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Sep
14

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A Gentle Exercise before Sleep

Category: Soul Travel, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , , ,

Interested in letting go of what’s holding you back in your life? 

Singing HU on a regular basis increases your ability for meeting the waves of life. Members of Eckankar often sing a personal secret word (given during a spiritual initiation). Both attune Soul, the eternal spiritual being that we are, to a new level of consciousness.  

The Mahanta is a spiritual guide who teaches Soul Travel, a natural ability which allows travel inwardly, often to Temples of Golden Wisdom in other realms of existence.   Read More

Jul
27

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Our Key to a Happier Life

Category: Dreams, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , ,

Looking for more happiness? One place to look is your dreams. 

While you sleep it is possible to work with the Dream Master, an inner aspect of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. 

The Dream Master and the techniques in the Spiritual Exercises of ECK assist you in discovering ever greater choices for happiness and spiritual growth. 

Dreams are a key to expanded awareness and happiness.

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May
25

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Avoiding Daily Karma

Category: Karma and Reincarnation, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , , , ,

Karma describes our actions and reactions in life. It is one way God teaches us grace and respect for ourselves and others. 

Spiritual students of Eckankar, also known as chelas, work with the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master to resolve karma from past actions and learn techniques for making wiser choices.  

It benefits all when we harmonize our actions and reactions with the ECK (also known as the Life Force or the Holy Spirit) which sustains the universes. This puts us in alignment with Sugmad, Eckankar’s name for God, which is the source of all life.  

The exercise below offers practical tips for dealing with karma and living in greater harmony with life. Read More

Mar
30

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Stepping-Stones

Category: HU, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

Some people never recognize the blessings they receive. Others may look back and realize they’ve had a gift of healing of some sort. Maybe something has changed at work to make their life better. But it depends upon the individual—how conscious you are.

A spiritual exercise to begin recognizing your gifts is this: Sing HU quietly to yourself or out loud. Look at the obstacles in your life that you think are stumbling blocks. Imagine them becoming stepping-stones. How are they teaching you about yourself? Open yourself and gain greater awareness of this as you sing HU. Read More

Mar
9

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Why Whisper?

Category: ECK Parables, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

An ECKist went to lunch with a friend. During lunch the man told the ECKist a funny joke about a fat couple he had happened to see sitting next to him in another restaurant. The ECKist went away from the lunch meeting thinking that it was a really funny story. And he filed it away to pass on later.

That evening, the ECKist was at a Chinese restaurant with a business associate. When they finished their meal, the waitress brought the check with two fortune cookies. Just as the ECKist started to break open his fortune cookie, a large couple came into the restaurant and were seated at the next booth. The couple reminded him of the people in the funny story he had heard earlier. Read More

Feb
24

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For Truth

Category: HU, Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

The word HU will spiritualize you. It’s an ancient name for God. Sing HU on the way to work, for instance, and you will find that you have a different way of looking at the people around you and at the work you do.

Just sing HU every day. Take it to heart, and then go about your daily life.

Wherever you are, do the things that are necessary: bring home the groceries, sweep the floor. Do these things, and someday you will find that you have the secret of truth in your hand. You will have the secret of truth in your heart.

HU can show you truth.

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Excerpted from The Sound of Soul.

Jan
27

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The Dream Basket

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

In contemplation or the dream state, imagine meeting the Inner Master in your home or office. He holds out a wastebasket. “Take your cares and worries, and put them in here,” he tells you.

Visualize taking all the things that are bothering you and putting them into the Master’s basket. Feel rested and relaxed as you release them into the hands of the ECK [Holy Spirit]. Read More

Dec
16

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Getting Help from the ECK

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

Spend a day or a week paying close attention to unusual incidents the ECK [Holy Spirit] brings you. Things happen as the ECK guides you to take a step, to make something work out right. Anything that grabs your attention may be an aspect of the Golden-tongued Wisdom. Working with this is just a matter of awareness. Read More

Nov
18

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Three Ways to Regain Emotional Balance

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , ,

Should I give Her My Money?By Harold Klemp

If you are faced with negative attitudes about people, how can you feel the love of the Mahanta? Here are three ways:

  1. If you meet someone that you have negative feelings about, silently say to yourself, “In the name of the Sugmad.” Repeat this phrase to yourself each time this occurs, blessing the situation and letting it go.
  2. Be polite when these people are near you, but chant HU silently within yourself. Listen to them while you chant, rather than getting into a long conversation with them. Say as little as possible while still remaining cordial.
  3. In your imagination, see the Mahanta near you.

When you bless a situation, you keep yourself in balance and do not become involved in the negative conditions. In addition, if you are a true channel for the ECK, miracles will take place around you.

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Excerpted from The Spiritual Exercises of ECK, where more than 130 spiritual exercises like this can be found. Learn more about spiritual exercises.

Oct
21

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To Give and Receive Divine Love

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: , , , , , , ,

By Harold Klemp

Soul moves through the evolutionary process in a number of different forms, including those of animals and birds. These are some of the many different ways in which Soul gains experience, thereby gaining expression of Its divine self.

In the process, Soul must learn to receive love and to give love.

One of the best ways to learn how to give and receive divine love is to chant HU as a daily spiritual exercise. Simply sit comfortably where no one will disturb you, close your eyes, and gaze gently into your Spiritual Eye. This is the point between your eyebrows, at the center of your forehead. Then sing HU softly on your outgoing breath. Read More

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