spiritual
improvement
Man
feels a need to develop spiritually. He yearns for
further knowledge, for acquiring better attitudes with
which to approach his fellow man. He wishes to activate
his abilities in a more efficient, wise and proper way
and feels a sense of satisfaction when he succeeds
to improve those domains that are important to him.
We may distinguish between two types of process:
1.
Spiritual self developing a capacity, which seemingly did not exist in
human.
2. Spiritual
self
improving a familiar capability and its use.
These
developments and improvements take place by means of
learning and experience. This website will use the term
"improve" to both of these types.
These
processes also contribute to enhancing several other
capacities, including self-healing, getting rid of
undesirable habits, more efficient learning, memory
improvement, and more.
Psychological literature offers many texts dealing with
these processes. Those wishing for further details will
certainly find their wish.
Every
such process is carried out along two paths.
Natural spiritual self improvement
Man is,
by nature, in continual pursuit of achieving goals. The
positive feedback that success provides, encourages him
to repeat his actions in an improved manner. It could
therefore be said, that man is in a continual process of
self
learning and of self improving. This process can develop
negative qualities as well as positive ones.
Controlled spiritual self improvement
This is
a planned process, and occurs in our mind alone. It
achieves superior results in a shorter time-span and
with fewer errors than the natural unplanned and
uncontrolled process. The odds of success are higher
too. This process also constructs a firm basis on which
natural self improvement can be build.
In
principle, this improvement comes into being when
positive pictorial content is displayed to the mind
several times, in
(α)
Alpha state .
Achieving this progress is possible, since one's mind cannot
differentiate between real experiences and imaginary
ones, because in every case the mind receives mentally
generated images.
The
controlled process of spiritual self improvement uses the following
means:
·
The alpha state
·
Imagination.
·
The primary forces of encouragement - desire,
belief and expectation.
·
Other forces that encourage man, which will be
elucidated later in this book.
Recollection
Recollection is a part of the controlled process. It is
not sufficient to cultivate or improve a particular
capacity, or even to turn it into a habit .In order to
maintain and even enhance the expression of human's
spiritual capacities over an extended period of time, a
process of recollection is necessary. |
