9 Best Tips for a Spiritual Life
Applying mindfulness, meditation, and more tip for self-improvement and happiness
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Q. Lewis, I would like to integrate more spirituality into my life. Any suggestions?
A. Keep in mind that each of us has a different idea of what it means to be spiritual.
For many millennia various forms of religious practice were accepted blindly, but these are no longer taken for granted as being divinely inspired or as even true. Faith in a particular spiritual or religious philosophy is often no more than an attachment to some dogma. It doesn’t matter whether the idea is a mystic initiation, karma, reincarnation, the Virgin birth, or some idea taken from a sacred text. What links many of us to an initial, authentic sense of “spirituality” is what I call, “The Pain of Longing.” This is hunger or a feeling which can motivate you to seek spiritual truth without quite knowing what that is or even how to find it. For some people, organized religion is inadequate.
In modern society, we are often bombarded with complex “regenerating thought programs”– patterns of contagious cultural information that parasitically pass from one person to another, altering the behavior of those who receive it. As a child, you were taught about the world as it was seen by adults. You soon learned what is sacred and profane, and what was important or unimportant for them. With this information, you created a value system in which you attempted to live.
Much of how you now see yourself is based on this. If your parents belonged to a specific religious faith or organization, you may have grown up to believe in the tenants of that religion — practicing its rites, rituals, and ceremonies, and accepting its beliefs about faith, God, morality, and what is good or bad. You may even have struggled to act in ways that you thought others in this religious group would approve rather than saying and doing what you genuinely felt. Now, you may feel disconnected from whatever God or the divine might be, yet you still sense that pain of longing. For some of us, it may seem that organized religion is the only place to go for sustenance. This is just not the case. In our increasingly digital and globalized environment, there are many new options available to us to nourish that inner hunger.
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
― Roy T. Bennett
It is easy to sell yourself on the idea that every positive action has, at its most extreme, a negative response and vice versa. To be truly happy you must transcend this idea of karma, detaching yourself from the idea of a positive and the negative sense of cause and effect. Is there cause and effect? — of course — this is basic mathematics! But good and bad karma? Maybe not. I am more personally interested in the middle path of ethical clarity than I am in traditional morality. Identifying with only one side of a pair of opposites will bring you suffering.
To become detached from the unimportant, it is useful for a seeker to know the following truths. With rare exception:
1. Every action has a reaction.
2. Human beings love comfort and habit.
3. As thought is repeated, we speak it and act on it.
4. The repetition of thought and word creates habit, desire, and expectation.
5. When an action is done to fulfill expectations, this creates a reaction.
6. The mind naturally becomes attached to these actions and reactions. If you do not like the reactions to what you have done, you will likely think of ways to avoid the repetition of these unpleasant experiences.
7. You will have ideas that cannot be acted upon immediately. Any thought, though not acted upon, can form emotional patterns/psychic grooves on a cellular level which is called “cellular memory.
8. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future can often keep you from being in the “moment”.
9. You can free yourself from all these actions and reactions by practicing daily meditation/introspection.
Takeaway
On the Spiritual Path, you have access to most of what you will ever need. And if you desire no more or less than what you truly need, you will not suffer unnecessarily.
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Author: Lewis Harrison is the creator of the Life Strategies Playbook and Mentoring Course and The Spiritual, Not Religious Course.
A Results-Oriented Success Mentor and Coach, He has a passion for knowledge, personal development, applied game theory, self-improvement, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and story-telling.
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