Spiritual Health

Life has no meaning if it doesn't include its mysteries. Life must be embraced with curiosity for the mystical, the sublime, the unknowable. This is what spirituality is all about.

Spirituality enlarges the personality. It expands our vision. Everything - including improved health - is possible when you are in God consciousness, no matter how you may be feeling.

By the way, I believe awe is the greatest component of spirituality. This feeling of awe helps to keep you in God consciousness. Awe is not only good preventative medicine, but also an excellent healing tool.

It is through a sense of awe that we negate the frightened solitude of the Existentialist - a solitude that can lead to many debilitating effects. When we experience awe of our Creator, our soul unfolds itself like a "lotus of countless pearls" and helps the physical body to bloom.

Perhaps the most effective way to improve your spiritual health is by opening yourself to more love. There is a commandment to love. Because love is not always simple to accomplish, we are commanded to love. The implication is that this is a commandment we must work on.

Why must we love? There are many reasons, but let me offer you a very simple one. It will make you feel better on a psychological, physical, and spiritual level. Love power generates a chain reaction which brings you closer to your spirituality. And the closer you get to your spirituality the better you will feel.

So to open your spiritual eyes you must practice love, not only towards the Creator, but to yourself and your fellow man as well. Such a loving attitude will not only bring you personal joy, but freedom from repressed hostility, guilt, and anxiety - negative feelings that can create emotional and physical problems.

Your spiritual health can also be harmonized by entering the "secret place of the most high" through daily meditation or through through daily prayer. Try to listen to the sound of a Mighty Presence with your whole being when you meditate or pray. Become one with the expression "I am all ears" and earnestly seek spiritual guidance in your life.

The following exercise will help you to become conscious of the importance of maintaining spiritual health in order to bring about healing. Practice this technique the next time you sit down to eat with a family member or a good friend.

Exercise

Just before you are about to eat, press your right palm to your dining companion's left palm. The combining of the right palm with the left - the positive with the negative - suggests that we are at peace with ourselves and each other.

Next, recite a prayer of thanksgiving for the food before you. Think not only about Creator when you utter this prayer of thanksgiving, but also about the farmer who got up at 3 A.M. to work the land that produced what you are about to eat. Think of the workers who harvested the crop, the many people involved in getting your food to supermarket shelves. Give your blessings to all the people that were involved in producing and packaging that piece of bread you are about to eat.