Integrate Your Spiritual Path
Spiritual Integration: Integrate Your Spiritual Path with Your Daily Life
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What ever happened to the actual practice of some of the things we hear in our religious teachings? Sometimes they seem like they are worlds away from our here and now reality. Can we integrate our spiritual beliefs into our next set of tasks we busily try to handle?
Ideally our spiritual life should be able to flow into our daily life where we can manifest love, compassion, understanding and insight. What gets in the way of this and blocks us? Why do we lose the inspiration and love we felt and find ourselves back in negative emotions and old responses? Maybe if life was as simple as it was a long time ago it would be easier to relate spiritual things with the day-to-day happenings in our lives nowadays.
Sometimes we are so busy with our lives and the normal seemingly never ending activities that we forget about the spiritual side of our life. Do you find that you have a split between your daily life and your spiritual life? For some this rift is felt when that they lose their meditative awareness while driving or interacting with family members. For others it means after leaving church, the temple, or wherever they were inspired, the spiritual lessons learned seem to vanish due to the normal activities, concerns and responsibilities we have every day.
Try to observe how you lose the elevation, the spiritual awareness you once had. We often get into situations where we forget the spiritual lessons we were taught and fall into old reactions and limited thinking. In some of those cases we blatantly ignore or never even consider the spiritual overtones we should note before taking actions that are against our spiritual beliefs or practices.
One way to help remind us that there is more involved than just the physical actions we do each day is to have little quotes from your spiritual tradition on sticky posts in your car, in your pocketbook or wallet, or other well visited places at home or even work. It is usually fairly difficult for most of us to keep our high aspirations in the forefront of our minds but renewing one’s intent to make it a better world and help to uplift others can be the underlying theme for us that helps when we meet challenging situations and people.
Try to find ways to remember the higher causes during the day. Sometimes try thinking of others that are really suffering far worse than yourself. What about feeling how someone permanently incapacitated due to illness or worst yet, someone born with a debilitating condition that has no hope of ever being normal would feel? How big do your issues seem when you think about the hopelessness of those situations?
Does it really matter that the county inspection of your little home business went badly and you were fined $200 because you didn’t mail in two forms that the county already had? What about the time you tried to return some hardware at the local huge chain hardware store and didn’t have the receipt and they refused to accept your merchandise, but the very next day they accepted the return merchandise and the clerk never asked for the receipt, which was in your pocket?
Try to keep your perspective on these daily ups and downs that we all experience. Is it worth it to have fits of anger or get unduly upset over this?
If you find yourself going around in circles over the same type of angry reactions or feelings of sadness, you should try to work those feelings out yourself if you can. If not, consider seeking a counselor or support group that is experienced in such matters. They may be able to help you to remove or tame the old memories that haunt you and result in those responses.
We are not free when we automatically give an unconscious reply to someone. Instead we are free when we can step outside of these canned responses and react in a natural and thoughtful way. Appreciate these rare moments of being yourself. Let the spiritual side of you come through along with the patterned daily activities and you will grow both spiritually and in your life experiences.
Copyright © Charles Harmon
Charles creates websites and writes articles. Charles is involved in internet marketing. He collects bird quotes or lucky quotes. Charles is also interested in African Safari adventures.
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