The Joy of Spiritual Living: Simple Steps to Your Best Self
Autor Frank Rose, Robert Maginelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2024 – vârsta ani
Many people think of spiritual growth as solitary work that happens outside of everyday life. But through decades of group work, authors Frank Rose and Bob Maginel have developed a program of spiritual growth that works best in the midst of daily living.
Through a series of eight exercises, readers learn how to raise their awareness and their spirits to a higher level, to connect more readily with their Higher Power, and to unlock authentic spiritual joy even at life’s most challenging moments. For people working in groups, the authors include suggestions for structuring spiritual growth meetings and tools for discussion facilitators. For individuals using the book alone, Rose and Maginel provide transcripts of their own group’s discussions, challenges, and “Aha!” moments, so the reader can share in the group experience.
Building on their previous book, The Joy of Spiritual Growth, Rose and Maginel offer more of the gentle wisdom and practical techniques that have made their spiritual growth program an enduring success.
Through a series of eight exercises, readers learn how to raise their awareness and their spirits to a higher level, to connect more readily with their Higher Power, and to unlock authentic spiritual joy even at life’s most challenging moments. For people working in groups, the authors include suggestions for structuring spiritual growth meetings and tools for discussion facilitators. For individuals using the book alone, Rose and Maginel provide transcripts of their own group’s discussions, challenges, and “Aha!” moments, so the reader can share in the group experience.
Building on their previous book, The Joy of Spiritual Growth, Rose and Maginel offer more of the gentle wisdom and practical techniques that have made their spiritual growth program an enduring success.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780877853527
ISBN-10: 0877853525
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Colecția Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
ISBN-10: 0877853525
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Colecția Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Recenzii
“A useful blend of exercises and practical suggestions that lend themselves to small-group study.” — Library Journal
Notă biografică
Frank Rose received an M.Div. from the Academy of the New Church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, where he also taught. He has served as pastor to groups in England, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Belgium, France, and Canada in addition to serving at the Sunrise Chapel in Tucson, Arizona, where he co-founded the spiritual growth program upon which this book is based. He is the author of several books, including The Joy of Spiritual Growth (also co-authored with Bob Maginel). Frank and his wife, Louise, currently live in Tucson, Arizona.
Bob Maginel spent twenty-two years in the US Air Force, retiring at the rank of colonel with degrees in management (University of Texas) and science (Air Force Institute of Technology). Following his retirement, he founded Mobility Manufacturing Inc., a maker of powered wheelchairs. He and Frank Rose co-founded the Arizona Spiritual Growth Foundation, and both continue to serve on the board. Maginel currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Bob Maginel spent twenty-two years in the US Air Force, retiring at the rank of colonel with degrees in management (University of Texas) and science (Air Force Institute of Technology). Following his retirement, he founded Mobility Manufacturing Inc., a maker of powered wheelchairs. He and Frank Rose co-founded the Arizona Spiritual Growth Foundation, and both continue to serve on the board. Maginel currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Extras
Task 1
EXPLORE THE LEVELS OF YOUR HOUSE
EXPLORE THE LEVELS OF YOUR HOUSE
For this first week, focus on the human mind as a “house of spiritual awareness.” When you experience an emotion, take a moment to notice on which level of your “house” the emotion resides.
• If you discover that your emotion resides in the lower levels of your “house,” see if your awareness, by itself, shines enough light on that “beast in your basement” to lessen its impact on your spiritual well-being.
• When you experience a negative emotion, reflect on parts of your life that you experience in a higher, more joyful place. See if your thoughts of more joyful experience bring peace to replace the negative focus of your thoughts.
• Journal about your experience with this task.
• For groups: Come to your next group meeting prepared to share the impact of any new awareness you have experienced.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the concept of the spiritual dimension of life.
• Become familiar with the “house of spiritual awareness” as a model of the mind.
• Understand that uncritical self-awareness and loving self-observation are essential to your spiritual growth
Frank’s Thoughts about Task 1
In our first task, we examine how we can raise ourselves to the higher levels of life experience. We begin with awareness. Once we become aware that we exist as spiritual beings on several levels, we can learn how to move from the mind’s lower levels to its higher levels, where joy and peace reside.
Emanuel Swedenborg has offered a model of the mind that looks like a house with several floors or stories. The floors are connected by stairways that allow us to move from one level to the next. These stairways represent our access to higher levels of spiritual joy in our life. They represent the vertical dimension through which we commune with our Higher Power.
At the lowest level of our house of spiritual awareness is our basement. The negative emotions reside here and can quickly take control of our lives. Here we find self-pity, jealously, anger, hatred, and all other negative emotions that rapidly drag us down into a negative state of mind.
In the higher levels of the house we find joy, hope, peace of mind, and patience. These are the emotions that our Higher Power wishes us to experience.
This book is about raising ourselves above the basement emotions to experience the joy of living on the level of peace and love.
How can we use this model to raise our own life experience to a higher level? First we have to know where we are coming from. We must notice when we are having an emotional reaction to a life experience, and this takes awareness.
Awareness is the cornerstone of spiritual growth.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could be vaccinated against the negatives that invade our lives? If we could become immune to negative emotions, life would be fairly simple. But, alas, there is no such immunity. We must learn how to deal within ourselves with life’s offerings.
That is what we like about our Spiritual Growth Program. Spiritual growth is all about how you deal with your own life’s offerings, on your own terms.
Does this sound selfish? We believe it is not so selfish when, by learning to keep negative emotions from interfering with your own joy, you also unlock the joy you can bring to those around you. We believe this is what our Higher Power intended for us as our mission and purpose in life.
In this program, simply waking up and becoming aware of your spiritual self is the most important first step in improving your spiritual life. When you are spiritually asleep and don’t recognize the negative emotions that control some of your actions, you bec
Cuprins
CONTENTS
Introduction to Joyful Living
Task 1 Explore the Levels of Your House
Task 2 Raise Your Mind
Task 3 Stop Taking Credit
Task 4 Be Useful
Task 5 Let Go of Rushing
Task 6 Stop Giving Advice
Task 7 Overcome the World
Task 8 Go Upstairs to Pray
Keep Choosing Joy
Appendix: Tools for Spiritual Growth Groups
About the Authors
Bibliography
Introduction to Joyful Living
Task 1 Explore the Levels of Your House
Task 2 Raise Your Mind
Task 3 Stop Taking Credit
Task 4 Be Useful
Task 5 Let Go of Rushing
Task 6 Stop Giving Advice
Task 7 Overcome the World
Task 8 Go Upstairs to Pray
Keep Choosing Joy
Appendix: Tools for Spiritual Growth Groups
All the Tasks
Functions of a Small Group Leader
Sample Session Outline
Centering Yourself through Meditation
Group Guidelines
The Lord’s Prayer
More Resources
About the ParticipantsFunctions of a Small Group Leader
Sample Session Outline
Centering Yourself through Meditation
Group Guidelines
The Lord’s Prayer
More Resources
About the Authors
Bibliography
Descriere
Drawing on decades of group work, the authors offer simple techniques that unlock joy and personal growth in the midst of life’s most challenging moments. For spiritual growth groups, the book includes resources for facilitators; for those working alone, it includes transcripts of real-life group discussions so the reader can share in the group experience. Exercises are based on the teachings of 18th-century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg but can be used by anyone regardless of faith tradition.