Meditation involves focus on rhythmic breathing while also focusing on your emotions. Moving the shoulders up and down while doing this helps because it feeds the brain move blood. Any rhythmic type exercise while focusing on your emotions and body movements will work. When really relaxed just focus on ones breathing and emotional/sleep center of the brain will work. It puts you in a state between sleep and awake. The spiritual part of the brain does not shut down even when all other parts of the brain do. So by quieting the mind you can better focus on the spiritual/emotional part of the brain provided you quiet the mind be focusing on your breathing or body movements.
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Basics of Meditation
Posted by astrogoodwin on June 5, 2024
https://astrogoodwin.com/2024/06/05/basics-of-meditation/
Where have I lived and visited
I have a lot traveled, but not for fun. I went where I thought I could reach people with my astrology system and Spiritual ideas. Learned a lot. I was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Goffstown, NH. Bought land in Stuart, Virginia. Served in Navy in Norfolk VA. Visited Guatanamo Cuba, Jamaica, Virgin islands and Porto Rico while in Navy on board a ship. Went to Navy school in Orlando, Florida. Visited Palm Beach Florida also while on board ship. Went to boot camp near Chicago at Great Lakes. Visited Parents who had moved to Placerville, California. Brother near Roseville, California. Sister near Santa Cruz, California. Lived a long time in Roanoke, VA. Moved to Texas to Sister house between Dallas and Fort Worth Texas. Moved with her to San Antonio, Texas area. The moved to Houston, TX area, then to Las Vegas, and finally back to San Antonio.
Posted by astrogoodwin on May 18, 2022
https://astrogoodwin.com/2022/05/18/where-have-i-livd/
Everything happens for a reason Spiritually
We have to own our past and the circumstances that we have in the present as a result of it. The Spiritual underlies all of our physical reality and makes it operate the way it should. Spiritual law is always in effect. We are responsible for figuring out what ever situation we find ourselves in. We always have the Spiritual capacity to find a solution that will move us in a better direction Spiritually in the future. The truth can be extremely challenging to find more of. People often get polarized and settle for a partisan or one-sided perspective. They therefore set up automatic conflict with others on an opposite side. This can bring destructive results. Finding the whole truth is extremely difficult and ones mind needs to reside in the complicated middle in order to best see the whole picture.
We are not alone, we exist with other people/spirits similar to us. We need to to work with them to find out more of the truth. When we need help we need to find the right people or organizations that can best help us. We have to be careful about insensitively demanding help from those who are not in a position to properly help us. Some people get in trouble because they try to help others they should not have helped. We have to invest our energy and resources were we can do the most good while not harming are own wellbeing. Enabling people not to face the consequences of their actions can create parasitic people who do not carry their own weight Spiritually and thus pull other people down.
Having a victim mentality can weaken one Spiritually if we are not doing what it takes to get what is required to strengthen our position in life. True victims of injustice do exist. We do need crusaders to insure everyone has a level playing field and opportunity to develop what they have of value to this world. Often those who have gone through the most are able to achieve the most. People who are differently abled often can develop very special and needed abilities if provided the help and respect they need. Everyone has a reason for existing and can be developed into a valuable human resource provided the right investment is made in them. We all are here for a reason.
Just remembered: Everything happens for a reason. Spiritual law is always in effect. When two sides or more are in conflict, all sides will have some truth in their perspective. Violence and destructive/toxic behavior is not healthy. We need to try to see what all sides see, and do the hard Spiritual and mental work to put together the whole picture and find solutions to problems or conflicts that way.
Posted by astrogoodwin on April 22, 2022
https://astrogoodwin.com/2022/04/22/everything-happens-for-a-reason-spiritually/
How my spiritual theories and meditative training techniques can help you Spiritually
We all are programmed deep down in our subconscious with certain beliefs that help us navigate the challenging physical reality we exist in. New Spiritual theories are like scientific theories in that when someone accepts them, and they are better than those that came before, they help one to see reality more clearly and figure out how to make more progress in it. Science make a lot of progress when they improve the basic overall theories about the physical universe. We need to do the same in regard to the Spiritual theories that guide us.
Next an effective and very challenging physical Spiritual training program is needed to help imprint these better Spiritual theories deep inside us in order to Change them into beliefs that can better intuitively guide you through the changes and obstacles of life and better take advantage of the opportunities it offers us. This extremely challenging Spiritual training only will work if the Spiritual theories are good enough to motivate and inspire you to put up with the extreme difficulty involved in doing such training.
I have many blog posts discussing the theories that can best give you a clearer picture of how the universe works and the important role advanced front line individual Spirits like us play in it. I also have a blog post on the type of meditative run and walks I do, which covers other types of meditation, the same principles apply to all forms of meditative training.
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A healthy diet and lifestyle is also so important to advancing further Spiritually. Desires need to be directed in a way that brings one more health and vitality. Eating a diet geared to improving how one can perform in life is so important. Addictive and harmful drugs and the desire for instant gratification need to be replaced with a more responsible way of living.
Posted by astrogoodwin on December 13, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/12/13/how-my-spiritual-theories-and-meditative-training-techniques-can-help-you-spiritually/
Personal information for those who want a serious relationship with me
I am Thomas Goodwin, 70 years old now, but very healthy and fit due to my diet and physical Spiritual training, single, live in San Antonio TX, survive on a veteran pension since I am over 65, poor, and served in the Navy during Wartime, I practice celibacy like a lot of intensely Spiritual people do: meaning I am not looking for a romantic relationship since I need all of my focus directed towards my spiritual mission.
I am a neurologically different with limited visual memory and finer motor skills. I struggle my whole life to survive in a world that I did not fit in. The educational system did not work for me. The job market did not work for me. The Religious/Spiritual institutions did not work for me. The media did not work for me and the medical industry did not work for me. I survive because of the charity of my parents most of my life. I had to develop an extremely strong sense of Spiritual purpose in order to survive in this world and not just give up and allow the stress to destroy my health and kill me. In 1992 the stress came really close to killing me with two near death experiences happening.
I became incredibly obsessed with my desire to make a big impact on the world at that point so as to change the the terrible Spiritual state this world was in as I perceived it. As time went on my diet became stricter and more fine tuned to my needs, since this was not hard for me to do, since my will power was strong and I instinctually knew that my survival and purpose was more important than the temporary pleasure of junk food. I grew up arround natural foods, so I got a head start on realizing how important health was to ones survival and well being. Survival depended on the ability to defend yourself an awful lot when you are Neurologically different in the way that I was.
Sexually I became aware of the dangers posed by getting involved with someone whose lack of understanding could undermine the confidence in your self required to take on the challenges that being different you automatically face. Deep Spiritual connection is often replaced by the drug like affect of sexual intimacy. I thus was celibate a lot of my life and completely since the year 2000. No orgasms with a woman or anyone since 1983 when I ended a 1 year romantic relationship with a woman, but never lived with her. I learned at that time that the bond created in a sexual relationship had a strong affect on ones Spiritual energy, so I I avoided that type of spirtual bonding ever since. I needed all my spirtual energy for the Spiritual mission I was on that revolved around developing a new Spiritual astrology system dealing with the so important physical Spiritual connection that exists between us and the vaste physical universe we are part of and it’s cyclical nature.
When we become more advanced Spiritual we understand that individual Spirits like us are collectively the most powerful force in this universe and Spiritually responsible for how well it functions. We the people have the power Spiritually, not some automatic all powerful pulling spirit/God. As we feel more responsible and empowered Spiritually we then develop the will to take on bigger things and handle the pain that comes with taking on really big challenges and responsibilities. One can not solve problems if one is not connected to the pain or harm associated with it. A lot of people have their ability to feel by eating an unhealthy diet, over indulging in sex and harmful drugs.
We need to finally grow up Spiritually and start really feeling things strongly and develop the strength and maturity to handle the strong emotions that power the Spiritual and when properly channeled can help one to achieve incredible things.
Scientists things they know so, but until they develop a lot more Spiritual maturity will still be like kids playing with toys, except the toys they are playing with cause very serious problems in this world. At this point in my life, I have a very strong one track mind which is determined to bring the better Spiritual theories and techniques I developed over decades of extreme efforts to the world. The astrology system I developed in conjunction with the development of these Spiritual theories and meditative techniques is really my crowning glory. It is beyond me to fully understand and utilize the astrology system I formulated.
A lot of what I started can be taken so much further once a huge number of people with Spiritual expertise put their heads together and use their unique skills to perfect what I started a lot further. I am 70 years old and I need to get in the spotlight soon so that blthe most of what I have to offer can be squeeze out of me before my spirit moves on to new lives and challenges beyond this one. I hope this blog makes good sense to those who read it because it came out like valuable stream of consciousness.
Here is my current physical/Spiritual work out program I am on:. Every morning I do an intense 2.5 mile meditative run/walk starting out hard and slow down as I get tired especially after the first half of the distance covered, then in the afternoon or evening I do a 1.5 intense meditative walk. Everything other day I do strength training trying to exercise as many muscle groups other than my legs that are well trained by running. I do short sprints when doing running or walking when ever I am motivated by traffic, dogs or anything that may affect my meditative state I am in. Also stretch my back and legs with some squats carefully done at the beginning of each session. Also do other stretches I find of value to me after exercise band training.
Posted by astrogoodwin on December 11, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/12/11/personal-information-for-those-who-want-a-serious-relationship-with-me/
Spirituality, Sexuality, and healing from affects of toxic energy
I am a Neurologically different Spiritual pioneer that understands that Spiritually and sexuality are very connected. That as you become more advanced Spiritually you will be more able to control all your desires including this very strong one. Studies have shown that orgasms cause the release of a bonding hormone that affects the people that are involved and of course will have strong impact on holding a relationship together at least during the honeymoon period. But relationships too dependent on sex and not enough on a really strong and healthy Spiritual bond can fall apart after a honeymoon period, if a strong Spiritual bond is not present. Sexual affairs will more likely happen if one depends more on a sexual bond, than a spiritual bond. I practice semen retention which means I can control myself sexual extremely well. This type of spiritual control of sexual desire is a spiritual practice done by some really intensely Spiritual people mostly in countries like India in the Far East.
Desires of all kinds have a strong affect on how far one can develope spiritually. The main siritual focus needs to be on healing ones own personal problems so as to develop ones unique skills/abilities that enable one to contribute to making this habitat we exist in a healthier and more fulfilling place for all of it’s spiritual inhabitants. Desires need to be directed in a healthy way so they do not interfer with the process of improving the world that exists for our spiritual benefit and empowerment. Toxic energy and misguided desires and emotions can interfere strongly with obtaining the really healthy mind, body, and spirit required to help us improve our existence and well being here on this Earth..
Since so much toxic spirtual energy exists on this spiritually backwards planet and we live in an advanced technological age, this world has a lot of really complicated and serious problems that need to be addressed. But, harmful addictions caused by messed up spiritual energy are every where. Traditional Religious/Spiritual tend to have an autocratic nature controlling people in a similar way as an addictive drug. Sex can have a similar affect and both can interfere with us channeling our spiritual energy where it is most needed in this planet we all share.
Science has become overbearing and overly confident as it tries to deal with the world’s problems while being strongly limited by it’s tendency to ignore the spiritual while being indirectly affected by the backwards spirtual energy that is dominant here. Science often ignores the spirtual consequences of their actions and the inadequacies they have when it comes to understanding how this universe actually works on the very important spirtual level. How science deal with sexuality and other desires is adversely affected by this limitation.
We are born male or female for a reason. Some people are born physically not clearly of either sex and that is also for a reason. Sexual stereotypes tends to push people of either sex to be imprisoned in certain expectations on how they should act. Unique individuals can feel trapped and want to escape from this. Science will often offer surgery or medications to deal with this. But rushing to surgical or medical remedies can often not the best choice for your future spirtual well being.
We have to make decisions in this spirtually backwards world with lot of serious spirtual awareness in order to get the best result and not allow the messed up spirtual energy around you interfere with making a good judgement. Playing with biology and nature should not be done with out appropriate spiritual awareness of the long term consequences of the action taken.
Being a neurologically different spiritual pioneer, I find that we now live in a time period where the inhabitants of this world tend often to become polarized into extreme and opposing viewpoints. The spiritual must deal with the whole picture. It takes really strong spirtual character to not conform to some group or camp with a limited shared perfective that become attached to the overconfidence that they engender spiritually in their followers. Understanding reality and it’s problems requires seeing things from all angles and perspectives and the serious complexities involved. Advancing future spiritually requires not being addicted to any limited perspectives on this world and to always be willing to further expand ones perspective so as to better see the whole picture.
Healing oneself from past trauma is a constant requirement to spirtual growth. Everything happens for a reason and we must own our past, see the challenge of overcome past problems and abuse as being well worth the effort. We can not solve problems that we can not personally relate to in some way. Overcoming a challenging and toxic past helps one to have the type of character required to tackle the serious problems you personally can most relate to. No one is damaged goods during to what happened to them in the past. Overcoming the challenges that resulted from your past enables one to have an advanced spirtual awareness other often do not. This applies especially to those who dealt with sexual abuse and did the extremely hard spiritual work to heal from it and become extremely good at channeling this energy in a spiritual direction as a result.
To channel my sexual energy spiritually i use meditative breathing techniques, stomach crunches and even leg lifts to control sexual tension. One can mastubate, but in a way to exercise ones sexual energy, but control it by using stomach crunches and tightening and relaxing different muscles or other movements or breathing techniques done in in other forms of meditation. The goal is not orgasm. The goal is becoming comfortable being in an aroused state. I do eat up some of my sexual energy with all the extremely hard physically spiritual training I do, but being healthier can increase one’s sexual energy. Sexual energy is extremely powerful spiritually when channeled that direction.. Having a lot of it can be valuable if one can control it and direct it toward getting a deeper connection spiritually with others and the natural world.
Posted by astrogoodwin on November 10, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/11/10/spirituality-sexuality-and-healing-from-affects-of-toxic-energy/
The reason I can push myself harder than anyone else SPIRITUALLY.
l am a neurologically different spiritual pioneer for a reason. One spiritual focus and purpose comes from ones spiritual beliefs/theories. We all live in a spiritually backwards world with us not having the spiritual maturity to handle the very serious problems of this modern world. Toxic spiritual energy saturates our planet as a result.
Being a spiritual pioneer, I have for decades especially since 1980 been working on improving my spiritual theories and meditative exercise techniques. I developed a new astrology system as a result. In the process I had to clean out a lot of toxic energy inside of me. The mind and spirit get impeded by this toxic energy and limits how hard one can push oneself when it comes to extremely hard physical spiritual type training. Even the diet and nutrition required to do this extremely difficult training can not be stayed on if one has too much toxic energy making you crave certain less healthy food or making one unwilling to search for and find the diet and nutritional suppliment program that works best for you even if it not recommended by the medical industry.
An extremely strong mental and spiritual connection with the reality we exist in right now is hard to obtain. Toxic emotional/spiritual energy fogs the mind and makes it hard for one to separate oneself from the conforming masses and the prevailing beliefs that they are so attached to. One can not push yourself extremely hard if your beliefs do not support such an effort level. Ones spiritual grip on reality needs to become stronger in order to be able to have a clear reason to push oneself so extremely hard and do so safely guided by a goal well worth the effort to obtain.
Posted by astrogoodwin on October 12, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/10/12/the-reason-i-can-push-myself-harder-than-anyone-else-spiritually/
In this spiritually backwards world abuse of all kinds is systematic.
I am aware of this subject personally so will approach it from that perspective. Being born neurologically different with limited visual memory and associated problems that result from that and having limited finer motor skills, I have face this type of abuse in all types of forms my whole life.
It started at an early age for me. The educational system back in the late 1950’s was not equipped to deal with me and taught me in second grade to read using stories that did not interest me enough to easily comprehend. Also could not draw pictures of family members well enough for the teacher to accept them. So ended being held back a grade. A teacher that was insensitive to me made have added to the problem. I did manage to adjust to the educational system, but just got through it in the early grades. In highschool I did do well, but I had to put in an awful lot of focus into it and did have times where I was on the very edge of really messing up, but my developing ability to handle crises got me through. But college was different and demanded more advanced visual memory capabilities and conformity to ideologies and propaganda that were based on collective visions that I could not tune into or relate to. So I did not get anything of value as to the job market from it.
After dropping out of college the first time, I remember going to an employment agency and the slick talking guy getting frustrated by my inability to convince someone to hire me. My interests in the occult and the spiritual was not what they needed. My job I had for a year at the local door factory that I got on my own without help from employment agency was extremely stressful and I had very painful digestive problems most of the time there. My health made a year there about all I could take. I did later serve two years in the Navy, which was the only option I found, but struggled there because of my typing limitations. A lot of fields require quite a bit of visual memory in order to perform them without spacing out and becoming lost as to what to do next. For someone that has normal visual capabilities it is often hard for them to understand this.
After the Navy, which I had no future in due to typing limitations, I had almost 2 years of community college, but found no career path and left despite having the GI bill supporting me. My spiritual skills were not marketable or fully developed at this time and the challenges in my life had made me to deep spiritually to put up with the limitations of traditional religions. How I survived is very complicated, but my family did help support my extremely frugal life style an awful lot.
Anyway, I feel I was abused for being neurologically different with unique abilities by both the educational system and the job market. This was the result of a political/economic system set up that was extremely insensitive to anyone who could not readily conform to it. This “one size fits all” mentality permeated all facets of it. Traditional religions and science were both based on this and the job market was so affected by this very limited perspective.
An awful lot of people are abused in our society and become toxic spiritually as a result and hence the USA has an extremely high prison population and the cycle of abuse is quite strong here. But, the rest of the world has a similar abusive climate expressed in different variations.
I find that businesses often set up a business model that does not allow for abuse to be handled well. When someone is abused, a business should have a built in mechanism to help ensure the abuse will be handled well and that the victim of the abuse is not further hurt by rigid one size fits all rules they have in place. People who are different need to be valued since their uniqueness often gives them a special perspective and value that can improve how thing function on the job and in society.
We all need housing and homelessness is a really serious problem in this world. Often domestic type abuse happens in housing, yet people are forced to sign leases that do not have safeguards in them to allow an abuser to readily escape without financial abuse also being added to the situation. I dealt with this type of situation recently with my life threatened and valuable and personal property destroyed with the police coming and doing nothing and now am dealing with the consequences of breaking a lease even though I informed the apartment management about it. They need to eat this expense and make sure in the future they have a better was of handling this. Leases should be easier to get out of when abuse or other serious reasons exist. Any business model that does not allow exceptions for these serious and special circumstance need to be forced to eat the expense involved. We need systemic changes in this world and it all starts on the spiritual level. That is why a neurologically different spiritual pioneer like me is needed in this world.
I found out recently in a blood test that my red blood cells were too big and that my thyroid gland was not producing enough hormones. Two B vitamin deficiencies(B12, and folate)usually cause that problem which main symptom is anemia. I told the doctor that I took a lot of those vitamins and was on a training program to become healthier. I had just left the abuse situation in Las Vegas and moved to San Antonio with my sister’s help. But with the energy demands of getting help from the VA to find housing my health had been affected. But the doctor told me that I was probably not absorbing the vitamins and further blood test needed to be done and was monologuing and not listening to me explain how different I was from other people. Telling me my nutritional plan didn’t work and that I was not my handling my health well on my own just instantly turned me against this doctor and I refused the further blood tests.
I then proceeded to do mostly slow meditative runs of over 100 miles a week for the next 5 weeks The type of meditative running I do, I designed myself and no one else’s does the way I do them. They are extremely difficult to do. I had adequate energy and did not feel anemic before the blood test and I definitely did not feel anemic while doing all that running, although I am now only doing about 60 miles a week. (Edit: 6 miles a day in a morning and evening run now) I am good at research and did thoroughly research the conditions the doctor told me I had and took my own path to deal with it. A neurologically different body is harder for the medical field to handle.
I hope this gives you food for thought. It is hard to cover so much at once in such a broad subject.
Posted by astrogoodwin on July 31, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/07/31/in-this-spiritually-backwards-world-abuse-of-all-kinds-is-systematic/
Developing a new Astrology System 2021
Edit: April 3, 2024 made hopefully final changes to astrology system. These changes are present in my Astrology Formula blog post. …After having near death experiences in March 1992, I really started to move away from any reliance on traditional astrology and toward developing a totally new system, although some characteristics of the system may turn out to be similar to some degree to the old system that was developed in an age before science learned an awful lot about the greater universe we live in. I had to actually tune myself out as much as possible from the old system and it’s original pictures in the sky approach. And avoid relating on the subject with others that focus on the old system..
I found that I became like a gold miner looking for the mother load having to first find out where there was no gold in order to find out where the real strike of gold was. Trial and error is very much involved when trying to discover a new understanding about anything especially in an area that has really not been explored in a rational way much for quite some time. The spiritual is such an area. And the universal physical-spiritual connection that astrology should effectively deal with is so vital to being able to tune into and understand how the spiritual actually works on a really advanced level..
It is now 2024, so I have been working at developing a new Astrology System for many decades in my role as a neurologically different spiritual pioneer. I have learned an awful lot in the process and developed more effective and advanced spiritual/meditative training techniques, along with more rational spiritual theories that better interface with the challenging physical reality that we all now exist in.
It is hard to think outside the box when the ideas and beliefs circulating psychically in the world around you are very different. Strong beliefs with strong support from huge number of believers strongly impact those in societies and groups dominated by those beliefs. Religions have strong impact in this world and so do the beliefs currently accepted by Science. The beliefs that dominate the spiritual and astrology communities have similar type impact within their communities and beyond them to quite a degree.
Our spiritual programming has a strong impact on how empower we become spiritually and how effective we can become in a world and universe we as individual spirits play such a dominant role in. We are not just instinctual beings that a limited one size fits all approach works well on.
I left a disaster for me in Las Vegas recently, but this disaster impelled me to desperately look for ways to improve my astrology system and make it fit myself, the over 20 celebrity charts I had access to, and the charts I have done for all those I had a close spiritual connection with in the past.
I can not cover everything here, but I have a huge volume of information on this wordpress site that evolved as I evolved with the latest post being better than my previous unedited ones.
Posted by astrogoodwin on June 5, 2021
https://astrogoodwin.com/2021/06/05/developing-a-new-astrology-system-2/
My spiritual advanced theories and techniques and the legal system
Just finished Jury Duty, but never got to the point where they got to question me! Got lucky! A person differently abled person like me(with strong visual memory limitations and associated visualization limitations compensated with very enhanced psychic abilities))should never be forced to serve on a Jury! The questions I heard from the very back of the court room to the people in the front were not the type geared to helping me properly represent my situation and perspective! I felt like I did not at all belong there with the very limited mindset and spiritual vision of the world represented there!
They where asked in one of the questions whether they could sentence a person to life without parole! To me one could make really good recommendations for parole if spiritual experts applying my advanced techniques and theories where employed in the prison system doing rehab and continuous evaluations of the prisoners! I need all my spiritual stuff looked into and tested! But, it continues to be ignored by a world so locked into the past and the spiritual mindsets that come from it! I keep posting stuff on the internet and few people seem to be able to understand its immense value! I am 68 years old and have focus on the spiritual all of my life, and after near life experiences in 1992 which made me strongly aware of my spiritual limitations, went completely outside the box to try to develop a very different astrology system(physical-spiritual universal connection)and the spiritual theories and meditative techniques that would allow me to do this!
Nobody was doing what I was doing I am sure! Being differently abled neurologically was a benefit rather than disadvantageous when it came to my pioneering work in the spiritual! I really had little going for me outside of this extreme focus on the spiritual! Overcoming extreme adversity can lead to really amazing achievements. But, often ones has to be able to reach a few key people before your achievement can be recognized and made good use of in a world that really needs to advance a lot further in all areas of expertise, but especially in the spiritual area of expertise!
Here is my link to links of a lot of my spiritual stuff that is all over the internet:
https://astrogoodwin.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/links-to-my-spiritual-stuff-on-internet/?fbclid=IwAR1tp8CtUbTjqclZnyRfRNQB3Z6AHMYkycTl4jJoPlOLtSZr8Fy-sjUetno
Posted by astrogoodwin on November 5, 2019
https://astrogoodwin.com/2019/11/05/my-spiritual-advanced-theories-and-techniques-and-the-legal-system/