Spiritual Practices

When I was following spiritual practices, they would often turn into chores. I would feel pressured, and eventually resentful. I’d either push myself to do them, or I’d skip them and feel let down, like I’d failed.

There’s no spiritual technique, no task, no formula that will bring you any closer to your divine wholeness. There’s no chore or ceremony that will bring enlightenment.

I love how Anita Moorjani talked about this – when she talked about trying to follow specific practices for her cancer – how she felt fear, when they either failed to heal the cancer, or when she missed a session. It brought her deeper into her fear of the cancer – which is exactly where she needed to go.

Spiritual teachers talk about being present with what comes up. For me, that’s the resentment, the pressure – in that space, being in it is my spiritual practice. It isn’t a particular ceremony, it isn’t trying to deny anger, fear, or judgement. It’s just saying okay … and being truthful with my soul. How I feel, what I feel, what I need.
There’s value in techniques such as meditation, prayer, journaling, mirror work, gratitude, energy work and all sorts of spiritual practices.

But the value isn’t any technique or ceremony given by someone else. It’s you, the way you feel, what draws you. The value in this is your own connection, your own divine nature.

The value in those practices comes from you. From yourself. From what speaks to you, from what you feel in it. You are the divine nature that you seek in the practice. You, and everything you feel. You are the wholeness. You are the spirit. You are the divine. Nothing brings you closer, for it is already your truth.

Seek what brings out spirit in you, what brings joy, peace, love, connection, whatever it is. Let that be your spiritual practice. Let that be your connection, and let the divine unfold within you, whatever path it takes.