Many still believe that being spiritual means performing certain practices, meditating, and so on. Some are convinced that the bigger the suitcase of tools they practice, the cooler they are.
What it actually means to be spiritual and what spiritual practices are for, read below.
The True Purpose of Spiritual Practices
Practicing spiritual tools and being spiritual are different things. And the size of the suitcase of spiritual tools you’ve tried says nothing.
Your only practice is life itself.
It doesn’t matter how you enter the topic of self-development/self-discovery – whether through psychology, esotericism, and so on. All tools bring you back to yourself.
Their primary purpose is to help you return to yourself.
For the average earthling, the focus of attention is turned outward. A person is preoccupied with what others will think or say. They are preoccupied with “others,” not themselves – with rare exceptions.
This especially applies to people who grew up in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet space in general.
Remember the common phrase from those times: “I am the last letter of the alphabet.” This was a different ideological concept, inherited by many of you from your parents. As a result, you look at everything differently – NOT through the prism of “I.”
Therefore, any practices are primarily aimed at returning yourself to yourself.
For this to happen, some need to heal childhood traumas, others need to reconcile with their loved ones, forgive their parents, and so on.
The second purpose of spiritual tools is to help you reconnect with your soul, with your spirit.
See also How life changes through spiritual practices
What it means to “be in spirit”
There are people who try to sit on two chairs.
Some still try to “sit on the fence between one world and another” (Kryon).
Some still believe that you can leave the house, take off your spirituality suit, go do everyday chores, return home, and put the spirituality suit back on. But that (has long since) stopped working.
Those who still have one foot in one world and the other in another, or believe that meditating once a week is enough to stay on trend, will be disappointed.
All you can do is be in spirit.
If you replace the concepts of spirituality (spiritual practices, spiritual development) with “being in spirit,” you will instantly feel how your energy shifts, how the energy resonates. Because you cannot not be.
If you are alive, you cannot not live. You can die, but you cannot not live.
As soon as you establish a thin connection with your soul/spirit, you begin to manifest within yourself and transmit through yourself more of your spiritual/soul essence.
See also Why it’s so hard to be yourself and how to transmit your truth
Are spiritual practices mandatory?
Any practices are inherently secondary.
There are a huge number of people who have no idea about practices, don’t meditate, and don’t sit in the lotus position.
Yet they are connected to their soul/spirit. They constantly bathe in love, radiate light and kindness.
When you enter the field of such people, your heart automatically feels good, you melt like ice cream. Such a person may say nothing at all and do nothing, but you feel what they are transmitting from their heart.
There is no doubt that in communication you will be drawn to precisely such a person, and not to someone who can break everything down with their powerful intellect.
Because it is precisely people who are connected to their soul/spirit who transmit the frequency that the world needs right now.
The division into worldly (open to all) life and (hidden) spiritual life is a story of the old reality. If you continue to adhere to this path, you will constantly be torn apart.
You will not get the desired results until you begin to constantly be/walk through life in spirit. It doesn’t matter what spiritual tools you use for this.
All practices and tools essentially boil down to one thing – to release the grip of the mind and allow yourself to hear the voice of your soul.
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What was your goal when you first started engaging in spiritual practices?
The article is based on the group meditation “The Descent of Spirit into Matter”