Spiritual growth is experienced in many ways. But however it is experienced, the process of spiritual evolution is not necessarily an easy one. The main difficulty with the spiritual experience is, that often individuals forget that it is a process. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if one could just leap from one point directly to wherever the next point of achievement existed? Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work that way. Instead, often the spiritual path seems tediously overwhelming, with periods of time where it may appear that nothing positive is happening; and at worse, everything seems to be coming apart.
The process of Spiritual growth is, in the beginning based upon what we can do. In starting out it is important to remember that this is only the beginning of the journey. Learning to do yoga, meditation, experiencing body work, doing past life regression work, receiving transpersonal counseling, prayer work and etc., can help you achieve levels of spirituality that weren’t available for you previously. All of these tools are extremely useful and will probably assist you throughout your journey in many various forms. The tools and techniques can assist you but they are not the spiritual path and no matter what your experience is when using them, there is so much more available to experience.
It don’t matter whether you take tenuous steps, or whether you jump head first into the spiritual experience, there comes a time when doing is not enough. All the wonderful techniques, tools, philosophies etc. that brought wonderful results before just won’t work anymore. Why? A large portion of Spiritual evolution has very little to do with “the doingness” or intellectual processing. Not these components are not important, they are very necessary for a beginning conscious awareness that is very important for continued spiritual growth . But there is a counterpart to doing and intellectual processing and it involves the concepts of being and becoming. Without a conscious aware experience of both, it won’t be long before your Spiritual process will get bogged down and eventually come to a halt. Even if you think that being in a “stuck” place really isn’t so awful, it will be just a matter of time before being comfortable becomes being stagnated.
Doing is an outer action which often brings an inner experience. Being is an inner action which allows a greater connection to self; opens the doors to a greater experience of being connected Universally; and changes perception of self, others and the world. Being necessitates getting in touch with yourself; knowing your emotions; and coming into an awareness that your emotions have participated in creating your self perceptions, perceptions of other and your outer world experiences. Being calls for a different and total commitment for becoming responsible for yourself and your creations. Being calls for letting go of your patterns and behaviors you think make you less vulnerable to hurt, pain, shame, and guilt. These same patterns, behaviors and beliefs are going to be the very ingredients that keep you stuck and/ or keep you creating scenarios that you don’t want.
So how do you begin to have a greater experience of being? Here are a few suggestions. If you have any other questions please feel free to e-mail me or check the chat schedule and join me there, I’ll be happy to respond from either area.
