Spiritual Growth Challenge of Modern Times
Spiritual Growth Challenge of Modern Times
In a world defined by power, money, and influence, spiritual growth is a Herculean task.Electronic equipments, gadgets, and tools as well as entertainment through television, magazines, and the web have predisposed us to confine our attention mostly to physical needs and wants. The result are muddled in our concepts of self-worth and self-meaning.
How can we strike a balance between the material and grow our spiritual aspects of our lives?
- Recognize interconnections
Religions stress the concept of our relatedness to all creation, live and inanimate. Thus we call other people “brothers and sisters” even if there are no direct blood relations.
Moreover, we recognize that certain religions speak of the relationship between humans and a higher being. Science also expounds on our link to other living things through the evolution theory. This relatedness is clearly seen in the concept of ecology, the interaction between living and non-living things.
Through psychology, connectedness is a characteristic of self-transcendence, the highest human need
Recognizing your connection to all things makes you more humble and respectful of people, animals, plants, and things in nature. It just make us appreciate everything around us. It drive us to go beyond our comfort zone and reach out to other people, and become stewards of all other things around us too.
- Look inward
Introspection goes beyond recalling the things that happened in a day, week, or month. Look closely and reflect on your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Always take your own time to examining your experiences, the decisions you make, the relationships you have, and the things you engage in provide useful insights on your life goals, on the good traits you must sustain and the bad traits you have to discard.
Moreover, it gives you clues on how to act, react, and conduct yourself in the midst of any situation. Like any skill, introspection can be learned; all it takes is the courage and willingness to seek the truths that lie within you.
Be objective, be forgiving of yourself, and focus on your areas for improvement.
- Search for meaning
Religions that believe in the existence of God, any religion, suppose that the purpose of the human life is to serve the Creator of all things. Several theories in psychology propose that we ultimately give meaning to our lives.
Whether life’s meaning is pre-determined or self-directed, to grow in spirit is to realize that we do not merely exist. Meaning of our lives at birth unknown to us; but we gain knowledge and wisdom from our interactions with people and from our actions and reactions to the situations we are in.
There are certain beliefs and values that we reject and affirm as we learned the meaning further. Lives must have purpose. It puts all our physical, emotional, and intellectual potentials into use; sustains us during trying times; and gives us something to look forward to.
A goal to achieve, a destination to reach. A person without purpose or meaning is like a drifting ship at sea of no end.
- Develop your potentials
Religion and science have differing views on matters of the human spirit. Religion views people as spiritual beings temporarily living on Earth, while science views the spirit as just one dimension of an individual.
The needs of the body are recognized but placed under the needs of the spirit. Beliefs, values, morality, rules, experiences, and good works provide the blueprint to ensure the growth of the spiritual being.
-Psychologically, realizing one’s full potential is to self-actualize.
-Identify our needs:
Physiological, security, belongingness, esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and self-transcendence.
-We needs this three stuff:
Material, emotional, and spiritual.
Once we satisfied with the basic of physiological and emotional needs, spiritual or existential needs come next.Once each need achieved, it will lead us to the total development of the individual.
For me, self-development and psychology both means toward serving God and also serving people relationship and life meaning overall.
It is an ongoing process of our daily encounter to grow the spirit. We win some, we lose some. Important thing is that we keep on learning, and from this knowledge, further spiritual growth is made possible.
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Very well written and a lot of thought put into it. Yes, our spirituality is of cardinal importance, it is a pillar we should strive to build on as we expand our knowledge. In the end, it will enrich our values, insights and help to discover our purpose in life........indeed I agree with you that to have a purpose in life is the key to success.
In the words of a fantastic life coach and business mentor - Seth Godin -"Motivation gets us started and Habit keeps us going"
Many thanks for sharing and God Bless.
Johan.
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Work your way to the success further over here at WA, my friend.
Thanks and welcome, cheers :)