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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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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