I live with a strong inner desire to increase my spirituality. Perhaps this is true for you as well. How can you do that? And, how does that work?
As a spiritual explorer, I’ve studied zillions of books and teachings that help increase my spirituality by expanding my awareness. It works. You’ve probably read many of the same books as me: Western Buddhism, metaphysics, near death experiences, the Bible, the Upanishads, Zen, love, consciousness, Reiki, dense nutrition, Past life regressions and Spirit World Regressions, teachings of Yogananda and Potanjoli and Eckhart Tolle. The list goes on.
During my mid-twenties, I began with an insatiable interest in the subject of spirituality. I didn’t know that I was developing a self-study master course in wisdom and enlightenment, but this becomes one of the outcomes when increasing your spirituality. You learn. And, you grow. It can be intense at times as you learn to surrender and yield to the process of going higher than before.
Here are some of the ways that you can increase your spirituality:
- You realize a larger picture from the suffering you’ve experienced that points to a way out. You adapt a healthy, new way in order to end the suffering once and for all.
- Your heart softens
- You become more open to change
- You find a way to forgive yourself and perhaps another
- You give yourself permission to release a regret, guilt, or shame for not having done things better
- Your desire for love, peace, and unity grow greater and you’re eager to incorporate these more into your life for more loving relationships.
- You decide to become more like the better person you envision yourself to be.
These are just a few of the ways.
I find that journaling can be powerful to help you identify your feelings, face them, and help you take them higher. Also, and certainly the biggest, is listening to divine guidance. This is imperative to increase your spirituality because that’s the source of your purpose and direction.
I’ve learned that following an intense leap of spiritual growth – where new disciplines and perhaps some sacrifices have been made in order to incorporate new teachings or awareness’s, as well as the list of bullets above – that something unaccountable occurs. I wonder if you’ve also encountered this.
Your accelerated growth rate of spirituality, at times, may actually come to a standstill. You notice that your stack of books has gone down and your spiritual energies and projects have quietened. Even journaling may have slacked. It feels strange since most of the time, you’re active and engaged in your spirituality through writing or reading or contemplating.
What can you do when it all suddenly comes to an unannounced standstill?
At such a time, you enter a divine pause. It’s where you’re no longer in charge of directing your spiritual increase. And, there’s nothing to do but just sit within the pause and recognize that you’ve gone as far as you can and a pause is necessary so the rest of you can catch up with your consciousness which has taken on a great deal of change.
This is a good time to take stock of how you’ve changed and what brought you there. You may have made several changes such as seen a new perspective about something that you hadn’t seen before. Or you notice that negative energies – anger, grief, guilt, fear, and such – have lifted. Or you may have awakened from a belief that once held you in bondage and now you’re free.
These moments earmark perhaps the most richly intense experience of all that occurs with increasing your spirituality. This is where there’s only one thing to do until it’s time to move forward once again. It’s simply time for a spiritual rest. Just stay in your heart.
All the good work you’ve done by increasing your spirituality is now being integrated. Allow yourself to be still, quiet within, and allow yourself to evolve, which is what happens when you reach a spiritual plateau. You’re on auto pilot. Something has to happen in this place of being in a spiritual void and you aren’t in charge of making it happen. In fact, your efforts will go against you. God is in full charge.
What needs to occur happens automatically and harmoniously, especially as you greet it with the wisdom of surrender. You can ask your Higher Power, “Is there anything I need to be aware of?” Just sit on it, listen, wait. Perhaps that’s all that’s necessary.
As the nautilus outgrows its chamber, it doesn’t struggle to do so. Its evolution quietly unfolds. And as the stalk grows a bud, the bud isn’t conflicted with the slow speed of becoming a flower. These are things that take place naturally.
Something is about to emerge. You aren’t in charge of it. It’s a natural progression of increasing your spirituality.
Soon you will move through the divine pause. The alchemy will have taken place where you may have completely let go of things of the past, which were holding you back. Here are other things that may have taken place and are being incorporated:
- Perhaps you came into some realizations about yourself, about your life purpose, your inner guidance, your direction.
- Perhaps something bothering you deeply was resolved.
- Maybe you have come to new conclusions about the way you’ve allowed yourself to be treated and it’s no longer acceptable. You want a change for the better. You realize you deserve it.
- Perhaps, many of the things you’ve been studying and practicing came into full integration and you feel lighter, calmer, stronger, even happier as a result.
Following a divine pause, a new you emerges. As a result, you will be making decisions that reflect your changed self. Your life improves.
You become more of who you are. You become more beautiful! And more loveable, even to yourself.
