Spiritual living is pure being and healing

 In my first book “The Magnificent Experiment” I had a chapter on my struggles with coffee. I realized that drinking too much of it gave too much power to my overactive mind and therefore diminished my spiritual realizations, so I gave myself the challenge of drinking less. At the end of it I had to admit that even after trying to cut back, I still occasionally drank too much of it!

 

This book was written ten years ago and having too much coffee is not much of an issue for me these days. What I didn’t quite understand at that time was that I was depressed deep inside, and coffee helped me to tolerate it. Now that I understand myself much better, and managed to let go of many psychological burdens that troubled me at that time, coffee has become less of a compulsion.

 

In the same way, spiritual living is essentially the act of getting our arms around everything that happens within and outside of us. What is the point of blaming ourselves for anything? We put our best foot forward to live a serene and loving life but when interferences pop up we try to figure out which unhealed part of us creates it and what we can do to allow healing to take place. 

 

Every moment invites the higher energies to take over the sails. All we have to do is to raise them, and if we are unable to do so, to ask what prevents us from doing so. Spiritual living is pure being and healing. Sometimes we ride with the wind, and sometimes we need to make good use of the fact that it is blowing into our face. Healing is either a conscious letting go, or a subconscious reminder to study the interferences. 

 

There is nothing to regret if every moment catapults us further along the quest.