{"id":16135,"date":"2015-10-30T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:25:39","slug":"the-five-characteristics-of-the-spiritual-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/16135-the-five-characteristics-of-the-spiritual-warrior","title":{"rendered":"The Five Characteristics of the Spiritual Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0\n

This article is based on the book Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living<\/em><\/a> by John-Roger, DSS.<\/p>\n

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Incorporating these five characteristics into everything you do can bring you closer to your inner Spirit each day:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

1. The Spiritual Warrior accepts<\/strong> all things –\u00a0This means no judgment and\u00a0no resistance.\u00a0 (No one ever\u00a0said that these practices were easy!)<\/p>\n

2. The Spiritual Warrior cooperates<\/strong> with all things –\u00a0You know you are\u00a0not\u00a0in control,\u00a0but\u00a0it\u00a0looks\u00a0as\u00a0if you are.<\/p>\n

3. The Spiritual Warrior\u00a0understands<\/strong>\u00a0all –\u00a0This doesn\u2019t mean you can explain everything that is going on within you; you just have to awaken to your experience of it. Then understanding appears.<\/p>\n

4. The Spiritual Warrior has enthusiasm<\/strong> for all things –\u00a0When you open to the Spirit, Its energy pours through you, and you regain the wonder and awe of life.<\/p>\n

5. The Spiritual Warrior has\u00a0empathy<\/strong> for all\u00a0– Others are going through the same trials as you, so there is no need to feel superior or inferior.<\/p>\n

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As long as we are hampered by our old mindsets, even formulating our highest intention will be a daunting task.<\/p>\n

Take this example. If we want to make more money, but believe that the kind of work we do can only pay what we are currently making, we have already made it impossible to achieve our goal.<\/p>\n

We need constantly to shake up the old and make room for the new. More importantly, we need to practice being in Spirit,\u00a0being\u00a0in\u00a0alignment with our spiritual intention, so that it becomes our habitual state.<\/p>\n

This book (Spiritual Warrior<\/a>) will not waste your time by attempting to change your behavior or rid you of your negative patterns. Such attempts are invariably futile. You won\u2019t find any easy way to lose weight, quit smoking, or make a million dollars in these pages.<\/p>\n

However, change will take place naturally as you adopt the simple principles and tools offered here. Ultimately, we are going to upgrade our addictions\u2014our habits, the things that trap us\u2014to God.<\/p>\n

So what we want now\u00a0is\u00a0to\u00a0orient\u00a0our\u00a0addictive\u00a0patterns toward God, so that we keep moving toward our intention.<\/p>\n

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Purchase the Book | Spiritual Warrior, The Art of Spiritual Living<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is based on the book Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living by John-Roger, DSS. Incorporating these five characteristics into everything you do can bring you closer to your inner Spirit each day: 1. The Spiritual Warrior accepts all things –\u00a0This means no judgment and\u00a0no resistance.\u00a0 (No one ever\u00a0said that these practices were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,1142,257],"tags":[21,218,252,3969,348],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-money-wealth-abundance","category-ndh-archives","tag-spiritual-warrior","tag-acceptance","tag-cooperation","tag-the-art-of-spiritual-living","tag-understanding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}