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Selecting a Spiritual Topic to Focus On
Why select a spiritual topic to focus your spiritual efforts on? Selecting a topic gives your efforts one-pointed focus, making them less haphazard and unconscious. You become more conscious of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Power comes from one-pointedness, the power that creates breakthroughs and significant insights and realizations.
Be sure to choose a spiritual topic that you want to work on. If you want to work on your chosen topic, you’ll be more motivated and more likely to succeed in carrying out the different methods or principles you decide to practice.
To become aware of your motivation, answer the question “Why did I choose this topic?” If you’ve picked one you think you should work on, have an attitude of curiosity about it. Is there a voice inside your head that is saying “should"? If so, whose voice is it? Do you have to follow that voice? You may still decide to work on that topic, but you’ll be doing so with greater awareness and perhaps a changed attitude.
Or, do you think that God wants you to focus on a particular spiritual principle? We can get into unnecessary trouble when we think, “God wants me to...” Often it’s an aspect of our personality that is saying that, not God. We have free will. God is no dictator and simply wants us to make our own decisions. And you can’t go wrong if you’re choosing to do something spiritual for the right reasons. If you don’t have a desire to do something that you think God wants you to do, you won’t succeed and will end up feeling guilty for not doing “God’s will.” Try focusing on any spiritual principle that you want to work on, with the right motive, and you can be sure that God will be pleased. And you will be more likely to succeed.
You may think you have to work on strengthening your weaknesses. As explained in Introduction to the My Experiments Program, making spiritual effort in any area of spirituality strengthens all other areas. Every aspect of spirituality is part of one truth. So it doesn’t really matter what topic you work on, as long as you have the motivation to work on it.
Focus on your chosen topic for as long as you like—a day, a week, or perhaps a month or longer—remaining flexible so you can choose another topic if the need arises.
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