How can self-discipline enhance spirituality? Spirituality is a discipline. True spirituality is the hardest of all disciplines, because it involves disciplining your thoughts, emotions, intentions, and actions all the time. While the discipline needed to achieve other goals in life is often a part-time pursuit, the discipline to grow and awaken spiritually is full-time. In …
You don’t need spirituality or faith to be disciplined, but can spirituality and faith help self-discipline? Yes, tremendously. Spirituality almost always fosters values such as integrity, compassion, patience, forgiveness, self-control, determination, awareness, and morality. It requires honest self-reflection and certain regular practices. All of that requires self-discipline. A spiritual path also offers inspiration from peers, …
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. —Dalai Lama Look at consciousness as a function of matter and you have science. Look at matter as the product of consciousness and you have spirituality. —Nisargadatta Maharaj That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. —Henry David …
Given that virtues are our emotional “superpowers”, and that they must be balanced with their opposites for best effect, let’s discuss a pair that is extremely relevant to the topic of discipline: self-belief and humility. When they are properly balanced, you have wise confidence and can practice Mindful Self-Discipline. It is easy to understand how …
Virtues are amazing psychological assets that we can have, and every effort to develop them pays rich dividends. Yet, it is also true that every virtue casts a shadow. Our greatest strengths, when not balanced, are often the source of our greatest weaknesses. Every virtue is a tool, and we need different tools for different …
One way to develop any virtue or quality is to find it in others, and then adopt that mode of being. Look for a person who has that virtue, and “absorb” it from him or her. The simplest way to do this is to spend time with people who have the virtue you want—friends, family …
If virtues are our emotional “superpowers”, how do we cultivate them to support Mindful Self-Discipline? We can discover and kindle the virtue’s “footprint” in our body, mind, and heart. Virtues are subjectively experienced as bodily sensations, emotional states, and a narrative or self-talk. For example, perseverance might feel physically like firmness or solidity in your …
What are virtues, and what do they have to do with self-discipline? Virtues are positive character traits such as courage, patience, trust, kindness, confidence, focus, serenity, determination, resilience, integrity, etc. They are a foundation for living well, and a key ingredient to greatness. They are more important than goals, for they are transferable skills that …
Just like there are three pillars of self-discipline, there are three pillars of meditation: Habit, Technique, and Transformation. You need to practice meditation as a daily habit, with the optimal technique, and apply the skills from meditation to transform your daily life. With these three pillars, your meditation practice will be pleasant and effective. It will flourish and …
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —Blaise Pascal If Pascal said that in the 17th century, what he would say today, when most people can’t spend one minute alone without unlocking their phone? A study from the University of Virginia found that many people would rather be electrically shocked …
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