Spiritual Health

Spiritual Health

Is Longevity Health



Stephen Lau Spiritual Health Is Longevity Health
How to Become More Spiritual
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Make you best life work for you!Laughter Yoga 101Spiritual health is synonymous with longevity. If you want to live longer, get more spiritual! Spirituality may add years to your life. Numerous scientific studies have suggested that different aspects of spirituality contribute to better health, better quality of life, and a longer life.



Spirituality Is Longevity Health




How does spirituality make you live longer?

• It gives your existence a purpose and a meaning.

• It provides you with a sense of fulfillment.

• It renews your life energy by connecting you with the Divine.

• It motivates you with love and compassion for others.

Your whole being is composed of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. Your body, which is the physical, is controlled by your mind, which is the mental, which is then influenced by your soul, which is the spiritual, which oversees your whole being. The health of any one of these elements affects the health of the others. They are all inter-related.

First, your body has to be well before you can engage in any mental and spiritual matters. Jesus said that both fasting and prayer prepare your mind for your spiritual walk with God. Accordingly, everything begins with the body, then the mind, and finally leading to the soul.

Even Buddha, Mohammed and many other spiritual leaders all shared the need of the physical and the mental for higher spiritual advancement. (To understand more about the role of compassion and loving kindness in your health, go to my website Mindfulness.)

Spiritual health is important to you in that it oversees your whole being. Your physical wellness will not be complete without your spiritual level, which affects your mental level, which in turn influences your physical level; just as your physical is controlled by your mind and your soul. In order to become wholesome and healed on all levels of your being, you need to improve yourself on each of these levels. Complete natural healing is not possible by working on just one level.



How to Make Yourself More Spiritual



Buddha said, “Attachment to the things of this world is the fountainhead of all miseries.”

Simplifying your life

The first step to spiritual health is simplifying your life. It is the prerequisite of spiritual health. Re-organize what in your life has the greatest value.

• Your body, your mind, and your soul have their respective specific needs. Determine what they are.

• Distinguish between wants and needs. Wants are desires, which may or may not be essential, whereas needs are more fundamental and imperative.

• Prioritize them, and you will see your need to be more spiritual for better spiritual health.

• Get any clutter and confusion out of your life: any unnecessary complications may lead to stressful confusion down the road. Years of accumulation have added heaps of junk that may have immobilized you, or distracted you from focusing on more important things, such as health, love, and purpose in life.

Organizing is not good enough: you need to get your clutter out of the way so that you can focus on the priorities in your life.

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Discard them, give them away, or sell them on ebay.

Do not let clutters stress your life - as if you don't have enough stress already! Find out what world religions say about stress from my web page: World Religions on Stress Control.

Re-discovering yourself

Once your have simplified your life, free from material and mundane clutters, you are well on the way to spiritual health, and you will be empowered to:

• Focus on your soul or more spiritual things, such as compassion and loving kindness.

• Get to know more about yourself, especially your needs and values.

• Learn to look within yourself for answers to your life problems: you will become more self-reliant and self-sufficient.

• Find your inner voice: what you love to do, and what touches your heart and your soul.

Your inner self knows the truth when you hear it. Nobody knows you better than yourself, and there is no better physician than yourself, who know what is best for your body. This intuitive wisdom is self-healing.

These simple daily reflections will give you the best anti-aging spiritual health.

Relaxing yourself

Nothing transforms you as much as changing from a mundane to a spiritual attitude towards all your everyday problems. Your Creator has created you to be a steward of your life. Relax yourself. With a healthy body, you can discard your anxieties and fears out of your consciousness, and then concentrate your mind on the spiritual, which may provide answers to some of your daily problems.

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There are three types of relaxation:

• Passive relaxation: watching TV, going to a movie or a ballgame

• Active relaxation: dancing, exercising, and lovemaking

• Creative relaxation: painting, reading, writing

Learn to meditate everyday. Meditation gives you a heightened sense of well-being, which constitutes spiritual health.

• Find a quiet corner, sit with your back straight, and relax your physical body.

• Gently close your eyes, quiet your mind, and experience the silence from within your body.

• Imagine what you love the most, and inhale.

Exhale as you empty any anxiety from your mind or body.

• Continue to inhale and exhale. Concentrate on your breathing, especially its rhythm as you breathe in peace and exhale stress.

• Continue to let go of your bodily tensions until you feel your whole body become relaxed.

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For more information on meditation, go to my web page: Meditation Techniques to find out how you can meditate and relax your mind even when you are doing simple daily chores, including eating and driving

Finding your purposeful life

Once you learn to relax and prioritize your goals in life, a vista of the purpose of your life will be unfolded to you. A purposeful life is a way to wholesome wellness: you need to know and understand the meaning of your existence. You live in order to fulfill the purpose for which you were born to do the will of your Creator.

Find out the meaning of your existence through the Zen way. For more information, go to my website: Zen Is The Way.

Of course, you do not really know the purpose of your creation, or the will of God. Nobody really does - at least not consciously with the mind. But you do not need to know: just let yourself be guided step by step, one step at a time, by following your spiritual guidance or simply obeying your highest ideals, such as compassion and loving kindness. That is spirituality for your spiritual health! You will find meaning, hope, comfort, and inner peace in your life through spirituality.

Searching for your belief system

Man is spiritual in that he needs a belief system of some sort to manage or guide his emotions in an effective way. Your emotions determine how you feel about yourself and life in general. Your emotions are not only a result of your social interactions, but also of your yearning for spirituality. Searching for a philosophy of life that makes you happy and healthy is already the beginning of spirituality.

Being spiritual is not the same as being religious, which involves following the creed of a proclaimed religion, though on the higher levels of consciousness; true religion and spirituality ultimately merge.

Living your highest ideals

In spiritual health, you become more aware of living according to your own highest ideals, thereby consciously improving your everyday attitudes and feelings. Every moment in your day-to-day interactions with people provides an opportunity for you to become more spiritual, if you will avail yourself of it. Using Mother Teresa’s example, begin by conveying warmth to someone who least expects it, and that is spirituality.

You nourish your physical body with nutrients to keep it healthy. You feed your mind body with positive thoughts to avoid distorted thinking, which is the cause of depression. You replenish your spiritual body, which is your soul, with spiritual feelings, such as compassion, loving kindness, unconditional love, gratitude, and forgiveness, among others. Your spiritual thinking causes your personality and daily interactions with others to become an expression of your soul: let your daily actions speak you mind.

• In spiritual health, love melts your resistance to change for the better. Without love, you simply continue to perpetuate that which you are resisting. In the absence of love, almost anything else you wish to achieve will end in failure.

• In spiritual health, gratitude plays a central role in your mental and spiritual health. Gratitude will nip jealousy in the bud. You will not be comparing your current state of health with that of others. Gratitude will restrain you from whining. You will not be feeling deficiency or indequacy. Always be grateful for what you have. True gratitude, like genuine love, is unconditional. Gratitude will open the door for you to further improvement and the possibility of receiving greater blessings. Gratitude is a great positive attitude in longevity health. Be grateful of your current health conditions, whatever they may be, as if you were already healed of your ailments.

• In spiritual health, forgiveness is a necessary requirement for your spiritual health and healing. Do yourself a favor: practice forgiveness. Forgive others, and more importantly, forgive yourself. Do not blame yourself or anyone else if something goes wrong in your life. Making mistakes is the best way to learn, and you need to make mistakes in your diet and nutrition, and learn from them; and that is the spiritual path to wholesome wellness for longevity health.

Embracing your responsibility for healing

Healing your body, mind and emotions is in itself part of your own spiritual evolution. Live in total harmony with the biological, emotional, mental and spiritual laws that govern your health and well-being. There are certain laws of Nature that cannot be broken without dire consequences for your physical, mental, and spiritual health. And you are responsible for not breaking those laws. Remember, you are responsible for you illness, and every patient has his or her own responsibilities.

Learning to pray

Spiritual health makes you always look outside of yourself. Learn to pray. There is, of course, one prerequisite: you must ask. Ask and you shall receive! Whatever blessings, be they small or great, that come your way, come from above. Prayer works by altering your brain chemistry. Like anti-depressant drugs, prayer can help you build up the feeling-good brain chemicals, such as serotonin. Prayer restores your hope, strength, and health to continue your life's journey until you reach your final destination. Prayer is the essence of spiritual health.

Spiritual health is mindfulness of compassion, loving kindness, gratitude, and forgiveness. Without that mindfulness, there is no spirituality.

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Copyright©2007 by Stephen Lau


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