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Spiritual Growth Meditation

To have spiritual growth is to take a closer look inwards toward your inner soul.

To be a dweller on this earth and to grow spiritually defined in a world by power, money, and outer influence is surely a daunting task. Today’s conveniences such as electronic equipments, computers, and tools as well as entertainment through dvd players, video games, and the web have predisposed us to confine our attention mostly to our bodily needs and wants. As a result, our ways of seeing our self-worth and self-meaning are scattered. How can we create a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of our day to day living?

Challenges

Many challenging cross roads will come into our lives as we take this journey through this life. There are some pathways that lead to a life of single blessedness, marriage, and spiritual vocation. Some of these roads could ultimately bring us happiness,fame and fortune on one hand, or despair, isolation and poverty on the other. Some of these pathways lead to shining happiness as there are roads to deep despair, roads towards triumphant victory and jubilation, and paths that will ultimately lead to defeat and disappointment.

Examine

Our introspection should go beyond the recollecting of recent events thattook place in a day, week, or month. You will need to look closer and reflect on your inner thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Take time out to examine your experiences, the decisions you can make, the relationships you have, and the things you engage in provide useful insights on your life goals, try to focus on the quality traits you must keep with you and the bad traits you have to get rid of.

A good mental and spiritual cleansing is absolutely necessary for your spirit.Moreover, it gives you clues on how to act, react, and conduct yourself in the midst of any situation. Like any skill, introspection can be learned; all it takes is the courage and willingness to seek the truths that reside within you. Here are some pointers when you introspect: be objective, learn to forgive yourself, and focus on the areas for improvement.

Growth

To grow spiritually inwards,is to develop your capabilities.
Each and every time that you do your best to improve the quality of your life and your being, be it to cleaning up your house, extending your hand and helping a friend, to fail on school exams and getting up and trying again, maybe you have offered to take care of your Familys sick cat,life has a way of giving you karma points for that.
Religion and science have alternate takes on these unknown matters of the human spirit. Religion views people as spiritual beings temporarily living on Earth, while science views the spirit as just one dimension of an individual. Mastery of the self is a recurring theme in both Christian (Western) and Islamic (Eastern) teachings.

Beliefs

The needs of the body are recognized but placed under the needs of the spirit. Beliefs, values, morality, rules, experiences, and good works provide the blueprint to ensure the growth of the spiritual being. In Psychology, self-actualization is the realizing of one’s full potential. The psychologist Maslow identified several of these needs as humans: physiological, security, acceptance, self-esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and self-transcendence.

Needs

Material,emotional,ans spiritual are three aspects that James earlier categorized. It seems that it is man’s nature that when you have fullfilled the basic physiological and emotional needs, spiritual or existential needs come next. Achieving each need leads to the total development of the individual. Perhaps the biggestdifference between these two religions and psychology is the end of self-development: Islam and Christianity will believe that self-development is a means toward serving God, while modern psychology views that self-development is an end to the means by itself.

To grow spiritually is to search for a higher purpose

Religions that believe in the existence of God such as Christianism, Judaism, and Islam suppose that the purpose of theirhuman life is to serve the Creator of all things. Several theories in psychology propose that we ultimately give meaning to our lives. Whether or not we believe that life’s meaning is pre-determined or self-directed, to grow within your spirit is to realize that we do not merely exist. We do not know the meaning of our lives at birth; but we gain this wisdom and knowledge from our interactions with people and from our actions and reactions to the situations we are in. As we uncover this meaning, there are certain beliefs and values that we turn down and accept.  Our lives have purpose. Thissense of belonging puts all our physical, emotional, and intellectual potentials into use; keeps us going during tough times; and gives us something to be hopeful for—a goal to achieve, a destination to reach. A person without purpose or meaning is like a drifting ship at sea.

Religions stress the concept of our relatedness to all creation, be it animate or and inanimate. Thus we call other people “brothers and sisters” even if there are no direct blood relations. Moreover, deity-centered religions such as Christianity and Islam speak of the relationship between humans and a higher being. On the other hand, science expounds on our connection to other living things through the evolution theory.

Connection

This relatedness is very clear in the concept of ecology, the interaction between living and non-living things. In psychology, connectedness is a characteristic of self-transcendence, the highest human need according to Maslow. Recognizing your connection to all things makes you more humble and respectful of people, animals, plants, and things in nature. It can make one appreciate all of the things that surround us. It moves you to go beyond your comfort zone and reach out to other people, and become care-takers of all the things around you.

Growth

Growth is never ending, thus to grow in your soul is a day-to-day encounter. The important thing is that we never stop learning, and from this knowledge, further spiritual growth is made possible.

If your growth stops then you are dead.Never stop the learning of your soul. Learning is life.It is the bread and butter of our soul and our earthly existence.

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