Check in with spirit to prevent malnourishment
Feeling down? Hurt and distressed? I t could be time for a little spiritual rehab.
I wrote about this in August and talked about the importance of making a course correction in your life when we're feeling off-kilter and unhappy.
Spiritual rehab is a way to get back to your core self. It's a way back to spirit and that place where we feel accepted and valued just as we are.
Spiritual malnourishment
One of my clients, Beverly, decided to embark on the spiritual rehab process. From the outside looking in, Beverly had a great life. She was a successful attorney and a single mom of two teenagers. But, while she felt her life was a "success" she experienced feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction when she wasn't busy managing all of the details.
Beverly, like so many, was experiencing a form of spiritual malnourishment. When she slowed down, she noticed a few things mission from her life.
If you have to stay busy and distracted to feel okay, that's a sign that you are also separating from spirit and that never feels good.
When Beverly recognized this in herself, she began a Daily Spiritual Check-In.
Getting quiet to hear inner guidance
In Beverly's process she would do some short meditations and contemplative exercises. At first, she felt uncomfortable. But after about two weeks, the quiet time actually got easier and her life dreams – to be more active in her community, to have a loving relationship – became clear again.
This prompted her to ask her Higher Self for guidance about how to pursue these two goals. From there inspiration took over and she took some specific actions toward her dreams.
When you set-up your own Spiritual Check-in you may want to choose two or three daily practices – journaling, meditation, yoga, that help you get quiet so that you can hear your inner voices speak. This not only nourishes your spirit but it fills the emptiness you're experienced and leads you toward inspired action.
In Wednesday's post, I'll include some tips and strategies that will help you develop your own Spiritual Check-In practice.
Julie Rudiger, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in the Denver area. She specializes in couples/relationship issues, and adult mental health.
