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Jazz Fusion & Spirituality – Ivan Verrastro – The First Time I Saw You (Sentience) – Video

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Marianne Williamson: Can Progressivism & Spirituality Work Together? – Video

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Marianne Williamson, bestselling author, lecturer, and former Congressional candidate, joins David to discuss the upcoming Sister Giant conference, and the role of spirituality in politics...

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Spirituality in the workplace boosts morale, values among employees

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Promoting spirituality in the workplace impacts individuals and teams positively as it builds a sense of community, cultivates compassion, strengthens values and provides a support system for those faced with personal trials, says one minister.

According to Jesuit priest Fr Aristotle Dy, who serves as President of Xavier School in the Philippines, organisations need to place importance on the development of their workforce because people bring their entire selves to work - body, mind and spirit.

"It is normal for people to seek a sense of security in their work, not only in terms of their job but perhaps in their level of happiness, morale, and connection with their team and the other individuals they face at work," he said.

Fr Dy suggested the implementation of 'generic' spiritual activities in the workplace so as not to leave out those who belong to a different religion or denomination.

He suggested that organisations hold special talks and activities to coincide with religious festivals or important dates to provide an avenue for those who want to share their faith beliefs and practices with their co-workers.

Providing a place in which employees can worship or meditate is also a good investment for companies, he said, because this can serve as a refuge and a place of prayer for those who need some time out.

Having meditation and quiet sessions similarly encourage workers to have moments of silence to reflect, and have a positive effect on employees because wisdom can be gained in silence, he said. They can also be enjoyed by individuals regardless of religion, he noted.

Fr Dy suggested organising company retreats as a way of increasing the bond between co-workers by giving them opportunities to share experiences with each other.

Numerous experts on productivity in the workplace have acknowledged the importance of giving room to spirituality.

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Why Figuring Out Your Best Career Is A Spiritual Endeavor

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As a career success coach and leadership developer, I spend some portion of every single day helping people dig deep, discover their right work, and illuminate the world with it. Thats my mantra and my passion. Why? Because for a good part of my 18 years in my corporate life (the last two years of which were totally toxic and debilitating), my work made me feel sick, sad and lost. While highly successful on the outside (as a VP with a big job), on the inside I felt my work devoid of all meaning, passion and joy. Try as I might, I just couldnt figure out what else to do or how to change directions.

Now Im on the other side of that thanks to becoming a therapist, coach, training in energy healing, and finding my own spiritual path. Working with thousands of professionals a year, Ive seen that the journey to our most joyful work is not a linear, external experience. Its an inner one. And cultivating our own spirituality that allows us to deepen our connection to ourselves and others (and to how we want to be of service in the world in joyful ways), is the most direct route to a happier career and life.

A participant of a recent program of mine summed it up powerfully:

This has just been amazing. It quickly became obvious that I have a lot of things to work through on a personal level in order to be able to figure out the career I really want. I think part of it is just knowing that I am not my work. Work is an extension, an expression of who I am, but its not my identity. Im excited to get to know me, which sounds really weird. But I just feel like Ive always had this pressure around Ive got to do better, Ive got to BE better for everyone else. Maybe my career aspirations will shift once I find peace with who I am and really love myself for who I am. So I want to just continue to identify how can I serve where I am in my current position, continue to network, continue to express what are those passions I have in my career and type of work. But, I think the biggest thing is just going to be giving myself the freedom to just be still and just be, and not have that pressure to always figure out whats next.

To learn more about how spirituality can clear the path to your right career, I was thrilled to catch up with Lodro Rinzler, the author of the new book The Buddha Walks Into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation. Lodro is a popular meditation teacher and author of five books, including the bestselling The Buddha Walks Into a Bar. For over a decade, Lodro has taught workshops at meditation centers, businesses, and college campuses throughout North America. Founder of the Institute for Compassionate Leadership, Lodros columns appear regularly on the Huffington Post, Marie Claire, and Elephant Journal.

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Kathy Caprino: Lodro, so many people are struggling today to find a new career path and to make a positive difference. What can they do differently to figure this out?

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What Would Jesus Say About Your Spirituality?

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Perhaps you are someone who says, "I am spiritual, but not religious." OK. What else? What are the core doctrines and principles of your spirituality? And most importantly, what would Jesus say about your spirituality?

Let's assume you treat others with kindness. And let's also assume you try to be honest in your dealings with others. What do you think Jesus would say about those traits, especially as it relates to your soul?

Spirituality after all deals with matters of the soul, right? Outward actions are a reflection of our soul, but they don't tell the whole story. In order to get those details, we must listen to what a person says about his or her spirituality. Such communication often reveals the "well" from which the individual is drawing their spiritual resources.

Some people are big proponents of meditation. But here again, what is the source of the meditation? Where does a person look to find a proper starting point to meditate? And if you are a person who practices some meditation yourself, what would Jesus say about your meditation?

In order for a particular brand of spirituality to be acceptable to God, it must have a stamp of approval from Jesus. He knows the kind of spirituality which is helpful, as well as the kinds that are harmful. All spirituality is not created equal, just like all prophets are not created equal. And there is even one prophet who was never created because He has always existed. Guess who?

True spirituality not only connects you to your Creator, but it also produces good fruit in your life. It makes you a better person. Jesus knows all about true spirituality. He knows what is inside man, and He knows what man needs in order to succeed spiritually.

One must look at the life and death of Jesus if one is going to understand true spirituality. And by "true spirituality," I am not suggesting that those who practice "false spirituality" are being disingenuous. Those folks are just as sincere, even though the well from which they draw their spiritual resources is much different than the well Jesus sent into the world after His resurrection and ascension into heaven.

Jesus sent His children a source of power. But not just some impersonal source of power. Instead, Jesus sent a Person. Guess who? The Holy Spirit is just as much a Person as Jesus. Along with the Father, they make up the Trinity. And so true spirituality must by definition be connected to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. If it isn't, then it is false spirituality. It's sincere, but it doesn't draw from God's well.

Jesus never approved any form of spirituality which keeps a person outside His family. Instead, Jesus teaches us the true nature of man, and the true nature of salvation. While man is good at devising various types of spirituality, man isn't so good at aligning himself with the kind of spirituality which draws from God's well. After all, there is only one well, and there is only one wellspring of living water. (see John 7:38,39)

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Aim of Well for the Journey is to quench thirst for spirituality

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A sunny yellow-colored house in West Towson has served for the last two years as an oasis for those thirsting to deepen their spiritual life.

Some come to Well for the Journey for a sip before continuing on their journey. Others come regularly to drink in the lessons, the conversations and the reflection that goes on here. Some consider Lent, which begins Wednesday, as a time to deepen their spirituality. At Well for the Journey, that's the goal every day.

"At the well you fill up. You take what you need," said Mabeth Hudson, co-founder of Well for the Journey.

Kathy Baker, of Seminary Overlook, has always been a regular church-goer. But in 2004, she came to Well for the Journey looking for something more. "Sometimes church speaks to me and sometimes it doesn't," she said.

She found what she was looking for: An original curriculum that used both scriptures and contemporary writers to help her deepen her spirituality.

"Well for the Journey has allowed me to develop a more relational experience with God," Baker said. She took a nine-month program called Crossroads Companions and continued taking classes and, in fact, now leads them, both at the Well and at her church.

"It has been a powerful force in my life," Baker said.

Now, when Baker attends services at her church, Woodbrook Baptist, she brings a deeper faith. "My perspective has changed. I see God as a bigger entity that is in every part of my life," she said.

About 85 to 100 come to the Well each month for classes, spiritual direction or special programs. Some 1,200 receive quote-of-the-day emails. Hudson said the email blast was started to reach those who cannot attend programs. "A lot of people have said that changed their lives," said Hudson, who collects quotes for the daily email blast.

Hudson, a Sparks resident, was a partner in a law firm in 2001 when she felt called to start a community for those seeking to develop their spirituality. She designed Women at the Well specifically for women at first. It wasn't long before other journeyers, including men, wanted more, Hudson said.

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Can intensive mindfulness training improve depression?

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New Rochelle, NY, March 10, 2015--Depression affects about 350 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of disability. Mindfulness training is a promising approach to decreasing depressive symptoms. The success of an intensive mindfulness meditation program on reducing depression, and how factors such as age, gender, and spirituality affect an individual's response to training are presented in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine website until April 10, 2015.

Jeffrey Greeson, PhD, Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC) and University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia), and coauthors, also from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Broadleaf Health (Guelph, Ontario, Canada), and University of Southampton (U.K.), compared how individual differences in religious beliefs, spirituality, the ability to achieve mindfulness, gender, and age affect levels of depressive symptoms after completing an 8-week course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

In the article "Decreased Symptoms of Depression after Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Potential Moderating Effects of Religiosity, Spirituality, Trait Mindfulness, Sex, and Age," the authors report that overall, depressive symptoms decreased substantially for nearly all of the subgroups of participants, and they suggest that MBSR can be helpful whether its use is intended by the individual as a secular or spiritual practice.

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Center For Complementary & Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K99AT004945. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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