How Do You Determine Your Vision of Heaven?

"Heaven" is a word that means different things to different people, even to those who belong to the same religion. In the town where I graduated High School, there was a house with a signboard on top of it, "Blue Heaven". It was a brothel.

Different Visions of Heaven

If you are a Christian you would think of heaven as a place where you will see God face to face after you die, although there are some Christians who think that immediately after death the soul does not go anywhere but sleeps in the tomb. Your idea of heaven would be colored by the picture of the heavenly Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation.

If you are a Muslim your idea of heaven is that it is a place where there is a garden where the fruits are continuously ever produced by the plants. There you wear fine clothes, keep on eating in banquets, recline on couches of gold or precious stones, surrounded by your loved ones.

If you are a Buddhist your view of heaven is that it is state where you will be perfectly enlightened and you will be freed from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Other religions have other views of heaven. Some think of it as a real place, others think of it more as a state or condition of being or existence. Some think of it as a place with different layers or levels of existence. Others think of it as just one flat place.

Many books and movies have been made which depict an aspect of heaven. But now that you have grown up and have your opinion on certain things like love, marriage, family, politics, economics, you want to have a more realistic or more genuine view of heaven. After all most believe that this is where we go to after we die if we do not end up in its opposite, hell. So, you are interested on forming your own vision of heaven.

Since heaven means so many things to different people, how do you determine your own vision of heaven?

You Determine Your Vision of Heaven by Following These Steps

First, think of what is the most happy way to exist. You may arrive at a conclusion that to be most happy means that you are free from all needs and sickness. You have all that you need and desire. And you will no longer be subject to death and sickness.

Secondly, you have to think of heaven in terms of relationship. On earth you have a family. You cannot think of heaven as a place where the love you have for your family is gone. You think of it as a place or state where you will be reunited with your family and where your love will ever grow.

Thirdly, you bring in the existence of spirits. Almost all religions think of heaven as a place where the beings we cannot see on earth will be seen by eyes. Heaven is a place or condition where you will have the company of these spirits.

Fourthly, you will have to bring in your concept of God or gods. Whether you believe in one God or plural gods, you will think of heaven as the abode or condition of God or gods. Here you will see the source or origin of all creation. For a Christian she will have to look up to Jesus the author and finisher of her faith and begin living in heaven while physically still on earth.

Fifthly, you bring in the most forgotten element of heaven: visible creation besides human beings--the plants, the animals, and inert matter. Here on earth we do not think much of them. We pull out a shrub and forget about it. We slap a mosquito and care not much about it. Animals will be there but they will no longer be harmful. Plants will be there but they will no longer be poisonous. And lots of silver, gold, iron will be there.

As you think about these ideas, you will be able to determine your vision of heaven. When we get there, we may be surprised that the place or state of heaven exceeds our wildest imagination or dreams while we were on earth.

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How to Properly Release the Negative Energy Built Up Inside You

There is a pollution that is worse than air, water or soil pollution. It is a pollution which creates world wars.

Air pollution contaminates the oxygen we breathe and eventually chokes us. Water pollution makes dirty the water we need to drink and so poisons our body. Soil pollution produces toxic wastes which eventually enters our physical system. But all these forms of pollution only touch our bodies and only indirectly touch our minds.

A Pollution Worse Than Air, Water and Soil Pollution

But a pollution worse than these forms of pollution directly affects our minds and turns them into an arsenal of negative energy which fuels discords, disagreements, conflicts and eventually wars.

This is the pollution of negative energy around us and inside us.

Writers who discuss energy pollution usually single out only noise, heat and light pollution. They do not realize that energy pollution extends beyond the noise, the heat and light around us.

Pollution of negative energy contaminates the heart of human beings with hate, resentment, anger, envy, jealousy, fear, doubt and a host of other negative emotions.

How Do You Properly Dispose of This Negative Energy?

The problem is how do you properly release this kind of energy built up inside you so that it does not contaminate you and others?

Today everywhere students are taught on proper waste disposal or management: segregate the waste, then re-use, re-cycle, and re-turn the rest safely to the earth. But they are not taught how to properly dispose of harmful energy that piles up within them: anger, hate, fear, etc.

In some houses when husband and wife fight they throw things around and away. Their throwing of things is a symbolic gesture of throwing the bad feelings they have towards each other. But this does not work well. Things are destroyed and after the fight, essential furniture has to be bought again or repaired.

Negative energy is like garbage. If you do not dispose of it properly it will pollute the atmosphere. This energy and negative emotions between a fighting husband and wife spread to their children, neighbors and in-laws. Negative energy between nations eventually becomes war.

So how do you properly release the negative energy built up inside you so that it does not pollute the atmosphere?

The First Step: Understand What Negative Energy Is

What you need to consider first if you want to properly release this negative energy is to understand that it is a negative energy. It is not a positive energy. Because it is negative, you cannot throw it away properly. It is an energy which is the lack of something. You cannot throw something that is not there. That is why it is called negative because it is a lack. There is something lacking in that energy.

Positive energy is the presence of something. That is why it is called positive. It posits something to be there. Its opposite is the absence of something. That is why it is called negative, it negates something which should be there.

Anger, resentment, hate, and such like emotions are forms of non-positive energy. They lack something. Anger lacks kindness, resentment lacks acceptance, hate lacks love.

Second Step: Put in Positive Emotions

After realizing that negative emotions or energy expresses a lack, you need to fill the lack with a positive emotion. Feed your anger with kindness, your resentment with acceptance, your hating somebody with love. If you can, say that Prayer of Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone which starts with the words “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow your love.”

Now you may object. That precisely is your problem, you cannot put positive energy into your negative emotions, you cannot put kindness into your angry heart, you cannot put love where you feel just hate, etc.

Third Step: Realize the Importance of Having Positive Instead of Negative Emotions

So the third step is to realize that in the long run the harmful energies and emotions are going to destroy your life, if you do not dispose of them properly. And the only way to dispose of them properly is by putting in positive emotions and energy in that part of your life which lack these.

Choose Wisely

In the final analysis, the choice is up to you. You can live positively or you can live negatively. You can live with fullness of joy, happiness, and love or you can choose to live with the lack of these making you morose, sad and hateful. Dispose of your negative emotions and energies properly by putting in the positive emotions and energies. With time and with the help of your God, whatever and whoever you conceive him to be, you will become a positive person, full of warmth, vigor and joy.

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Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.