Challenge 2024: ‘Unleash Your Spirit’ Letters
52 letters, one published each Monday. Week by week you build the strong foundations you need to take charge of your health and life.
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“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Letter #37: Love, Spirituality, Freedom & Soul
Love is unconditional, and flows out of us and back into us when we are absent of fear, hatred, resentment, stress, conflict, division, separation. It is our natural state which the school and societal systems have done their best to stamp out of us.
Letter #36: Your Answers Questioned
If you want to learn, if you want to understand our world, if you want to understand yourself and to evolve during your journey of life, then the only way to do this is to ask questions about everything.
Letter #35: True Leadership
What is the role of mentors, gurus, role models, soul rebels, and heroes in our human world? Who are they, and how do they do their work? Can you be one?
Letter #34: Understanding is Liberating
Understanding is liberating. Understanding gives you personal possession of knowledge and information. You can’t just receive it like knowledge, you’ve got to proactively engage your mind with it, play with it, apply it, verify it, learn more about it, talk about it, ask questions etc etc.
Letter #33: Knowledge vs Truth
Just imagine, for a moment, that such a thing exists as a £1,000,000 bank note… and imagine further that you are in possession of this bank note. Why, you have a million pounds to spend, how good is that! What will you do with it?
Letter #32: Put Spirituality into Politics
You can avoid talking about politics, you can try to ignore the whole thing, but politics will NEVER avoid you and will NEVER leave you alone. So, either you claim your vested interest, or your interests will be sorted out for you by others, which is most unlikely to end up well (2020 anyone?).
Letter #31: Celebrating Ordinary Human Beings
As a consequence of my life of travel and teaching adults, I have met 1000s of ordinary people from dozens of countries, from all colours, creeds, classes, ethnicities, and of all ages, and our stories are far more interesting!
Letter #30: Education is the Problem and the Solution
We must all become leaders of self. Then we can help children and our fellow adults educate and empower themselves in kind. In this way a grassroots, organically-driven bottom-up movement becomes an unstoppable energy force, transforming our human world into…
Letter #29: Using Karma Intelligently
Using karma intelligently means realising that life is simply energy and the flow of energy, and that while we cannot undo events, situations or happenings that come our way, we CAN choose how to respond to them.
Letter #28: A Spiritual Revolution for the Healing of Humankind
A Spiritual Revolution is an empowering and exciting journey of self-inquiry into the inner world of your heart and mind to discover the real true you, and in so doing, how life works. With this newfound understanding you now consciously cultivate…
Letter #27: Communication Skills are Crucial for Your Health and Wellbeing
Those who have good communication skills will have the strongest and healthiest relationships with all other human beings, whether they are strangers or people we know; furthermore, skilled communicators lead more harmonious and less stressed lives.
Letter #26: External Authority and Inner Authority
Humankind, somewhere in our history, created its organising principle for its communities and societies as External-Authority-Knows-Best, whereby we outsource our decision-making to an authority outside of ourselves. This is antithetical to the human spirit and it hides our infinite human potential from us…
Letter #25: From Disempowered to Empowered
… so we need a learning environment where everybody feels emotionally supported, and in this psychological climate we are able to open our hearts and minds and express ourselves. When you express yourself and your ideas, you ARE yourself.
Letter #24: THE Most Important Question
Do you really want to continue living the way you are? Do you really want to continue holding out hope that life—your life, the lives of your loved ones, the life of humankind, and the life of our planet—will somehow become better, without doing anything yourself to make it better?
Letter #23: Beware Spiritual Guff!
I want to say that from my perspective there is so much 'spiritual guff', or 'spiritual woo-woo stuff', out there, which is so misleading for ordinary human beings who are looking…
Letter #22 Who am I? How does Life Work?
Ignorance really is not conducive to health and wellbeing, certainly not in our troubled times. If we are not confident of who we are, and how life works, then we will allow others—who themselves don’t know who they are, nor how life works—to negatively impact on our life.
Letter #21: Understanding and Practising Mindfulness
We look within our mind and memory to find the hidden causes of our behaviour, actions and words. We want to know what causes us to automatically react to external triggers the way we do. To do that we have to become acquainted with thought and thinking…
Letter #20: How to Live Consciously
What pain do you suffer from that you know about? If you think more deeply on this, do you discover that you are holding and hiding more pain that usually you manage to pretend is not really there?
Letter #19: I Don’t Care
Now then, if you really, and I mean really, want to be healthy and happy, then there is one thing above all that you need to do and make central to your life.
Letter #18: Beauty and Brutality
There would be giant bumble bees busily buzzing around, butterflies fluttering at great speed, belying their light weight, dragonflies zooming everywhere,, cacophonous cicadas that you could never see,, red-headed green-bodied lizards scurrying around on the sandy floor…