L•B•T Daily Spiritual Practices
Our daily spiritual practices deliver simple methods to begin literally, living out your divinity. Our daily spiritual practices serve as an ongoing method of nurturing higher connections, acceptance, and ultimately reaching a perfect universal balance within yourself and your environment.
We recommend these exercises to all who are sincerely dedicated to their spiritual growth.
For an extended, and more in depth practice of daily spiritual exercises, please visit our Daily Hermetic Exercises section.
The master finds oneness through each experience. We offer the following daily spiritual practice to you, that you may understand it, apply the affirmations when needed, and ultimately enter the experience of absolute oneness with all things. Apply these affirmations both within your meditations, as well as within your daily experiences. You are not separate from your environment, and each and every aspect within it is quite literally an extension of you. If you are serious about your spiritual growth, please adopt the following into your life;
These affirmations and applications may have greater meaning to some, and less to others, but begin using the ones that apply to you right now in your own life. Constantly strive to connect at a deeper level with everything around you through understanding these universal truths. As mentioned above, for those who seek an advanced course in daily spiritual practices, click here 
How many times do we become aware of our thought once we have already spoken it out loud? Conversely, how often do we actually reflect on our thoughts, to understand them, before speaking them? Most would agree, that our unfiltered words are more often than not, what get us into conflicts, struggles, and even wars. In some cases, we do process thoughts internally prior to speaking, but generally in conversation, we speak out our thoughts without first knowing them internally. While this is not a bad thing, it does begin to bleed us of our ability to communicate with higher thought and understandings.
How many times a day, do we criticize ourselves, or another? It’s all too easy to make a negative remark about things we don’t agree with, or that seem ignorant to us. Who here can deny that they have not made a comment, or at very least, a criticizing thought when baring whiteness to events like pollution, corruption, and racism, to name just a few.
To be clear, this doesn’t mean that you are agreeing with a racist, an industry polluting the earth, or a corrupt political figure for example. But what it does mean that you retain the spiritual maturity to view their actions from a higher plane of thought, a plane of thought that can understand their actions from their perspective. Realize too, that to criticize another verbally, often does nothing more than fuel the very actions you detest, and that this is more how a child would act toward a parent doing something out of their favor. We do not change the world through criticizing it. On the contrary, we make a tremendous impact when we empathize with everything in it, and demonstrate through our own actions, that real change is made by acceptance and passive corrections at the individual level.
Work with this daily spiritual practice constantly. Catch yourself before you speak out to criticize someone. Halt your thoughts, before they criticize the actions of others. Make the shift, not to justify, but to view, the issue from their perspective. Nourish your spiritual maturity each day, and choose to rise above the reactions of the naïve child who feels their way is the only thing that matters. Again, you need not agree with the actions of others, but to analyze just how he or she has come to do this thing you feel is wrong, is to momentarily over ride your own opinions, and ultimately master your emotional responses. This is of course, at core, a practice of neutral compassion, and it goes very deep into the base of most spiritual paths that we know today from Buddhism, to Hermeticism, to Catholicism and so forth.
Lets be honest, even the best of us can be judgmental towards others, and more often than not, we have already categorized, or made a silent statement about someone quicker than we even realize. The human being is actually a master of quick unconscious categorizations. This is how our brain rationalizes information being received through the senses. However convenient this may be to our survival from day to day, the purpose of this daily spiritual practice is to pause, with awareness, before compartmentalizing someone, and then actually see us in that person. I realize that not all readers here have had the same spiritual experiences, and that this may seem imaginary or even bogus to some, but follow theses basic steps in your daily life and you might just experience the beauty of this universal reality of our oneness.
just as if you were looking into a mirror. Focus on your beautiful reflection, no matter what shape or size it appears to be physically, and invoke the deepest and sincerest love you’re capable of. Herein lies the challenge, as we are so good at creating a quick distance through our thoughts and emotions. I encourage you to go beyond the programing of separation and division, and look into the eyes of each amazing reflection, feeling such immense love for your fellow human beings that you reach the brink of tears. See and feel the inner beauty of each person around you and begin to understand the miracle of each creation. As you do this, realize that at a much deeper level, you are spreading this immense love into, and throughout yourself.
As you evolve in this daily spiritual practice, understanding oneness, and sincerely loving each of your human reflections, some of the deepest shifts that can possibly occur in you will be set in motion. By seeing yourself in others and developing this new sense of oneness, you literally begin to rewire the neural network of your brain, and ultimately shift an entire paradigm through the power of your own love.
It’s quite a simple concept, but many of us still lack the much-needed time spent in the great outdoors. Daily life in any modern society keeps many people indoors and tied to electronic devices. While this is not all bad, it is important to break from these modern patterns and restore our inner elemental qualities through contact with Mother Nature.
What does it mean to you, to be the change? This may be something different for each of us, but no matter what your particular vision of a better world may look like, you are here invited to simply, be this change. Not to shout and protest for it, not to argue or defend it, not to fight and go to battle for it, not to preach and judge others for it, simply be it. 
Bear in mind that this daily spiritual practice is in fact so effective, that an entire nation was once transformed through the dedication of “being the change”. May we never under estimate the power we have as individuals to take actions toward change. For when we dedicate to this, every decision we make, each action we take, should be one that reflects this change that we want to see.
To practice the art of truly listening, we must begin to silence our opinions and interjections, and this is where the deeper spiritual practice comes into play. Recognize that we have the ability to actually begin healing other people just by simply listening to them without judgments and interjections. Many times when friends, family, and loved ones feel the need to speak to us about their personal matters, what they are really seeking is another soul to share their experience with, in attempts to alleviate stress. Naturally, if we are asked to comment or put forth our thoughts, we must sincerely respond with our best advice. But many times this is not necessary for our loved ones and friends to actually work through the experience. Remain aware of this as you engage in slightly more intimate conversations. You can be of meaningful service to another through purely passive listening.
The deeper spiritual-growth quality of this practice is that of beginning to consciously over-ride the needs of the middle self (ego) to express opinions, control situations, and even analyze them through ignorance, to simply generate a response in conversation. This doesn’t mean that we are opinion-less or carry no wisdom to share as advice, but it does mean that we can at any time; choose to reserve our comments, exercising our spiritual maturity, knowing that by sincerely listening we can often serve others just as well if not better. 
It sounds all too simple, but how often do we openly recognize the qualities we respect in others? The verbal compliment can be an amazingly powerful method to reinforcing the love and respect we have for another. Often, our long-term relationships can become repetitious, and we can forget to acknowledge the special qualities that make us love our friends, families, and partners. All of these people exist our lives because we have sincere attachments and feelings for them, so why not let them know not only through your actions, but also through regular, meaningful compliments?
Expressing a compliment to a perfect stranger is also a fantastic way to extend your spiritual presence into another person’s day. Once again, the key ingredient here is sincerity. Perhaps you recognize how well someone deals with a situation, and let him or her know. Perhaps you admire someone’s decision or action and openly express your respect. Or perhaps you simply like their jacket, shoes, shirt, hairstyle, and appearance in general. There is no wrong doing in openly expressing how we feel about others in a positive manner through the spiritual practice of sincerely complimenting them.
It's no secret that the quickest way to feel good about yourself is through helping someone else. In fact, with a genuine application, this spiritual practice never fails.
Realize also that throughout most established spiritual traditions, the Sun, the brilliant star that constantly gives life on planet Earth, directly corresponds to the heart of the human body. 
This exercise is designed to rebuild, or reactivate this divine thinking within you.
Strive to go beyond titles and opinions you hold over yourself and others. 
The Buddhist understands that all opinions, titles, interests, desires, and personality traits are like the birds that perch momentarily on the branch of a tree. These birds come and go constantly altering the horizon upon the branch, but the tree itself, independent of these perching birds, remains stable.
For some reason, in modern societies, we are somewhat conditioned to avoid direct eye contact with strangers. Weather it be shyness, insecurity, or simply not wanting to seem too social, we generally don't like to look into the eyes of a stranger. Each of us of course has our own level of social security, but the spiritual practice given here is an opportunity to overcome any and all social insecurities, while at the same time developing your spiritual presence, by smiling at strangers. 
This is also a great exercise to avoid getting too wrapped up in ourselves. By looking out into the world to share a smile, we can sometimes realize that our own obstacles are not the ‘end of the world’ so to speak. Realize that at a deeper level, when you make eye contact with someone, even for a moment, it's like looking into a mirror. For there is but one universal body, manifested in to many, observing itself through all forms of creation. So don't be shy, share your divinity with your extended self through this simple act of sincere kindness. See how your day begins to take shape in a delightful way as you share your smile with others.