We know that you have lives to live there on Earth and that your lives can be very busy, very hectic indeed, filled with responsibilities and things you have to do. We know that some of you then wonder when you will be able to set aside time for your spiritual work. Some of you wonder, ‘How am I going to fit meditation in to my life today?’ Or you might wonder how you will get to that retreat that you want to go to when you have so many responsibilities at home.
Of course it is nice to have all the time in the world to meditate, channel, commune with nature, go to retreats, and do other workshops that you want to do. But in reality, you want to apply all the principles that you are learning from spiritual texts, spiritual teachers, channeled messages and all the other ways you have of consuming spiritual teachings. What you have already come to know you must apply to your lives, and so as you navigate through your busy, hectic life, you want to be aware of what you have learned and apply it to the situations you find yourselves in.
You want to put it to the test, and you want to benefit from what you know. You want to go beyond theory and into practice. And so, when you don’t have enough time to meditate in a day, then practice more mindfulness, which is being present with what you are doing instead of thinking about something else while you’re doing something completely unrelated to it.
You can practice conscious breathing, you can stand in yoga poses, you can catch thirty seconds of meditation here and thirty seconds of meditation there whenever you can. You can practice kindness, compassion, service, selflessness, all while moving through an everyday ordinary average day in the life of you. And so, we recommend that you stop lamenting the fact that you don’t have enough time to do all the spiritual practices you think you need to do in order to be a spiritually-evolved person and recognize instead that all the problems in your life, and all the people, are there to get you to grow spiritually, and they are there in the exact ways that they are meant to be there.
Let your life and all the people in your life be your teacher, and know that you have everything that you already need to know inside of you. On top of that, you have moment-to-moment guidance coming to you through your feelings. You can always check in with your gut to see what type of guidance you are getting from above. You can check-in with all kinds of parts of your body to do this, because you’re always getting what you need.
And those of us in the higher realms never take our attention off of you. Give yourselves the gift of believing that your life is the spiritual retreat that it is meant to be, and you will always be growing, always be expanding, always becoming more of who you already really are but haven’t realized yet in this lifetime.
