Welcome to chapter 14. This is Ben Greenfield. This chapter 14 is my bookendor, which you can

find at GetEndor.com. It's a guide, a spiritual stamina and spiritual endurance. And that's a new book.

GetEndor.com each week, I'll release a little snippet of a chapter right here on this feed.

Let's do this. Chapter 14, bookends. Anyone who has struggled with organizing their personal library

or any random bookshelf in their house knows how handy a decent set of bookends can be. Bookends

are simply some type of tall, sturdy and heavy enough item that when placed at either end of a row

of upright books support or buttress them so that they don't topple over, especially when there's

a long line of books, books of varying sizes or no other good way to support all those precious

books. I like to think of my own morning and evening journaling, meditation, prayer, and spiritual

disciplines practice as a bit of a bookend approach to my day. A helpful support and buttressing

process that serves as a reliable and positivity-infusing habit that makes each day better and just like a

workout routine that consists of, say, a morning sunshine walk and evening weight training session

allows for a gradual buildup of increasing spiritual stamina and endurance. For this bookend's

process, I use a handy journal called the Spiritual Disciplines Journal. I designed it and it's

at SpiritualDisciplinesJournal.com, but I have a very unique approach I've honed over the years to

get the most out of that journal. I detailed a thought and theory behind the actual disciplines

in the journal itself, namely gratitude, service, self-examination, and purpose. In my last book,

FitSoul, I really get into spiritual disciplines and the purpose of them and the benefit of them.

But in this chapter, I want to give you insight into my own practical usage of the journal.

So, in a video that I'll link to on the resources webpage for this chapter at GetEndor.com slash

chapter one four, and in the description I'm about to give you, I'll fill you on how I personally

combine spiritually strengthening strategies like meditation, breathwork, visualization, tapping,

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