My fiance’and I are moving into as nicer home. I’m very thankful and it’s wonderful.
However, it’s been a busy time, and I haven’t had the opportunity to sit for hours upon hours in meditation that I’ve had in the past.
Life is calling. Yup, real life is requiring me to be in it and do stuff with my eyes open.
It struck me that my life is the reason I meditate, not the other way around. I want to be more and more spiritually awake, enlightened, fit and evolved because my life is important to me. In order to have the best life, I need to bring the best me. This isn’t something that actually happens, I guess there’s no such thing as the best me or my best life; it’s an unending spectrum. It’s an ideal. But it’s an ideal that requires some intentionally directed time and energy on my part.
I meditate and pray and practice yoga and do all of the other spiritual “work” because I’m always reaching upwards.
Interestingly, I noticed that I was getting irritated and frustrated that I haven’t been able to spend the amount of time that I would normally like to spend doing this work. As a result, I was rushing through spending time with my children and feeling very resentful toward the responsibilities I have. I was feeling resentful toward life for taking me away from spiritual work. This is the exact opposite of where this work is meant to take me.
My life IS my ultimate spiritual work. Meditation, prayer, yoga etc. is all a part of that, but if I’m in a state of stressing about not getting the tons of time to do these things that I usually have, then what does that make me? Pretty spiritually unhealthy, and possibly addicted (meaning that I feel like I need something outside of myself to be well).
The spiritual work does help me to be more centered. It clears dense energy and helps me to raise my consciousness and all of that great stuff. So, it is extremely important to me to do the work every day. It’s non-negotiable really.
Sooo… What to do? The daily spiritual work is one of the VERY few non-negotiables in my life, and I don’t want to stress if I can’t get it done.
The realization set in that I’ll never get it all together. I’ll never have a perfect balance. There will be days in my life that require me to cut my normal meditation time in half and maybe have a brief moment for a prayer.
It doesn’t matter. The point is not about the amount of time I dedicate to formal practice.
Actually… I believe now that sometimes the desire to set aside specific time to practice might be getting in the way. It separates my “mundane” life and my “spiritual” life.
Integrating my mundane life and spiritual life to me means that spirit is not something that I set aside special time to do. To me it means that I live a spiritual life, and sometimes I meditate and sometimes I pay bills and clean the house.
If you want to hear what this kind of spiritual and mundane life blend looks like, check out my video about my spiritual daily routine.
Much love my friends!