To live a spiritually focused life it is not necessary to remove oneself from daily life. Life itself is our practice. Spirituality is not separate from life: it is Life itself. Each moment is filled with opportunities and challenges that are the grist for the mill of spiritual awakening.
You may already have some kind of spiritual focus or daily practice or you may recognise there is now a real need for it. Clearly it’s not possible to spend all of your time in meditation even if you wanted to. You may manage a quick meditation practice in the morning and then begin to get lost in the demands and the dramas of the daily experiences. Before you know it it’s the end of the day and you haven’t checked in with yourself even once and you are exhausted.
You try different things. You may go to a class or a weekend workshop or read books and there may often be a glimmer of insight that intimates “I think I finally get it.” Only to lose it when you go back to daily life and get stuck in the same old routine or even find yourself knocked off balance yet again.
The Benefits of Spiritual Awareness
A deep and meaningful spiritual practice penetrates to the core of who you are and who you can become. Such spiritual exploration gets to the heart of what it is you are here for in this life. When you deepen the awareness of your spiritual nature life opens up in all directions and in all kinds of ways. Spiritual practices if done regularly and most of all if performed effectively will bring about positive and recognizable changes in how you experience yourself and how you live your life. If you already have a daily spiritual practice you know that the more you deeply engage in it the better your life becomes.
Spirituality is focused in the whole being – the body, heart and mind: Such awareness can be with you as your closest friend wherever you are under any circumstances. Spiritually focused people engage fully in the world. They are able to direct breath, heart, mind and body to experience a life of joy and fulfilment. As well as accomplish their life’s purposes for the benefit of all.
If your life is working for you it is often a measure of how effectively aligned you really are to your purpose in life and to the rhythms of Life Itself. If life is not working as you would like what can you do?
Deep inside do you know you have much more to offer but so far you cannot fully bring it into being?
Support on the Spiritual Path
Perhaps what you need on this journey from time to time is a guide, an experienced guide, who can coach you into deeper states of awareness. A guide that has worked with many people over many years to bring you back into your body, breath, heart and mind. To bring you fully into each present moment no matter what the external situation may be presenting. Someone who can show you that it’s not only about setting aside time to perform spiritual practices it is about cultivating awareness of the currents of Life throughout the day.
Sometimes even though you have a guide who can take you deeper you may be afraid to reach out to them, afraid to ask questions because, being respectful, you do not wish to take up too much of their time.
Are Spiritual Practices Always the Answer?
I have noticed that many people even if they engage in some regular spiritual practice may not experience any significant positive changes in their being and their life. There may be many reasons for this of course. Yet significantly, many of us are not always aware of our own blind spots. We may be so busy with life that whatever spiritual practices we are able to manage barely seem to keep us above water. The problems people experience in life, with others, with themselves and the habitual ineffective ways of coping with such problems still persist no matter how hard they try to eradicate them.
Although people may be aware they have conflicting thoughts, negative emotions, bad habits and unhelpful beliefs they nevertheless seem powerless to actually change those ways of being. Essentially problems are based on inner conflicts. There’s a conflict between our desire to express our essential nature and the mostly unconscious reactive patterns of habitual behavior that take over when we step out of our comfort zones.
Yet with the right kind of coaching and support it is possible to unmask and resolve that kind of negative conditioning. With such conditioning out of the way this can lead us to emotional mastery and inner freedom.
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