This article was written as helpful advice if you want to find yourself, be yourself, develop yourself, or become the person you want to be. Although this article falls into the spiritual category, the following instructions can be applied by anyone, even if you are not into spiritual matters.
Choose and apply the suggestions that you find useful. The spiritual life will further develop if you follow more of the suggested instructions. Read on Tips and Benchmark of Spiritual Ability in this article.
Step
Step 1. Sit in a quiet place free from distractions
If there is no quiet place, find a place where the atmosphere is calming. Bring a notebook or journal.
Step 2. Start meditating
You can sit in a yoga posture if you feel comfortable.
Step 3. Calm the mind
After calming your mind with meditation or other means, focus on a specific topic, but don't dwell on negative thoughts, anger, or unsolved problems. Focus your mind on a subject that you are ready to tackle in a new and progressive way. Alternatively, think about what's going on right now by doing self-reflection and your daily life or anything that can help you focus and visualize useful mental images, such as journaling or drawing.
Step 4. Ask yourself why you are having a hard time accepting yourself or why your life is not meaning.
Ask yourself the following questions: On what basis is the experience good or bad? What caused it? How to solve it? After self-reflection, think about your social position, whether it's higher, the same, or lower, but don't judge it as good or bad. Evaluate each situation you've been in a relationship with and determine if you need to change or be more flexible.
Step 5. Find information about the history of religion or spiritual beliefs held by people in your country
Take advantage of writing on the internet and books in the library to get as much information as possible. For example: conducting a study on the early development of the religious life of the local indigenous people to broaden spiritual understanding. Ancestral spiritual beliefs can reveal the life of your ancestors.
Step 6. Write down all your life goals and celebrate them when they are achieved
Determine how to achieve progress towards achieving the goal. Do not forget to pray. Sing a song. Take a break and set aside time for a little fun.
Step 7. Make a schedule of activities
Think about your recent activities or actions that have been particularly enjoyable. Do you like reading books, reading scriptures, walking, meditating, helping people in need, or practicing yoga? Make a plan by putting together a schedule of activities you enjoy for the next few days or weeks. End your daily routine by praying and making resolutions. Invite others to have fun with you.
Step 8. Before going to bed at night, ask yourself what you have been doing to maintain your mental attitude, health, and emotions
While you should think about your physical well-being, don't focus solely on this because mental and spiritual well-being are equally important. Do not focus only on self-interest. Think about the needs of others.
Step 9. Achieve other spiritual goals, such as self-development through vulnerability
Increase accuracy in thinking or wisdom. Many spiritual figures and teachers have this ability, though not all. Learn new things, such as beliefs held by other people. Open up your horizons so that you can be selective in your thinking by studying different ideas and perspectives as a basis for forming your own opinion. Learn to sacrifice and appreciate the sacrifices of others.
Step 10. Get in the habit of reading or journaling
You can write on any paper. Writers are people with special talents and responsibilities that many people don't have. So, take advantage of their work. Ask people who have knowledge or experience in the area you want to study. Discuss or discuss spiritual concepts, spiritual practices, or inspirational phrases with others in need. Teachers are people who want to keep learning.
Step 11. Find a spiritual community in your neighborhood
Invite a friend to accompany you. Join a large or small group. Prepare some questions and then ask them at the right time.
Step 12. Do the activities you enjoy most according to your hobbies
Avoid unpleasant things. Think of everyday life as a stage to present your talents. Seek advice and guidance from more experienced people. Enjoy every moment of your daily life.
Step 13. Free yourself from attachment
Start giving away materials you don't need or use to people who really need them. This experience will give you the relief and freedom to move on with your life as you wish.
Benchmark of Spiritual Ability
Use the benchmarks and perform the following adaptability test to evaluate your spiritual abilities when facing various opportunities/challenges/events in your daily life. Do you have any spiritual abilities that make you…
- …always consistent in considering things rationally?
- …feel happy/satisfied like living in heaven?
- …live in harmony with your spouse/lover and family members?
- …able to enjoy life without a lover and family?
- …able to meet primary needs for yourself?
- …moved to help orphans who are dying in the interior of a poor country? (They really do exist if you look them up on the internet).
- …able to help others around you?
- …able to contribute to meeting the needs of the people?
- …can help a criminal or violent act change his or her life? (Your wish to change them could be a completely different story).
- …able to improve the lives of the best people you know?
- …understand what makes you feel afraid and dare to face it?
- …able to use power, wealth, and success in the right way?
- …have a deeper understanding of the various virtues, such as responsibility, enthusiasm, honesty, integrity, respect, etc.?
- …doing what is right and good of one's own volition, not out of compulsion.
- …able to respond, change, or experience satisfying growth while having conversations with spiritual leaders or leaders in the community/on the website?
- …able to respond, change, or experience satisfying growth while having conversations with people who are against you?
- …willing to help a friend who needs help?
Tips
- Remember that a healthy mind and soul make your body healthy.
- While journaling or doing reflection, try to find out why one wants to develop the spiritual life. Begin by answering the following questions: Does spiritual life really exist? Is there a way of understanding or perceiving spiritual life? If you believe in a spiritual life, what do you want to achieve? Do you want to broaden your horizons? Have you not been able to determine the purpose of life? Do you want to understand someone or develop yourself in a relationship? Do you want to achieve the happiness of life? Have your feelings hurt because of other people or experienced events? Do you feel more empowered or have you become more courageous as a result of being influenced by a certain person or event? Do you want to achieve more? Do you want to feel inner peace by freeing yourself from the daily grind? Whether you want to achieve nirvana or vice versa, perhaps you want to live life to the best of your ability (rather than simply seeking pleasure) and so need energy and/or guidance to fulfill your needs and inspire your daily life. Any or all of these reasons may apply to you. Answer the questions one by one.
- use related phrases. Look for information on the following topics: knowing God or a Higher Person (depending on whether you believe in or want to explore a Supreme Being personally or impersonally), relationships, emotional balance, emotional resilience, discussion groups, discipline, sensitivity, thinking or investigative methods, gratitude, leadership, wisdom, social skills, slavery or service, courage, love (in various forms), personal charisma, purity, hard work, energy, working smart, self-sacrifice, the power of a good old style karate kick, etc.
