This document discusses how to discover your inner power and leadership abilities through spirituality and managing your consciousness. It explains that we lose power through distraction and negative thoughts, and that our existence has three levels - body, mind, and soul. While improving the body is important, corrupted software (mind) cannot be treated that way. A review of research found many health benefits from religious faith and spirituality for things like longevity, reducing risky behaviors, and well-being. True spirituality changes how we perceive, process, and pursue life's challenges for the better. Meditation helps stabilize and elevate our consciousness so we can better access our inner abilities.

1. Discover your inner
power & the soul
of leadership

2. Something missing?
Going up a 100 story
building

3. What is our power?
Our consciousness
The art of managing our
inner life

4. How we lose our power 1
To be distracted = to be
disempowered
Targeted by weapons of
mass distraction

5. How we lose our power 2
Background apps suck
phone’s power
Unexamined negative
thoughts suck our mental
power

6. Understanding our inner landscape
Three-level existence:
Body – Hardware
Mind – Software
Soul – User

7. Misdirected progress
“We have guided missiles &
misguided men”
- Martin Luther King
Improving hardware can’t treat
corrupted software

8. Handbook of Religion and Health
Oxford University Press,
Harold G. Koenig (MD), Michael E.
McCullough (PhD) and David B. Larson
(MD) reviewed more than two thousand
published experiments that tested the
relationship between religion and everything
from blood pressure, heart disease, cancer
and stroke to depression, suicide, psychotic
disorders and marital problems.

9. Handbook of Religion and Health
Oxford University Press,
People who attended a spiritual
program at least once a week lived
average seven years longer than
those who didn't attend at all.

10. Handbook of Religion and Health
Oxford University Press,
Religious youth showed significantly
lower levels of drug and alcohol abuse,
premature sexual involvement,
criminal delinquency and suicidal
tendencies than their nonreligious
counterparts

11. Handbook of Religion and Health
Oxford University Press,
Elderly people with deep, personal
religious faith have a stronger
sense of well-being and life
satisfaction than their less religious
peers.

12. Handbook of Religion and Health
Oxford University Press,
Koening’s Conclusion: "A high SQ faithfulness to
God appears to benefit people of all means,

14. Srila Prabhupada - “Philosophy without
religion is just mental speculation”
Spirituality
Philosophy
Religion

15. Srila Prabhupada - “Religion without philosophy is at
best sentimentalism and at worst fanaticism.”
Spirituality
Philosophy
Religion

16. Discretion
We need the mind but we don’t
need to be controlled the mind
Eg need software, but don’t
need to do whatever the
software prompts

17. Spirituality
Changes how you
 Perceive
 Process
 Pursue

18. Perceive
Don’t eternalize the problem –
contextualize it
Life determines our problems – we
determine their size

19. Process
Our destiny is bigger than our
biology
We are parts of the infinite source
Play the part of the part & the
whole will fill the hole

20. Pursue
Be not tense – be intense
Focus on what is not in our
control -> Anxiety
Focus on what is in our control
-> Intensity

21. Regaining Power
Meditation is the stabilizer &
elevator of consciousness
Our spirituality increases our
ability to tap our ability

22. To know more
Questions
www.thespiritualscientist.com
Daily spiritual reflections:
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