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Celebrating Our Spiritual Cores

27 Saturday Jul 2019

Posted by AjmaniK in energy, identity, life and living, meditation, nature, practice

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beliefs, celebration, healing, practices, renewal, values

Summer is often a season of travel, of new explorations and discoveries that often lead to further explorations. It is a season of days with long hours of sunlight, of watching fireflies and sunsets and moonrise. Summer brings heat and sweat and thunderstorms and awareness of climate change. It is often in the early morning coolness and long, late evening twilights that I find opportunities to reflect on, to review and renew my cores.

The core components that I find myself focusing on are the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual. While they are all distinct cores, they are also all connected like the members of a multi-dimensional honeycomb. Our mental core affects our psychological core, which in turn affects our physical core, and so on. When the state of any of our cores is less than optimal, all our states suffer, and pain in one core begets in in another.

Self awareness teaches us that it takes a bit of (self) discipline to develop and maintain sustainable, holistic practice for the best health of our cores. Our practices are influenced by our core beliefs, our core values, our core inputs and our core connections. These can be viewed as our four core quadrants. They are like the four legs of the lunar lander – if any of the legs were to be unduly compromised, it could lead to a failure of our spiritual core, our journey and our mission.

Inertia is often what stands between us and the adoption of new disciplines and practices. Our unexamined state of idleness, or even our accepted state of motion, takes a certain amount of ‘force’ to effect internal change of speed or direction. It often takes an (unanticipated) life event to shake us out of our inertia or reverie to ask – what are my core values, beliefs, connections and inputs? How do they influence my daily core practices? How do they affect my spiritual core?

For me, it all began with a simple question – how do I get out of the state of my spiritual inertia? I made small changes in my physical core (waking up rested, walking in nature, eating better), my mental core (guarding my input gates, meditating) and my emotional core (friend and family connections, my reactions, my judgements). Over time and space, every meditation hour, every small nature walk, every new association with fellow travelers, has added up to a perceptible change in my spiritual core.

The result of a renewed spiritual core? I have good quality fuel and oxidant, guidance, and company for the journey ahead. I have appreciation and gratitude for all those who have inspired me, walked with me, celebrated with me, and continue to do so. Awareness, joy, silence, solitude and stillness have become my reservoirs. ‘Thou art That’ has become my internal engine. ‘For the benefit of All’ has become my charioteer. All the quadrants have become focused on the center, where the heart flows love and light abundant, which empowers me to share freely, without hesitation, and with a core spirit of celebration.

Kumud @AjmaniK

P.S. Join us as we gather for our weekly chat, Sunday July 28 at 9amET on Twitter in #SpiritChat – we will celebrate our cores, all of them, as we complete eight years of our journey together – Kumud.

A return to the core space – where the five elements meet for renewal…

SpiritChat – March Discussions

26 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by AjmaniK in Uncategorized

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awareness, beliefs, enery, faith, spirit

The #Spiritchat theme in March centered around the subject of renewal – as the seasons change, and nature changes its course, our outside environment prompts us to pause and renew on the inside. We discussed the subjects of Awareness of the Spirit in the first week of March. The act of awareness requires observation, slowing down, being in the moment – and this can give us clues to the changes we need to make to move us forward on our spiritual journey.

“Believe in the unsaid, for the silence of men is nearer the truth than their words.” – Kahlil Gibran

The second week of March was about Energizing the Spirit for Growth. We examined the various aspects of energy – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The connections between the various forms of our own energy, and how our energy affects those around us were explored. We also discussed how to be aware of energy barriers and how to do our best to maintain an even energy balance from day to day. The subject of energy transfer – from one form of energy to another – invited a lot of great tweets.

“Everything flows. Nothing stays still.” – Heraclitus

Our Spiritual Beliefs – this was the topic for the third week of March. Our tweetchat discussion looked at our core beliefs and where these beliefs may come from. We also talked about how to examine our beliefs and how to decide which beliefs to keep and which to discard. Of course, any discussion about belief cannot omit the connection between belief and faith, and the influencers of our beliefs and faith.

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” – St Augustine

So, how do we tie awareness, energy and belief to renewal and spiritual growth. We have scratched the surface of these three topics in March and created a lot of healthy discussion. However, I am sure the discussions have raised as many questions as they have answered. So, as has become tradition, we pause on the final Sunday of March and review the topics from the month and look forward to the next month.

I invite you to join us in our weekly #SpiritChat to review our March topics. How are we going to use the discussion of Awareness, Energy and Belief – learned in March – forward into April? Did you take any special steps towards increasing Awareness and Mindfulness? Did you find more time to focus on personal energy management? Have you re-examined some beliefs lately? And, looking forward – how can April continue to be a month of spiritual growth for you?

Join us – tweet with hashtag #SpiritChat. Sunday March 25th, 9am ET / 1pm GMT / 6:30pm IST. (You may also join on the web at SpiritChat on tweetchat.com)

Be Aware. Conserve Energy. Embrace Faith.

Kumud
Host – Weekly #SpiritChat

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