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Sharon Janis
Sharon Janis is an award-winning filmmaker, speaker, musician, philosopher, artist, and author of books, including Spirituality For Dummies and Secrets of Spiritual Happiness.
Articles & Books From Sharon Janis
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-14-2022
Spirituality goes deep into the heart of every matter and extends far beyond the physical world of matter. Understanding what spiritual principles are (and aren't), can help to improve your life, empower your mind, and nourish your soul. Whether you’re looking for happiness, inner peace, or supreme enlightenment, no knowledge can propel you to achieve your personal goals and provide as effective a plan for living as does spiritual knowledge.
Step by Step / Updated 03-08-2017
The following exercise can help you to rise above the illusions of your own life-movie by giving you a way to practice controlling your levels of absorption in the illusions of a theatrical movie.
Some religious and spiritual traditions guide you to withdraw from the world and to hide yourself in a cave or go to a mountaintop where you can escape the illusions of life.
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Here are ten lines that may sound spiritual on the surface, but could have other not-so-spiritual meanings. Laughing at the foibles of yourselves and others is part of the cosmic joke, and spiritual efforts don’t get exempted!I am detached from all material possessions!This line may really mean I’m flat broke and don’t have a penny to my name!
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Life brings a variety of pleasant and challenging experiences: One day everything goes smoothly, but another day is filled with obstacles. One time you are showered with good fortune, but another time you’re dragged down by misfortune. You may feel constricted by your past, fearful for the future, or hopeful about a new possibility.
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Spiritual images are invocations of the divine presence and reminders of the symbolic ideals for which they stand. Although some religions frown upon worshipping idols or forms, others find this practice to be a powerful way to communicate with God on a tangible, personal level.
The following figures show several spiritual images and objects that devotees from different traditions may choose to include on their altars or in other areas of their home or work environment.
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
From a spiritual perspective, small efforts can be as significant as larger ones. Whether you’re cleaning up a piece of garbage from the park, selecting a spiritual book to read, or picking up your child from school, your level of spiritual awareness and intention determines the spiritual significance of your actions.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The basic idea of the law of attraction is that your thoughts determine your experience. You attract what you think about, whether or not you want it.
The law of attraction is not about blame or guilt — it’s just a simple reaction, a law of the universe that applies to everyone equally, regardless of whether you are a saint or a sinner.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Spiritual living begins with looking at day-to-day events differently. Instead of judging things by how important they are on the scales of worldly accomplishment, you focus on the depth of meaning behind the outer appearances of everything in your life.
To grasp the deeper, more meaning-filled levels beneath, behind, and within your surface life, you have to shift the focus of your consciousness, bringing the more materialistic, limited view out of focus and a higher awareness into focus.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Two important goals of becoming more spiritual are growth and evolution. Yet with or without any specific spiritual efforts, human beings continue to evolve and grow. This drive is programmed into the very nature of all life — an innate pull toward growth, evolution, and transformation.
Well, then, if everything is happening by itself, why not just coast along for the ride?
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Without a deeper understanding of the relationship between the individual soul and the universal soul, your use of metaphysical and spiritual laws of manifestation could be but a step away from cheap parlor tricks that may amaze your friends, but also reduce you to being somewhat of a karmic thief.
Adding more positive images and affirmations to your thoughts is great; however, you don’t want to slip into thinking that you’re going to use metaphysical principles to “put one over” on your destiny or to sneakily overturn God’s will.