How to gain spiritual balance
Many people ask me how to stop feeling like they are drifting away from their beliefs. This doesn’t just have to mean religious ones, and to be honest, it’s often not the religious ones that people have trouble with. It’s spiritual feelings that can make you feel frustrated or like your progress is being hampered.
First of all, it’s best to work out what’s really bothering you, look at day-to-day life. Have things become more stressful? Is your job getting harder? Are people around you being more demanding? If you can identify a problem, then you are halfway to getting it sorted. But what about when nothing in particular is going on, what if everything is fine? This is when it’s likely that your spiritual balance has shifted.
The feelings people have are often linked to phrases such as:
- “I’ve lost my way”
- “I feel like I’m looking through fog”
- “No one understands/listens to me”
- “I feel like life is passing me by”
It can also be accompanied by a general feeling of being unwell, like having cold symptoms or feeling agitated and maybe not sleeping as well as you normally do. The good thing is that all these things are perfectly normal. These kinds of feelings may well be coming to a peak when the planets are aligned in a way that creates a lot of unusual and erratic energy.
Think of Pluto, the once forgotten planet is now coming back into favour. Isn’t that sometimes familiar in life? You may feel insignificant until someone really wants you for something, then you come back into favour. Make sure then not to let people take advantage of you.
If you ever feel unsettled, you can try some of these tips:
- Meditate: I can already hear the chorus of “I can’t do it!”, or “I don’t have time!” You DO have time, and it doesn’t have to be hard. Meditation can simply be a 3 minute contemplation in the shower, if you do that 5 times a week and then two 20 minute sessions at the weekend you will have amassed a blissful hour of meditation a week! When you meditate, be aware of yourself, how you connect with the planet, other people and your surroundings, and know how to plan and make changes if you need to.
- Remember that we live in extraordinary times: Modern day life is very fast-paced, think of technology just five or ten years ago. It’s vastly different to how it is now, think even further back and you’ll be surprised how much has really changed. Along with this quick way of life, we can lose track of friendships and the love we have for one another. And connection is important. Contact an old friend, speak to a family member who may be alone, and turn your phone off at unimportant times. See how it makes you feel! Much calmer, I suspect!
- Trust the Universe: This may sound a bit odd, but know that although there are times when things feel off centre, it’s often for a reason, and it’s not always going to stay that way. You know there’s always light at the end of the tunnel, and things can look different once you get to the end of it.
- Stay centred: Think back to the meditation, how it made you feel calm, how you felt in control. If you’re having a day where everything is getting on top of you, then know you have that calm and strong place you can go to whenever you want!
If you still feel that you’ve lost your way, then our supportive readers are just a short call away to help you.
Love and Light!
