Spiritual Lifestyle
If you want to spiritually grow and enjoy all the wonderful benefits that come with it, you must create for yourself a lifestyle that supports it!
In my book, Soul Secrets, I introduced a way that can help create a spiritual lifestyle. This is an exercise that helped me over the years with my spiritual growth, spiritual path, and my ability to channel spirits.
In this exercise, you will need to use mind-body-spirit as a daily “check list” to help you gauge where you are each day in your effort to work on and maintain a spiritual lifestyle, and therefore spiritual growth.
Mind, refers to our “built in” negative energy field that I call: the Ego.
The Ego refers to the negative aspects of our personality. Our negative thoughts, actions, reactions, interactions, fears, anger, hate, jealousy, envy, superiority, or the need for drama or control. Just to name a few.
Body is self explanatory. It refers to the well being of our body, not only physically, of course, but also mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It has to do with how much we nurture the body (ourselves ), accept it, care for it, and love it. It also refers to how negatively or positively, we feel about ourselves, our look, our age, etc. The body has it’s own intelligence. It knows what we feel about it, and will act accordingly! If you care for it, it will be in harmony with you. If you don’t, it will retaliate!
Spirit refers to the daily effort we make on our spiritual growth.
That includes learning and gathering knowledge and information about spirituality. You can do it with spiritual and/or self help books, events, programs, etc. The effort you make to achieve a successful meditation will help you to quiet the mind which will drastically improve your life as well as activate your ability to hear spirits.
Finally, at the end of each day, you need to have a quick “meeting” with yourself. Quiet your mind for few seconds, and review the day. Evaluate the effort you made with improving your mind-body-spirit.
Evaluate how well you did with your your Ego? Were you able to discipline it? Were you aware of it’s weaknesses, especially the ones that tend to surface up over and over again, probable for many years? If anger, or the need to control is your Ego’s main weakness for example, did you try to consciously be aware of it? Did you use this awareness to change it?
The Ego is there for us to use as a tool that is supposed to help us be aware, and acknowledge what it is we need to change in order to grow.
And although it can be a nasty part of who we are, the Ego is necessary indeed for our Earthly incarnations!
How good you were to your body today? Did you try to make peace with your age, your failed past, or with what you did not accomplish yet?
Did you accept how you look and make peace with the scale? Or more importantly, did you create a new nutrition plan that will help you get to your desirable weight? How about moving your body (exercise)? Remember, one of the greatest benefits of exercise in addition to losing weight and feeling great, is that when you move the body you stimulate the Chi within it, and therefore activate the body’s ability to heal itself.
Exercise!
How was the spirit aspect of your mind-body-spirit check list?
Did you apply any action that helped your spiritual awareness and growth? Did you meditate, and if so, were you able to quiet the mind, feel relaxed and content; hear spirits? Did you continue to read that spiritual book you started, or register for that spiritual event that you were interested in?
Once you discover which one of your mind-body-spirit checklist lacked action, you will need to “tweak” it the next day.
If, for example, you feel that you were able to work on your body, internally and externally, as well as your spirit by effectively meditating, yet your negative Ego was running loose, get into action and change it!
Using the checklist of mind-body-spirit daily will gradually help you create a spiritual lifestyle that will help you climb up in growth!
Remember however, that any spiritual exercise requires time, great effort, and most of all consistency. You can not possible expect results in one week or even one month.
So be patient and stick to it!
Good luck!
I love you, lovely people!
Miki
