Don’t Get Too Caught Up in Spirit

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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