Spiritual Identity
By Wendy Menara

There are four keys of prosperity: physical, mental, financial and spiritual. So often we put much emphasis on one or the other of these areas of our life and forget that to have ‘total’ prosperity means that all four keys are active and balanced in our lives. Much like pistons in a car, you want all the components firing and working properly otherwise the car doesn’t operate at optimum efficiency. A lot of emphasis is put on the well-being and survival of our physical bodies, and so it should be. Emphasis on the well-being and survival of our soul (awareness), is often times put on the back burner, why is that?
I believe one of the reasons for our lack of focus about our spiritual life is because we have forgotten that we are spirit. Besides the many distractions that bombard us each day and prevent us from remembering our spiritual identity, I also remember Rev. Bill, the founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Inc. would often say that when we as spirit first took our body and arrived here on earth we went into a sort of spiritual amnesia.
One way to get back in touch with our essence as spirit is through meditation. SRF offers classes that will guide you in the meditation process. One of the unique things about classes at SRF is you learn how to meditate in the body. A lot of meditation classes lead you outside your body. One of the reasons we took a body was to learn how to enjoy being in it, not spaced out of it.
Recently, I read an article in “Time Magazine” about the gaining popularity of meditation. First this caused me to rejoice, and then I also became aware of how many of these meditations are designed to send us out of our bodies. What happens during these “out of the body” meditations is that we will have blissful out of body experiences, but when we ‘come back’ into the world of the physical we have a hard time dealing and coping with situations and emotions.
“In the body” meditation classes are ideal because not only do they help you achieve the contemplative and blissful reflective state of realization, but they also help you with expressing and dealing effectively with the trials and tribulations that come with having a physical body.
The articles presented in the newspaper in this issue are designed to educate and enlighten you about your spiritual identity and show and explain how meditation is truly the medication for our soul awareness.
Enjoy the articles you are about to read. The staff members who wrote them are dedicated in their pursuit to not only have a prosperous life for themselves, but also to help others achieve and experience a life of health and wealth. And, should you be inspired to want to learn the art of meditation call us to get a schedule of classes or go to our website at www.celestia.com.