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Foreword

Practicing spiritual wellness is the key to living a life of fulfillment, success, peace, love, prosperity, and joy.

All the same, you don’t get to this level of enlightenment overnight. It calls for discipline, but the advantages are definitely worth the effort you put into it.

So what are a few of these practices? There are a lot of them but these are some of the most crucial ones.

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Chapter 1:

Mindfulness Exercises

It's crucial to listen to the silence on a regular basis. The outside world is filled with too much discombobulation. You have to learn to pay attention to the Divine Voice inside and learn to trust it. It's likewise useful to practice being in the here and now. The practice of mindfulness may bring a lot of advantages to your emotional and physical health, as well as to the relationships in your life.

Mindfulness is an astounding tool for stress management and overall wellness as it may be used at virtually any time and may quickly bring lasting results. The following mindfulness exercises are easy and convenient, and may lead you to a deeper experience of mindfulness in your daily life.

Be Mindful

Meditation

Meditation brings a lot of advantages in its own right, and has been one of the most popular and traditional ways to accomplish mindfulness for centuries, so it tops the list of mindfulness exercises. Meditation gets to be easier with practice, but it need not be hard for beginners. Simply discover a comfortable place, free of distractions, and calm your mind.

Deep Breathing

That’s correct: mindfulness may be as easy as breathing! Seriously, though, among the most uncomplicated ways to experience mindfulness, which may be done as you go about your day-to-day activities (convenient for those who feel they don’t have time to meditate), is to center on your breathing.

Breathe from your belly instead of from your chest, and try to inhale through your nose and out through your mouth. Centering on the sound and rhythm of your breath, particularly when you are upset, may have a calming effect and help you stay grounded in the here and now.

Listening to music has a lot of advantages — so many, as a matter of fact, that music is being utilized therapeutically in a fresh branch of complimentary medicine known as music therapy. That’s part of why listening to music makes an excellent mindfulness exercise.

You are able to play soothing new-age music, classical music, or a different type of slow-tempo music to feel calming effects, and make it an exercise in mindfulness by truly centering on the sound and vibration of every note, the feelings that the music brings up inside you, and additional sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If additional thoughts creep into your brain, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the present moment and the music you're hearing.

Housecleaning

The term "housecleaning" has a literal meaning (cleaning up your actual house) as well as a non-literal one (doing away with "emotional baggage”, letting go of things that non longer serve you), and both may be great stress relievers! Because clutter has several hidden costs and may be a subtle but significant stressor, housecleaning and de-cluttering as a mindfulness exercise may bring lasting benefits.

To bring mindfulness to cleaning, you first have to view it as a positive event, a drill in self-understanding and stress relief, instead of merely as a chore. Then, as you clean, center on what you're doing as you're doing it — and nothing else.

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Introduction

Do you ever feel as though you are just going through the motions? Do you ever feel as though you’re drifting through life without ever really getting any sense of inspiration, engagement, or excitement?

Does life sometimes feel like a series of uninteresting chores?

Or perhaps you’re perfectly happy and comfortable but you rarely feel challenged or excited. Maybe you spend most of your evenings on the sofa watching TV. Or even out at the pub with friends. Maybe you spend your whole life picking up after your children.

What will you be leaving behind when you’re gone? What is your great impact?

Look at people like Albert Einstein, like Newton, like Picasso, like Mozart, like the Beatles, like Usain Bolt, like Winston Churchill, like Neil Armstrong, like Nelson Mandela, like Shakespeare, like Mother Teresa.

Now look at your own life. Is there a bit of a stark difference?

Now you might argue that of course you’re no Einstein. You’re not a musical prodigy or a record breaking athlete. It would be overblown to think that you could ever approach the success of any of these historical figures or world-class celebrities.

But does that really mean you need to spend your time just… passing time?

And are you really happy that way? Or do you feel on some level as though there are better uses of your time?

Whether you’re happy or you feel in a funk, the truth is that life gets a whole lot better as soon as you fill it with meaning.

That means finding your life’s purpose. Finding the thing that you’re passionate about. And then focussing on that.

As soon as you do this, you will unlock entirely different levels of focus, of inspiration, of engagement, of charisma. Life suddenly has structure, it makes sense, and you become far more alive. You stop daydreaming and sleepwalking through life and you instead begin to forge your own meaningful path.

You’ll get more out of the time you have on this Earth, and truly there is little that is more worthwhile than that.

When you find your purpose, you’ll even become healthier… even become more attractive.

It won’t matter whether success follows because you’ll be content to spend your days pursuing this thing without any kind of financial reward.

But success very likely will come. Read on and discover why that is and why finding your purpose is what you need in order to change everything.

Chapter 1: Why Finding Your Purpose Changes Everything

So, why is it that finding your purpose can change everything? How does this help you to truly come alive? Why is this the key to success?

Have you ever heard someone tell you that they find passion to be a turn on? Many women say that they love seeing men who speak passionately about a subject, or busy at work doing whatever it is that they do. Why do you think that rock stars get so many groupies? It’s not just about the fame: if you go to a rock concert with a relative unknown they will still almost always have their pick of several women to go home with that night! The simple fact is that they’re doing what they love, they’re demonstrating skill and passion on stage and to the adulation of countless others. That’s a turn on! Women reading this: ask yourself when your guy is at his sexiest. Is it when he’s talking about something he finds absolutely fascinating? Or when he’s hard at work programming, or working out at the gym?

And the same works for men. Men might be a little less emotionally switched on sometimes and they may be unaware of just what it is they find attractive in their partners. But one thing that is always a turn on is seeing a woman who is passionate and driven. It exudes confidence. Think of that sexy violinist all in black, who is taken away by the music and who has the crowd eating out of her hand. Or an incredible dancer.

In fact, finding passion can actually be a trick for brining more romance and excitement back into your relationship. The sexist thing is the other. The unknown. It is seeing someone who is highly motivated and driven, who is passionate about what they do. When you spend all day on the couch with someone, the magic goes. You become too close. It’s hard to want what you already have.

Get some distance. All each other to grow. Explore your own individual passions and hobbies and let them do the same. And you’ll suddenly find that you both become more interesting to one another again. And for those of you who are single? Stop focussing outward by trying to impress people. Start focussing on yourself and what you love, and you’ll become endless more magnetic.

But that’s just a little bonus incentive. There’s far more to it than that.