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Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary’s defines “joy” as “a strong feeling of happiness; gladness; delight”. This kind of joy is a beautiful feeling, but unfortunately it’s short-lived. Spiritual joy, though, is everlasting and it’s available to you.

Well-being is the physical, mental and spiritual health of an individual. These three aspects combine to make up life as we know it.

Being a pauper has very limited benefits, maybe sympathy, but that’s just about it. Some people may argue the lower you stand on the social ladder the less that is expected of you, hence the false impression of more freedom.

This article is part of an article series that answers your biggest questions about prayer. This part discusses the effectiveness of praying with others.

Feeling a little bit independent and sure of yourself being able to live your own life the way you think it should be done? Well remember the branched that were cut off and separated from the life of the vine. They didn’t take root and start producing fruit on their own. They had no vine to receive life from. They died and withered and were useful only for the fire. As will our lives be if we become separated from the vine.

We are all here learning important life lessons, evolving into wiser, purer human beings. This article outlines 7 universal life lessons to help you on your journey in this life.

I believe that every person is accountable to God for their lives. God created each of us. He knows us so intimately that He knows how many hairs are on my head. The Bible says He knew me in my mother’s womb.

The etheric body is the ‘web’ that keeps the physical-being separate from the inner worlds, if it was not for the etheric body, a person would be able to see everything in the astral/inner worlds. This would not be an ideal scenario, for most of humanity, who have an inherent fear of ghosts or anything not physical. The composition of the rays of the sun are complicated and in the deeper teachings, they have specific names and roles, which will not be detailed in this article.

We cannot see our energy bodies but it is there and we have to look after it with energy healing, fresh air, good food, meditation and other spiritual practices. If we ignore our energy bodies – we ignore our own well-being.

If unresolved family-of-origin issues are one of your life lessons, you are likely to have grown up in an abusive or dysfunctional family. And though you may have left home physically, you still struggle to “leave home” emotionally.

Did you know this world is a paradise? Anything and everything you will ever need or desire is already here.

The Etheric body is composed of ‘Etheric matter’ and it is like a network which is permeated with Golden light from the higher planes of existence. In the etheric body there are all planes of existence from human, to emotional (astral) abstract thinking (Causal) even up to the Adi plane, which is the highest plane of existence within our solar system. It is also the web that protects a human from inadvertently accessing the inner worlds, which could have a detrimental affect on the person that is not prepared.