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Spiritual Blog is all about living a more self-aware life. This blog is updated several times a week with topics on personal development, spiritual awareness, productive relationships, healing the inner self, achieving personal dreams, and tutorials on Reaching Your Potential - and Exceeding It.

Proof of Something Greater and Your Beliefs

There is a short fable about beliefs and truth, where one man would point at boxes each time he saw one and claim "that's a box". The reason that it didn't make sense for him to do this is because all the people around him knew it was a box – there was no reason ...

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Posted October 10, 2008

Proof of Something Greater and The Eternal Search For Meaning

New age ideas, like religion, can become boundaries that restrict us when we use them as validation tools rather than methods of expanding our perception. Using religion as an excuse to permit or condemn certain actions often ignores the reason for placing judgement over those actions in the first place. People do things "in the ...

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Posted October 10, 2008

Proof of Something Greater and an Inner Purpose

Sometimes I think - what's the point? Dedicating so much time to studies based in philosophical theories, countless months spent in meditation, or perhaps dedicating an entire lifetime to following one religion or path… what causes people to do this? It almost suggests that someone can get closer to experiencing God or proving that something greater ...

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Posted October 6, 2008

Magic in The Mind - Free MP3

Following some production hold-ups, the first MP3 in the upcoming audio section of Spiritual Blog is now available. SPIRITUAL SYNC is a new line of audio downloads I have been working on for the last few months. The first free audio download: Magic in The Mind, which introduces the following series soon to be seen ...

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Posted October 5, 2008

100th Post at SpiritualBlog.com

SpiritualBlog.com has been active for almost 6 months and this is the 100th article on the blog. Thanks to all who have been reading the blog and commenting so far! Don't forget to check out the personal YouTube page I have set up to also receive video-based content on living a more self-aware life. Poll In this ...

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Posted September 29, 2008

Top Posts from June to Sep 08

Before the end of this month I wanted to link back to some of the previous posts on this blog that new readers might have missed. Here are three articles that might be difficult to locate from the main site that new readers might enjoy. Gender Roles vs Equal Rights Through various historical periods the role of ...

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Posted September 28, 2008

Embrace Your Freedom to Be

Often in life there is a perceived burden to keep our attention active in either our thoughts, feelings, or actions. If we are not doing something with our hands then often our attention goes to thinking or feeling processes. There is an incessant burden of 'processing' to be occupied. On some level the social environment trains ...

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Posted September 25, 2008

Looking at the Connection Between Science and Buddhism

This is a 2-part video a friend of mine on YouTube created a while ago that I recommend watching. You can also find more of his videos on Buddhism and other topics at his YouTube page. He has done an outstanding job with this video and it is well worth spending 20 minutes watching. Feel welcome ...

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Posted September 24, 2008

5 Things in Life that are Free

In our world the concept of value is often tied to how much something costs… but there is a great deal of essential value that we can offer to others without expecting something back from them. This article will discuss five things that we can offer to others right now from within ourselves without expecting ...

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Posted September 23, 2008

The Happiness Trap Self-Consciousness Technique

The Happiness Trap (Russ Harris) is a book I read some time ago that talks about the limitations our own search for happiness can end up creating. In this article I would like to summarise a technique the book discusses in chapter 4: "The Great Storyteller", which introduces the idea that we tell ourselves stories about our ...

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Posted September 17, 2008

You Are Your Greatest Obstacle to Your Own Happiness

How often have you noticed yourself thinking "I knew this would happen" after something negative happened? Your future is often the product of decisions on a conscious or subconscious level that were made long before their outcomes fell into place. It is not just true that you can predict the results of your present actions ...

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Posted September 16, 2008

The Time of Transformation in 2009-2012

The year 2012 is a significant date for a number of people around the world. For some it signifies a time of transformation, the end of time in the literal sense, the end of time in the linear sense, and perhaps for some it does not have significance at all and: nothing will change in ...

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Posted September 15, 2008

In Search of Ultimate Truth

Several years ago I started off searching for an absolute truth to life, however the more I searched the less important this ultimate truth became. Instead I became more interested in experiencing the fullness of each unique part of existence rather than pinning it down within the exact boundaries of truth. Likewise, instead of looking ...

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Posted September 11, 2008

Retrieve Memories - 3 Techniques for Short and Long Term Retrieval

Often when we forget something it becomes frustrating to remember that thing — whether it is where the car keys are, someone's name, or an item on a list. This article will discuss how to use the mind to locate these memories. These techniques are effective for both long-term and short-term memories. Comparison Compare what the memories ...

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Posted September 11, 2008

Get to Know Your Ethics and Morals

There are three main schools of thought when it comes to the ethics that are applied on an individual and collective level. Most people believe in one of these theories of ethics. Even if we do not make a conscious decision to follow one of these schools of thought our actions still reflect one of ...

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Posted September 9, 2008