Spirituality Is Self-discipline
In our modern culture of overwork, burnout, and exhaustion, we have no such time to find our inner calmness. In secular culture, happiness is often equated with having. You have the best of everything, the best phone, the nicest car, the biggest house. Our modern burning-the-candle-at-both-ends life is leaving us unhappy and unhealthy. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people since everybody is busy keeping themselves busy for no reason. We should break such destructive pattern and tap our mind into our creativity, curiosity, and wisdom and keep ourselves alive.
Spirituality is great wisdom and power within us that we will be able to tap into that in times of need, and persevere. It is more protective and it shapes us to be in certain discipline and in a better health. Spiritual disciplines are habits, practices, and experiences that are designed to develop, grow, and strengthen certain qualities of our inner self, so called spirit — to build the quality of inner life. They train the soul that lead them to healthy mind and body.
Personal spirituality is anything that connects you to the liveliness of being human, discovering a new part of yourself, and being fully alive, being connected with our inner being, co-beings, nature and completely our eco system. The ability to personalize our experience is one of the most beautiful things about modern spirituality. If there’s something that stirs inside whenever we hear words like solitude, silence, simplicity, the spiritual disciplines are for us.
There’s a strong cultural pull to find value and meaning in what you own and what you do. As a discipline, simplicity seeks to counterbalance that influence by encouraging you to want less and to prioritize your focus and time better and being more productive while doing less. It’s popular these days for people to say they are “spiritual but not religious.” What this usually means is that they still see a deeper, and even deeper meaning in life, but don’t want their views and pursuit of it to get stitched together in by institutional rules and inflexible dogmas, doctrines, and traditions. Personal spirituality, the thinking goes, should be completely limitless and free, left to roam and explore wherever an individual wishes. Spirituality should be spontaneous.
While this idea sounds great in theory, it works far poorer in reality. The paradox of not just spirituality, but all creative endeavors, is that the more an individual disciplines his talents and yearnings, the freer and more spontaneous he can be, as we know that finding our life means giving away the culture of having the best. Simplicity is the practice of letting go and uncluttering your life, so you can live for the things that really matter. We must practice spiritual fundamentals if we wish our soul to become capable of producing great beauty, of improvising the right moral decisions, at the right times, for the right reasons. Joy awaits anyone who seeks to master a craft, including the craft of the soul.
Learning spirituality means self-discipline in the little things of life that prepares the way for greater things. On the other hand, those who are undisciplined in small matters will likely be undisciplined in more important issues. When it comes to a person’s integrity and credibility, there are no small issues. Self discipline for a spiritual seeker means deliberately aligning our energy with our values and priorities. Through mental practice we focus in on a task before us and let other temptations and distractions pass us by.
Self-discipline need not be harsh; it can take the form of a quiet resolve or determination that directs our choices. It is exacting our inner self for higher thjngs. Self-discipline allows us to make use of whatever power and capabilities have been given us, to be all that we can in the higher version of ourselves.
– Manimozhi Ilango🌹
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