The real act of spirituality is to achieve one’s own potential. If a religious inclination predominates, this may be referred to as the quest for individual Moksha. If the religious framework is not vital in your life, this process could be termed full self-realization. In either case, the goal is a level of power over cause-and-effect relationships. This is a sound art with a definite end.
Each spiritual system has a background in shared traditions or written texts. This may be a series of scientific studies or the stories of others who have already become skilled in the practice at hand. This forms the basis for a new way of life, including establishing new dietary procedures, new rituals of physical and mental exercises, and unique behavior approaches. In any case, the individual incorporates some practice which yields greater command of natural processes.
In these various types of modern spiritual systems, the initial practitioner may be a doctor, scientist, other health professionals, a meditation teacher, or a coach. Eventually, the member or student is expected to become his or her own practitioner at some level. The idea almost inevitably involves obtaining greater mastery over one’s body and mind through understanding the total energy at the source of life.
Standard terms for this primary energy are prana, the Indian word for breath, or chi, the Chinese word for life energy. Western terms may include mental power, life force, inner knowledge, or inner strength. The use of scientific psychology for increased personal and health achievement thus forms a belief system that merges many traditional elements of magic and religion.
The lines between science, religion, and magic are increasingly porous. Furthermore, the lines can be drawn in a separate place depending on the spiritual practices under study. This situation attempts to establish distinct definitions of science, religion, and magic is quite challenging academically. However, for the individual, the distinctions are indeed academic. The increased levels of health, harmony, and peace that can be achieved in various ways are what really matters.
Self-realization
Self-realization is extracting knowledge of the true self, either as the unchanging undying atman (inner self) or as the absence (sunyata) of such a permanent self.
Self-realization is the revelation of our inner-self — the realization that we are not the physical body, the bodily form that we consider ourselves to be, but the energy within that form that gives us life. Most of us are powerless to recognize this because of the world we live in because of our mind, which makes us believe that we are the pride and ego and the senses that make us desire sensual pleasures. Our mind restricts us. It limits our spiritual experience. It is unable to concentrate and focus on the energy that lies beyond this bodily form. For purposes unknown to us, we are unaware of the truth.
Self-realization and Spirituality
Spirituality is everything to do with the soul, the spirit, and the life energy that lies within us. Why is that necessary? Because energy is everything! If there is no energy within us, then we are erased, then there is empiness. The only thing that absolutely exists is this energy, which we don’t really realize. We think that we are the body; we are the mind when we are the spirit in reality. Therefore, spirituality is the study of the soul, the study of the spirit. It is being conscious of who we indeed are.
To avoid a blurry and vague life, spirituality is the journey you must try exploring. You will find clarity.
