How does your religion help you to be self-disciplined?

Almost every thing about my religion helps me with self discipline. There's confession where I know I'll have to reveal my sins before God and man. There's fasting, where I'll be expected to conform to the guidelines the Church offers--or go to confession about it if I don't. There's prayer--for strength in the face of temptation. There's fellowship--for encouragement and support in overcoming weaknesses and temptations. There are services I need to attend so I have to be disciplined enough to show up, disciplined in my time management and ability to schedule. There's a kind of dress code==discipline to conform. There are little old ladies who'll call me down when I goof up. There are friends who'll call me down when I goof up. There is clergy who'll call me down when I goof up. There are little children who'll call me down when I goof up.....etc. Everything about my religion supports self-discipline.

I do not use God in a cuss word and will turn off a show that has it. I have called people down who use it around me. That is a cuss word that I do not like. As for other words they are debatable but mostly I don't like cussing. You will notice I said cussing instead of cursing, to me they are two different things.

At one time I was agnostic, I could turn the air blue with words then two things happened. One, my mother heard me cussing not just a few but a lot of my vocabulary, the look on her face chilled me to the bone. Two, at the same time I was doing that I was also into transcendental mediation and I met Satan which scared me.

I fall short of the glory of God but through Jesus I can see heaven.

What does Vi 11:5 mean? It is like reading the Bible, one verse means nothing without the verses around it.

It's not a religion so much as a spirituality. Basically, it's a matter of listening to my heart and doing my best to follow its dictates. I'm not always successful, I am human, after all. But the main thing is to follow the Golden Rule as much as possible, refrain from judgment (the hardest part for me) and just acknowledge that everything I see is part of God, including rocks, trees, animals, other people and even myself and treat everyone and everything accordingly. With respect and dignity.

Being Wiccan, I like to think that I have a duty to the Goddess, and so each day I become even more spiritual in the sense of awareness. I always feel aware of things to make the world more....more....free. I suppose that's the word I'm looking for. I usually try to stress to people the fact of free will and fight for democratic rights for everyone. I, personally, feel that the Goddess is the reason for my disciplin. )O(

one the top of my head, the 10 commandants, keep me in line just from made to memorize them when i was a kid. there are more verse from the bible i also remember from when i was a kid. i would say that religion does help u 2 b self-disciplined, if that is your choice.

Unfortunately the Catholic Church I attend does not have a strong leadership therefore accountability is not where it should be. That being the case parenting is where self disciplined should be established, my parents taught us and I currently with my wife are teaching our children.

Following the path as a practicing Catholic is very difficult, it requires a lot of prayer and continual confession.

However, the reward is magnificent since we can begin to realize how important it is to follow a structure that is both humble and honest; virtue!

God bless'

My religion tells me to love myself no matter what. It tells me to try my best to make the world nice without restricting the rights of others in their own pursuits of happiness and fulfillment, so long as they are not hurting others. It tells me that life is confusing and focusing on the good aspects and changing only what I can is all one can hope for. It teaches self disipline to love others and embrace their differences.

You should have said FAITH...not religion. Religion is man made rules. FAITH....that's GOD.

But to answer your question I just begin to get a heart of THANKSGIVING. I look at what Jesus did for me on the cross and I begin to love on him.

I could go deeper but it's almost like self devotion.

How could you turn your back on a GOD that's done SO MUCH for you??

My religion help,s me to alway,s know I have God with me

and it keep,s me from crusing when I am mad,,slapping

someone who yell,s at me, to love my neighbor

and to help the needy,it keep,s me on the path of

God and Satan can not enter there.