On Spiritual Practice

It goes without any saying that most of the tasks in the world are the toughest right at the beginning. Similarly for spiritual practice. Maria Duval tells me that even though a person may have the best thoughts to better the quality of life and to connect more with one's partnership with own spirit, it is at the start that a divide must be formed among many other rivalling options so that what did not exist before can be given space within an otherwise squeezed and dedicated life.

Having determined to proceed with such a habit, the initial step that is needed is to: be basic. Embark on you can gain and don't hope to attempt what seems unlikely to do or infeasible to do. Slowly, higher degree of challenge can be appended.

Next, please be creative. What is most crucial in establishing contact with the indwelling Spirit and with the spiritual around oneself is to be in a place that feels sacred, a place that communicates a sense of the higher realms and of the invisible, not a place that is ordinary or filled with the vibrations of others. Allow your creativity to find a way to define or locate a sacred space in which you can create an altar which represents your commitment to your spiritual practice.

Also, be committed. Be obliging to settle in front of your altar and breathe quietly with your hand over your heart center in the center of your chest, allowing your mind to let go of thoughts as best as it can. In beginning, there is no more needed than this: to sit, to breathe, to bring energy to your heart center, to try to empty your mind.

Frequent practice of this very simple kind, whether for fifteen or twenty minutes daily as Maria Duval suggests, will begin to make an inroad into your body's knowledge of what is actually happening. It will begin to open the lines of communication between your everyday physical self and your soul-self that exists as another layer of your being.