Learn basic ways to utilize your body, mind and spirit to fulfill your life’s purpose. This guide gives specific examples of activities to help you on your journey.
Many experts on finding your life purpose talk about spending an hour a day on your body, mind and spirit. But what does that mean exactly and how can a person starting out on his or her new path begin?
We will focus on that now with examples of activities and the reasons behind them. If you think there’s not enough time in your busy, complicated day to squeeze in an extra hour, just start with 30 minutes per area each day. Once you begin to see the benefits of these practices, you’ll find the time for yourself!
Body Mind and Spirit
Our total Being is encompassed by the body, the mind, and our spirit. In our limited lifetimes on Earth, we need to take care of all 3 aspects of our Being to be healthy.
Our physical body encompasses our physical reality. We must nourish our bodies. Take the responsibility to eat well. Most of us have no ideas about half the junk we put in our bodies, we can’t trust the labels on the food anymore.
What can we do?
We can start with feeling aware of how we feel when we eat. Chances are, the more energized our bodies feel, the better our bowel movements, etc, then we know we are on the right path of food consumption.
The body needs to be worked out. Practicing of Yoga Asanas or Kriyas can help open the body, especially with the straight spine and grounded feet that a session at the gym can’t.
Looking and feeling good helps you grow in confidence.
BODY
After you’ve discovered your life’s purpose, you feel passionate about the future and suddenly have more energy. Use this additional energy to your benefit! There are specific foods that aid in thinking, and this will help you when you’re creating and implementing your new plan. Also, taking time out of your day to exercise or play will help clear your mind and allow you to focus on your goals.
Here are suggestions to begin your 30-minute body time per day:
- Snack on nuts – they are nature’s brain food.
- Play with your pets or children instead of watching television.
MIND
Dedicating five minutes a day to strengthening your mind and exercising your brain is another essential step on your life purpose path to happiness and fulfillment. Your mind needs to be ready and strong to create your plan and follow through with it. You need to be positioned to overcome obstacles and challenges.To grow mentally fit, there is no better solution than to meditate. We each have the responsibility to educate ourselves out of the darkness, ignorance is not Bliss.Myself, I enjoy Kundalini Meditations. I like the chanting, I like the music, I like the mudras and the arm movements.
Here are suggestions to begin your 30-minute mind time per day:
- Meditation
- Start playing puzzles games like crosswords or sudoku.
- Read five minutes of a favorite book each day.
SPIRIT
The further you rise being grounded, the bigger of that person you become.
No drugs can substitute this feeling.
I have experienced Kundalini risings multiple times. I had much trouble initially, as there were blockages, but with great support and teachers who helped build my foundations, all is possible.
Start spending 30 minutes a day on yourself in these LITTLE ways and see how you can make BIG changes in fulfilling your dreams. Your body, mind and spirit can all help you in it’s own individual way. Once you have your goal and vision in mind, use what you already have to achieve your life purpose.
The Interaction Between Body, Mind and Spirit
Many of us are affected by how we handle the stress that life brings us. If chronic stress is left unchecked, over a period of time our bodies will take a toll. A strong faith can help us to cope with the stress that we experience in our life and enable the impact of that stress to be less significant. Without a strong personal faith we must resort to our own resources to cope with the stress present in our life. Often we attempt to cope with this stress through addictions and other methods of escape. This behavior can further exacerbate the effect of stress on our physical health. A strong personal faith can be a resource that helps to manage stress.
Our beliefs and attitudes, determined in large degree by our faith, will play a major role in our thinking patterns. Our day to day thinking will have an impact on our emotions and feelings, and our emotions and feelings will have a major impact on our behaviors. In this regard, our thought patterns play a significant role in our emotional and physical health.Spiritual Exercises address the importance of our thinking patterns and how we can change our thinking which can transform our life.
Kabir Says….
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out further and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside “love” there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word “reason” you already feel miles away.
How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.
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Amazing post. Thank you
Everytime I add daily meditation and yoga to my routine I feel more blissful. However with the busy schedules we have sometimes I fall off track and its not always easy to keep up.
I am now going to make a new routine. I will wake a little earlier than usual and make some time for gentle yoga followed by meditation. I will repeat the same routine at night before bed,instead of going on the computer. :)
Thanks for the motivation.
I agree Raj … self awareness is within our reach, without any limits or boundaries. I think when we put some 'goal' or 'attachment' as if it's a final state/stage of Being, even spiritual to that concept … we manage to loose the 'benefit' of it, as we are concentrating on the process more. However if we practice anything just 'because' - without any expectations then 'the burden' of 'routine' never will be present. As it comes with sense of enjoinment, when you did something good for yourself, and that means the world as well.
With Gratitude dear Raj … ;) Thank you … ;)