Spiritual Experiments to Destress

Hello Dear Reader!

Spiritual Experiments to Destress is what I'd like to discuss this day...

How are you doing? I am ever praying for your happiness, health, love, and wealth. 

Actually, I pray every day for all of these for our world. These are the things people want! I believe the first one, happiness, is what everyone really wants.

Some people have health problems, some have love difficulties, and others need money. Many people believe these things will bring happiness, but what if joy could get these things?

If stress is the number one cause of every illness, happiness, which is an attitude of faith, is the opposite of stress, which is basically fear. Couldn't happiness heal disease?

If insecurity is the number one cause of every heartbreak, couldn't happiness cure it?

What if anxiety and worry keep a person in dire need of money? Because they focus on lack, i.e., the problem versus the solution?

To answer these questions, one must create an experiment in his or her own life to see if these theories are true or false.

In my very young years as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), I conducted the first spiritual experiment I remember without knowing it.

I had such a difficult time with health, love, and wealth during this time. My energy was low, I had no love for myself, and I was in mental anguish due to finances. Barely making enough money to survive, working long hours, and experiencing harassment from a few men. 

Every Sunday, I attended church, and one service hit my soul to have a constant prayer in my heart. So, I felt inspired to pray constantly for every situation and person before me.

I prayed for the people I worked with, whether I liked them or not. I prayed for patients and their family members. I prayed for everything before me with an appreciation in my heart.

The most amazing things happened to me during this "spiritual experiment." All the things I needed came to me. My energy was through the roof, I felt terrific, and the opportunity for more weekly income came.

Not only that, but this was the first time I was aware of clear and specific internal guidance and inspiration to do things. 

The still, small voice was strong. 

Several times, when we received emergency calls, I would be prompted to bring equipment to the scene that we would not ordinarily get for specific calls. The equipment I was led to bring was what we needed, and it saved us energy and time from returning to the ambulance to get it. 

Crazy? Maybe to me back then, but now, I am used to guidance and inspiration due to the weekly spiritual experiments I do for myself and those I help.

This prayerful experience, in my humble opinion, brought me closer to many of the men I worked with. You see, I was often the only female among my coworkers. It was a very challenging time for me.

Would you like to level up in destressing yourself? If you would, I propose you try this spiritual experiment I discussed above. Pray for every situation you are in and for every person in front of you. Then, just see what happens.

See if your energy rises, health improves, love increases and money comes your way if you need it.

I have theories! My number one theory, which is at the foundation of my beliefs, is the law of love. 

When you love, things improve. You are essentially sharing and showing your love as you pray for others.

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." ~1 John 4:18, New Testament, Holy Bible, KJV

This scripture is the most significant reference to destressing yourself and life, isn't it? Stress is fear! Some people think it's a situation like what you may be going through. But! Stress comes from our reactions and what we think about what's happening.

There is no stress in love! Love is the remedy to destress, and prayer can bring anyone closer to love. Prayer is communication with our Father in Heaven. Therefore, we connect to God as we pray for others. We are also serving God when we pray for others.

If you want to increase your connection with God, and destress more, try the spiritual experiment, my dear sweet friend. Try it for at least a week, and if you write down the daily successes, it will only enhance your experience.

If you want to level up spiritually, do the experiment for the rest of the year and watch things evolve for you. All you gotta do is "pray always." Luke 21:36, New Testament, Holy Bible, KJV

Do it for you if you want to. I'll do it too! I'll do it until December 31, 2020. I'll document it and promise to share the spiritual results.

I share this because I know with all my heart and soul that spiritual experiments will destress anyone's stress. My humble opinion from years of experience.

Have a wonderful day, dear special one! 

Speak soon...

And BIG HUGS!

Elizabeth Stanfill

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The Most Important Scripture

Hello my dear friend.

Insomuch as I am on a meditating and memorizing scripture phase, I'd like to discuss, what I believe to be, the most important bible verse.

"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment." ~Matthew 22:35-38, Holy Bible, KJV

This must be the most important scripture for us, if Jesus says it is the first and great commandment. This commandment, in my humble opinion, is the way to spiritual expansion.

So what does it mean to love God? God, is perfect unconditional love, therefore could we not strive to love Him perfectly and unconditionally?

Unconditional love is without conditions. Conditional love has hate. When a person needs conditions in order to love someone, and the conditions aren't present, the absence of that love could be discontent, dislike, or even hate.

What does it mean to love someone with all thy heart, soul, and mind? 

In my opinion, the heart signifies emotion, and love, or it could mean life. The heart is what gives us human life. The soul denotes the spiritual being, and the mind indicates the beliefs, and thoughts. These are the elements of our existence. We are emotional, living, thoughtful, and spiritual beings.

In order to love with the entire heart, soul, and mind, is to love with all the body, emotion, spirit, and thoughts.

The body, emotions, spirit, and thoughts encompass our full capabilities when we live from the fruit of the spirit of who we really are.

When we love someone, we want their approval. This is very much a part of our spirit. Think about how much we want our parents' approval when we are young, and as we become parents, we want our offspring's approval as well.

When we love someone, we want to be with them, believe in them, and be their best friend. A child, wants to be with, and believes in their parent(s). A child wants not much more than best friendship with his or her parent(s). 

When we love someone, we have compassion for, and cooperate with them.

When we love someone, we want to learn from them, and listen to them.

When we love someone, we want to be loyal to them.

When we love someone, we want to please them and understand them.

Ponder on these things!

Is it not true?

In my last post, I discussed the scripture that describes how I am living my life right now. It is the scripture on meditation, and what, quite possibly, is the most instructive scripture for the human experience.

If you didn't read the last post, the scripture is, as follows:

"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that it is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." ~Joshua 1:8, Holy Bible, KJV

In my last post, I also gave suggestions on meditating, and memorizing scripture. 

If we memorize, and meditate upon the most important scripture, with means, by the most instructive scripture, I believe with all my heart and soul, we will level up spiritually, big time!

What say you?

Our mission, for the next four days, should we choose to accept it, will be to memorize the scripture, Matthew 22:35-38, Holy Bible, KJV, which is quoted at the beginning of this blog post.

In addition, using the instruction given in the scripture above, Joshua 1:8, Holy Bible, KJV. It will also be helpful to follow the five suggestions given in the last post on, Destressing Peaceful Practice.

The other day, I spoke to an Ordained Minister, from Houston Texas, who happens to be a United States Marine, and he said, to me, the things happening now are entirely spiritual. He said, everything the whole world is experiencing is spiritual. He did not say a word about politics, race, or religion. He is a black man that calls me sister, and I believe him to be my brother.

We are all in this together, and many people know this, and are reaching for God. I believe that those who seem uncooperative in anyway, are asking for inner peace, power, value, and worth. I believe everyone is reaching for God. We are all just striving to get there in our own unique way, with what we've been given in this life thus far.

These spiritual exercises I give to you, I give to me. They are spiritual! They will create spiritual behaviors, beliefs, emotions, and thoughts that will develop inner peace.

Some people are begging for inner peace! God gives inner peace! How do I know? I was the most weary soul I knew because of the conditioning, and experiences that I had. Now, I practice inner peace by connecting to God, and I help other weary souls do the same.

Let us train up in spiritual practices that will help us level up even more, shall we?

One person connected to God is more powerful than millions who are not. Let us level up, connect to God, even more, and live in our power.

May God bless you my dear friend, with all the comfort and strength in your body, heart, mind, and soul. 

My dear reader...

We got this!

God is real!

Speak soon...

Elizabeth

Advanced Stress Relief

Hey, hey!

How are you doing these days?

My prayer is that you are doing okay...

I'm a poet... lol... well, I try anyway ~wink~

Recently, I heard a Doctor proclaim that anger, anxiety, and depression are on the rise because of the fear of economic future.

It appears that many could use a little destressing these days. So, I wanna talk about advanced stress management, which is evolving actions, and attitudes, which evolves beliefs, behaviors, and feelings.

I want to make this post short and sweet, so I will ramble only a little bit, then offer you a minor practice, as I usually do, and see if it helps. Let's experiment and see if it will work for you.

Stress is caused by our reactions to thoughts of doubt, fear, and worry something not so good is going to happen or is happening.

Destressing is caused by our conscious decisions to practice our thinking in a certain way, which is choosing our attitudes, which will choose better actions.

There is a scripture that says, "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." ~James 2:17, Holy Bible, KJV

To me, one of the things this scripture means is to behave like we believe in God, not just say we believe in God.

To behave like we believe, one must speak, and think like he or she believes. If we speak and think thoughts of doubt, fear, and worry, but say we believe in God, we are not behaving like we believe. In other words, one may say he or she believes in God but his or her actions and attitude show otherwise.

There is another scripture that goes...

"And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." ~Mark 11:22-24, Holy Bible KJV

I believe this to be true, and I believe it to pertain to spiritual things more than temporal things. Spiritual, in the sense that we must seek the Kingdom of God first and foremost, and then all we ask to assist us in this Spiritual expansion, will in fact, come to pass.

I've done many behavioral experiments. Also, clients I've worked with have tried behavioral and spiritual experiments. Recently, I've been doing spiritual experiments for myself, and the most recent ones are memorizing scriptures and meditating upon them for three days.

These spiritual experiments got me feeling like I am really leveling up in life. It feels good! Especially, in the midst of the most worldly circumstances seen in my life time.

To feel good like this is to feel God! That is my edict.

If you'd like to change your actions, attitude, behaviors, and beliefs, to feel better, choose one of the scriptures I quoted above. Take the scripture, memorize it, and ponder it often. Make this a priority for at least three days, and I believe, with all my heart and soul, you will teeter into advanced stress relief, if you need to. ~wink~

This is faith with works!

This is behaving like you believe in God!

God is very real!

One of my many favorite scriptures is...

"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." ~Joshua 1:8, Holy Bible, KJV

Meditate on the chosen scripture day and night and thou shalt have good success...

God bless you my dear reader...

Ever praying for your happiness, health, love, magnificent relationships, and wealth, for these are success...

Success is living by the fruit of the spirit...

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." ~Galatians 5:22-23, Holy Bible, KJV

This success I speak of, truly is a mental, mind, ninja project, and pursuit...

Speak soon...

Elizabeth

Faith in the Future

Hey, hey...

Happy Sunday...

Faith in the future is what I'd like to discuss this day...

Back in 2008, when the economy barely began to crash, very few people were experiencing it. A gentleman contacted me, one of the first I'd ever helped that wasn't in the emergency field or military. This husband, also a father, was terrified of the future because he lost his job and was trying to obtain another.

He is brilliant, as most men and women are, but insecurity tends to block our intelligence. Fear gets in the way of intellectual thinking because it is a distorted view of reality.

While working with this individual, we destressed his fear so that he could ease his moodiness and irritability and focus and organize his thoughts. He was then able to enjoy the brief time he was given by God to spend with his family.

Fearful thoughts tend to block our ability to have faith, enjoy life, and connect to God. Scary thoughts of the future played over and over in the mind can and will cause anger, anxiety, depression, despair, moodiness, irritability, and/or panic attacks.

Fear is normal in this human existence, yet some of us become so fearful of the future that we cannot think of solutions. Whether we have faith or fear the future, we are not psychic. If we were such great fortune tellers, wouldn't we be millionaires?

Some people are convinced they have to be afraid, which is a deviation from the truth. To waste energy and argue for fear is a powerful disconnection from God.

The confident people are running successful careers, companies, families, and organizations. The insecure individuals don't get the opportunity for advancement because insecurity is uncooperative with success. 

So, if you are one of those individuals who fear the future and would like to evolve your behaviors and beliefs to have faith in the future, I have an experiment for you.

I do these experiments all the time...

I'm always conducting personal, spiritual experiments, and that's how I connect, talk, and walk with God.

My experiments always help me level up little by little, and I want to help anyone else who'd like to advance spiritually, meaning in their faith, love, and trust.

So, if you want to...

Here we go...

The Experiment...

This week, starting today...

Memorize the statements below, and repeat them as often as possible. Feel these statements as you say them.

"I Trust in God! And, I know, more amazing things that I could ever imagine will happen."

"Affirm it!"

"Contemplate it!"

"Meditate upon it!"

'Visualize it!"

Memorize, and repeat, "I Trust in God! And, I know, more amazing things that I could ever imagine will happen."

Affirm it after you say, "affirm it."

Contemplate it after you say, "contemplate it."

Meditate upon it after you say, "meditate upon it."

Visualize it after you say, "visualize it."

Does this sound silly to you?

This will not only help you focus on faith by desire; it is reconditioning and retraining your mind. I've done this and still do. I've helped many create affirmations and ways of focusing, and the consistent, persistent find that it works. 

Some people never, or rarely, follow through. It's all about the desire versus default theory.

Do the exercise all day long in your mind, especially if and when the fear of the future creeps in. Trust me, it'll work. The goal is to be fully present in your mind as you do it so that you are not just saying it but really believing it and feeling it.

I've mentioned lately that we are contemplating and focusing mechanisms. Human beings are constantly affirming, reflecting, meditating upon, and visualizing. That is what we do. Some of us focus on the worst, some focus on the best, and some go back and forth between the two. This experiment, I suggest, will show evidence that we can govern our contemplation of faith over the human conditioning of fear.

It is our authority and power to choose what we will do with our beliefs and behaviors. We can do what we will by default or desire if we want to.

This experiment is to discover how great our success can be. It works! It can ease your stress and develop great faith in the future more and more as it is practiced. That is my humble opinion from my experiences.

One last thing. If you'd like to eliminate your fear and increase your faith even more, another thing you can do is not listen to and read, all day long, or even a little, the fear posts on social media and in the media. I'm just suggesting limiting it if you really care about what goes in your mind.

The scriptures don't teach us...

Trust in the Lord, except or unless...

Have faith in God, except or unless...

All things are possible with God, except or unless...

The truth is!

Trust in the Lord!

Have faith in God!

All things are possible with God!

So! Trust in God! And more amazing things than you could ever imagine will happen.

It's the law of faith, my friend.

You are brilliant, and you have common sense. Common sense is confidence! Insecurity and fear are not common sense or confidence. Insecurity and fear lead to personality disorders and phobias.

The evidence is clear!

Praying for your faithfulness and fearlessness, my dear sweet reader.

I have faith in you!

I have faith in myself!

I most assuredly have faith in God; otherwise, I couldn't have confidence in you or me.

Faith can heal the world.

God bless you, and here's to your successful experiment. 

I'll do it too...

Speak soon...

Elizabeth Stanfill

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