our attitude to work?
What about one’s attitude to oneself? Do we avoid the issues for example of self-restraint, procrastination or a false sense of inferiority or superiority? What is our attitude to asking to be helped for the sake of inner well-being?
Is there a need to examine one’s attitude to old age, dying and death?
How might one discover a new direction in life that involves a sound idea of one’s potential true self?
Does one have illusions that destroy hope that need healing?
Articles here make suggestions about how to heal difficult relationships.
Helping to build confidence between people in fraught circumstances. Finding a happy medium between being sceptical and too trusting. Working on couple disharmony. Safely criticising others.
Suggestions are offered about when to be and not to be honest, in dealing with one’s enemies.
Other issues dealt with include mending one’s relationship with God through prayer, and cultivating the spiritual energy for a healing presence with others.
Posts also deal with misfortune. Misfortune for example of disappointment, chronic pain, challenging situations, or when everything goes wrong.
Ideas are available on how we can learn to heal our inner person. Gaining positive awareness and spiritual awakening, exploring one’s inner journey, dealing with personal change and personal flaws, Finding food for the soul and healing of one’s spirit.
By Stephen Russell-Lacy. We all probably want happiness and inner well-being. Yet sometimes we lack uplifting thoughts, forget the meaning and purpose which gave our life a sense a of direction, or feel discouraged and stressed when facing adversity. Is it really so difficult creating inner well-being for ourselves? Reliance on others for inner well-being … Continue reading Inner well-being – Can I rely on myself?
By Stephen Russell-Lacy. Several spiritual movements offer courses and counselling for self-development. Their teachings form an inherent part of these. They claim we will gain increased emotional well-being and quality of life. Scientology is an example. It offers to remove hidden emotional pain within a person. The appeal is to those who wish to find … Continue reading Scientology – Useful or not?
By Stephen Russell-Lacy. They say that if you want a favour done, ask a busy person. There are some people who are more willing than others to go out of their way to be helpful even though they have a lot on their plate already. I guess the rest of us are not quite so … Continue reading Self-restraint – Vital for personal growth?
by Stephen Russell-Lacy. When on life’s path we are all likely to be blown off course by the myriad unsettling and distracting things in the world in which we live. By worries and stress to do with, for example, gaining social esteem, earning a living, keeping friends, or finding a mate. And so you may … Continue reading Spiritual practice – Which one is best?
By Stephen Russell-Lacy Superman along with other hero figures such as Spiderman and Batman have grabbed my young grandsons’ attention. They are crime fighting superheroes with a moral compass acting with super-powers for the benefit of humanity. What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom … Continue reading Hero worship – Good for spiritual health?
By Stephen Russell-Lacy If you are like me you may have a sneaky suspicion that you could be more giving . When you meet with others perhaps you could be a bit more ready to give something of yourself than is strictly necessary or expected. You don’t have to be stingy or mean to lack generosity – just a … Continue reading Giving – 4 tips for improvement
By Stephen Russell-Lacy Watching the matches in the FIFA world cup, I notice that the national line-ups apparently vary as to team spirit. You might wonder why this matters. Why is team spirit important? What brings it about? And what hinders it? Sweden’s team spirit After eliminating very good teams, Holland and Italy … Continue reading Team spirit – What causes it?
Do you avoid graveyards? Are you reluctant to attend funerals? Maybe you try not to think about death? Some people feel a sense of dread when the subject comes up. They see it as a grim horror yet it crops up in their dreams. This suggests a fear of death. Most of us harbour a … Continue reading Fear of death – how to beat it?
By Stephen Russell-Lacy. Do you sometimes feel indifferent to the problems people experience? A lack of concern for those in financial difficulty or who are ill or infirm? Perhaps you want to become someone with more warm-heartedness. To find more sympathy for the plight of others. Kindness is more than empathy. It is the … Continue reading Kindness – What hinders it?
What can hurt us more than the death of a loved one? We unconsciously attempt to protect ourselves from being overwhelmed by intense feelings of heartache. So an initial bereavement creates a sense of numbness and shock. However, sadness, anger, guilt, and/or depression may come soon. Grieving is a process and it is not … Continue reading Bereavement – What to say?
