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		<title>Spiritual Challenges:  What are your Spiritual Challenges?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 01:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvester Hodge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are your beliefs about of your life?  Where did you learn your belief system? What challenges are you experiencing and why? Ponder these questions and allow me to assist with other options for a clearer understanding  and a bigger picture of your life.  Your beliefs are what you believe to be true and are [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are your beliefs about of your life?   Where did<br />
you learn your belief system?  What challenges are you<br />
experiencing and why?</p>
<div id="attachment_118" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://spiritualchallenges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Contemplation2.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-118 " title="Contemplation" src="http://spiritualchallenges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Contemplation2-150x139.jpg" alt="Contemplation2 150x139 Spiritual Challenges:  What are your Spiritual Challenges?" width="150" height="139" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My spiritual challenge is to listen to my connection to all things.  </p></div>
<p>Ponder these questions and allow me to assist with other</p>
<p>options for a clearer understanding  and a bigger picture</p>
<p>of your life.  Your beliefs are what you believe to be true and are<br />
based on what&#8230;</p>
<p>What if&#8230;You can learn how to control your thoughts<br />
and habits.</p>
<p>You are not alone.</p>
<p>Your life is based on your experiences, your conditioning and<br />
your free will.</p>
<p>Based on what&#8230;your life, your environment,<br />
your education  and your beliefs.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What If, there is more&#8230;You can either accept or</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> change your beliefs.</span></strong></p>
<p>Consider the parable of the fisherman at sea. A fisherman went<br />
out to sea for a normal fishing trip.  While fishing, the large<br />
waves fliped his boat and left him alone.<br />
A strong faith in God had saved him many times and this<br />
situation wouldn&#8217;t be different.</p>
<p>After two hours,  a boat came by and offered to save him<br />
from drowning.  His reply to the boater was that<br />
God will save me. The boater leaves in dismay. The fisherman<br />
belief in God is still very strong.  A helicopter comes and<br />
offers to rescue him.  Again, the fisherman reply is that<br />
God will save him.</p>
<p>The fisherman&#8217;s belief in God saving him ended in his ultimate<br />
death.  While on the other side, after his physical death,<br />
he ask God why didn&#8217;t he save him from drowning.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s reply is, I sent the boat and the helicopter to save you.</p>
<p>Why did the fisherman die?  Did he die because of his beliefs<br />
or because of what he has been taught or conditioned to believe?</p>
<p>He believe that only God alone could save him.  This is an old beliefs system.</p>
<p>What are your own thoughts and beliefs?</p>
<p>How do you know what to believe as your &#8220;truths&#8221;?</p>
<p>Big question mark for all of us.</p>
<p>The way to your truths involves a continuous search.</p>
<p>Spiritual Challenges blog provides information and resources<br />
to assist others in becoming clearer about their truths.</p>
<p>Your answers to your life come from within you.</p>
<p>How do you get answers to your life issues?</p>
<p>There are many options or tools that provide a blueprint<br />
for uncovering truths.  There are physical and spiritual<br />
tools to unlock other resources available to you.</p>
<p><strong>The key is &#8220;YOU&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Are you ready to do &#8220;the inner work?&#8221;</p>
<p>A process of listening within and connecting to information<br />
supported and created for your spiritual growth.</p>
<p>As in the story above with the fisherman,  he wasn&#8217;t open or<br />
listening to the support provided to him.  His close mindedness<br />
led to his ultimate death.  He ask for support, receive it and didn&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s presence is in all things.  There are many ways to solve a situation.</p>
<p>Many of us continue to suffer because of misunderstandings of<br />
the vast resources available in this wonderful universe.</p>
<p>We are all part of God&#8217;s creation.  We are to support each<br />
other as children of God and the universe.</p>
<p>Spiritual challenges blog will support you in your efforts for<br />
knowledge by sharing information and resources.</p>
<p>Let me share with you some information that may enhance your<br />
spiritual growth and truths.</p>
<p><em><strong>Steps to understand your truths</strong></em></p>
<p>Be open to  information from various resources</p>
<ul>
<li> Don&#8217;t shut out new information to your ears</li>
<li>Listen and search for clearer understanding</li>
<li>Gain an attitude of &#8220;wanting to know more&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Ask for assistance</p>
<ul>
<li>Find others seekers of truths</li>
<li>Read for your understanding</li>
<li>Listen to your thoughts and ask &#8220;Why&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Find what resonates with you</p>
<ul>
<li> Find what feels right for you</li>
<li>Listen for a clearer understanding</li>
<li>Seek to dialogue with non traditional thoughts.</li>
</ul>
<p>Develop a prayer and/or meditation ritual for yourself</p>
<ul>
<li> Develop a devotion of quiet time</li>
<li>Ask questions during prayer or meditation</li>
<li>Listen to your feeling and thoughts</li>
</ul>
<p>Become a observer of your life.</p>
<ul>
<li> What are your talents</li>
<li>What are your lessons</li>
<li>How can you provide a service to others</li>
</ul>
<p>Stop blaming others</p>
<ul>
<li> You are not a victim</li>
<li>Gain responsibility for the experiences of your life</li>
<li>Be grateful for this time, this moment, this second.</li>
</ul>
<p>A list of  future blog subjects and future free information<br />
is available at &#8220;Get My Tips and Free Information.</p>
<p>I look forward to seeing your name and providing you with tools to enhanced your life.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>How to integrate Spiritualism and Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvester Hodge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal experiences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent event took me to a seminar called Everyday Online Entrepreneur. I attended the event because I wanted to know more about the online business.  I had a basic understanding, but there were some areas where I wanted more knowledge. What I took away from the event, though, was SO MUCH more than just [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recent event took me to a seminar called Everyday Online Entrepreneur. I attended the event because I wanted to know more about the online</p>
<p>business.  I had a basic understanding, but there were some areas where I wanted more knowledge.</p>
<p><a href="http://spiritualchallenges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SpiritualGrowthFlower.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-80 alignleft" title="SpiritualGrowthFlower" src="http://spiritualchallenges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SpiritualGrowthFlower-150x150.jpg" alt="SpiritualGrowthFlower 150x150 How to integrate Spiritualism and Business?" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>What I took away from the event, though, was SO MUCH more than just a better understanding of online business!</p>
<p>It was truly a better understanding of myself!  The class makeup  was a variety of people from all over the world &#8212; from Canada, California, Florida, Texas, and London.</p>
<p>It was a good mixture of life and personal experiences, backgrounds and professionals.  Everyone had a story.</p>
<p>We came to find out more about online business and how we can integrate marketing concepts into</p>
<p>business opportunities.  We participated in several exercises to enhance our understanding of the process&#8230;</p>
<p>We were required to find our niche.  I went there to understand how to market products on the Internet.  After finishing several exercises,  though, I understood that my niche is more about me than it is about a product.</p>
<p>My view of selling products on the Internet evolved into something that involved my life and my passions.</p>
<p>As I pondered this thought,  I immediately knew that my life involved spiritual challenges &#8212; something in which I have a passion.</p>
<p>Since military retirement, I have been reading eastern and western thoughts, studying various concepts for <a class="zem_slink" title="Spiritual formation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_formation">spiritual growth</a>, meditating, sharing, and meeting more &#8220;light minded&#8221; individuals.</p>
<p>I gained insight into myself as I understood my niche.</p>
<p>As the course continued, many of the exercises were based on unlocking spiritual insights or blockages within us.</p>
<p>There were many “ah ha” moments during the class that students shared with everyone.</p>
<p>As I listened, this course combined spiritualism (or, more specifically. the spiritual aspects of your life) with entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>What is &#8220;spiritualism&#8221; and how does it apply to your business?</p>
<p>&#8220;Spiritualism&#8221; is a term that can be misused or misunderstood. For some, it is a close relationship with religion and its practices.</p>
<p>The definition implies that there is a distinct difference.</p>
<p>Spirituality is focused on the inner being and a sense of growing to understand more of one’s self, purpose in life and connection to God.</p>
<p>In “The New Dictionary of Spiritual Thought” by Carol E. Parrish-Harra &#8220;spirituality&#8221; is an evolutionary impulse, when your focus moves from personality issues to an awareness of oneself as a divine being expressing your essence.</p>
<p>As activity is focused on the innermost dimension of an individual, the essence (called &#8220;Self&#8221;, &#8220;soul&#8221; or &#8220;spirit&#8221; by most esoteric tradition) shares its transcendental nature of reality.</p>
<p>Now, when you really listen to your life and find your inner most truths, there is a sense of knowing. The knowing can be your job, your marriage, your education or your vocation in life.</p>
<p>Regardless of your sense of knowing, it up to you to continue to understand and listen to what comes up in your life and to know what’s for you to do.</p>
<p>The time table is an unknown factor of understanding this awareness. It is a process and a wanting to know more about your life.</p>
<p>A large part of your life is based on your experiences in life. It is the story of you!</p>
<p>Everybody has a story&#8230;</p>
<p>When you look at your &#8220;story of life&#8221;, it will lead to a wanting to know more. The more you search, you will find that your inner self is evolving for a true understanding.</p>
<p>The combination of spiritualism and entrepreneurship involves your passion, your will power, your niche, and your experiences of life.</p>
<p>I recommend this course to everyone interested in understanding more about themselves and the online marketing business!</p>
<p>The information and class is presented in such a way that everyone gains more than just an online marketing business&#8230;   You take a look at your life and mold it into your business.</p>
<p>Learning is a continuous process.  You are invited to sign up for free information and Tips for your evolving life.  Your life and growth is important to the world.</p>
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