I learned today that some people are triggered by the word, “spiritual”. If you’re one of these people, I suggest that this might be your higher self nudging you onto a more spiritual path. (below are the annoying words and many, many other things that trigger people).
Meditation, prayer, having a sacred altar, collecting figures of saints and holy people, visiting sacred sites, studying shamanism and ancient traditions, being kind to animals and talking to them as if they have souls, looking at the world as if it’s filled with reincarnated beings, acting as if karma is real and has consequences, imaging heaven, looking up at the stars, walking in nature, seeking ecstasy and rapture and bliss, contemplating the infinite and infinities, listening to sacred music, tantric lovemaking, speaking from your heart, donating to the poor, assisting “people of determination”, chanting, assisting others to be in resourceful states, spreading calm with your presence, imaging that you radiate light, practicing hatha yoga or Bhakti yoga or kundalini yoga, doing fire breath, singing in a group, seeking harmony and rapport, avoiding violence even in movies, choosing love over fear every time, lying naked in the sun and being grateful for photons or swimming naked in the sea and being grateful for the life giving qualities of water, imagining you are flying or actually flying, reading sacred texts, teaching children, scratching the heads of cats or bellies of dogs, feeding birds and putting out water for animals...
...these things are, to me, being spiritual.
If you don’t go to church, temple or mosque but you do these things or seek these contemplative blissful sensory experiences over hedonism, materialism, and endless consumption of food and entertainment, then to me that’s being spiritual but not religious.
And that’s opening tiny portals between heaven and our realm.