This post is from Soul Woman Circles.
Just wondering...
How kind are you to your soul?
Do you ever even think about what your soul is yearning for?
What if you had a beautiful, tender, radiant, caring, loving and authentic way to be kind to your soul every single day?
It’s easier than you think…
First, sit back and relax, take a few deep breaths, then let your awareness come easily to rest in this present moment.
Simply notice some of the things that you are aware of, right here and now. Notice, for example, some things that you can see. Perhaps the photo of a loved one on your bedside table, or leaves blowing gently in the wind, or clouds floating by in the sky.
Just as there are clouds floating by in the sky, there are thoughts floating by in the space of your mind. Notice how they simply emerge out of what seems to nothingness, float across the screen of your awareness and fade back into nothingness.
The same with the sensations in your body. There might be a feeling of discomfort in your chest or your tummy; a tingling in your fingertips; a warm pleasure around your heart. All these sensations simply arise, stay a bit, and pass.
As you look inward, turn your attention to your soul. Get a good sense of your soul right now. Try to see or hear or feel it as clearly as you can - and then ask your soul:
:: What matters to you?
:: What are you longing for?
:: What do you want me to know more than anything else?
More often than not, you’ll find that your soul is yearning for moments of silence, contemplation, and prayer. And THAT’s how you show kindness to your soul.
Ten minutes of practicing silence.
Twenty minutes of journaling on what your soul is longing for.
A five-minute prayer to deeply connect with the Divine.
It takes great courage to engage with your soul. Sometimes, we don’t want to identify its messages or heed its call.
Sometimes, we’re scared of waking up something profound that demands that we change; that we do something different with our lives; that we be of service to humanity in a way that feels too big or scary.
Sometimes, we’d rather not know what the sacred contract is that we’ve been assigned to fulfill in this lifetime.
It’s a way for you to start a personal journey about how you can burst though your ideas and preconceptions, and then enter into a deeper, more authentic experience.
You can have a grounded, contemporary spirituality that you can practice every day.
It’s for you if you want the power of deep mystical prayer and contemplation without having to take off to an ashram or adopt an extreme practice of deprivation.
You can be spiritual without having to take a vow of poverty or chastity.
You don’t have to renounce family or friends to deepen your consciousness and connect to the spiritual.
