how do I leave?

Question

How do I leave spirituality and new age practises behind? I have searched high and low online and can't find anything. I want my body and mind back to normal and I do not want to follow any religion or spirituality.

Answer 1

Join the Marines, it'll change your mind!!!

Answer 2

When you want to travel from point A to point B you can go to Yahoo! maps and plug in the addresses and it will plot a journey for you. Often it isn't the best route, but it will get you there, and along the way as you go, you may take a few different turns, if you know the traffic patterns and such.

Using this analogy and based upon what you have said, I'd say begin by being very clear about your points A and B. Take time to define where you are now and where you want to be--What do you mean by "NORMAL?" What does Normal look like, feel like? What do you do as a normal person that you aren't doing now? What will you no longer do? What are you experiencing now that you don't want to continue in your point B? The clearer you can get the picture about where you are now and where you want to be, the more clear the road will be as to "how."

Then give yourself the grace to take things as they come. Sometimes the best part of a journey is the side trip. Our "shortest distance is a straight line" thinking isn't always the most healthy. The shortest distance from where I am to Las Vegas would take me over the highest peak in the continental US--much more work than I'd plan to do when journeying to Las Vegas. Be nice to yourself. Small steps are a beginning not to be despised.

Recognize that some of what you may throw off now may be valuable to you later. Try not to burn bridges; but give yourself permission to move ahead. You can never go home again, but you can come back into a similar place with a new attitude.

Answer 3

Sometimes not doing something is hard then doing the thing we do everyday. Basically, if you want to leave all religious thing behind, then you will have to say to yourself there is no god. Remember I am just helping you out what you want.
Other way is to believe that you do not have to believe in all the rituals that are set-up by humans for certain religion are correct.
Let's say you're in a room with a computer and you're addicted playing games, then you think about leaving the room because you're bored of games. You might leave for a day or two but then you would go back because of the addicton. The best way to solve this problem is you have to remove the idea of your perception of G-d.

Answer 4

Well, You obviously have had some sort of realization that is pulling you away from your old practices. Just embrace the day. Live in the now. Don't follow any religion if you dont want... Religion is based soley on belief and faith, and those two things are changeable. Just stop doing what you're doing. Don't pray anymore or whatever it is that you do. Think of your body as an important tool that you must nourish and take care of. :)

Answer 5

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. You want to examine life from a rational basis and begin by making "reason" based rather than "faith" based decisions. You start that by just asking simple questions and doubt an answer that seems suspicious to you. People often use "bad faith" to escape difficulties or hard work.
Ask the question, "How can I best live my life?" and then begin to work honestly toward each goal as it presents itself. Make use of books that interest you. If you're a boy, read "Iron John" just for fun. Good luck and remember it is an adventure to discover life and the truth about oneself.

Answer 6

Amen to that, brother/sister (in an entirely secular sense, of course!)

I think you could do with doing a course or reading up on critical thinking, then start from scratch in a sort of Cartesian project to build up everything you can believe in your life, but at the same time i think you're going to have to abandon the need for certainty. It seems to me that it's very common for people to be more attached to the need for a feeling of certainty than happiness. I'm very interested in analysing the logical structure of New Age beliefs, but haven't got very far yet.

Try to identify what problems New Age beliefs cause you, what attracted you to them in the first place, and work backwards from that to come up with a world view which makes sense to you. Then examine that world view for fallacies and logical flaws, and see where that leaves you.

Answer 7

What was taught to you when you were young will always be with you. As it says in the bible - train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it.
You are having a hard time departing from something that was taught to you for a long time.
If you don't want to follow the teachings just dont. But you will always know them and know you are going against them. It will keep you moral and honest but it will be a struggle trying to run from something that made you who you are.

Answer 8

I guess you just stop going to church if you attend a church or a temple, and just don't associate yourself with the people you use to hang around that are spiritual.

But why would you want to leave something good? You should really think about this decision hard. why do you want to give up?

Answer 9

Always keep in mind what has brought you to this point, and go with it, the one thing no one can take away from you is your free will.

Answer 10

Watch the news 24/7. That will dull your mind back to earth.

P.S. Love Pineapple's answer...LMAO