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Expand your Spirit
Living a spiritually expanded life means I live closer to my beliefs and my service to humanity. More than just living an ideology, it is about living every day of my life as a wonderful example of my spirituality.
Rather than praying and meditating every morning or evening and going to a service of some kind once a week, living a spiritually expanded life is using praying and meditation for a purpose. This way you can bring more of your heart and spirit into your daily actions. From dealing with children to washing the dishes, everything in this life is a part of the great divine. Realizing this and using it in every aspect of your life is living a life of joyous expansion. Like anything else in life, it is a practice. There are times when I do not bring my all to washing the dishes or being as nice to someone as I should. In these times, bringing myself back into my practice is what matters.
I am a human. As a human, I am flawed and will make mistakes. What is important is what I do with these mistakes. Using my mistakes as a part of my spiritual practice has helped me remain grounded and keeps me pointed to my purpose.
All actions are prayers. It is said that you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Use the joy in your life to expand your spirit and soul.
Feeling Expanded
Having a feeling that I am a part of something bigger is something that has deeply improved my life. Even without the idea of having something bigger than you, it is possible to expand your spirit. Reading books that bring joy into your life and finding more and more ways to feel good. Watching TV shows or movies that are uplifting, helping people, eating food that is very good for you, are all examples of ways to experience the feeling of expansion.
I believe that spirit is the energy of feeling good. The more we tap into the feeling of happiness, the more we expand our spirit. It is the feeling that one may get when reading an excellent book or looking at an amazing painting.
One way I expand my spirit is by watching, So You Think You Can Dance Every episode of this show is a spiritual opening to me. Watching people do what makes them happy touches me. Also the care the judges have for their craft is something that I value and appreciate. I can feel my heart open each time I watch this show.
One of the reasons I became a Life Coach is to be able to be a part of someone bringing joy into their life. Too many people live spiritually stunted lives where they do not do what they love and enjoy most of the time. Doing this causes people to miss the amazing journey that life is. Too many people just stop believing there is more to life.
There are many simple meditations that can help one get in touch with the feeling of being expanded. One is to think about something that you enjoy and feel is a positive force in your life. As you think of this action that brings joy into your life pay attention to your chest. Notice how the feeling close to your heart is growing. I call this the Grinch meditation. When you do something great your heart expands three times that day. Now think of something that you do not like at all. Notice the feeling in your chest now. Notice how it is more contracted and almost stiff? There is a reason why traffic may trigger heart attacks.
With this simple meditation, you have a guide to what expands your heart. The practice is to first notice what allows you to feel expanded in your everyday life and what allows contraction. Then increase the amount of things you do that expand you. Just living one day when every action you take is an action that leaves you feeling expanded will do wonders for your life. When that happens the food you eat, the people you hang out with and the actions you do will be a very positive force in your life and will allow you to live a life of joy.
Homework
Next time you go grocery shopping use the meditation to decide what to buy. Notice the foods that expand your heart center. How do you feel after eating these foods for a week?
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