Spiritual Awakening: A New Year’s Cleanse!!!

 As I awoke today (1/1/2015) it was only fitting that it was raining outside. While some would curse the rain  and complain I took it as a sign of  cleansing to start fresh. As the rain continued to fall I thought about growth and the idea of growing and expanding personally, professionally, and spiritually.  If you are to truly expand you need to shrink first and eliminate that which no longer serves you like the rain eliminates the foliage that has died so a tree can have new life and bear fruit you must eliminate that which mo longer serves you. If you are to expand professionally you must shrink your focus to the things that will help you move forward in a positive direction of your dreams. If you have to many things to offer you may be trying to hard to be good at all of them when you can be great at a few of them. In order to expand spiritually you must shrink your focus to 1 or two principles and then master those so that you can build upon them. If you want to become proficient at meditation pick a few spiritual leaders to follow instead of trying to follow every spiritual leader out there. Pick 2 or three that truly resonate with you and study them and then apply their teachings. Instead of attending every seminar that is offered pick one or two that resonate with you. If you have a library of personal or spiritual development books that you are not using  and that can be handed on to others take a moment to clean out the library and begin to shrink down the collection and begin to apply that which truly resonates with you.

 There are many great tools to help you conduct a cleanse for The New Year. One tool I found is this Tibetan Meditation that will help you get center and focused so that you can achieve the goals that you have set forth for 2015. Each day we have an opportunity to cleanse and remove that which doesn’t serve us. Sometimes it is simply clearing our minds through meditation so that we can make better decisions  that will enhance our personal, professional, and spiritual lives.  I have found that after listening to a meditation like this I am able to evaluate many of the aspects in my life effectively as it relates to people, place, or things. If you know someone is toxic to your well being then make it a point to not associate with that person. If you know certain places are bad triggers for your personal and spiritual well being then do your best not to go to those places. If you have things in your life that are detrimental to your well being do your best to eliminate them.  The key is to understand that sometimes shrinking actually expands us personally, professionally, and spiritually.