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Spiritual
Accounting
1. Thoughtfully
identify the traits relevant to your personality which most need improvement.
Using various Torah books on ethical training, carefully study the
appropriate chapters dealing with them until you are familiar with their
subject matter. Thus, if you identify the quality of "watchfulness"
as being in need of improvement, study "The Trait of Watchfulness"
found in Mesilat Yesharim,
The Path of the Just. (Sample lists have been provided on pages at the
end of this page) 2. Concentrate the essence of
each chapter in a single statement or short verse. For
instance, a suggested abstract for "watchfulness" might be:
"Carefully analyze your deeds." 3. Infuse the meaning of each
verse into a keyword For example, "Carefully analyze your
deeds" could generate "Reflect." This keyword will be
used for a full week, so that the cycle of all keywords is completed
four times a year - once every three months. 4. Afterwards, go back and
review, and then study intensively those same chapters in order to achieve a
clearer and more essential understanding of all the verses derived
above. 5. Read and reread the keywords
and their statements several times until you know them backward
and forward and they flow naturally from your mouth. 6. Focus on one of the keywords
each week, keeping the other twelve in the background. That is to say,
all week, no matter what you do, the keyword and its statement should
not budge from your mind. They should be so deeply etched in your
consciousness that you imagine seeing them written before your eyes, hear
them whispered in your ears and feel them actually forming on your lips. 7. During the week, search for
opportunities to improve the attribute. You should yearn intensely for those
opportunities. If none should arise, shrewdly manufacture suitable
situations. The more you are involved today, the easier it will be to improve
tomorrow, and the greater will be the effect on your heart. 8. Every evening you will make an
accounting determining if you met resistance or failed to improve any of the
traits.
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