Spirituality As A Way To Freedom.
Spirituality As A Way To Live From The Soul For The Sake of Enjoying Life and Being Truly Free.
Spirituality doesn’t have anything to do with meditation or with doing breathwork or with doing yoga.
Spirituality is about finding your spirit, connecting with your spirit, giving your spirit and your pure soul a space from the external noise, a space from the pressure of your own fears and judgements, a space from the constant hustle and chaos that drains the life from within you and makes you rather distracted and confused than connected, clear-minded, and content with life.
This connection with your soul, with your spirit, through which you remember who you truly are beneath the noise of the mind, beneath the pressure of your judgement, beneath the pain and confusion that your fears bring you… the connection through which you return to the life force within you that awakens your body, making you feel alive and nourished and in harmony within you — this connection is found, of course, in meditation too, as a practice of stillness and silence that helps you detach from the physical world, from your body, from your mind, and rest within you with your soul — unite with your soul… Meditation is a practice where you detach, though a human being doesn’t have to meditate or do any intentional practice to feel connected, to feel open, to feel spiritually nourished, and to live in harmony — we can live in such a way every moment of our lives, we can live freely and feel alive, we can dance with life, we can walk in nature, we can play music so loudly and observe this world and talk to other people and be connected with what is within us — staying inside our bodies, not inside our minds — it is not about meditation or a spiritual practice — it’s about being connected to the life within you, about living inside your body, it’s about staying authentic to your soul, staying open and vulnerable to the world around you, staying true to what’s within you and grounded — not losing the sense of self in the midst of the chaotic and noisy world, it’s about hearing the voice of your heart and soul and your body even while being active, even while being in noisy surroundings, it’s about being yourself, your unique self, in a world that mostly lives within limits and rules, in that society that believes in standards and comparison.
The connection with your spirit, with your pure soul, can be found in anything. In fact, it is us; it lives within us, or we live within it, to put it more clearly, because this body is an expression of a little particle of the infinite life, of the infinite universe… just when we start doing something through the mind, thinking, analysing…
Living through the feeling, living authentically and freely, allowing our souls to be free, allowing ourselves to freely express, to freely walk, to freely speak, to not speak at all when the soul needs silence, to not walk at all when the body needs rest… to do whatever your feeling, your inner knowing, pulls you towards doing… this makes you genuine and authentic. Because only when you find openness to yourself within, when you open your heart to yourself, to your feeling, to your inner experience… you start being able to stay open in the world. Only when you wake up authenticity within you, when you create space from the noise of your mind that always speaks standards and limits and fears to you, only beneath that noise can you hear your authentic voice and follow it, can you choose to listen to your body’s rhythm, to your heart and soul’s voice, to your intuitive feeling… only when you return to yourself and create space for your authenticity — can you stay authentic in the world, can you be open-heartedly genuine and purely open to the world — which allows you to stay connected, to stay nourished and in harmony. This inner openness to the world around you, to the life around you, makes you feel united with all life, connected with everything, so everything starts to nurture you even more rather than drain you, life around you starts to fill you with even more aliveness rather than take your energy of life.
When your subconscious is open to the world around you, your experience becomes very pure, very light, very soul-nourishing and fulfilling…
You start to live in harmony with the flow of life within you and with the flow of life around you, with the natural rhythm of this universe, so you experience ease and harmony.
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When your subconscious is open, your body, your instincts, your inner knowing start to lead you. Your mind doesn’t have the power to lock you anymore, to close you off from the world, to block your senses, making you feel stuck within your head and disconnected. You start to live inside your body, which naturally and instinctually follows the rhythm of life, the natural rhythm of this universe, and you start to co-create with life rather than waste your pure life force energy fighting with it because your subconscious is too closed to open and trust, because your subconscious closes off from the judgement and fears and doubts that always keep you under pressure, never at ease and in harmony, always needing to know or control and never relaxing and simply trusting Life, which always supports you and makes you feel safe to trust, you know, because being a human — you are safe.
What makes us unsafe isn’t life or the way it happens — what makes us unsafe are our fears of how life will happen, our beliefs in scarcity, brokenness, and lack, this illusory idea within our subconscious that we aren’t supported by life and aren’t safe to trust it, aren’t safe to open to it, to open to life, to the world, to this universe…
While when we open again, when we choose to open our hearts to life all around us — we realise that life is never against us, it just flows with its natural rhythm and pace, and you don’t try to condense it, don’t try to control it, to force it or resist its flow — all you start experiencing is ease and harmony.
Even if things go the wrong way and the storms of life make you fall down — you still trust, as that is the whole point of those storms — to make you trust… you still see the meaning beyond those situations and allow life to clear the way forward for you, perceiving even the more complicated things and situations with ease and staying open, open to feeling, open to loving, open to life…
Meditation or any spiritual practice is just one of the ways to connect to the spirit through detachment, but you, as a spiritual being, have a potential within your body to live a connected life. Meditation is one of the ways to return to your soul and to nurture it, and so you have the potential to live a life following your soul’s voice rather than the noise of your mind, and that’s how your soul stays nurtured and you stay connected with it… because you are your soul, you are always connected with it. Only the noise of our minds and the hustle or the chaos of the world around us make us blind to our feelings, make us live within our heads instead of following the flow of life, living inside our bodies, feeling and following that inner feeling, staying grounded and true to what’s within us…
We can do every little thing in life with a soul, being present. We can write and dance in the state of flow beneath the control of our minds — and that’s where it will nurture our souls. We can talk to the world, to other people, from the soul, being in the state of flow, being open to other life around us, being genuine and authentic, caring and soulful. That’s where the life around us will also nurture our souls and fulfil us even deeper, and our openness and genuineness will also fulfil the life around us with even more life and more joy, bringing warmth to their souls.
Authenticity is a way of spiritually aligned living and high-vibrational existence… and life is never linear. Sometimes it overflows; sometimes it goes at a slower pace. Authentically, sometimes you feel so active and passionate and ready to dance with life, ready to create, while at other times you feel so slow, and your body and soul need more rest. Sometimes you feel so fulfilled with love and it feels so natural to give and to express, and at other times you need to nurture yourself, you need a pause… As long as you follow what feels authentic and feels right to you, you are in the state of flow and flow with the natural rhythm of life, allowing life to happen as it’s meant to. Allow yourself to openly and authentically be what feels right to your heart, to your body and your soul. When you walk with life, you are experiencing ease and purity even if it is an uncomfortable situation or experience — you are at ease with the discomfort — you openly meet the experience of life and allow life to flow in its natural rhythm, with its natural pace, without the need to control. You relax and trust life, following what feels right to you. The moment you force, resist, or control — you aren’t at ease anymore, you fall out of the state of flow… you close yourself off from life, you close your subconscious off from life, you aren’t experiencing life, the world around you, inside your body anymore, with your senses openly feeling life force and following it — you are experiencing it inside your head, thinking instead of feeling, judging instead of accepting, fearing instead of loving, doubting instead of trusting… and where there is so much pressure, there cannot be enough space for ease. Where there is so much hustle and noise, the voice of the soul and of the body becomes quieter than the fears and the judgements of the mind, even though the voice that lives beneath the thoughts, the voice of your heart, the pure feeling of life that makes you feel what’s right, what’s next, that makes you purely trust and follow it — this voice is much more powerful and true…
But when your inner space is filled with noise and hustle, no space is left for you to notice anything beneath that noise and hustle; when you live inside your head, the senses in your body lose their significance for your subconscious… and all you notice and interact with is the noise and the hustle…
Beneath the control of your mind, where you return to your senses, to your body, where you are in the state of flow and at ease with life, where you are open to life — you experience pure life living inside your body, and you don’t need to meditate to connect with life within you — as you are life before you are anything, before your body, before your mind and all ideas and definitions of it…
You can dance from the depth of your soul, allowing your body to move so freely beneath the control of your mind, not trying to perform or show anything, being in the center of your being and moving from the center of your being, from your heart… and it isn’t about dancing even, it’s about allowing life within you to lead rather than controlling with your mind. Living from your center, speaking from your center, dancing from your center, creating, painting, singing, walking and doing anything — is an act of pure, unique creation, and not your own creation, but rather communion with life, as you don’t own the movement — it just goes through you when you are present enough to surrender control and trust your own center and allow life to freely move through you…
