The Spiritual Dozen

Edited by Ted DeCorte

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Wayne Dyer presents twelve beliefs and practices for you to cultivate as you develop your innate abilities to manifest miracles, magic, prosperity, and abundance consciousness in your life. Remember to stop along the way to write in your Thought Journal.

Multidimensional Thinking: Non-spiritual beings live exclusively within the five senses, believing that if they cannot see, touch, smell, hear or taste something, then that something simply does not exist. Spiritual beings know that there are other senses we use to experience the world of form.

Stop and write in your Thought Journal the things that you experience within yourself that are beyond your sense of taste, sight, hearing, smell or touch. Record the insights of your inner world, your intuitive hunches. You will gain insight that your physical actions are coming from something that isn’t physical at all.

Belief in Loving Guidance: Non-spiritual beings believe we are alone in the universe. Spiritual beings know they are never alone.

Question the pure physical evidence reported by your five senses. Get acquainted with the reality of your invisible world. Ask yourself why you put so much faith in your senses alone.

Just for a day suspend your skepticism and make contact with divine or spiritual guidance. Give yourself a gift of a quiet place, a quiet hour all to yourself. Create an image of receiving help from your guide.

Stop and write in your Thought Journal what you felt and what hunches or assistance you received during your quiet time.

Focus on Authentic Personal Empowerment: Non-spiritual beings are focused on external power. Spiritual beings are focused on personal empowerment.

Connect with the invisible dimension we call death by keeping track of your dreams, particularly ones that include someone in your life that has passed on. Be aware of the guidance that person gives in your dreams. Ask questions.

Extend the sense of loving guidance in your life outside your dreams. Silently listen and be willing to hear inner guidance. Focus on assisting others and staying Purposeful.

Practice a life without a focus on control. Replace the need for external power with the ability to empower others to take control in their own lives.

Find models and companions for your Journey. Read about the personal experiences of people you admire. Virtually all inspired leaders in their fields reached a point in their lives where they felt they were being spiritually guided.

Feeling Connected to All of Humanity: Non-spiritual beings feel separated and distinct from all others, beings unto themselves. Spiritual beings know that they are connected to all others and live their lives as if each person they meet shares being human with them.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if clod be washed away by sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes, because I am involved in mankind; and there-fore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne

Demonstrate to yourself that you are not alone. Picture yourself connected by invisible strings to everyone you encounter. As you move, they move. As you push, they go tumbling. With this connection, you will have a tendency to extend love and help rather than feel enmity or competition.

Examine your behavior toward those people in your life whom you feel a need to dominate or control.

Knowledge of a Dimension Beyond Cause & Effect: Non-spiritual beings believe exclusively in a cause/effect interpretation of life. Spiritual beings know that there is a Higher Power working in the universe beyond mere cause and effect.

Keep your focus on Purpose rather than outcome by keeping your mind, body and soul totally in the moment of your activity.

Rid yourself of a preoccupation of valueless things by rethinking your attitude about your possessions.

Motivated By Ethics, Serenity and Quality of Life: Non-spiritual beings are motivated by achievement, performance and acquisitions. Spiritual beings are motivated by ethics, serenity and quality of life.

"The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. Religion has nothing to do with compassion, it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved." Mother Theresa

Conduct yourself on a spiritual plane by beginning to live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. Inventory all the rules that you follow so emphatically. Base your entire behavior on ethics rather than rules.

Practice Meditation: Non-spiritual beings have no place within their awareness for the practice of meditation. Spiritual beings cannot imagine life without it.

"All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

Become more peaceful with yourself and the world by giving yourself a quiet time alone daily for one week. Set aside thirty minutes to be alone and peace-fully go within and quiet your mind.

Understands Intuition As God Talking: For non-spiritual beings, the concept of intuition can be reduced to a hunch or a haphazard thought that accidentally pops into their head on occasion. For spiritual beings, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored. (Read "Conversations With God" to see this one in action!)

Befriend and cultivate your intuition by treating those inner proddings that crop up in your mind as welcome guests instead of labeling them nothing but random hunches.

Knows a Violent Response to Evil as Participating In Evil. Focuses on What They Are For: Non-spiritual beings hate evil, and are determined to eradicate that which they believe to be evil. Spiritual beings know that everything that they hate and fight weakens them, and all that they are for, all that they support, empowers them.

Move past anger and bitterness by isolating in your mind one person who you feel has wronged you, someone who has not repaid a long overdue debt. Instead of feeling hate and bitter-ness, try to imagine yourself sending them love.

Feels a Sense of Responsibility and Belonging to the Universe. In Awe of Being Here: Non-spiritual beings feel no sense of responsibility to the universe, therefore they have not developed a reverence for life. Spiritual beings have a reverence for life that goes to the essence of all beings.

Affirm today that, "I know I have the power within me to create a life of fulfillment and joy. I am a miracle and therefore I am a creator of miracles."

Lives A Live Of Forgiveness: Non-spiritual beings are laden with grudges, hostility and the need for revenge. Spiritual beings have no room in their heart for these impediments to miracle making and real magic.

Develop a loving, empowering attitude toward yourself by restating everything that you dislike about who you are in positive, affirmative ways.

Stay focused on what you are for in life rather than what you are against by inventorying everything in your life that you are opposed to and then reword your list to reflect what you are for.

Believes in Being Able To Manifest Miracles: Non-spiritual beings believe that there are "real-world" limitations and that although there may be some evidence for the existence of miracles, they are viewed as random happenings for a few fortunate others. Spiritual beings believe in miracles and their own unique ability to receive loving guidance and to experience a world of real magic.

"So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip" Will Rogers

AS YOU THINK SO SHALL YOU BE!

The time must come when we change our mind about our mind.

"Judge not, that you be not judged." Matthew 7:1

I Accept Opportunities for Growth All Around Me.

For years I knocked on the door of Truth and one day it opened - - I have been knocking form the inside.

My Journey Within Is One Without Distance.

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