Going deep

Posted on December 4, 2006
Filed Under Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, Spiritual Development |

I really admire people who pick a spiritual practice and then go really, really deep. The people that practice yoga for twenty years, or who go back to the same meditation retreat every summer, or who study the kabbalah for fifteen years - these people impress me.
I am perfectly happy to admit, however, that I am not one of those people. I think few are. I currently meditate daily, but that’s just this month. For a long time, I didn’t meditate at all. But it works for me right now. It also works for me right now to do a half hour of yoga every day - I just can’t seem to fit a 90-minute class into my schedule. Next month - who knows?
I’ve dabbled in lots and lots of things - various energetic healing modalities, meditation techniques, and spiritual practices. Every once in a while, I’ve shaken my head at my own short attention span. Why couldn’t I just pick one thing and go deep into that one path?

Now that I’ve dabbled and sampled for quite some time, I realize that I did pick that one path. I picked my own, and I committed to it, and I’m going very, very deep! Who knew? All those modalities and techniques and practices are just tools. Pick just one, or sample from all of them - your committment is only to your own personal spiritual growth and evolution. Your committment should never be to the practice of yoga, or a meditation technique. They are tools, to be used and discarded as it serves you. And only you know what will serve you best.

So remember that as long as you are working on yourself - in whatever way serves you best - you are walking your path. Celebrate your commitment to your own evolution, not to the tools designed to assist and serve you!

Blessings,
Andrea