For a long time, spirituality has been associated with religion. However, in 2020, it is necessary to redefine your own vision of your spirituality in order to use it as a way to know yourself better and to live better with others.
An interior journey
You lead your life without asking too many questions until you feel a break. An event disrupts your personal order of things. Other times, at a certain turning point in your life (midlife crisis, mourning for a loved one, birth, etc.), you sometimes have to face your own challenges that are revealed to you in a block. Or, you realize that your life is not really what you would like. This is often when you turn to some form of spirituality to get through these areas of turbulence.
Spirituality is a personal process, unrelated to religion or beliefs, which allows you to initiate an often overwhelming dialogue with yourself. It appeals to your core essence, the one you have left aside, unconsciously, to make room for your personality. However, your education and your life in society have rather pushed you to build yourself a personality which precisely masks your true essence. Through spirituality, you first recognize the existence of your inner being and give it the opportunity to reveal itself, to take up space, and to develop. It is at pivotal moments in your life that the call to your essence is most clearly heard. A whole process then follows to find ways to honor this essence that makes you unique in a world that does not leave so much room for this form of introspection, however necessary it is.
Open your arms to yourself and to bigger ones
To be spiritual is to be …
authentic
in search of a life with more meaning
serene
capable of introspection
inspiring and inspired
emotional and sensitive
connected with your essence
in a process of openness
listening to your inner needs
in line with your core values
Spirituality is a form of reconnection to the invisible dimension of ourselves. It is a “presence to oneself”, that is, a deep desire to be attentive to the needs of one’s soul as well as to one’s physical needs. And being sensitive to our invisible part makes us more curious and more open to such invisible parts of the world around us. It is therefore normal to seek resonance in something larger than ourselves, and intangible. And this is where we choose terms like the afterlife, presence, God, Divine, Universe, force, guides, Spirit, light, etc. to designate this dimension. Many people refuse to use the word “God” because it conjures up too many beliefs or values that they do not adhere to. But no matter what you call it, spirituality remains an experience of a larger concept than itself. It is therefore between this return to our interior life and this openness to something greater than oneself that our spirituality unfolds.
Opening up to one’s spirituality is not easy. It is a path full of contradictions and questions. But above all, it’s a powerful call to become who we really are that forces us to take action to activate real change. Finally, this very personal and unique transformation for each one lies the promise of a more meaningful life, where our essence takes precedence over masks and conventions.
The challenge of course remains immense. Spirituality has a heavy past linked to religion and admitting to being in search of it still surprises many and sometimes triggers hasty judgments. Yet it is just another kind of way to feel good. Exploring your spiritual dimension means saying “yes” to letting your full potential emerge, listening to your intuition, letting go, shedding the hold of your personality, cleaning up your values, understanding your dissatisfaction, and acting on them. A very beautiful adventure, finally. If you’re still confused, communicating with spiritual services such as those provided by Kasamba’s psychics can be of great help.
But what should you do (practically) to achieve all of this?
What you should do is what is called mindfulness meditation.
Mindfulness meditation is on everyone’s lips. We call “mindfulness” the state of mind that causes us to fixate in the present moment instead of always scattering. A whole contract that we break down into simple points.
Mindfulness meditation = return to the interior
Used to living at 100 km / h (or even more!), to be in constant connection with those around us, to exteriorize as much as possible, and to interact with others, we are nevertheless strangers … for ourselves! Mindfulness may be the key to reconnecting internally and letting the “outside” have less and less control over our existence.
Exercising mindfulness meditation is, in fact, practicing focusing on the present moment in a voluntary, conscious, non-judgmental manner. We no longer live our life on automatic pilot by reproducing the same gestures without even thinking: we are working to reconnect on our personal barometer. In addition, practicing mindfulness has a positive effect on the brain (long live the breaks!), our general well-being, morale, stress reduction, and even the whole body (bye-bye tensions!).
Mindfulness meditation is …
Bring your attention back to the present moment as often as possible.
Examine the thoughts and emotions that go through your mind and come up with you.
Follow their development by adopting a “neutral” position without attempting to control, judge, or analyze them.
Bond with yourself
Practicing mindfulness meditation on a daily basis is not an easy exercise, but by stopping from time to time (and for longer and longer!) one becomes more able to “inhabit” the present moment instead of “filling it”. “. Too often we take breaks to just “do” something else and we don’t pay more attention to what’s going on inside us.
We should no longer be “making machines” always producing and running, but to take time to simply observe. Instead of doing chores and occupations, we try to do one thing at a time. For example, we exercise by taking a walk. Spontaneously, we are tempted to listen to music at the same time, to think about the spat we had with our partner, to take notes on our phone, to think about the meeting with our boss, etc. Next time, we try to just… walk!
Simple exercises for practicing mindfulness meditation
Stopping to just realize what you’re doing … even if it’s showering or washing the dishes.
While eating, play to rediscover textures, flavors, scents, etc. And this, with all your senses.
Watch your breathing and focus on it instead of rushing to your phone or bitching when you’re in line.
See how you feel instead of reacting (or even overreacting) to an upset.
Accept the various emotions that invade you, being able to name them, but not cling to them.
Note the sensations you feel while going around your five senses in various situations (taking a shower, waking up in bed, etc.).
Basically, mindfulness meditation is about getting into everything about yourself without being distracted by other things around you. It may take quite a bit of practice but the benefits will be huge for developing yourself into a better person than before.
