Today many of us are on some sort of spiritual path. We now live in a world where spiritual seeking has become normal. The more we normalize something the more it evaporates, becoming one with society. This can make our spiritual growth difficult to measure. What can we use to measure our conscious growth in a world that is beginning to waking up?
I grew up in a very religious family, branching out on my own to find new spiritual practices at a young age. For some, growing up religious can have that evaporating effect. Taking something that was meant to make us more conscious and essentially anesthetizing our connection to the light. As I ventured out into the world of spirituality I found it to be exhilarating. I could feel myself coming back to life with every new belief I studied and practice I implemented. Nothing was evaporating and my consciousness was becoming tangible. I could feel it and this made measuring my conscious growth easy. I could look at where I had started and see the changes in who I was as I consumed everything I could.
Before I built structure into my beliefs, I found myself being spiritually promiscuous. This is something all seekers go through and usually grow out of (we can talk about why another time). My knowledge of religion, spirituality, and practices was deepening but my transformation was beginning to slow down. We tend to confuse knowledge with consciousness quite often, or at least I did.
“Having a teacher became my litmus test for spiritual development.”
I was lucky in this life to find my teacher when I was sixteen. She become the measurement I needed to keep my consciousness growing and strengthening. We would talk about concepts and dissect ideas but the measurement came when I watched her in action. Having a teacher became my litmus test for spiritual development.
Through my twelve years of spiritual seeking and study, I have found two things that help me measure my growth and a conscious person.
Finding a teacher that I could look up to and develop a relationship with gave me a sense of where I was and where I could be.
When buying a pair of shoes for $100, choosing to pay $150.
With these two tools I am certain anyone can begin to change the world.
-DB