7 Spiritual Beliefs You Are Better Off Without

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Spiritual Beliefs You Might Do Without

by Annie Kagan

When I was a little girl, my big brother Billy taught me a lot about life. His teaching was quite accidental, really a side effect of his bad-boy style of life. Billy was wise and charismatic and became addicted to drugs in his teens. I adored my big brother but was always afraid something terrible was going to happen to him. To distance myself from my anxiety, I began practicing the art of detachment. I was in fourth grade.

Many years later, Billy became my teacher again, this time on purpose. Soon after he died, to my stunned amazement, Billy began talking to me from his new dimension. He shared with me the secrets of the cosmos, which I in turn share in my book, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved To Me There’s Life After Death.

One of the things Billy talked with me about is beliefs. He said…

“Beliefs are big on earth. People collect them. Some of these beliefs are helpful but others just keep you running around trying to follow rules that others have laid down. They don’t have a lot of personal meaning. It’s a good idea to sort through your beliefs now and then and throw out the ones that don’t serve you.”

Here are some spiritual beliefs Billy says you might be better off without.

 
7 Spiritual Beliefs You Are Better Off Without Spiritual Beliefs 1. THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS

Thoughts do not necessarily become things. When you meditate, you watch as all kinds of thoughts drift across your mind. If they magically became things, your meditation room would be jammed with stuff in a couple of hours. Thoughts can make you feel happy or sad. Thoughts can be interesting and insightful or just garbage in and garbage out. Thoughts are fluid. All of us have all kinds of thoughts and many of them never stay very long or amount to anything. Thoughts don’t automatically become things. That usually takes effort on your part.

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