Why do we engage in spiritual practices?
If you attended any of my meetings or if you have heard me speak, you know I am passionate about sharing and engaging in spiritual practices.
Personally, I left traditional religion as a young adult because I yearned for a spiritual practice that would speak to my heart. Like many raised in traditional Christianity, I was taught to recite a routine prayer to a ‘God in the sky’, or petition a God, outside of me and my world, to fill my wants and desires. Neither of these ancient traditions I had learned as a child served me as an adult.
When I found Religious Science, my flavor of New Thought, I found spiritual practices that expanded my awareness in order to move me closer to Spirit within. I discovered, through this teaching, that I did not need to beg God to align with my wants and needs, but needed to align MYSELF with the Spirit that dwelt within me already.
The six main spiritual practices are as follows:
- Meditation (listening to Spirit)
- Affirmative Prayer (speaking the nature of Spirit into form)
- Study (opening to new ideas and greater Good)
- Giving (sharing of our money to participate in the flow of Substance in the Universe)
- Service (enacting the nature of God on Earth)
- Visioning (calling in spiritual guidance on and strengthening our intuition)
Of course, there are many more spiritual practices we can use, but these are the main ones.