A Spiritual Lifestyle Reveals Your True Self

Your spiritual growth is built day by day. Sure, you might have a singular, defining moment called a spiritual awakening, but it rarely starts there and never ends with that peak experience.

Spirituality is meant to be a lifestyle. All cultures differ, but in the West, we generally identify a person not merely by their ego or physical form, but also by their soul: the innate, eternal part of us that exists both in this world and in a higher dimension simultaneously.

By pursuing a spiritual practice, you’re not just communing with the divine, but also meeting and becoming your higher self.

This is an important lesson everyone must learn in their life. Because without it, you’ll always feel as if some part of you is missing.

There’s No Satisfaction in Personal Summary

We live in a world of tribes and tribal membership. From an early age, we all label ourselves seeking communion with others.

First it might be your teenage school clique. Then your political party. Maybe a hobby group. There are so many ways to divide ourselves.

The problem with this tendency is that no group, even ones we desperately want to fit in with, can fully encapsulate who we are. Not to mention personality can change according to research (affiliate link) and we can find ourselves on the outs. There’s always something missing, even when we try to be our authentic selves. So it leads to us feeling as if we’re not good enough.

That’s because you can’t display your full identity or embody it in normal life. While you can take your body to many places and dictate ideas from your mind, only soul activities can bring your higher self into focus.

You can’t manifest spirit in the mind or the body. It’s something else entirely.

These higher soul activities are what we do when we act out our spiritual practice. It’s not an empty ritual when you script, meditate, or do a tarot reading. These spiritual practices awaken and engage your higher self, fully uniting the mind-body-spirit identity that makes you a whole person.

It’s also why spiritual practices are existentially satisfying. You can’t get that feeling anywhere else – certainly not in a personality test or even being a member of a group.

What a Spiritual Awakening Really Is

A lot can be said about spiritual awakenings, but you probably only hear about comprehending the universe, discovering a spiritual gift, or realizing a higher purpose. All of that is meaningful and prominent, but what pulls a person back into spirituality after that peak experience is the self-actualization a person has during their awakening.

This is when they feel fully themselves and fully capable of what they were born to do.

Your spiritual awakening is an awakening to the part of your identity that can be accessed through no other way. You feel different not because you are different, but because you’ve opened a bridge between your mind-body-spirit and you realize that you can do it again and again.

Spirituality introduces a whole new dimension and layer of your identity. It begins to explain why you are who you are because your soul can tap into your past lives, karma, and soul purposes.

The reason why you can’t categorize yourself fully in the physical and social world is that few groups have ways to include your soul as part of the equation.

And that soul inclusion just might be the most important part.

The Next Steps in Spiritual Self-Actualization

Many of you have already had a spiritual awakening or a spiritual practice that has helped you get in touch with your soul identity. You feel that part of you deeply, even if you don’t fully understand it.

But there is more to this spiritual self-actualization of feeling. Just like being aware of your mind and body can help you act with greater competence, so too can knowing your soul make a difference in your daily decisions.

The most obvious effect is in your life and higher purpose. Without spirituality, we tend to think in the short term. This is because we live with our ego to build our reputations (mind) and our bodily needs. These are mortal fixations whereas your soul is what transcends across lifetimes.

Your body can only build a house. Your mind can only design a house. But your soul is what makes a house a home for generations.

Your life purpose gives you a karmic quest in this incarnation while your higher purpose reflects a mission your soul has across many lifetimes.

But another effect is moral. Without spirituality, morality is either Darwinian, survival of the fittest, or tribal, with your immediate group determining politically who is friend or foe.

Getting in touch with your spiritual side will help you to see all people, creatures, and places as worthy of love.

You weren’t meant to consume, but commune. Everyone and everything has a divine connection – and you’re part of that.

Don’t Forget Who You Are

To some degree, our mind, body, and spirit are separate beings in one person. We merge these beings into one, and should do so often, but they’re also separate selves that should be respected for who they are.

The body needs nutrition and exercise. The mind needs intellectual engagement. And the soul needs the nourishment of the spirit.

You have a lot of options for how you can pursue your spiritual life, but consider individual preferences. Not everyone likes the same foods or enjoys the same books. Your spiritual curiosities should be followed rather than trying to fit into a particular category of belief.

I don’t like meditation and can only handle it for a few minutes. But most people quite enjoy it. Instead, I prefer tarot and journaling. Introspection is clearly my preference.

Trust your spiritual inclinations. It will reveal who you truly are.

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