{"id":3687,"date":"2012-08-16T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2012-08-16T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:16:11","slug":"spiritual-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/08\/spiritual-amnesia.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/08\/spiritualamnesia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3689\" title=\"spiritualamnesia\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/08\/spiritualamnesia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I saw this cartoon today and it gave me a chuckle since I use the term &#8216;spiritual amnesia&#8217; to describe blessedly brief moments of Forgetting that Everything is All Right which is actually an acroynm for the word FEAR. How does that work, I wonder?\u00a0 It seems that I (and maybe you too), get caught up in how I think things should be and how other people oughta act. When they aren&#8217;t that way, I have a few choices. I can wonder what&#8217;s wrong with this picture or what&#8217;s right about it. It&#8217;s so easy to find fault, but so much more pleasurable to find contentment and cooperation. When in doubt, go for a win-win. Times when I become spiritually amnesiac also look like worry that that my needs won&#8217;t be taken care of.\u00a0 How silly is that? I remind myself that I have survived everything that has ever happened in my life, since I am here to tell about it. That includes loss, death, illness, injury, robbery, accidents, losing a home in Hurricane Andrew, raising a child solo after being widowed, and working in a challenging and sometime dangerous setting. I would bet that if you look at your own life, you will shake your head in amazement at what you have made it through and wonder what got you through it all. For me, it was the 3 f&#8217;s of faith, family and friends and I&#8217;m grateful for them all.<\/p>\n<p>Messages from Spirit (again, whatever that means for you) come in the form of dreams, animal messengers, literal messages in the form of words that\u00a0show up\u00a0in meditation, song lyrics, calls from friends&#8230;.open to receiving their guidance. I look at many of my life experiences as the Nestea Plunge in which I fall backward, trusting that I will be safely caught and held. When I question, the answer I get is &#8220;Have I ever dropped you?\u00a0 Have things ever not turned out even better than you, with your over the top vivid imagination could have conjured?&#8221; and I have to laugh and then sigh and then agree. And so it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/fN5l-52LQRc\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/fN5l-52LQRc<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Bhaya Naash Mantra (Sanskrit Mantra For Overcoming Fear -Durga Devi Mantra) sung by Jitender Singh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I saw this cartoon today and it gave me a chuckle since I use the term &#8216;spiritual amnesia&#8217; to describe blessedly brief moments of Forgetting that Everything is All Right which is actually an acroynm for the word FEAR. How does that work, I wonder?\u00a0 It seems that I (and maybe you too),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1,13,19,3,14,4,16,7,10],"tags":[2077,2074,2075,2078,1650,2076,217,2073],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affirmations","category-attracting-what-you-desire","category-blissfull-thinking","category-empowerment","category-gratitude","category-how-to-invite-bliss","category-inspiration","category-my-personal-bliss","category-re-creating-your-life","category-spirituality","tag-bhaya-naash-mantra-sanskrit-mantra-for-overcoming-fear-durga-devi-mantra","tag-cartoons","tag-fear","tag-jitender-singh","tag-nestea-plunge","tag-overcoming-fear","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual-amnesia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spiritual Amnesia - The Bliss Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/08\/spiritual-amnesia.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spiritual Amnesia - The Bliss Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; I saw this cartoon today and it gave me a chuckle since I use the term &#8216;spiritual amnesia&#8217; to describe blessedly brief moments of Forgetting that Everything is All Right which is actually an acroynm for the word FEAR. 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