Some may not think Spiritual Awareness is an attitude worth cultivating. Some may not be aware that spiritual awareness is an attitude or state of being that one can be in or out of just as happiness or sadness is an attitude or state of being one can be in or out of.
Many people think that spiritual awareness means not being hooked or snared by the problems of other people. One of the challenges is that people want to apply the same measurements in the form of accomplishments and stuff accumulated. and people often forget about the internal – external balance that is a result of more spiritual awareness.
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Of course, our societal bias is understandable. Creation usually manifests in an externally measurable way, making it a convenient basis for interpersonal organizing — for communication, comparison and differentiation. The downside, though, is that we start losing subtle value. Even a creative paragon of our times, Albert Einstein, reminds us of the limitation of this approach. “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
Our rational minds want to ensure progress, but our intuitive minds need space for the emergent, unknown and unplanned to arise. Within the existing paradigm, the external comes first, the internal takes a backseat, and in deference to measurability, we become more tuned in to doing than to being.
The problem isn’t in the doing per se, but rather in the nature of the doing. When we aren’t aware internally, we get so vested in our plans and actions, that we don’t notice the buildup of mental residue. So the momentum of “forward-thinking doing” continues in the mind. In that kind of state, even nature’s imposed breaks aren’t restful: we have trouble falling asleep, or even resting soundly. The mind just doesn’t relax.
The secret to more balance lies in how we frame our efforts. A reporter once asked Mahatma Gandhi, “Mr. Gandhi, you’ve been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don’t you ever feel like taking a few weeks off and going for a vacation?” Gandhi laughed and said, “Why? I am always on vacation.” He was unconflicted, doing exactly what he wanted to do, without creating stress in his mind. Gandhian scholar Eknath Easwaran’s explanation for it: “Because he had no personal irons in the fire, no selfish concerns involved in his work, there was no conflict in his mind to drain his energy.”
Of course, few people can authentically say that they are doing everything exactly the way they want. But it’s a progression. And while we can’t flip the pattern of subtle inner conflicts right away, we can chip away at them little by little. As we strengthen our ability to observe what’s happening within, we recognize areas of internal misalignment.
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What Ekanath Eswaran was attempting to convey is that Gandhi had gotten to the point where he was able to unhook from what he saw around himself in the world, which removed all resistance so his mind didn’t event blocks to keep his energy from flowing. In other words spiritual awareness has everything to do with alignment of inner and outer self which unhooks you from you and what you perceive everything else to be. You can increase your spiritual awareness and align more with who you are because there are some very cutting edge techniques that make that possible today.
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