What It Means To Live a Spiritual Life
Living a spiritual life is to be a soul relaxing into its human experience.
When we invite energy and soul back into our self and life, and surrender to the ways of nature, we begin to experience what it feels like to be fully alive.
Life is an opportunity to align and co-create as energetic beings, forever iterating and evolving. It is about taking responsibility for your own energy, your will, and your contribution to the larger cosmic community. It is about creating for love and joy, through your unique and natural expression. It is about cultivating and harnessing the power of energy within, not leveraging the power of others. It is about pursuing your own dreams and goals, not the ones given to us. The old beliefs and ways of spirituality are falling away. It is not about the worship of a god or a guru. It is not about blindly following rules, doctrines, or ideologies. It is not about hype or what is agreed upon by others. It is not about giving your energy and will to someone or something else, and it is not about being a martyr at the expense of your own wellbeing and desire.
Living a spiritual life is not about being good or right, it is about being true and honest. In your most unique and individual way, what are your natural and highest truths and desires? What is your unique expression and what are you here to pursue? What are you called to develop and evolve? Living a spiritual life is about learning, growing, evolving. Being open to not knowing, being open to expanding your perspectives, being open to changing as a dynamic human being, being open to experimentation and iterating in your self and life. Living a spiritual life is about following your own higher journey into the complete unknown. Living with courage, hope, determination, and curiosity. It is about looking for and creating the love, the joy, the peace, and the freedom we desire. It is about learning when and how to heal, let go, and regenerate throughout the seasons of life. It is about being a dynamic, natural, energetic human being in harmony with our dynamic, natural, energetic world. This is what it means to live a spiritual life. Spirituality is not an identity, it is a natural way of being.
Relax
Living with soul asks us to relax and breathe. Learn to relax into the cycles of nature, and be open to the natural flow of things and the change that wants to come forth. Everything in nature is undergoing an infinite cycle of regeneration—from destruction to creation and everything in between. We are no different. We and everything in life blooms and dies according to its own intelligence and season. This is the Universal experience of energy. In the storm, the chaos, the uncertainty, or the mundane, we pause and breathe. We recognize and accept things and our self as they currently are, and how it makes us feel within, in all honesty. We surrender our illusions of control: the resisting, the forcing, the worrying, the expecting, the seeking, the rushing. We allow things to fall where they will, recognize and acknowledge it, accept it, turn inwards and learn from it. And when we feel it is time and we have learned with clarity what it is we want to create, we go back out and do it all over again.
Soften
In a place that feels safe and peaceful to you, this is where you can soften your body, your mind, your heart. You can even create your own place in your imagination everytime you close your eyes. I have a place I imagined for myself in nature. I nestle myself in nature’s bed, allow the ‘mother’ energy of the earth to wrap me in nature’s blanket, and feel the senses of nature’s elements flow around me. Here in this place, there is nothing to do, only a place to be. Create a place for your self where you can feel safe to soften, to relax, and to feel.
Listen
When we stop, be still, create space, and just listen, the whole world opens up. We are better able to perceive and tune into the subtle energy of nature, of soul, of god or divine intelligence. The chaos, the noise, the over-population of yang energy in our environments can make it challenging,but we can always find a way to create our own quiet space to listen. Surrender the ways that society has trained us to be, we don’t need to race around like a wind-up toy. Give your self permission to do nothing. Do it for your self and no one else. Do it as an act of self care and love. We owe it to ourselves to create spaces and moments of silence and peace in our self and lives. No one will do it for us. We must create it for ourselves. Be open to what else exists out there, be open to listening beyond your self, others, and what is known. Listen by opening up to the quiet whispers from your soul within. Listen by bringing awareness to your body and the feelings and sensations that live there. Listen by immersing your self in the quiet beauty of nature—the forest, the mountains, the ocean; there is so much intelligence to feel and learn. The energy and intelligence of nature, of Universe, flows through and around us. It is everywhere if we listen.
Connect
Connection is an inherent function of our energetic being. We desire to connect. But the connection we oftentimes pursue, the way we have been taught, can be an illusion of connection. What we so deeply desire is the feeling of honest and meaningful connection. Connection that feels true and aligned. Our sense of connection is fundamentally rooted in our connection between our soul and human form, and our connection between human being and nature. All other connections are a byproduct of those root connections. This includes the connection we sense and create with others, the connection we sense and create with our communities, the connection we sense and create with our material homes and work, etc. All of these connections need to be founded and recreated as a reflection of the connection we cultivate within, and in alignment to its inherent truths and desires.