If you are like most of us you probably have enough things on your to-do list already and
the idea of putting something else on there can be quite overwhelming and actually that's maybe
one of the reasons why it's so difficult for us or challenging for us to start new habits or to
start bringing different practices that are good for us into our lives because our days are so full
already but in this video today I want to talk to you about five essential spiritual practices
which I believe has the ability and the effect that it changes our inner experience and in turn
makes us more resilient it changes the way that we experience our lives and it has the effect of
giving us that sense of inner peace and inner well-being so in this video we're going to look at
what are spiritual practices what are the benefits of having a regular type of spiritual practice
in your life and then finally I'm going to share with you my five spiritual practices which I think
will create the biggest shift in your life when you start using them if this is the first time
that you are watching one of my videos welcome to our community my name is Tertia I'm an EFT
practitioner and a coach and I help you get unstuck and break through the things that
hold you back so that you can feel better and live better please introduce yourself say hello
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into what is a spiritual practice now to me spirituality means being aware
spirituality gives meaning and purpose to our lives and to me a spiritual practice then
is any conscious activity or action that you undertake in an attempt to get closer to God
and to foster that connection with God or Source or All -That-Is spiritual practices are things that
we do every day it is a way of life it's not an activity that you do first thing in the morning
and then you forget about it for the rest of the day but it's really about a way of being
it's about a way of becoming where you take these things that you practice you create habits out of
this and these habits you take with you into your everyday life now spiritual practices can improve
our lives because every time that we foster this connection that we deepen this connection to God
we are in fact raising our own positive emotions because you generate a feeling of well-being and
wellness and peace and content when we when we access our God energy when we connect to Source
and this is then the ultimate aim of a spiritual practice isn't it it's to create that sense of
of wellness and that sense of peace when we talk about our emotions you'll find that the emotions
are laid on a scale and we have the lower vibrational emotions at the bottom and the
more positive our emotions become such as joy and gratitude and bliss the higher our vibrations
become and I've created a video last week where I spoke about the five mindset shifts that we can
implement to begin to create a different vibration for ourselves and I'll put that video up here
and it will also be linked in the description below through our spiritual practice we then
foster these positive emotions which contributes to our sense of well-being but not only that a
spiritual practice has the effect of connecting us deeper to our higher self through our higher
selves through that connection of the higher selves we can begin to remember who we are
we can begin to remember that we are not small little human beings living a struggling life but
that we are indeed our true nature is that of love of unconditional love now what happens is the ego
comes in and the ego tries to convince us that we are surrounded by lack that we are surrounded by
scarcity the ego lives on fear it teaches us that that we need to judge and criticize and protect
ourselves in order to survive and through these spiritual practices the effect is that we begin
to break down the hold that the ego mind has over us and in turn we become to stand stronger in our
own inner power and in our own divine connection to source energy when we start to live like this
as a way of life as a way of being then whenever hardship faces us or whenever you know a challenge
comes across our path or whenever we get into a struggle or a conflict situation with a person
it is a lot easier for us to come back to our center if we have cultivated this connection with
our higher self and with God through our spiritual practices so the first practice that I have to
share with you is that of meditation and this is such a crucial crucial crucial skill to develop
and it really is a skill because the more you do it the better you become at it now the reason why
meditation is such an important spiritual practice is because through meditation you hear
your intuition you get access to all of the information that the universe wants to share with
you you get your insights you get your answers and it only works through meditation because
for the rest of the times in our lives we're usually too busy our thoughts are occupied
with all kinds of different things you know you've got mind chatter going on you you have
so many things going on that there's not enough quietness or silence is probably the better word
there's not enough silence for any messages to come in the best way that I can explain to you
how to meditate is to simply close your eyes and go within so that means put your attention in your
center and when you notice that you are thinking about your to-do list or you are thinking about
when you need to pick up the kids from school or what you need to make for dinner or what you
have to say in this presentation later today then simply bring your attention back into your center
and then you'll notice again that you start thinking about all of these things that you do and
as soon as you realize that you are thinking about these things then you simply and calmly bring your
attention back to your center and it might be that this is the only thing that you do for the entire
time that you're sitting down to meditate but that is how we build that skill of meditating
so that then is the first practice when you begin to develop this ability to go within
that is when you access your intuition that is when you get messages that is when you begin
to receive symbols and information from the universe and from your guides from God
about decisions that you need to make or paths that you need to choose so we get our answers
by becoming quiet the second spiritual practice is prayer we have a whole team out
there waiting to hear from us and the way that we communicate with him the way that we speak to god
the way that we speak to our spirit guides the way that we speak to our angels is through prayer
now you don't need to dress in a certain way or have your body in a certain position or do
certain things with your hand you simply talk you can speak out loud you can speak silently in your
head you can just think the thoughts but prayer is how we talk about our wants and our desires
and our fears and we lay this onto an energy and a power that is greater than ourselves through
prayer we begin to learn that we don't have to carry all of our stresses and all of our burdens
by ourselves and just this meditation is where we receive information prayer is how we give
information now i can remember as a little girl i always used to think that you had to pray in
a certain way and it had to be very formal and my prayers usually started off with all of the
things that i did wrong and that i was begging for forgiveness for but prayer is not like that
the way that i understand prayer today is that it is really an expression of my heart it's an
expression of what's going on for me and how i'm feeling and it's really like you would talk to
a loved one where you have a good conversation about the things that are laying on your heart
and that are important to you the third spiritual practice that i have for you is to
do some energy clearing i've spoken about this in some of my videos before as well and i will
link some of them up here and you will find videos in the description box below as well
now our energy field every day as we go around and about our business as we interact with other
people as we have our own thoughts and our belief systems and our processes filtering through our
experiences our energy body collects dirt let's call it that and this dirt can kind of accumulate
and it builds up and if we are not careful these get stuck and they contribute to keeping our
belief system strong and our belief system in place now what this accumulation of energy that
we build up also does is it brings our chakras out of balance now your chakras are the energy centers
in your body that not only relate to some of your physical organs but they also are responsible for
your emotional and your physical well-being so they're responsible for the exchange of energy
energy coming in and energy going out so the way that i like to clear my chakras and my energy
field is by simply imagining that i'm breathing in a white light into each of the energy centers
i breathe in and then like a little swoosh i just give it a cleaning out and then i exhale all of
the energy that is ready to be released and as i exhale i visualize that it goes down into my
grounding cord and into the earth so there really are very different techniques that you can use and
experiment and play around with you'll also find a lot of guided meditations here on youtube so
just search for for clearing the chakras i've also created a guided meditation which i'll
link for you in the description below all right now moving on to the fourth spiritual practice
fourth now the fourth practice is to practice gratitude daily gratitude and i like to do my
gratitude list first thing in the morning and the reason for this is i believe that
as soon as you wake up before you've had time to kind of process your day and your life and what
you need to do if you just sit down and write down the five things that you are grateful for
that immediately shifts you into an energy of abundance it shifts your whole vibrational
state because when you are thinking in terms of gratitude when you are grateful for the things
in your life and you you feel that abundance it's very difficult thing to fall back into a scarcity
mindset or a mindset of lack so get yourself a little journal and begin your mornings by writing
down five things that you're grateful for it's a much healthier and and more beneficial way than
starting your day scrolling through social media for example all right and now moving on to my last
spiritual practice the spiritual practice number five that's going to help you raise your vibration
and that is to create awareness to begin to develop awareness around
your thoughts and really this is to begin to discern am i speaking from ego
or am i speaking from my higher self who is in charge who's busy running the show right now
now the thing is when we are an ego mindset you'll notice that your your thoughts are all tinged with
with fear and scarcity and lack and judgment and criticism and when you are in this space of fear
of anxiety of of feeling the need to control then it's very difficult to start making decisions
based on trust because all your actions are driven by fear in ego mind we notice all of
the things that are wrong with ourselves wrong with our lives wrong with the people in our lives
in ego mind we notice all of the things that we don't have and every time that we notice
that we are an ego mind we create that gap for the higher self to come through we create that gap
for ourselves to to connect to our true nature to connect to who we really are at our core i always
think of these practices as a way of becoming it's like a muscle we develop it's a new skill set
that we learn and some days you'll find that it is very easy and you are in flow and everything
is beautiful and then other days not so much but it is then on those days that you can forgive and
have compassion and self-understanding and most of all be grateful to yourself for continuing to
becoming a better version of who you are i hope that you enjoyed this video and if you did please
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