Nourishment for your spiritual awakening

Published by Lola

As someone who fully acknowledges their spiritual side and incorporates it into their every day life, I was very interested to read Andrea Hess of Empowered Soul’s recent article Spiritual Practice vs Spiritual Growth.

In the article, Andrea questions how much your spiritual practises practically influence your physical life and how much are you actually growing spiritually? It’s very thought provoking and I suggest you check it out.

You may find it uncomfortable and if you do, great, so did I? The things that make us uncomfortable are there to help us, so go into it. I’ve often thought that it’s so easy to be spiritual in a bubble, locked away from the outside world with a lot of control over who you come into contact with but what’s the point of that? That’s not really living spiritually is it? What about when you have to venture into the outside world and mix with everyone else or, worse still (for some), your family or your spouse’s family? How much do you find you have you grown spiritually then?

Spiritual practises definitely contribute to your spiritual growth, there’s no doubt about that. Spiritual practise and self-care are more or less the same thing to me and boy do I feel it, when I slip out of it. However, you’ve also got to get out there and experience life. You are a spiritual being having a physical experience, so get out there and have your physical experience damn it! You can be spirit again when you die! Stop being so scared to make a mistake or to feel ‘negative’ emotions, there’s growth and learning in everything.

Now, I live spiritually and am very dedicated to my growth, however the article woke me up to the fact that the area of my life that causes me the most pain is also the area where I am not really living all that spiritually. I am talking a good game but my thoughts and emotions are way out of alignment. The good thing about being pregnant is that all my emotions seem to be exaggerated (yippee!) so I get to feel even more clearly what’s really going on energetically.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no doubt that I am growing, the evidence is clear to see in many areas of my life, but this one area sometimes feels like it’s getting worse which is confusing and why I loved it when Andrea said:

“…the more we connect to our Higher Selves, the higher our vibration rates, the more obviously any energetic misalignments will manifest themselves. Our life circumstances may actually deteriorate as we increase our spiritual “practice” if we just keep doing what we’ve always done. This, in turn, may send us running back to the comfort and safe haven of our spiritual “practice” instead of addressing the underlying issues that are calling out to be resolved. Spirituality becomes escapism.”

Ouch!

Over to you now:

• What areas of your life have you had the most success with your spiritual growth?
• What practises have contributed to your success?
• How have you applied the growth from your practises to this area of your life?
• What area or areas are causing you the most discomfort in your life right now?
• What spiritual practises do you engage in to support this area?
• How do you practically apply the growth from these practises to this area?
• How don’t you practically apply the growth from these practises to this area?
• What can you do to practically apply the growth in this area?

DO IT!

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Jan 19, 2009
Filed under: Growth, Personal development, Reiki & Spiritual development, inspiration