Category: Awareness
The Spiritual Neuroscience of Revenge: Choosing Freedom Over Retaliation
Neuroscience research reveals that revenge activates the same reward circuits in our brains as addictive drugs, keeping us trapped in what Ignatian spirituality calls the “false self.” Faith-based practices like prayer and meditation literally rewire the brain for mercy over retaliation, offering a path to the spiritual freedom that comes when we choose forgiveness over the ego’s demand for revenge.
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The Unapologetic Self: Embracing Authenticity in the Second Half of Life
How do we live authentically and in line with our true selves? We accept, unapologetically, that we are loved by God.
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The Traps of Worldly Anxiety 🪤
Explore the five main types of traps that hinder our freedom and block our connection to God. Find freedom through self-awareness.
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The Deep-Down-Things
A recent episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds highlights the compass of our inner movements and emotions, pointing to our true selves.
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Narratives of the Soul: Unearthing Our Desires through Story
Knowing our desires and fears can shape our life’s journey. Through archetypal stories like fairy tales, we can begin to name our longings and begin to map out our journey to life in the divine.
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Seeking What I Already Have
We are all seekers, longing for inner peace and purpose. What if we already had what we were seeking all along?
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God’s Kingdom is Found Within
Jesus says the kingdom of God cannot be observed. Then what about finding God in all things?
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Look Again! Coming Out of Narrow-Mindedness
Jesus invites us to “look again”, to see the larger picture so we don’t get caught up in our polarised and dualistic views.
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The Essentials Lead to Heart-Knowing
Have you noticed how Jesus helps us focus on the essentials of faith? We tend to overcomplicate or over-theologise Christianity. Let’s examine the value of being fed the essentials: about God and in our life.
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Seeing the Whole
It’s important to look at a piece of the jigsaw puzzle, but we must also know its context. In the spiritual life we must widen our gaze and see more of the whole picture.
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Disney’s Encanto Is All About Seeing
Let’s examine four main dichotomic themes in Disney’s Encanto. There are spoilers!
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Inner Furniture
Within each of us is “inner furniture” that inhibits our full life in God. They can be past hurts, stereotypes, bad memories, religious wounds, and even our images of God. We find many examples in the Gospels of people who are blind to the layout of their inner rooms.
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Kids Journal
This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
