Topic: Counteracting Adversity

How do we counteract physical, emotional, and social adversity? First, we must have the right attitude. Then, we must know the truth will set us free. To counteract adversity you have to know two facts: (1) There is life in your spiritual being (2) There is death in your physical body. After you know the facts, then you must take the following actions.

●To counter any adversity you must raise your awareness to the spiritual and beyond your material or physical body.

●Raising your awareness to the spiritual and beyond the physical heals you.

●Awareness-raising of the spirit depends upon your ability to give and receive unconditional love as you get outside of yourself. When you are trapped inside yourself you are trapped in your physical body.

●Your physical body ought to be a servant to your spirit. However, your spirit is often a slave to your physical body, especially if your physical body is in pain or your body is suffering some kind of adversity.

●When you are ill and hurting, you tend to ignore your spirit.

●Most importantly, remember you are a spiritual being having physical experiences, and you, by your choice, do not need to be a physical body having a spiritual experience.

●Recognizing this truth…the truth you can be spirit first and physical body second…can change everything in your life.

●The change coming from realizing you are spirit first and body second begets to you life dominance, life power, and a victory over circumstances.

●Consequently, within every adversity, you can choose to live within a shield of Light. You can actually live within this shield of Light because your real nature is that of a spiritual being.

●With your intention to do so, you can put your body's needs, deprivations, and discontents under the control of your spirit.

●Instead of living in or living with physical negatives, you can live in and live with the positives of peace, love, and joy when negatives come into your life if you work at the spiritual level of things.

●When you live in the spirit rather than in the physical, there may be deprivation but there will also be an overflowing of God's love within you to compensate for the deprivation.

●External changes within your body and within your world take place when the spirit rules the body through love.

●Change on the spiritual level is concerned not with what you do, but who you are.

●Using these principles, you can live your life with love in spite of disability.

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