Do you ever feel like you want to be more ‘spiritual’ but real life kind of gets in the way?
It’s like you know there’s more out there, more than the material world you see around you, but you somehow can’t seem to access it?
You’re not the only one!
Embracing spirituality is actually pretty hard. It’s not something our modern, Western world is designed to encourage or nurture, so let’s be honest: it requires effort. And with all the other things also vying for our attention, it’s easy for it to get nudged to the bottom of the pile.
What is Spirituality?
Spirituality isn’t something most of us are taught about growing up or in school. Even when we are growing up and learning about religion or spirituality, we aren’t always sure how to apply it to ourselves, or how to nurture our own personal spiritual inquiry.
Perhaps one of the reasons spirituality is such a minefield, especially as you enter into adulthood, is that it’s highly personal. Unless you do belong to an organized religion, that has its own prescribed doctrines, most of us have lost our roots when it comes to spiritual practice.
In a society where social and spiritual values have separated, it can be incredibly challenging for many of us to tap into a genuine inner spirituality that connects us to something bigger.
So many of us are lost when it comes to spirituality. So stop blaming yourself for not having the answers! There’s nothing you “should” know or be doing differently.
Once you’ve let yourself off the hook… Here are a few simple, daily things that you can do to embrace your spiritual side, whatever it means for you.
5 Simple & Powerful Ways to Connect With Your Spiritual Side
1. Go Within
There is so much information available to us now. The internet is a true blessing, and books, podcasts, and online training programs are all so readily available. Once you start looking, opportunities for learning about spirituality are everywhere.
That being said, just because an opportunity arises, you don’t necessarily have to take it. Just because a new self-help book has great marketing, it doesn’t mean you have to read it. And that free course that just appeared on your Instagram feed? It may not actually be right for you.
It is so important not to get sucked into the hype with spirituality, especially New Age spirituality.
Instead, really feel into what you need:
- Go within.
- Turn off the distractions.
- Get quiet.
- Listen to what your inner voice tells you that you need
Yes, try things out, but don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by thinking you need to try it all.
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2. Practice Daily (But Give Yourself Some Off-Days, Too)
Devotion.
If you’re serious about spirituality, then it needs more than just an impulsive meditation once every three weeks. Or for you to sign up for a workshop, learn a new technique, then forget about it for six months.
Your spiritual side needs a daily devotional practice.
If this sounds a little daunting, think about how many other things you do on a daily basis – brush your teeth, make a coffee or two, read the news, maybe even snuggle with your dog.
Five minutes is all it needs to take. And to make it even easier, you could always combine your spiritual practice with something you already do.
Yes, 5 minutes may feel like nothing, and for a long time it will likely feel like it’s having no effect. But then one day, you’ll realize that you’ve changed. Your life has become more spiritual, and it is now a part of you.
Here are some ideas of the kind of daily devotional practice you could do:
- Sit in meditation (try using an app, or the timer on your phone to give yourself a time limit).
- Try free writing, for 10 minutes, or three sides of a journal, like morning pages.
- Ritually wash your face and hands with this intention of self-love.
- Light a candle and send a prayer up with the flame.
- Stop and take 10 deep breaths. Breathe IN healing white light, and breathe out any heaviness you feel.
- Write a daily gratitude list before bed (see the next point).
Don’t feel you have to practice every day. Many people practice for five days, and have two days off. You could alternate. Find something that works, and commit to it!
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3. Give Gratitude – Daily
This is an easy, yet often overlooked spiritual method. It’s not flashy, impressive, or newfangled, yet it’s powerful.
This is because as a vibration, gratitude, aka the feeling of thankfulness, is almost identical to love. And love is a portal straight into your spiritual side.
Giving daily gratitude is a simple way of generating this vibration within yourself, until it becomes more of an automatic state. It involves you seeking out things in your life to be grateful for, and writing them down. The writing part is important, so try not to skip it.
Realize that giving gratitude doesn’t mean ignoring all the bad things that are happening in the world. But if you’re in the habit of complaining and only focusing on negativity, this will cultivate an anxious or angry state of being. So you’ll keep yourself stuck in a low, heavy vibration, making spiritual development harder.
4. Find a Community
Modern spirituality IS highly personal – we all need different things, and we’re at different points on our spiritual journeys. But that doesn’t mean you have to take the journey alone.
Finding other people to share your spiritual experiences with can make a huge difference, and end up actually accelerating your spiritual growth.
Finding a community is probably easier than you think. More and more people are coming out of the spiritual closet and looking for others who are like-minded. So you may just have to be a little brave and put yourself out there. If you don’t, how will you ever attract like-minded people?
Not only will a spiritual community offer companionship, it will also grant you support, advice, validation, and reassurance. Plus, because spirituality can feel so ephemeral and difficult to grasp sometimes, sharing it with others really helps to ground it into “real” life.
You could find an online group on social media, a local spiritual development group that meets in your town hall, or a woman’s circle. If you’re not quite ready for that kind of commitment, simply just getting together with a good friend once every couple of weeks to share your spiritual musings could work too!
5. Activate Your Intuition
Being interested in spirituality is one thing. Reading, practicing, meditation, writing… Yet using it in your daily life is quite another. And this will take it to another level.
Also known as your “sixth sense”, intuition is a kind of “knowing” that goes beyond the usual five senses. Intuition is the gut feeling that you need to give someone a call, even when there’s no rational reason to speak to them. Or walking into a room and feeling like something’s not quite right, when you’d have no other way of knowing that two people had just had a big row.
Everybody has intuition – it’s like the voice of your spiritual side. Yet not everyone taps into it, let alone follows through on what it tells them. This is a really powerful way of leaning in to spirituality.
Plus, if you use your intuition to guide your spiritual practice, then you’ll really fly.
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