It is not easy improving on ones spiritual beliefs/understanding. One needs to first train oneself physically and spiritually to be able to handle more of what is true spiritually. Then one has to do the deep thinking required to develop or find better spiritual beliefs. Then one has to test how well those new beliefs help one to be more tuned into this challenging physical reality one exists in right now. A lot of trial and error and hard work is involved in improving anything, including ones spiritual beliefs.
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Improving on ones spiritual beliefs!!!
Posted by astrogoodwin on April 18, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/04/18/improving-on-ones-spiritual-beliefs/
Autocratic spiritual/religious beliefs are holding back further spiritual advancement
I just had a strong spiritual interaction/conversation with two “Christians” that came to my door to convert me. I am sure I shocked them with my very different spiritual approach. That is what motivated me to write this. I strongly disagree with autocratic religious/spiritual beliefs that claim they have or are connected to perfect sources. I am not a Christian or member of any religion.I am into improving on the spiritual beliefs of the past and present, because I do not believe they are adequate for the advanced technological age we now live in. The predominating autocratic(not open to being questioned)spiritual/religious belief systems that exist on this Earth(including many”New Age” types)can be very attractive because of the “herd mentality” that exists in this world where people gain security and acceptance in the area they live by accepting a belief system that has a lot of believers there and thus sharing a similar spiritual mindset as a lot of people. People who have an independent spiritual mindset of the type that actually works at obtaining/developing beliefs that interface better with the physical reality we exist in right now, I believe are very rare here on this Earth.
Science may try to help us better interface with our reality, but often does not do the best job at this. Scientists are affected by what spiritual beliefs they have(or lack there of), which limits how good they are at finding out more of the truth. In some areas science can come up with hard results that will prove to work every time. But, often they come up with less reliable results, and sometimes they put forth theories that are very wild and difficult to prove as to their accuracy. In the past religion use to not know its limits and try to explain everything from their ideology and use to hold science back because of their immense power an influence in this world. Often science is doing the same in the modern world with its increasing dominance in fields in which the spiritual plays a very strong role such as psychology and medicine(healing). But, this invasion of spiritual areas by science is made easier by the lack of advancement in this world(the Earth)in the spiritual field of study. Sometime “spiritual” people will even take some of the more wild or complicated of scientific theories and use them to try to justify their beliefs.
One can design ones spiritual beliefs so that they help one to better perform in this challenging physical reality we now exist in. One can do the type of physical-spiritual training(including very intense meditative movement and cardiovascular/heart exercises and a very effective diet) that will test how well one’s spiritual beliefs help one to handle really intense and difficult spiritual/emotional/physical states. Science(especially in Medicine and Mental Heath fields) often dismisses the importance of “will power” or spiritual character and effective spiritual training and beliefs to alter how one is able to behave and function in this world. Science, just often does not appreciate the huge value the spiritual can have in helping us better handle our physical and spiritual health and well being. Science often does not take individual differences physically and spiritual into account enough. I strongly believe the spiritual beliefs that enable one to handle this challenging physical reality we exist in will be closer to the truth. That it is the challenging physical reality that we now exist in that really tests how good our spiritual beliefs really are by how well they help us to better perform spiritually.
I believe strongly in the importance of physical-spiritual connection and that actual parts of the brain that deal with emotions and sleep(altered spiritual states)are vital to our ability to perform really effectively spiritually. Effective spiritual training must affect and help further develop these parts of the brain that impact one spiritual abilities. They are not easy to impact since they have a sort of “(w)holistic” way of functioning. The spiritual must deal with the big picture or see how our reality operates as a whole. Spiritual beliefs must deal with reality as a whole in order to help us function better in it. A certain spiritual oneness and united focus is required in order to mobilize all of ones spiritual resources effectively in order to best deal with the serious problems/challenges this physical reality we are part of presents us with.
Posted by astrogoodwin on March 13, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/03/13/autocratic-spiritualreligious-beliefs-are-holding-back-further-spiritual-advancement/
Picking up on hurtful feelings
I am picking up on some sort of “hurtful” emotions that probably relate to my intense connection to a person with a more traditional spiritual mindset. I can meditate(meditative walk or run) on this emotion and get stronger in handling the way a lot of the people on this planet intuitively judge me. Often when one picks up on a certain emotion as a result of an intense spiritual interaction(verbal dialogue) the other person will be feeling similar(sometime challenging) emotions. But intense spiritual discussions are best done by those who can handle them or benefit from them. A lot of people in this world are mistreated as a result of the insensitivity that come from the inadequacies of the dominating spiritual beliefs that exist on this planet at this time. The dominating spiritual/religious beliefs are easily tuned into spiritually and when they intuitively pick up on these beliefs people often believe they are from perfect sources. But, no spiritual sources are perfect, and even God is not a perfect source, since no one has a perfect connection with God.
Posted by astrogoodwin on March 7, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/03/07/picking-up-on-hurtful-feelings/
My purpose
My “path” or purpose is not into accepting the status quo spiritually in myself, in other people or in the world around me. I am very aware personally about how much this world and its inhabitants needs to improve spiritually, and I have a life’s focus on developing better spiritual beliefs/programming and training techniques so as to help people improve on where they are at spiritually and where they are heading spiritually. I find a lot of spiritual beliefs tune people out to the complex and challenging physical reality we exist in and to the people facing really challenging circumstances in it. We need to be careful about just passing through this life on this Earth spiritually and not really making the most of our time here. Our spirit’s value is shaped by how much we are able to contribute positively to the world we now exist in. This Earth could be a wonderful place to exist in spiritually if everyone really worked extremely hard to contribute in the way they are best able to making this a better place to exist in physically and spiritually.
Posted by astrogoodwin on February 21, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/02/21/my-purpose/
History/Evolution of my Overhead 2-handed (modified)20 lb Dumbbell Swing Exercise Routine
WARNING: This is an extremely intense exercise routine which requires a lot of fitness to do! Do it at your own risk. Check with your medical doctor if you have any conditions that could make this routine unsafe before attempting this. I started out this dumbbell swing routine while already in very good physical condition. This exercise was designed for those with an extreme spiritual-physical focus, awareness, and expertise(capability) required to safely handle the years of intense physical-spiritual training involved!
Before October of 2012, I had been doing some 40 lb overhead 2 handed (modified) dumbbell swings as part of my workout, but had not been increasing then in number. Doing them 3 days a week. I then in October 2012 I started increasing the number of them I could do starting at 8 of them at the beginning of the Month. I was at 19 of them at the end of the Month, and at 45 by the end of November and at 81 at the end of the year(2012). I was planning to work up to being able to do 100 of them nonstop. But, when I reached 91 of them, at the end of January 2013, I felt it was unsafe to do so many of them. So to avoid possible injury, I decided to limit them to 50(40 lb ones) and then do as many 20 lb overhead dumbbell swings as I could without stopping with a very quick transition from 40 lb dumbbells to 20 lb ones.
By the end of June 2013 I was doing 7 minutes of this routine nonstop and at the end of 2013, I was at 19 minutes nonstop. I then cut back to doing 17 minutes of this routine until July 2014, when I added a small meal of salted oatmeal to fuel my routine rather doing it on an empty stomach and started to increase the nonstop minutes of these dumbbell swings again. I was up to 20 minutes nonstop of them by the end of this month and up to 36 minutes of them nonstop by the end of August. Then at this point I decided to do them a little more intensely/rapidly which cut down the number I could do to 14 minutes nonstop.
One of my latest change in my dumbbell swing routine happened recently(12 January 15) when I hurt my right side of my lower back that really hurt right after I completed the 40 lb dumbbell swing and was transitioning to the 20 lb ones. I completed the routine while having some pain thinking it was only a cramp, but the pain did not go completely away. That was when I decide to eliminate the 40 lb dumbbell swings from my routine since they could only be done anaerobically with the muscle pain(burn from lactic acid build-up)) created by this state which made me less able to read my body so as to prevent injuries. The 20 lb overhead dumbbell swing could be done aerobically without building up lactic acid, so made it easier to do them really intensely while avoiding injury.
The routine has not gotten easier with 14 nonstop minutes of 20 lb 2 handed overhead(as modified from standard dumbbell swing in the way shown on the video). I feel it has actually gotten more difficult to do, since I now can do them a little more intensely than when I started with the 50 40 lb dumbbell swings. I now continue to do the dumbbell swing routine 3 days a week(very early in the morning 4:15 AM) with stretching before and after and warm up and cool down followed by a 1 mile slow meditative run, and on the other 4 days of the week(4:15 AM) I do a 2 mile run starting out more intensely and ending in a slow meditative run. I do a meditative walk of close to a mile every day in the evening.
2/13/15 I am now doing all 14 minutes of my 2-handed overhead 20 lb nonstop modified dumbbell swings with the extension behind the head and then back over the head again. This change makes it fit the description of the “barbarian dumbbell swing”.
2/16/15 I am now doing this exercise more intensely so can only last 13 minutes nonstop. I have been doing this exercise with more and more of it done with my eyes closed, to the point that now my eyes are closed most of the time when doing it. I now breath in and out 4 times per dumbbell swing. By comparison, I do breath in and out with every step when doing my meditative walks and runs!
2/27/15 This is my current dumbbell swing routine: 3 days a week at 4:15 AM, I do stretching for about 5 minutes, then some light weightlifting(warmed up using 20 lb dumbbell and arms for about 2 minutes doing all types of movements a few times in standing position), then do dumbbell swings, then brief cool down with 5 lb dumbbells and 5 minutes of stretching, followed by a slow meditative run, and end with a very short slow meditative walk: about a mile covered in total. I do as many 2-handed overhead modified(bending elbows when lifting dumbbell overhead, limited squat, and extended to behind head) 20 lb dumbbell swings as I could do in a total of 13 minutes nonstop! I am in slow motion the last(13th) minute due to fatigue! I do these with my eyes closed most of the time while breathing in and out 6 times with each dumbbell swing. I do move my head looking down on the high part of the swing and looking up when on the low side of the swing.
1/30/16 I am now doing this routine, but with a few changes! I do it at about 5:30 everyday now, and do only 8 minutes of the nonstop type of dumbbell swings I do. I found out they are called “barbarian dumbbell swings”. I do them more intensely, so I burn out faster and last less long. Short intense cardio has been found to be a very effective exercise provided one is fit enough to handle them!
5/26/16 I am now doing this exercise for 6 nonstop minutes but due to the meditative breathing I use and the intensity that come with it, this exercise is actually rougher to do than when I was doing it anytime in the past. I feel like I have continuously made progress in the direction of making this exercise more difficult for the body and spirit to handle. The last minute of this exercise is done in slow motion due to fatigue. I breath in and out 6 to 8 times with most swings and as much as 10 times with a few. This rapid breathing(over-breathing)makes this exercise more meditative and rough to handle spiritually and physically. But, my goal was always to make this exercise rougher than anyone else could handle, which I feel I have succeeded in doing. My new Astrology system and the spiritual beliefs/theories that come with it enable me to handle reality on an extremely rough level, which is what this spiritual-physical exercise creates when done the way I do it! I am not training to be an athlete, but to be able to perform spiritually on an extremely high level.
6/21/16 I have recently got more intense with my breathing technique. I start out breathing in and out 10 times per swing(about one minute), then do all but the last minute breathing in and out 8 times, and then do the last minute slower due to fatigue while breathing in and out 9 times. This meditative type breathing technique makes this exercise extremely difficult/torturous to do spiritually.
1/25/17 I deepened the squat to these modified(bent elbows and behind head) 2 handed dumbbell swings so that they would take a little longer so that I could breath in and 15 times during the whole 6 minutes. I need a huge amount of spiritual intensity to reach a world that is so backward spiritually and so stuck in its ways!
2/2/17 Added a 3/4 of mile run to my daily routine after over a year off from running.
3/5/17 I am now doing this exercise only 3 days a week and running 3/4 of a mile intensely 3 days a week on days I am not doing the dumbbell swings. Started running after a year off on 2/2/17 and did it for 31 straight days to get in running shape as soon as possible!
3/16/17 Decided to go back to doing both the intense dumbbell swings exercise and the intense 3/4 of a mile run every day!
- 5/19/17 Now doing the squat a lot deeper bringing the 20 lb dumbbell close to my knees with my head also brought down at the lower part of the swing to be very close to the dumbbell also with my elbows very bent while at this lowest position. My head does follow the dumbbells up as it rises and then is lifted over the head and behind it. I may seem like quite a convoluted form of dumbbell swing, but it works well to put me into the most intense of spiritual states possible! I now do 17 in and out breaths per dumbbell swing. Extremely hard exercise to do which I can only do as a result of all my previous exercise training, my spiritual theories(astrology system) that help me tune my body in really well spiritually, my other meditative training techniques, and my diet!
- 6/3/17 New exercise routine: 6 min 20 lb Dumbbell swings= Mo, We,&Fr. 3/4 of a mile run=Tu, Th, Sa, &Su. Should maintain fitness and continue to improve my running!
- 10/16/17 Taking one day on the weekend off, so meditative running(breathing in and out with each step) only 3 day a week! Now breathing in and out 21 times per dumbbell swing!
- 6/9/18 Replaced this dumbbell swing exercise with this new exercise due to damaging my right arm and dislocating its shoulder the night before Easter(APR 1, 2018). Up to 3 minutes of this nonstop with 16 breaths in and out per individual exercise movement! Here is a link demonstrating it created when I first started doing it:
Posted by astrogoodwin on February 3, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/02/03/history-of-my-overhead-2-handed-modified20-lb-dumbbell-swing-exercise/
2 near death experiences in 1992 forced me to improve further on my spiritual beliefs and training techniques
I did hit bottom when I had my 2 near death experiences in 1992. Since then I have worked really hard to improve my spiritual training techniques and spiritual beliefs so that that would never happen again. I never gave up when certain spiritual energies here tried to push me off this planet. I survived because of my “never give up attitude”. I had too many spiritual beliefs at the time that were mythologically based and not rational enough to interface well enough with this physical reality to help me get a strong enough grip on it so that I could handle the intense physical/spiritual challenges that I needed to in order to survive and serve my life’s purpose. I have been driven since what happened to me in 1992, to really focus even more intensely on improving on the spiritual beliefs that so dominate this planet and are responsible for the messed up spiritual state it is in.
I have very high spiritual standards because I am the type of spirit that requires them in order to function the way I need to. I hang on really strongly to my spiritual self awareness, since I can not rely on the spiritual status quo that exist on this planet right now and the type of spiritual energy that it maintains here to sustain me, as it does lots of other spirits, when I am pushed to the very edge to what I can handle. I see things from an extremely unique spiritual perspective because I an an extremely unique spirit that is extremely specialized in my spiritual capabilities. People can not agree with how I represent myself and the world around me, but I will forcefully represent myself and my purpose with all the spiritual strength and awareness that comes with a lifetime of focusing intensely in this area. I will not allow the spiritual beliefs that dominate this planet and most spirits residing here and energies that go with them push me off this Earth and prevent me contributing what I have to offer spiritually to it.
Here is my blog post I did in the past when these 2 near death experiences were fresher to my memory:https://astrogoodwin.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/my-t…
Posted by astrogoodwin on January 3, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/01/03/2-near-death-experiences-in-1992-forced-me-to-improve-further-on-my-spiritual-beliefs-and-training-techniques/
I have worked hard to developed a better spiritual belief system
I am not on a spiritual journey(or path) just traveling through this world, I am just focusing on trying to better contribute what I have spiritually to offer to making this physical world I exist in now a better place. I am “differently abled’ with very strong capabilities in the spiritual area. I have a body that is “differently abled” because my spirit requires such a body to do what it does best. I try to work extremely hard to excel in the spiritual area, similar to other spirits with bodies who work hard to excel in other important fields vital to our spiritual and physical existence in the present here.
I do not have a spiritual beliefs system that devalues the importance of the physical reality we exist in and do not believe an individual type spirit can survive and function well without a body in physical world. My belief system is tailored so as to help people be the most effective at helping to improve the spiritual and physical conditions that exist here on this Earth. Our ability to perform well spiritually in the physical reality we exist in demonstrates how advanced we are spiritually. We are responsible for the spiritual state this world is in and can become a lot better at making a positive spiritual difference here.
Collective spirits owe their existence to the power of the beliefs of individual spirits with bodies that enable them to produce the spiritual energy to support such spirits. A physical world is challenging, but a spirit can only prove its capabilities by what challenges it is able to handle. With out the physical/concrete and its challenges, the individual spirit would not have the reason or strength to even exist. God exists out of our need for this physical world and maintains it so that it can best meet our spiritual needs. We need God, so we must support God’s existence in order to maintain our own existence.
I have a complete spiritual beliefs system which is different than those that are readily available(on internet)circulating in this world. I have worked extremely hard to improve my spiritual beliefs and by so doing made them different than those people are really familiar with. Often the familiar resonates with people or feels good to them intuitively. It takes work to have to learn a new` spiritual system because it will be different in a complete way, since spiritual systems must deal with a complete spiritual picture. People have to be really motivated to want to improve their spiritual beliefs system in order to leave the familiar and easy to absorb, and learn something unfamiliar, but better, even though they will find it well worth the effort and the results they get from it.
One can read some of my other blog posts in order to better figure out more about my spiritual belief system.
Posted by astrogoodwin on January 2, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/01/02/i-have-worked-hard-to-developed-a-better-spiritual-belief-system/
We live in a time in which great spiritual innovation can happen.
Great innovation often happens in fields that have been resistant to progress for quite some time. In the spiritual/religious field, resistance to progress tend to readily happen, since beliefs run deep and can be deeply implanted and can be very resistant to better spiritual beliefs that are more rational and effective in the challenging world we presently exist in and perform in spiritually. I know from personal experience, since I have faced some really intense challenges in my life, that under intense crisis conditions one needs rational spiritual beliefs to keep one sane and functioning well spiritually. That irrational spiritual beliefs tend not to serve one well in a crisis. Since I use a type of spiritual crisis training as part of my daily routine, I am in good position to make sure my beliefs are rational enough to handle the roughest of conditions I could face spiritually in this challenging world.
Due to comments when I posted this elsewhere I added this to this blog:
We connect with God(the universal spirit) to the degree we connect spiritually with the physical reality we exist in. Good spiritual training helps us as individuals increase our connection with reality. When we lose our connection with reality as a result of losing our connection with our self, we no longer will have a good connection with God. But, we can become readily controlled by certain spiritual ideologies that have a lot of psychic support presently in this world, when we do something that causes us to lose our self awareness. A lot of spiritual beliefs systems sort of brainwash people into their ideology. Spiritual innovation can not happen unless people keep their awareness of who they are as independent spirits and do not allow the current not that adequate spiritual energies and the beliefs that support them, that dominate this Earth right now control them. People can connect with energies that are projected psychically by believers to represent God in a way that is not good enough for the challenges of the reality we now exist in.
Posted by astrogoodwin on January 1, 2015
https://astrogoodwin.com/2015/01/01/we-live-in-a-time-in-which-great-spiritual-innovation-can-happen/
Love requires understanding to function well. I had a lot of love directed at me without understanding.
Love is so often used in unknowingly in an abusive way. Love needs to be guided by spiritual beliefs that increase ones ability to understand others. I have spent a lifetime improving my spiritual beliefs so as to be better able to understand myself and others. Being very “differently abled” with really strong talent in the spiritual, people who do not see the value of spiritual expertise are not going to come any where near understanding me. They will abuse me by discounting what value I have in this world. I focus on one area to an extremely intense degree due to my limitation in other areas, I do not fit into the job market and am forced to live off the charity of relatives that do not understand me, and I now do not even qualify for social security retirement. The only thing that has kept me living in this world is my focus in the area that I am so very capable. My spiritual crisis training techniques/exercises techniques and the spiritual beliefs that evolves with them enabled me to survive. I would not have had a strong enough purpose to develop what I did spiritually if it was only for myself. The world is very messed up spiritually and to some one personally very aware of that fact this can be very motivating to try to do something about it. The world badly needs better spiritual beliefs circulating here.
People who feel I should not share my spiritual expertise with others are not my friends, since they are not friendly to my life’s work, purpose and value. I am not suicidal and do not need people who would steal my reason for living as my friends.
Love energy without enough understanding can be very destructive. Love energy invested in negative causes can create a lot of serious problems in this world. ALL EMOTIONS CAN BE DIRECTED IN A NEGATIVE DIRECTION AND CREATE HARM IN THIS WORLD. We all needs to work really hard to improve our spiritual beliefs and training, so that we can direct all the spectrum of emotions that are part of life toward making this world a better place to exist in. One can not just define an emotion as positive and it will always be positive. Or define another emotion as negative and it will always be negative. A lot of the destructive tribal energy that exists in this world is held together by love energy. A lot of the harmful addictions are the result of misdirected love energy. A lot of the addictions to certain spiritual and political ideologies are the result of misdirected love energy. Love energy misdirected can lead to abusive relationships. Often heartache can result when love invested poorly ends.
Posted by astrogoodwin on December 31, 2014
https://astrogoodwin.com/2014/12/31/love-requires-understanding-to-function-well-i-had-a-lot-of-love-directed-at-me-without-understanding/
Hard spiritual work required to face the hard times ahead on this planet!
I did a one mile meditative walk using my latest technique focusing on the really harsh energies that dominate this Earth and hold it back from advancing spiritually. The spiritual beliefs that dominate this planet psychically due to the number of believers in them are often thought to be perfect spiritually by a lot of people. They are often channeled by mediums and represented as from a perfect source. But, the hard truth is there is no perfect source of spiritual information on this planet, and the sources that are readily available are not very good for effectively handling the serious problems of the times we now live in. God can not be a perfect source spiritually for us, because, our connection to God is not perfect and can not be perfect. We connect to God through connecting spiritually to the physical reality that God maintains for our benefit.
It takes really hard work spiritual to connect really strongly spiritually with the physical reality our spirit exists in. But, those that are really strong spiritually develop the capability to handle really hard work. Really good spiritual training requires very difficult meditative and cardiovascular(heart training) exercises along with a very strict healthy diet, so as to give one the spiritual strength needed to handle the strong physical-spiritual challenges this world has so many of. In this permissive society we live in often people do not like the idea of doing really hard spiritual training over a long period of time.
People are often attracted to spiritual ideologies that claim hard spiritual work is not required. Fantasy type beliefs(so easily found and tuned into psychically on this planet) that do not interface with our reality very well, can have an appeal(an addictive properties) similar to a recreational drug, but they will over the long run have consequences that are similar to intoxicating drugs to quite a degree In times when we were less technologically advanced and the consequences of our actions where not as severe as in this nuclear age we now live in, people could survive with not the best spiritual beliefs or conditions. But as we advance technologically we will have to develop the spiritual maturity to handle this technology really well. Being like a child in our spiritual beliefs will not be good enough in the very challenging times to come. Spirits that remain child-like may be forced to move to a less advanced planet where a higher level of spiritual maturity is not required. We all will face the consequences of our actions when it comes to our spiritual development
Posted by astrogoodwin on December 30, 2014
https://astrogoodwin.com/2014/12/30/hard-spiritual-work-required-to-face-the-hard-times-ahead-on-this-planet/
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