Your Spiritual Life

We live our lives trying to improve, give pleasure, feed or starve our bodies, our flesh and bones. Few things seem more important to us humans than what we wear and what we have. It is the correlation between our physical selves and the world around us what drives us.

Seemingly, there should be no problem with this, except that we are leaving half of ourselves out of the equation. Imagine what would happen if suddenly you stopped taking care of the parts of your body that are constantly covered with clothing, simply because others can’t see them and you don’t even think about them most of the time.

What they don’t know can’t hurt them, right???

Very few of us actually take time to nurture, improve or develop our spiritual self. And most of us don’t even think that this is something we should be worried about too much. You may settle by thinking that you are a good person that leaves your life in a peaceful, lawful way.

Yet you know that something may be missing and you are having a hard time moving on to the next level. You know there is a part of you ready to explode into a life of abundance, happiness and love.

Developing your spiritual will help you find your life’s purpose, find peace and live a better, happier life. You too can become a spiritual being.

The very first thing that needs to be done is recognizing the ideas and principles that prevail in your day-to-day life and that take you away from your total peace and connection with yourself and your spirit. Ask yourself questions like:

1. Is my mind cluttered with negative energy or am I a reasonably positive person? How?

2. Is my ego involved in my opinions of others and in my every day decisions?

4. Do I have very specific (and not so positive) opinions about particular groups of people or do I treat everyone fairly?

5. Is my relationship with my loved ones a healthy one? How?

6. Do I like the person that I am (mentally or spiritually only)? Why?

7. Do I treat others, all others, the way I’d like to be treated?

Be absolutely honest with yourself when asking these questions. Make sure you get your ego out of this exercise.

Do not make assumptions based on previous experiences. Instead, let your heart talk.

Recognize and develop the things that will help develop your spiritual life:

• Always strive to create a closer relationship with the creative force. Remember that the divine force that created you does not need you to sacrifice, suffer or “pay any dues” in order to get closer to it. It is all love and a part of you. Connecting with its energy will bring you unconditional love.

• Growth requires change: If you are constantly fighting changes, especially those you fight because you cannot understand, you cannot grow. The key to living a life without fear lies in education. Learn as much as you can about that which scares or upsets you in any way. Open your mind and grow without judgment. It is a great feeling when you realize that learning about something helped you change, it helped you grow.

• Determine if your convictions really work to your advantage. You are different than your neighbor, your parents, your teachers. You are entitled to develop your own convictions or adjust the ones you have learned from society or your family.

• Question your feelings in order to understand and ultimately control them. Ask yourself, without judgment, which are the reasons why you feel a particular way at a particular time. Are your feeling directly related to your ideas? Who put these ideas in there and how do you know they are really true? Are they your ideas or someone else’s?

• Do not let fear rule your life. The world is full of rules that we must follow to be safe. Yet the moral and / or spiritual rules that the majority of us have learned from our religious leaders, our parents and teachers for centuries have taught us to be afraid because almost anything we can do will lead us into purgatory forever.

• Define for yourself the concepts of “right or wrong”. This point obviously related to the previous one mentioned above. Do not accept wrong or right simply because your leader, parents or society tells you so. Look around you and you will soon realize that these concepts will “give” a few the “right” to control others and they take it. Your life, your decision.