Article Highlights:
- Better than meditation
- Direct connect
- Heart of Love message
Dearest You,
As we discussed last week, meditation is useful and important for certain things, it can help calm the body and create greater coherence. But we’ve been lead to believe it’s the best thing to jumpstart our spirituality, right? It’s time to ask is meditation the best tool for your spiritual growth? Personally, I think not. There are other things more powerful for one’s spiritual development right now.
Myth buster: Meditation isn’t necessarily the best way to grow spiritually. I know I’m going against the stream here, when I say it’s my opinion that those old ideas of meditating for hours, trying to achieve quiet mind and all that are simply not the be-all-end-all.
They can be a good tool. Use them when they work well. They don’t always. Sitting down to make your mind shut up, be quiet and behave may not serve you as much as you’ve been told. If not, you’ll wonder what’s wrong with you.
The answer is probably, Nothing is wrong with you, you just need to think of this differently now. Use meditation where you like, it’s still a good thing, so don’t throw out the baby with bath water. But don’t ask the baby to run a marathon either.
Now. There are lots of meditations out there that have many steps and require quite a bit of time and are purported to aid your spiritual growth. They’re generally developed by someone who seems to know. They can cost a lot of money, often require quite a bit of your time, are frequently somewhat complex and need lots of practice and dedication. Oi vey! So much kerfuffle!
If they feel right for you and you enjoy them, please go right ahead. But know there might be something else that works even better, is faster, needs only you, is more direct, and is free. And gives the best spiritual advancement right now. What is it? Direct Connection.
Before we go into that, a word about what I mean by spirituality. You might have many spiritual hobbies such as crystals, your favorite woo-woo, various esoteric ideas and beliefs. I have numerous myself, they are great fun, but I realize those are spiritual hobbies, not my spirituality.
What is spirituality? It’s not one’s belief system. It’s not one’s practice. A spiritual practice can enhance one’s spirituality, it’s a tool or aid. Spirituality is direct connection with your spiritual essence and your ability to express it in your life and world.
Spirituality is the quality of your spiritual connection in life. Meditation, prayer, crystals and many things might assist you to connect or enhance or develop your connection, but they are not more. They are aids, not your spirituality. Spirituality is you, living connected to the fullness of your being. It’s knowing and expressing your spiritual beingness.
Spirituality needs no special tool, no go between, no practice or secret tips or means. These can help or enhance if you choose and enjoy them, but they are not necessary. The thing that is essential for your spirituality is you.
In fact you are your essential spirituality. It’s built in. Fullness of spirit is who you are. Yes, you are human with the limitation of that, but you are also fullness. Both are the essence of who you are.
Being human first and foremost is to give focus to being human. Being spiritual is to expand your focus to include awareness and attention on your god nature, your light, the Source that you also are. Connecting to that you begin to express spiritually, as well as humanly.
So how do you manage direct connection? Simple. Remember. Remember who you are. Remember that you are also the fullness, the source, light. Bring your attention to that and let it express more too. Along with your humanness. It enhances humanness. And humanness enhances it. Together, they are brilliant.
Imagine yourself, for a moment, like an iceberg in the ocean, with the tip poking out of the water and most of it submerged. That is you. Feel the part of you that’s above the water, be aware of it, that’s the human part. Feel the submerged part, that’s the rest of you, the expanded you. Feel the water and the air, that’s you too. All those together are the combined totality of you. Be aware of all that you are.
Doing that, you are connected to your fullness. Keep remembering that connection and your spiritual awareness expands greater and greater. Simply bring your attention to it. Remembering, develops your spiritual awareness or spirituality. It’s that simple. All the rest is entertainment or story. Which can be fun. Or frustrating or frightening or whatever else it is.
But here is what is true, you are spiritual at your core and being spiritual is as simple as remembering that, then letting it express in your life as best you can.
Know that the goal is connection, not to meditate or to pray. So when you use them, let them connect you. And know that simple remembering works best. It’s all you really need to do.
Sometimes the connection is profound, sometimes it seems not much. This matters not at all, it’s only the mind’s perception, colored by mood, hunger, hormones, circumstances, etc. The moment you intend to connect, you are. It’s that simple.
Forget about your expectations for connection. Just keep remembering you are more and connect to it by being aware of it. Doing this, the power of the connection will develop and grow. It really is that easy because the Light is always there.
Lovingly,
~XOMa HuLiLi
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