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Spirituality

The most important journey you can take is the journey within. This is a journey to the truth of who you really are. This is the place, just beyond every day consciousness, where spiritual empowerment begins. Spiritual power gives you the power to choose creative thinking rather than automated thinking, response rather than reaction, peace, love and harmony rather than stress, conflict and chaos.

According to Brahma Kumaris there needs to be a radical change in the hearts and minds of people throughout the world. But the world will only change when we change in the way we relate to ourselves, others and nature. How can we change?

1. Live simply and eat well, cooked with love. Use your resources based on your needs and not on your desires.

2. Open your heart and connect with the global family.

3. Clean your mind: stop negative thinking and use the power of the mind in a positive way.

4. Empower yourself and follow your dream: we are the creators of our own world.

5. Feed the soul: spend time alone in meditation gives us inner strength and wisdom to deal with life in a peaceful way.

Meditation enables you to embark on this inward journey. Raja Yoga meditation gives you a clear spiritual understanding of yourself, helps you re–discover and use the positive qualities already latent within you, enables you to develop your strengths of character and create new attitudes and responses to life.

You begin to remember things about yourself that you once knew, but had long forgotten. You start to enjoy moments of silence and to savour periods of introspection and reflection.

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I have started a course on Raja Yoga two years ago in The Hague. It helped me a lot to relax and contact my inner self. I must say that it is not easy to maintain the habit of meditation in a busy life with family, kids and work.

But, when I don't stop in time to bring my attention back to myself, I am unable to stop the heavy traffic of my thoughts. I become stressed. As soon as I start to observe my thoughts they will naturally begin to slow down. Then I remember who I am—a peaceful soul who is the master of mind and body. Three minutes spent practising this exercise regularly enables me to quickly regain concentration, focus, energy and inspiration.

Inspiration leads to innovation, mobilisation and transformation. Ideas are the first step towards change. You can only transform if you know your inner self. When you know your inner enemies, and accept and respect yourself. It is a moment bigger than your ego. An idea larger than your own thinking, an action which makes your heart beat faster.

If you are inspired, it feels like having sex: when you feel it, it is everywhere: overwhelming!

The best inspiration I have in the early morning, often still the remains of a dream. Then I create from emptyness and silence. This energy comes from within. Very pure. Another kind of inspiration I find in the evenings, after a full day of chaos. Energy from outside.

www.stevensportal.com interesting site with many links on spirituality: environmentally and socially responsible initiatives. Steven especially likes to include links connecting to small and lesser-known grassroots organizations whose websites offer informative and inspiring depictions of their work.

www.spiritualtravel.org This site introduces the concept of spiritual travel. Spiritual travel is a form of out-of-body experience done voluntarily to achieve a spiritual goal. In order to have an out-of-body experience, the soul or consciousness of the individual must temporarily leave the physical body. During out-of-body experience, the physical senses shut down. When this occurs, an entirely new world opens up to the individual. Spiritual travel is a special type of out-of-body experience where the individual's awareness is heightened, and he or she is able to make decisions and direct the experience.

The spectrum of experience afforded by spiritual travel is very broad and can include a wide variety of psychic and spiritual states. In most cases, the spiritual traveler is able to clearly remember the experiences and learn from them. Spiritual travel is sometimes called transcendent or ecstatic experience because it deals with the "inner" senses rather than the physical senses.

Attempts to describe the value of spiritual travel in abstract terms seem destined to failure. Phrases like "spiritual freedom" and "increased awareness" sound vague and diffuse. However, when one reads the many firsthand accounts of spiritual travel experience listed at this site, the meaning of these phrases becomes much more clear and concrete.

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