Techniques To Start Your Spiritual Journey

Somatic Techniques

Somatic techniques focus on the physical, and on developing the aspects of your senses that are most intimately related to your spiritual dimension.

For example:

• Breathwork: We've already explored a breathing meditation above, but even just practicing rhythmic breathing helps you to be mindful and aware. Try breathing in through your nose for a count of 5, and out of your mouth for a count of 7.

• Yoga: Even the most basic yoga practices have long been tied to spiritual development. Sign up for a class or watch a video, and notice how your mind becomes calmer and more centered as a result.

• Meditation: Body scanning is especially good – this involves working your attention all the way down your body, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Notice the sensations in every aspect – where are you comfortable? Where are you tense? Body scanning helps you more fully inhabit your body.

• Dance: You may not think of yourself as a good dancer, but you don't need to be in order to get the most out of dancing. Simply put on music that you love, and move to it in the way that feels most natural. Music that evokes intense feelings connects us with our sense of wonder.

Inner Work

There are also many different exercises focusing on inner work that develops your spirituality.

Mindfulness counts as both a somatic and an inner work technique, for one thing.

Further examples include the following:

• Journaling: Journaling helps you get in touch with your own emotions. Writing a paragraph a day is enough. It challenges you to be authentic, to track your spiritual development and to notice patterns (both healthy and unhealthy ones).

• Shadow work: Shadow work is about getting in touch with the wounded parts of your personality. Own them, forgive them, and reabsorbing them into your identity. An exercise involves writing down limiting beliefs and then countering those beliefs with daily affirmations to the contrary.

• Gratitude journaling: Keeping a gratitude journal simply means taking time each day to consider what you're thankful for. These don't need to be major events – rather, think of little moments, of beautiful things you saw.

Exploring Spiritual Practices With The Law Of Attraction

Law of Attraction work can be incredibly useful when you're looking to develop your spiritual side. Importantly, the Law of Attraction is one of the fundamental laws of the universe!

In its simplest form, it tells us that like attracts like. So, we can manifest the things we desire by becoming more positively attuned to them.

Broadly speaking, the better we are to others and the happier and more grateful we choose to be, the more we'll find those good things work their way into our lives.

Here are three Law of Attraction techniques that can enhance and speed up your spiritual enlightenment.

Visualization

Creative Visualization builds on the skills you've developed by learning to meditate.

It requires you first to regulate your breathing and enter a calm, focused state.

Next, you build up an image of the life you want to live, including as much detail as possible.

You can visualize any goal you have that strongly associate with your true purpose.

You can also use visualization to simple see what occurs to you –

when you're in a phase of deep spiritual development, what you learn about yourself during visualization exercises can be profound.

Raising Your frequency

Raising your frequency is a key part of manifesting with the Law of Attraction.

In layperson's terms, it means becoming more attuned with positive energy, associating yourself with abundance rather than lack and negativity. There are lots of ways to do this.

One is by using positive daily affirmations – phrases that you repeat in order to promote self-development.

You can design affirmations that focus specifically on your spirituality (e.g., “I am becoming more spirituality evolved every day”), and you can also use affirmations that more generally help you to develop as a person.

For example, what you learn about yourself during shadow work can be key to removing limiting beliefs through affirmations.

Gratitude

We've already explored how writing in a gratitude journal every day can help you to become more spiritually evolved, as well as happier.

However, there are also other ways to practice gratitude.

For example, you might try to express your gratitude to a loved one every day – challenge yourself to think of something appreciative to identify and communicate it to that person.

In addition, think about how you can spread gratitude even further.

How can you give back your time, energy or abundance to the world around you?

All of these practices support spiritual development.

-The Luminous Loner

Source: The Spiritual Planet