We Become What We Do - 2

An address by the Minister, Rev. Rob MacPherson - recorded on Sunday, 26th May, 2019 at The Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide. Rob sees the spiritual disciplines exercised during Ramadan and Lent as analogous to the benefits of interval training in developing athletic and sporting skills, or practising scales in developing musical and instrumental skills. After exercising sporting, musical or spiritual discipline for a month, brain neuroplasticity becomes part of our physical, musical or spiritual "metabolism" enabling change in ourselves. While our feelings often prompt us to change how we act, our actions also change how we feel and help us to grow spiritually. "If you Act the way you would like to be, soon you will be the way you Act." All change begins in gesture. We are free to develop the spiritual nature we want - "hacking" our minds by actions we may not feel like - but discipline our minds to do in order to reach our highest spiritual aspirations. This is the challenge facing us in our spiritual growth.
A buzz session enabled us to share in our spiritual aspirations and experiences of our first week of spiritual discernment and growth.