Does Your Job Feed Your Soul?

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Does Your Job Feed Your Soul?
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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 1:18pm

http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=237

Is your work inspiring or draining the spirit out of you? Take Beliefnet's quiz.

Thought this might be interesting... :P

Gypsy



Blessings,

Gypsy

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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 7:27pm
Yay, my soul is inspired by my work! Daycare has its disadvantages, like any job, but I love my babies so much!


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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 10:04pm




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Congratulations! Your soul is inspired by work. Share with others what you're grateful for.


I truly enjoy my job and the people I work with every day.


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Registered: 03-24-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:34am

This is what 10 years of bartending will do to you. This reassures me that i really do need to learn how to meditate and pray more often.

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Yikes! Your soul is starving. Drop everything and try to meditate or pray. Then apply these tips to that job search you should be doing...

During the period of your job search, when you are considering so many issues, I think it is particularly important to set aside three specific times each day for a spiritual practice of some kind. I've outlined three possible practices for you to consider. Use what fits you and supplement as you choose with other personal, spiritual, and religious practices.

I will tell you this: If you are faithful to a spiritual practice, you will stay on the path to find what you are seeking. Your spiritual practice, however you design it, will become a rich source of meaning and direction for your vocation, your work, and your entire life.

On rising:
When you first awake, give thanks for this day and all it represents.
Become silent, focusing only on your breathing. Remain silent for approximately three minutes.
Petition, either silently or aloud, to be shown direction this day, to give and receive assistance, and to be brought into contact with the people you need, who also need you.
Visualize beginning the day prepared both spiritually and physically for the challenges ahead.
Consider that this day you will participate in the act of creation together with the Creator.
Affirm to yourself that you belong where you are and that you have a purpose for being.

At midday or early evening:
Give thanks for the gift of the day, whatever it is bringing you. Sit in silence for three minutes, concentrating on your breathing. Let your mind empty of the day's concerns.

Present petitions:

for continuing guidance
for direction
for peace
for happiness
for humor
for prosperity
for work you love
for a geographic location that fits you
for mutually rewarding relationships
for the ability to give freely
for the happiness of family
for the happiness of friends
for any other needs

Visualize receiving what you need.
Vow to be open to all forms of the "answers."
End by quietly giving thanks.

At bedtime:
Give thanks for the experience of this day.
Enter a silent, meditative state.
Read:

from a sacred text
from a spiritual work
from a book of meditations
from other books that have touched you, or that have been offered you by friends or spiritual advisors

After your reading, be still and open to the revelations for at least five minutes, allowing the reading to permeate your spirit.
Consider how you might put revelations from your reading into practice in the coming day.
Give thanks for any events of the day that seem particularly helpful; give thanks for events that seem particularly hard.
Reaffirm that you have lived a good day upon this earth.

 

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Registered: 11-11-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 7:01am

yikes! sapping me dry...physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually! I've been looking and praying for years for a new one or different one. Nothing. I guess in this day and age just be happy we even have one. When I think of LA, job is a walk in the park. The economists are predicting a real slump after this. Sign of the times.

Betsy

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 7:39am
I love my job, I love the people I work with, it
is like one big family. I can teach people how
to cope, teach the spirituality of the 12 step
program etc. I also pull my hair out at times
when too many new patients walk in the door at one time,
or when the docs are writing orders that we are
having trouble keeping up with or when the borderline
patients are acting up for attention, or the sociopathic ones
are scary or when people go into restraints. all in
all I still love it. The hospital used to be an old inn,
in a setting of woods, lilac, flowering shrubs and peonies.
It is a tough job, we all wonder why we are there with
the poor pay, surrounding places pay more, we are all nuts and we all seem to
love it and come back even after leaving. Also I have a problem with hearing,
one legally can't be fired because of it, as it gets worse ( always seems to)
I am loved there and they will always find me something to do. I hope my ears hold out as
long as my working years, but then I never plan to stop. Thye work with me
or pick up a call if I can't hear the person well. I used
to think our casualness was unprofessional, now I love
wearing jeans when I want to. The director of nursing is
not one with a gray bun on her head or stuffy, she is not only adorable,
she works with us when we are overloaded. she is a loving, caring woman.
my handsome supervisor,
in spite of his wife's brain tumor has an attitude no one can compete with,
He is my 4th son. We all adopt him plus he is great to look at.
I'm happy and staying. God is good. Love, Leila
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:30am


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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:29am

A 16 - I'm managing, but obvisouly could use more. I didn't need a test to tell me this! LOL.

I've been trying to find my true vocation or path in life - something that sings to me, to speaks to my soul! I am going back to school in January. Once I finish getting my degree, which should take about another year, I will then follow the path *I think* awaits me. I would like to become some type of homeopathic/wholistic healer...or something along those lines anyway. I've been researching this area for about 4 years now.

I just feel a very strong pull from nature and while I treasure and respect Her, I haven't been able to fully give my all to Her. My job is a means to an end right now. I have two teenage daughters and it pays the bills. While I am guiding and helping them into adulthood, when they can finally be self supporting (I mean, predominantly in a monetary sense)I will pursue my own real self, what I want to do with the next 20 years or so. And after that, maybe it will be something different yet again. But I need to start listening to my soul and seeking out fulfillment in that regard.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 4:46pm




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Congratulations! Your soul is inspired by work.

Looks like I'm in the right place at this time in my life.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 8:40pm

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Yikes! Your soul is starving. Drop everything and try to meditate or pray.

Sort of surprised in retrospect as a year ago I turned my life upside down for this job. I know partly it's because my life was so scrambled, and the travel I've had to do - which has added to the stress as well as resentments for promises broken.

So in thinking of the quantum thought post among other things I've decided I need to re-create how I affect my day. Starting everyday visualizing how I want feel and who I want to be.

First day I found myself actually singing at work. It's been at least 10 years since I let my soul sing. I can affect how I feel. My score will rise as I feel better.

Great topic Gypsy. Thank you.