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10 Spiritual Guidelines To Live Your Best Life
Whatever your personal journey, you are guaranteed an epic adventure. Here are 10 spiritual guidelines to remember to help live your best life:
1. You will forget everything.
You start at the beginning with no instructions and then for the rest of your life, you are tasked with remembering who you are. You start from nothing and at the end, all you get to take with you are the lessons learned.
2. You will get a body, hopefully in decent working order.
Your body is borrowed. At the end of your life, you don't get to take it worth you. So treat it with care while you have it. It is your most valuable possession. Treat it like a gift, a resource for you to use to get the most out of life. If you treat it impeccably, it will serve you well for the longest time.
3. What you do with your life is up to you.
It's your choice what to do with your life, how to feel and what to create with what you have. Imagine your life as a canvas; it's up to you to fill that canvas with the things and people you care most for. If you change, the world changes. Beliefs are the most powerful weapon in your arsenal.
4. You are here to learn lessons.
As you "evolve" on your path, the lessons may become harder and harder. If you don't learn the lesson, it will keep coming back into your life until you do learn it. In the end, everyone is successful from a spiritual perspective.
5. Don't give up!
It's guaranteed to get hard, yet you are not alone in this. Suffering is part of your life's assignment. Learning equanimity and patience will help your a lot.
6. Every choice you make takes you on a different path.
There is no wrong and right path, every path you take is a choice and will take you somewhere. If you ever feel that it's not the right path for you and you have to go all the way back to the beginning again, be in mind that it's an illusion. You're not the same person who left in the first place. Every decision changes you.
You may not realize today, yet in a few years time when you look back, you will be amazed at how circumstances magically worked out to take you where you were meant to be.
7. Accept the darkness and the light.
Within other people contains an element that is within you as per a holographic principle. If you hate something too much, perhaps you're rejecting that part within yourself? We call this our "shadow." Learn to accept all parts of you, including your shadow.
When you suppress or reject a part of yourself, you will feel stunted. In maturity comes greater fulfillment of who you truly are.
8. Understand the benefit of perspective.
How you view the world is everything. If you look for dark, you will find it. If you look for light, you will find it. If you think it is good, it will be good. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at are changed. See the world with new eyes.
9. The most important thing is to love.
Your choice is to choose love over fear every time. That's the most important thing you need to know. Love is all there is.
10. Enjoy the journey!
Don't sweat the small stuff or take life too personally. There is always a big picture and the world doesn't revolve around you! Life is one of the greatest journeys imaginable. You don't pass or fail — you may as well enjoy the journey. There is no need to take life so seriously, because in the end there is no failure.
Always remember to be grateful for how things are, and work to make them how you want them to be.
8 Questions To Ask If You Want To Change Your Life
How much do you know about the deepest parts of you? Sure, you know your likes and dislikes, but what about the complex landscape of your heart? Getting to know yourself is one of life's most thrilling endeavors, and it's the only real path to a full life.
Here are 8 essential questions that will help you learn what you need to live your best life.
1. Is my life fun?
Many of us try to arrange fun, but miss the point by are over-planning it. (Weddings, for example, can turn into a lot of drama and debt.) Fun is about spontaneity. It seeks us out and our only job is to be ready! Think of your most joyous memories — most of them are probably of times you said yes to something unexpected. We have to make room for bliss to show up, and choose to embrace it when it does.
2. Am I waiting for my life to begin?
I used to tell myself, “When I graduate high school, my life will begin." “When I graduate college and get my first job my life will start.” “When I lose the weight, meet my life partner, and finally start my own business...”
When I imagined my real life, I was picturing a perfect me. The married, successful psychologist, deeply satisfied and eternally calm. Yes, I now have a strong marriage, a doctorate degree, and a successful career. But I'm still caught in bouts of self-doubt, anxiety and a scarcity mentality
Since I have achieved so much of what I set out to accomplish, my father has passed away and I lost another good friend to cancer. Having a few dreams come true does not make for a fantasy life. At 38 years old, this is my real life, and it is a mix of pleasure and pain. I embrace the gift of no longer waiting for the perfect me. Instead, I appreciate the one that is mine in all its complexity and imperfection.
3. Do I have enough money?
Enough money, like enough anything, is subjective. It is not numerical, nor gauged by a figure in a bank account. Is it a spiritual state of mind? Is it physical, measured by the things we own? How and where are we supposed to be reaching? Enough for each of us is different, but in the last few years I have decided that my "enough" is having some money in savings and some money to invest in me monthly. Enough money to me is whatever amount I need to accumulate experiences that will remind me of my wholeness and make me happy and safe.
4. Do I have enough friends?
How many friends are enough? As many as it takes to provide you with the sense of being seen and known. Some might entrust all of their deepest and darkest to one friend. Others spread the burden (and joy) among many. The most important criteria is that our friendships are a two-way street. Making space to celebrate and shoulder grief with our loved ones day or night. Whatever makes you feel fulfilled is enough.
5. Do I feel my feelings?
Feelings are messy and inconvenient. Maybe you are good at experiencing levity and laughter or good at expressing your frustration when irritated. But many of us have feelings too unwieldy, too loud, too big. So, we lock them up, turn away and never look back. Yet, over time we are awakened to the fact that we don’t get to experience good stuff without also acknowledging the bad stuff.
Happiness is not the result of avoiding unhappiness. If you don’t resolve to feel pain you wind up, in some way or another, feeling it forever. You become a stranger to yourself. Commit to feeling your feelings. Find that therapist, yogi, or dance class that helps you get in touch with yourself. Be brave enough to say, “I love you,” “You hurt me,” and “I forgive you.”
6. Am I overthinking things?
I do not have a quiet mind. I’m a psychologist and a writer so I get paid to turn things over and over again in my head. I lose sleep rerunning conversations in my mind. I think many of us find ourselves at the mercy of our minds but it's astonishing how much easier things get when we actively give our brains a regular break. Thinking is necessary and useful, but when you take time to let your brain relax, you are better equipped to tackle the problems of life.
7. What does the future hold?
The future should not just be about investing in a 401K, purchasing a home, and finding the right partner. It should be about adventure, wandering, and embracing possibilities. Approach the future with an open mind. Fill it with activities and people that light you up. Because you can.
8. Where am I compromised?
We witness friends make certain mistakes over and over again and wonder how can they be so unaware. But there may be a similar pattern to the problems that plague you. Is there specific criticism you receive regularly? Peer closer at the problems you keep running into and see what they tell you. “Stuck points” can be stubborn but this is actually a good thing! It gives us lots of opportunities to do something about them.
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