Don’t Get Too Caught Up in Spirit

May 21, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

As we begin to hear and connect with our spirit guides, our higher self, out intuition, or anything else connecting to the spiritual realm, it can be very tempting to spend all of our time there with spirit. It’s fun and exciting. It is peaceful and reassuring. It can give us a sense of purpose and clarity we don’t often feel in our minds or our bodies. Yet, it is not in our best interest to focus solely on our spiritual side and forget to take care of our mind or body for a number of reasons.

First and foremost, our minds and our bodies are what make us human. While it has been said countless time that we are spirits having a physical experience, choosing to focus only on our spiritual nature and ignoring the mind and physical nature disconnects us from our full human experience. Our soul chose to take human form and it chose our specific body as the vehicle in which it will fulfill its mission for this lifetime. If we do not accept, own and embrace our human form – our body and our mind – we cannot deliver the message we came here to share with the world.

Second, staying primarily in the spiritual side of ourselves can lead to adverse physical and mental effects, such as anxiety, lack of focus, and not caring for our bodies well. I recently experienced this firsthand. Over the past few years, I have been on a fast-track spiritual expansion. As my connection to spirit grew stronger and stronger and guidance came through more easily and clearly, I began spending more time than usual exploring these new-found gifts. Before then, I had been very intentional about staying grounded and have had some of my most profound spiritual breakthroughs when I dedicate time to grounding myself each day.

However, as I got caught up in the excitement of the new abilities I was uncovering, I let this element of my daily practice slide. Ultimately, it led to an imbalance between my mind, body, and spirit that resulted in a few rather uncomfortable panic attacks, which are a very rare occurrence for me. Fortunately, I recognized the connection early on so I was able to correct the issue by taking more time to care for my mind and my body, while also developing my spiritual gifts, before it got out of hand.

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The Importance of Body-Mind-Spirit Balance

May 10, 2023 Melissa Conkling1 Comment

Mind, Body, and Spirit. It’s a trinity you have likely heard before. The three parts of us that comprise our human experience. While it’s a very well-known phrase and seems relatively straight-forward, I believe it is an important concept to review before we go any further on this journey together.

Body

The most straightforward part of the equation is our body. The physical vessel made of skin and bones through which our life as we know it takes place. It is also the physical representation our soul chose for this lifetime.

Mind

Our mind is responsible for all of our “doing” in life. It is made up of two major parts – the conscious and the subconscious minds. The conscious mind is in control of our logic and analysis – all of our intentional thinking. This part of the mind makes up approximately 5-10% of our individual mind power. Our subconscious mind, on the other hand, is where our feelings and emotions live. It’s where our beliefs and imagination reside. It’s where our habits and fears originate. And it’s where our our intuition and psychic abilities arise. The subconscious makes up the other 90-95% of our personal mind power. Together, these parts of our mind create all of our internal dialogue, our actions and reactions in life, which ultimately determine what we do and what we achieve in our lives, both good and bad.

Spirit

Spirit is the eternal part of us that is interconnected to all things, including our guides and the spirit realm. It is by far the most difficult to explain, because this is the part of us that science is yet to define. This will remain the case, because regardless of how much we would all love to know what spirit really is, science uses the mind to define the physical, and spirit is simply something else. Something ineffable. Unfathomable. Many of us innately know that it’s there. But after years of analytical conditioning telling us that without proof, we cannot trust that anything exists, many others doubt it. Spirit is the part of us that requires faith.

When embarking on a journey of spiritual growth and development of any kind, especially connecting directly with the spirit realm, it is important not to neglect the mind and the body. We are always connected to this spiritual side of us, but the only way we can perceive it is through the mind, and the only way we can put it into action is through our body. Even as I write right now, my spirit guide is speaking to me, but it is through my mind, by forming thoughts, and my fingers, by typing on my keyboard, that this sentence makes it onto the page. Mind, body, and spirit work in conjunction and because of this, balancing our time caring for all three is essential. It is how we foster a true mind-body-spirit connection.

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Connecting with Spirit Guides and Your Individuality

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 Melissa Conkling1 Comment

Because all of us have different minds, different bodies, and different souls, our spiritual paths and how we connect to our guides will also be different. While I share my experiences, favorite techniques and exercises, and others I have tried but aren’t for me, I always encourage you to adapt and integrate any of this information and these practices as you feel called to. You can and should test out anything you feel called to and add it into your spiritual journey as you see fit.

Spirituality is Individual

I believe the individuality of the spiritual journey is something that often holds people back from fully exploring and embracing this part of themselves. As humans, we are herd animals. We have survived as a species by sticking together and by repeating what we have survived in the past. Many institutions, from organized religious to cultural societies to schools have used this aspect of humanity to instill in us the idea that we all must do the same practices, embrace similar beliefs,, and exhibit the same behaviors, and if we do, we will all have the same results in the end. However, spirituality is different because our souls are all here for different reasons and we’ve all had different experiences over lifetimes. As such, we will experience our spiritual journey differently. Do we all need certain things to survive? Yes. Food, water, and shelter. But do we all need the same things to thrive? Absolutely not…and it would be a very boring world if we did!

To me, to fully embrace your spiritual connection and to discover and engage with your personal spirit guides and angels, you absolutely must embrace your authenticity and your unique human experience. You much learn to know, accept, and love who you are at soul level, which is the human you came here to this incarnation to be. To do that, you get to do what works for you. In fact, it is essential that you do.

For years, I tried to connect with my spirit guides by following various methods, practices, and meditations. I would follow the instructions to a T. Dedicating myself to mastering this gift. Yet I never seemed to get anywhere. Knowing that I am a highly intuitive person, I saw this inability to connect with my guides as a failure or as a special gift I simply didn’t have even though deep down I knew we all had the ability to do it. I was troubled by the question of why, when so many other spiritual things came to me so easily, could I not seem to communicate with my guides? It made me question myself and my abilities. It made me almost give up on it. And it made me doubt spirit guides even existed.

It wasn’t until I started to follow my own rules – in other words, there are no rules! – that I realized my guides had already been sending me messages for quite some time. When it first began, I realized one had been sending me signs for nearly a year. Now I know I’ve been receiving signs since I was a teenager. The problem was that the communication wasn’t coming through in the ways I had read about and learned. It wasn’t what I expected. It was new and different. And I had been limiting myself to an imitation of others’ experiences with their guides. This is why I urge you to follow your intuition, your inner voice, those seemingly insignificant callings. Each one will be leading you to the correct next step for you on your spiritual journey.

While connecting with your spirit guides may take some time and some patience, and it may also require some trial and error, I can assure you that you do have a whole team of guides waiting for you to receive their messages. You can connect with them any time you choose, and you don’t need to go through anyone else to do it. We all do, and we all can. So please, give yourself some grace. Give yourself some time. Be patient. And most of all, allow yourself to get creative in this endeavor!