by Sherryl Craig

Created on: February 15, 2011

How To Cultivate Spirituality in Your Life

Developing a healthy spiritual life is easier than most people think. It just takes a little hard work and effort to get to know yourself and to quite the chaos that surrounds your mind, your heart and your spirit in order to hear what your body is telling you. We, as humans, by nature make life harder that it really needs to be. That is part of our make up of learning.

To quite the mind, will open doors to your spirit that you may have thought were closed forever, and we all know that, with quite, comes rest.

With rest comes the ability to clear our thoughts and see into ourselves and to also see around us. I stood outside today for the first time in months and watched as the sun set on the farm. Winter is bowing out gracefully and spring is in the air. As the sun set I watched the horses and the cows and listened to the birds as they talked about the fresh air and the ending of a beautiful day.

It was a calming and healing experience that blessed me with a wonderful dose of spiritual comfort. I was able to touch and smell mother earth and to feel the comfort of her soothing touch under my feet. Just being outside was a spiritual gift.

We cultivate, or grow spirituality in our lives by bringing positive vibrations into our lives. These positive vibrations help us to heal, enrich, and spread joy, love and harmony into our daily journey.

Prayer, meditation, yoga and proper diet can help us to bring rich and rewarding spiritual development into our lives. 

Prayer keeps us focused and connects us to Spirit. It is our open receiver and telegraph to communicating with Spirit. The old saying that speaking out loud helps us to make our goals solid is true. Speaking or praying out loud helps us to solidify our belief and connection with our Higher Power.

Meditation helps us to fine tune our connection to the wide and wonderful world of enlightenment. Meditating is a fantastic way to relax and ease tension not only in the mind but of the body as well. Relaxing and combining that with deep breathing exercises helps us to find a magnetic spiritual connection to our higher self.

Yoga and proper diet gives our bodies the chance to have a strong run in the race. When we feed and nourish all areas of our mind, body and spirit we become in tune with the inner peace found with a healthy spiritual life.

As with any garden how we cultivate and when is important so when planning to your prayer time, meditation sessions and yoga be sure to have quite and as few interruptions as possible. The more quite time and special time you have to devote to these key areas will grow a garden of spiritual joy and wonder that you will prosper with.

The path to cultivating a healthy spiritual life is not only by using these techniques but also knowing how they work. Knowing and understanding prayer is important in understanding how prayer heals and helps us work through the pain and obstacles in our lives. Important to also remember is how meditation works and how it helps us strengthen our ability to manifest our desires. Yoga and diet work toward strengthening us from within in a physical transformation which in turn heals the spirit.

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