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Spiritual health is the ultimate goal to achieve total wellness, and leads to a heightened awareness of the Divine Spirit referred to, but seldom fostered by religions. It doesn’t matter how you achieve Spiritual health. What matters is that you come to know and attune yourself to spiritual guidance in all areas of your daily life. Doing so reduces fear, anxiety, worrying and provides a greater capacity for loving oneself and others unconditionally. Spirituality helps you reconnect to your special talents and gifts so that you can fulfill your life’s purpose.

An intimate emotional connection to one’s spouse, partner, family, friends, and community provides the greatest opportunity for spiritual growth and for learning how to receive and impart unconditional love.
The four most important practices to achieve spiritual health are: Prayer, Meditation, Gratitude, Spending time in nature, including near fire and water.

Prayer: Harvard researcher and mind/body medicine expert Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response, has found that regular prayer or the repetition of spiritual phrases”Shalom,” “Hail Mary,” “Amen” triggers relaxation and reduces stress.

Prayer is the most common spiritual practice. Some engage in personal conversations with God, stating their need/concern and asking for divine intervention. Others find acknowledging all one is grateful for and giving thanks for what one desires highly effective. Giving thanks for what one desires is more effective than asking for what one desires, because God knows what is needed before one needs ittherefore giving thanks acknowledges what one hasn’t experienced yet, thus drawing it toward oneself. Others walk silently in nature as prayerfulness.
Meditation: Meditation has been scientifically researched and proven to have physiological benefits. Besides its physical benefits, which include stress-relief, improved immune and cardiovascular function, relaxation, and decreased pain, the regular practice of meditation can lead to new insights about life issues (often healing past emotional trauma), heightened creativity, inspiration, greater compassion for others, and a greater connection to one’s own inner guidance.

Meditation can be done while sitting, lying, walking or jogging. Some people include singing, chanting a word or phrase that has spiritual significance. Meditation has one commonalityconscious breathing and focusing on what is transpiring in each moment, until the mind becomes empty of thoughts, judgments, and past/future concerns.

Gratitude: Dr. Robert Anderson describes gratitude as the Great Attitude. “Gratitude produces feelings of joy and self-acceptance, and is an attitude that anyone can choose, just as we can choose to see the glass half full or half empty. Being grateful for what you have, instead of worrying about what you lack, enables you to let go of negative thoughts and attitudes more easily.”

One method of cultivating feelings of gratitude is keeping a gratitude journal. Another technique is closing your eyes before bed, and recognizing everything you experiencedgive thanks for them. Every experience is an opportunity to learn. “By making gratitude a regular part of your daily experience, you set the stage for living connected to spirit. In the process, your life will be transformed into an increasingly joyous adventure,” Dr. Anderson stated.
Spend time in nature: The most visible manifestation of spirit is nature, where one fully encounters and interacts with life’s primal energiesearth, water, fire, and air.

Walking barefoot in the back yard, gardening, walking in a park, hiking, biking in the country, camping and boating are excellent ways of reconnecting with nature. Spending regular time in nature enables one to understand the rhythms of life, including ones own. Staying connected with nature wherever you live is important.

Spend time near/in water: Water’s higher concentration of negative ions contributes to feelings of well-being. Being in the ocean, lakes, rivers, or soaking in a mineral hot springs is a great way to benefit from nature’s life-enhancing energy.

Exposure to fire: A campfire or a fireplace has health benefits. Leonard Orr discovered fire cleanses the bio-energy field of negative energies, and can be a powerful aid in curing physical disease. Native Americans connect with the Great Spirit and discover their life purpose through sweat lodges heated by wood fires.

Of all nature’s elements, the closest expression of Spirit is the air. Clean, fresh air is essential to health on all levels, and practicing conscious breathing is a potent self-care method for restoring energy and creating awareness of the power of Spirit as it flows through you.

Regular exposure to these four elements helps you become more conscious how Spirit’s loving intelligence sustains the world, while more deeply recognizing your place within it.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, an inspirational leader who empowers people to meet life’s challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. Author of If I’d Only KnownSexual Abuse in or out of the Family: A Guide to Prevention, speaker and seminar leader she has over twenty years experience. http://www.drdorothy.net

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Price : $74.99

Features

• Durable 2-burner cooking stove with 20,000 total BTUs of cooking power
• Pair of 10,000 BTU burners with matchless InstaStart pushbutton ignition
• PerfectHeat technology delivers high burner efficiency and optimal product life
• PerfectFlow propane pressure control ensures consistent cooking performance
• WindBlock side panels shield burners from wind and double as trays

Product Description

Cook up a wind storm, or in one, using the Coleman Fold N Go PerfectFlow InstaStart 2-Burner Stove. The lid and two side panels offer three-way wind protection, and the PerfectFlow system controls the gas pressure, giving a consistently smooth flow. Forget about trying to light a match when the wind is blowingColeman outfitted this double-burner stove with their InstaStart push-button ignition, saving your kids from otherwise hearing you cuss like a sailor when the matches keep blowing out. The whole thing folds up into a convenient carry case when your family has had enough camp cooking and wants to head into town for the closest Denny’s.

Product Features

• Material: Aluminized steel
• Fuel Type: Propane
• Burn Time:
• Boil Time:
• Simmer: Yes
• Auto Ignition: Yes
• Windscreen: Yes
• Heat Reflector: No
• Parts Kit:
• Cleaning Tool:
• Stuff Sack: No
• Hard Case: Yes, integrated
• Size: 5.5 x 13.25 x 13.0in (14 x 33.6 x 33cm)
• Weight: 4.5lb (2041g)
• Manufacturer Warranty: 5 Years
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Customer Reviews

Review date : 2009-01-09
The gas camping grill/stove is very nice. The only drawback is that the wire rack tines are spaced a little too far apart. Will have to be careful if using a small pot.

Review date : 2008-12-22
I’m really happy with this stove. Sometimes you have to click the insta start a few times to get it to start but it always does. It’s nice that it runs off the small bottles of compressed gas. They last pretty well. Though if you’re going to use it a lot or if you also have a lantern that uses them, invest the 20-25 dollars in one of the couplers to refill the small bottles from a big bottle.

Review date : 2008-08-08
Coleman got it right this time. The carrying handle is substantial and stays cool. The handle also facilitates pressing the lighter button without bracing against hot metal. The curved, sealed design eliminates sharp edges, and makes cleaning easier. Spacious burners allowed us to use our 9" fry pan on a single burner, with the side wind shields up, and still have room around it (we could have used a slightly larger fry pan).

Water boiled reasonably quickly.

The piezoelectric igniter worked well. Just keep clicking it until you either see the flame (hard to do in bright light) or hear the flame.

This is our first experience with propane. PROs: Hot and clean. Unlike gasoline stoves, the propane will not dirty the bottom of your pots and pans. And you don’t have the smell and mess of gasoline stoves. CONs: Invisible flame in bright light. I cannot tell if the flame is overshooting or undershooting the bottom of the pot or pan. The flame can actually be too hot. Boil water with a full flame (I think that the right burner is a little hotter than the left). But fry pancakes on the lowest flame possible, and keep an eye on it. A higher flame can be so hot that it can discolor the metal, or reduce oil to a baked-on gum.

This stove made our recent camping trip a real pleasure.

Review date : 2008-06-02
This stove is perfect for campers. The burners are plenty hot and it is very easy to clean. Make sure you shop around, can be found MUCH cheaper in your local retail WalMart.

Review date : 2008-01-07
This is the best brand for any camping equipment and this stove is great! One touch of a button and your burner is lit. No more windy days keeping you from lighting your burner! I give it an AAA . On top of everything else, the price was great. I had been pricing these for awhile and Amazon was $20 cheaper than anyone else with free shipping on top. Great deal!! My husband had picked out an off brand at a local sporting goods store that was only $9 less than this one. The choice was simple. Buy this one, it’s worth it!