5 minute activities to keep your spiritual actions going each day

The following 5-minute activities will refresh your spirit and keep you working from the spiritual part of your being throughout the day.

1. Sorry. We forgive to free ourselves from negative feelings and thoughts; anger, loss, sadness, resentment, etc. To forgive means to let go; to stop running the painful experience through your heart, mind and emotions. That draws more of the same experiences to you through the magnetic law of attraction. It also produces higher levels of inflammatory proteins in your body that can lead to heart disease, depression, and cancer. Forgiveness does not condone bad behavior. You simply cleanse yourself of toxic feelings, judgments, and memories.

Work to understand the other person. What weakness does this person have that caused this behavior? Is it fear, insecurity, despair, lack of integrity? Remember, not everyone has the same strengths and integrity as you. They are learning and suffering the consequences of their behavior. They are growing up, just like you.

It is not personal. The person will do it again with another person. Clean your heart and soul and move on. And keep your boundaries clear if you meet again.

Forgiveness Activity: Close your eyes, relax and breathe deeply and completely for a few minutes. Choose a situation and a person you would like to forgive. Consider what happened from the other person’s point of view. Get inside the other person’s feelings at the time of the situation. What weakness or self-interest caused the action?

Consider the character and development of the person. What do you still need to learn? In what way does the person need to grow?

Say what you want to the other person in your mind now; how you feel and what you want him/her to know.

Let God give you what you needed in that situation. Was it respect, love, justice, recognition, peace? Feel full of it now.

Decide how you will act in relation to this person. Be firm in your limits. What are you going to change within yourself and in your behavior?

Now, send love to the person; Wish that person well from your heart. Sorry, let go.

Did you learn anything valuable from this situation? What? End your involvement in this situation now. Make a firm decision to end it. If you need to do this exercise more times, do it until it is clearly behind you.

2. Focused Inner Listening Activity: Close your eyes and breathe slowly and deeply. Inhale bright white light and exhale bright light; clear bright white light. Circulate the light throughout your being and let it shine.

Allow a soft and fluffy aqua and light sky blue blanket to envelop you. Stay silent. Breathe in peace. Breathe peace.

Ask for general guidance and set your intention to receive it.

Be very still and listen inwardly in the stillness without thinking. No thinking, just silence.

Get impressions and guidance now.

Ask a specific question that is important to you. Listen indirectly for the answer. You can receive a feeling, an image or words.

In the silence, receive additional information about your life.

This activity brings your own gift of intuitive knowing and messages from your soul into your conscious awareness.

3. Love: The love frequency is optimistic, uplifting, warm, and satisfying. There is a sense of wholeness and truth that goes with it. It feels good, because love is the right thing to do, the right way to be.

When you deliberately cultivate love within yourself, you change and become more compassionate, empathic, kind, and understanding of yourself and others.

Think, meditate and look for ways to act with love throughout your day. Cultivating love requires your intention and deliberate actions.

Love Meditation Activity: Close your eyes and breathe deeply as you relax.

Imagine a pink and gold flower made of sparkling light within your heart; golden and pink light shining in your heart.

Allow the flower petals to open and unfold one by one. Feel the warmth of love as it spreads through your heart.

Experience a deep appreciation and love for yourself. You are precious, strong divine.

Feel love for your family and friends, and radiate it to them as the flower petals continue to open and expand.

Feel how love becomes very strong and powerful within you like a laser beam. Radiate it to all mankind.

Choose a particularly difficult person in your life and direct love to that person.

Throughout the day, radiate love to situations and people who are challenging, irritating, or rude.

This will harmonize the energy between you. It is simple, powerful and effective.

4. Neutralization of Negative Experiences Activity: Close your eyes, take a deep breath and stay still. Imagine a time when you were very upset. Relive it in your body now. Feel it strong. Imagine that you are putting on the mask of a spiritual teacher and becoming that teacher instantly. You are calm, centered, full of peace and understanding. You have stopped the feeling of discomfort instantly and it is gone. Feel good.

Here is another effective technique. When you find yourself very upset with that tightness in your stomach, sit back and just watch your emotion. See yourself having it. While it is happening, watch your reactions and feelings. When you feel calm, understand yourself and the situation in a new way. You can overcome the situation with new knowledge and peace. Observe and overcome any moment during the day that you need.

5. Creative service to others: Research shows that the happiest people are those who find ways to serve and make a real contribution in the world. Find a way to be of service every day. What talents can you share that will provide a service to others that will improve their lives, teach them something valuable, or lift their spirits?

Creative Service Activity: Sit quietly, take a deep breath and relax. Now, inwardly ask yourself how your soul wants you to be of service at this time. Allow your soul, your higher self, to place a gift in your hands. Open it. What is? Interpret the symbolic meaning of the gift. What does it mean? How does it apply to your service?

Service is about love. Service is love in action. That you love? Pets, research, cycling, peace, nature, gardening, sewing, chemistry, art, teaching, helping people grow, building things? Put your hands where your love is. Take action and share what you love.

Write some things that make you happy. Now translate them into ways you can provide service, uplifting experiences, and learning for others. Get creative and choose something you haven’t done before. Serve in ways that inspire you.

Throughout your day, remember to practice forgiveness, inner listening, love, self-strength, neutralization of negative experiences, and creative service. You will grow and accelerate your spirituality daily.