Affirmation Advantages: Spiritual Development

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Affirmation Advantages: Spiritual Development

Our age is witnessing a spiritual renaissance. A deep and sincere interest in true spiritual precepts, is awakening. People are tired of seemingly insignificant rituals and dogmatic religious beliefs. The urge to KNOW is playing bingo with the need to DO. Humanity is engaged in a deep search for spiritual paths that would lead it from darkness to light. To claim that affirmations or any similar technique can lead us to enlightenment would be presumptuous. However, what can be attempted is a step towards the calming of one's mind, and internally and externally manifesting certain other aids which in turn help in spiritual progress and life in general.

It is difficult to define or demarcate spiritual evolution. Often it is integrated with physical, psychological, social and other aspects of a human being. However, when we consciously seek spiritual evolution, we are evidently seeking a Higher Truth that surpasses our small and often petty lives. There is a vague or even distinct desire to look beyond what meets the eye, unravel the mystery of life, or more; and then to seek joy and love in an unending and eternal sphere. In other words spiritual seeking is homesickness, it is nostalgia for our true spiritual home. The soul is pining away in the conundrum of the din and chaos of commonplace living. Too long and painful has been the delusion that this little life is the be all and end all of all that there is. In the ultimate sense techniques that cater to the mind cannot direct the spirit.

However, we must move from the near to the far. By calming the mind we can flow into the realm of Spirit. The objective of mind control is to attain realization of one's Divine nature.

Primarily, we are not alive to our spiritual nature because our energies are invested in worldly desires. When we can calm the mind and prevent it from running in different directions, the resultant centering will lead to a spiritual flowering.

Very often we feel the need for a spiritual teacher, our ordained guru, or even a path to help us in the steps we take. Usually, this is not something to worry about as once the disciple is ready the master appears. In order to intensify our spiritual evolution, or to find the path where upon we may walk to the pre- determined Goal, affirmations can be of invaluable use.

Sit in a quiet, comfortable place. Take your body and mind through a few deep, slow and easy breathing cycles. Tense your entire body simultaneously and then quickly release whatever tension there may be within you. With the power of your will and your faith in His omnipresence working through you, command your body and mind to become tranquil and relaxed. Repeat to yourself:

"I am becoming centered and calm. The Light Divine engulfs my being. I am responding to this Light and my soul is reaching out to mingle in the light of infinite Love."

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(See also: Affirmation Advantages, Affirmations, Practising Affirmations, Life Transforming Affirmations, Essence of Affirmations, Faith and Belief, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Body Mind and Soul)