How did you get to this point? Things were not supposed to unfold like this. You were taught that if you have a good education and work very hard, you would reach most of the important goals you set for yourself. You spent more time in the office hoping to demonstrate your loyalty to the company. You did favours to people with the expectation that your good deeds would be rewarded down the line. Unfortunately, so many years later, you find yourself stuck and suffocating. You’re not making the kind of progress you’d hoped to make.
What went wrong? The opportunities keep going to other people who don’t seem to be putting as much effort. The dream projects go to people who appear to value them less.
“What am I missing?” you’ve been asking yourself. “Why do the important opportunities appear to be going around me all the time?”
The answer is simple. You have bought into a lie. We take half-truths as the full truth!
The problem is not the set of actions you have been taking. It is what you are not doing.
Our radical approach fuses the timeless wisdom of the Bible with the practicality of science. The Bible answers the “why?” questions while science provides clarity on the “how?” details.
Step one to solving the problem.
Here is the truth that many are not aware of. As a human you are a spiritual being that lives in a physical packaging called the human body. You are made up of two types of matter, visible natural matter and invisible spiritual matter. At death the two separate. The natural matter (the body) goes into the ground, where it is recycled into its constituent chemical elements, and the spiritual matter goes back where it came from. The Bible says it came from GOD.
The assumption that natural work alone will lead to great results is misguided. It is a half-truth that is false. It is a big lie.
How your life unfolds is not only determined by the natural actions you take. It is also shaped by the spiritual actions taken by the spiritual component of your being. It may come as a surprise that you take spiritual actions each and every day. In fact, you take more spiritual actions than you take natural actions.
“Really?”
Yes.
Not only are your spiritual actions not as purposeful, often, they completely contradict their natural counterparts.
That should not be surprising because you are a spiritual being that lives in a natural body. The body gets its life from your spiritual component. That is why it cannot survive on its own. Death happens either when the body loses the ability to function or the spiritual element is “withdrawn” from the body.
Think of it like a mobile phone. The phone (the packaging) becomes utterly useless without the phone network’s connection (the spirit) that gives it life as a mobile phone.
To learn more about this dichotomy and how everything works, independently and together, I refer you to the book Are You Stuck? which you can download for free or to the YouTube video How the Bible says the spiritual world works.
You might be thinking, “Intelligent rational people do not believe in this spiritual stuff. I need evidence from science?”
Astrophysicists explain that the composition of the universe is only a miniscule 5% natural matter. The 95% is made up of Dark Energy (67%) and Dark Matter (28). They are not sure what Dark Energy and Dark Matter are. At least they agree with the Biblical view that empty space is not constituted by nothing. There is more to non-matter than meets the eye.
If you want to know more check out this simple post from NASA. If you have the stomach for details see what Wikipedia says on Dark Energy and Dark Matter and contrast that with natural matter.
What are spiritual actions?
According to our Belief-Action Spiral model shown below, anything that comes before natural actions is spiritual action. This is the most rudimentary definition of spiritual action. There is far more that we won’t talk about here.
Beliefs ⇒ Mindset ⇒ Thoughts ⇒ Feelings ⇒ Actions ⇒ Life experiences (Results)
Your results are the product of your actions. Your actions are moderated by your feelings. The feelings are shaped by your dominant thoughts. Your dominant thoughts come from the mindset you have adopted. This mindset is a reflection of the beliefs you hold. Beliefs are your formula of how the world works.
In other words, your natural actions are the end result of your spiritual actions. For optimal results, the two need to be aligned.
The most important variable is your set of beliefs. To be successful with money, your beliefs about money have to be in alignment with the universal principles of growth and increase.
The starting point is not your natural actions. It should be to align your beliefs with the universal principles. If the two are not aligned, you’re going to struggle to get the results you want.
Therefore, the reason you are stuck and struggling is not because you lack the good education or don’t slave for your employer. You struggle because your spiritual and natural actions are not aligned with applicable universal principles.
Simply stated, a belief is the promise of a desired outcome, a reward, if you take a certain set of actions. It has three elements: the promise, the actions and the reward. Your life is the product of the beliefs you hold. Unfortunately, many of these are based on half-truths or outright lies. A belief based on a lie will not deliver the promises it makes.
Can you think of any belief you hold that you assume is the truth? If you get the right education and work very hard, you will experience success. Can you see the lie in that statement? There are many people from the best schools who genuinely work very hard. Yet the rewards of reaching their modest goals and dreams remains elusive.
Physical work alone is not enough to guarantee reaching your goals consistently. First, your physical actions have to be aligned with your spiritual actions. Second, the two have to be in alignment with universal principles.
Step two – take the right spiritual actions?
Simply stated, spiritual actions are actions that are not physical. Physical matter is visible, uses natural energy and can be measured. In contrast, none of these properties apply to spiritual matter.
Only physical Actions are, well, natural. They abide by the laws of physics and other natural sciences. Do you see how physical Actions are preceded by spiritual Actions? Do you see how Actions are the last step in the sequence?
For example, thinking is a spiritual activity that also has a relatively smaller natural component. Speaking is action that is both spiritual and natural. Your words won’t move the fridge if that’s the result you want to achieve. That said, they are not as pointless as you might think. They have power, spiritual power. But this is a subject to address in a separate post.
We still have not answered the question of why you’ve done everything you were supposed to do but the results have not come.
Let’s recap. As a spiritual being who lives in the physical packaging called the natural body, you live in two worlds. The two realms are the visible natural reality that conforms to the principles of science and the invisible spiritual reality that operates by a completely different set of principles.
All existence is held in position by spiritual principles. Even what you would call the natural world is governed by spiritual principles. That alone should point to the supremacy of the spiritual world!
Principles differ from human laws and rules in one significant way. You cannot cheat universal principles and get away with it. You always pay the price. You can cheat human laws and get away with it if you don’t get caught. That is not so with universal principles. There are always consequences even if you only notice them after some time.
In conclusion
Your career is not where you wanted it to be because the belief that your reality is shaped primarily by your natural actions is wrong. Your spiritual actions play a much more dominant role in determining how your life unfolds.
The most important spiritual action to take now to improve the quality of your results, is to make sure that your beliefs are aligned with applicable universal principles. If money is what you’re after, learn the universal principles that govern growth and multiplication. If your relationships are what has let you down, find out what principles that govern profitable relationships say and change your beliefs to align with them. You can’t contradict universal principles and win.
To increase the probability of reaching goals that are important to you, the first step is to find out what principles says. The second is to ensure that your beliefs are aligned with those principles. The third is to bring your actions, both spiritual and natural, in sync with each other and those principles.
Changing beliefs is not just a mental exercise. You have to train yourself to assimilate the new belief into your lifestyle. It has to become second nature. Only then will its powerful impact flows down the chain through mindset, thoughts, feelings and actions. Your constant challenge is going to be to keep the natural actions in sync with your spiritual actions all the time.
This is what the Bible teaches when it talks about faith. Professional athletes also understand this truth. They practice rigorously to sharpen their natural actions. They also know that they have to believe they will perform at their best when the situation demands it. In essence, what they’re doing is to ensure that their natural actions line up perfectly with their spiritual actions.
I enjoy your website, obviously, but you should check the spelling on a number of your posts. A number of them have numerous spelling errors, which makes it difficult for me to tell the truth, but I will definitely return.
Thanks and point noted. We have since switched to a more robust system that’s more accurate in managing grammar and spelling. Keep well.