WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:01.699
Welcome

2
00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:02.659
my friend

3
00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:07.540
again back to spiritual development academy. And this is about

4
00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:12.405
module two, how to improve your spiritual living.

5
00:00:12.565 --> 00:00:16.744
And what we're gonna look at in this module is all about the

6
00:00:17.045 --> 00:00:18.904
way that you live your life.

7
00:00:19.445 --> 00:00:22.185
Some of the different practices and some of the different

8
00:00:22.485 --> 00:00:24.265
concepts that you can consider

9
00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:25.740
to really improve

10
00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:33.020
the way that you just change your lifestyle. You change the way perhaps you think,

11
00:00:33.720 --> 00:00:37.420
improve the way that you live a more spiritual life.

12
00:00:37.725 --> 00:00:44.625
This doesn't have to mean that you're going to go off and, you know, live in an ashram or go off into the Hindu Kush or anything.

13
00:00:44.765 --> 00:00:52.865
It's just everyday little changes, little concepts, little things that you can do to begin to feel a little bit more expansive.

14
00:00:53.980 --> 00:00:58.640
Some of the topics that we're going to cover are, for example, are going to include

15
00:00:59.260 --> 00:01:00.960
how to practice forgiveness.

16
00:01:01.660 --> 00:01:07.120
That's something that I think we all could work on. And these are, again, just very simple concepts.

17
00:01:07.945 --> 00:01:09.564
Perhaps how to also

18
00:01:09.945 --> 00:01:11.244
practice patience.

19
00:01:12.185 --> 00:01:13.384
We're all in this,

20
00:01:13.865 --> 00:01:18.685
world where everything is going a mile a minute. We're trying to achieve 20 things at once.

21
00:01:18.744 --> 00:01:20.604
We're always looking to the future,

22
00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:25.619
always worrying about the past. How can we change the future? How can we change the past?

23
00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:29.460
And nobody seems to be focusing on the here and the now.

24
00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:31.380
And that brings us to

25
00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:32.180
mindfulness

26
00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:33.220
awareness.

27
00:01:33.995 --> 00:01:35.055
How can we improve

28
00:01:35.435 --> 00:01:37.215
our mindfulness and awareness

29
00:01:37.595 --> 00:01:38.975
so that we can truly

30
00:01:39.835 --> 00:01:42.175
appreciate what we have in the now?

31
00:01:42.555 --> 00:01:45.135
Because when we're in the now all of a sudden

32
00:01:45.835 --> 00:01:46.575
the future

33
00:01:46.955 --> 00:01:47.455
concerns,

34
00:01:48.450 --> 00:01:52.790
the worries about things that we should have done in the past all fade away.

35
00:01:53.010 --> 00:01:56.950
You can't change the past. You have little control over the future.

36
00:01:57.170 --> 00:01:59.030
And the only thing that you can change

37
00:01:59.409 --> 00:02:00.470
is the present.

38
00:02:01.065 --> 00:02:04.685
So those are a couple of things we'll look at. We'll also consider

39
00:02:05.305 --> 00:02:06.205
different meditation

40
00:02:06.665 --> 00:02:10.044
practices. We'll sort of introduce the concept of meditation,

41
00:02:10.425 --> 00:02:11.725
why it's so important,

42
00:02:12.025 --> 00:02:13.725
some of the benefits of meditation,

43
00:02:14.105 --> 00:02:18.260
and we'll briefly begin to discuss the concept of meditation.

44
00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.780
And lastly, one of the things we'll look at is also

45
00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.980
to begin to become a little bit more aware of and open to

46
00:02:27.519 --> 00:02:29.459
signs from the universe.

47
00:02:30.375 --> 00:02:36.394
Many times people say, Oh, well, you know, the thing that I saw was just a quote unquote coincidence.

48
00:02:36.454 --> 00:02:37.995
Of course we all know coincidences

49
00:02:38.534 --> 00:02:42.314
just are not a thing. These are actually real.

50
00:02:42.970 --> 00:02:46.349
We also know that the universe is not a random

51
00:02:47.050 --> 00:02:48.349
series of events.

52
00:02:48.730 --> 00:02:56.349
The universe is created by and ruled by universal law and everything happens for a specific

53
00:02:56.970 --> 00:03:02.255
reason. We may not know what that reason is, but we know that everything happens for a reason.

54
00:03:02.255 --> 00:03:04.355
You can't have something happen without

55
00:03:04.975 --> 00:03:07.555
a reason or a cause. It's cause and effect. Right?

56
00:03:07.855 --> 00:03:09.215
So we'll look at that.

57
00:03:09.215 --> 00:03:14.230
We'll also look at the awareness of the fact that our reality that we perceive

58
00:03:15.170 --> 00:03:18.390
is not just the only reality. In fact,

59
00:03:18.690 --> 00:03:21.269
the reality that we perceive, our perceptions,

60
00:03:21.810 --> 00:03:28.785
is quite small and in fact is more of an illusion than the true reality that's far beyond our comprehension

61
00:03:29.485 --> 00:03:30.545
as we know it.

62
00:03:30.605 --> 00:03:37.265
So we'll start to look at all those, concepts and these are some of the things that we're gonna look at in this, second instructional

63
00:03:37.565 --> 00:03:38.065
module.

64
00:03:38.365 --> 00:03:43.905
So stay tuned for the first lesson that's, coming up right now. So stay tuned.