Flex Your Spiritual Muscles

It’s Time to Flex Your Spiritual Muscles and  Ascend to New Heights
Rev Kat Carroll

When we want to lose weight or get stronger, we focus on our core strength. We lift weights or use resistance training in order to get stronger. Without that resistance, pushing against something heavy, we would not develop.

It’s very much like that with spiritual growth.

In the early 1900’s Rudolph Steiner introduced Anthroposophy where he wrote and lectured on the concept of the fourfold human. He explains that It’s based on the idea that human beings are composed of four interdependent aspects: the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body, and the ego. This is similar to Hindu, Buddhist, and other spiritual or religious beliefs and practices.

We should want to develop our subtle body after working on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. The  subtle body is the ego, the mind, memories, the unconscious, the subconscious, and the supra-conscious aspects of the human being. Some would call this our psyche and it’s trained by our life experiences.

When we are young, we learn to crawl, then walk and eventually run. It takes practice and perseverance to gain the strength required to stand on our own. Until then, we have objects to brace against and the loving assistance of our family.

Spiritual and subtle body training is similar.

Without something to push against, societies become stagnant or fall into decay. Growth is possible but development is slow. We have observed this in the rise and fall of civilizations across history. Every now and then, mankind takes a leap of faith and rises to the occasion. But it’s generally after some event, sometimes threatening or cataclysmic, that pushes us to the edge and acts as a catalyst for change.  Changes also occur when working together in cooperation by sharing ideas and information which engenders transformation of society. It’s beautiful and amazing how our individual experiences ripple out and affect so many others in the world!

I trained horses for 3 decades. I rode in parades and even through riots while working law enforcement.  Horses pick up on subtle energies and thoughts (and so do people around you). When I was riding on the trails, if I saw something that might spook my steed, and was feeling fear, I projected that onto him, and you can guess what might happen. If I was looking down instead of where I wanted to go, he would some times stumble. The lesson, look at the positive things, project confidence, and know where you’re going!

Let’s go back to the analogy of muscle training and needing some form of resistance. While we use weights, pullies, and other devices to strengthen our core, the spiritual realm also provides resistance by placing obstacles in our path. We are presented with challenging people, circumstances and world events that seem quite unpleasant. But we need to look deeper and from a higher perspective.

It’s easy to get sucked into the quagmire of negative thoughts and emotions. But there is subtle body training taking place. A rose has thorns, but it’s also beautiful to behold and emits a pleasant fragrance. Are you spending more time focusing on the thorns than the beauty and wonder in the world? Do you share the beauty or share the suffering you see? Are you influencing others to grow, or holding their attention on heavy information that keeps them in lower emotional states, or helping them rise up?

The pandemic was horrible. But look at the great awakening it caused in global consciousness. Crazy laws, mandates, and restrictions were enacted by seemingly demonic world leaders. But look at the unity it created in the people of every continent. We can see how they rallied together to protect, protest, and seek better ways to govern, grow food, and deal with health issues naturally. That’s the silver lining in the storm clouds. We should look for the silver linings and take time to stop and smell the roses more often.

Our spiritual eyes have been  opened, and many are still rubbing sleep from them. This is the attunement and  core strengthening of our subtle body. With an open inner eye, you’ll have more appreciation of those people and events that cause suffering, but only as long as you allow. Look to the positive things and lessons from those encounters and see the bigger picture from higher, even heavenly perspectives. You, as an angelic or spiritual being, are having a human experience in order to further develop your soul and strengthen your spiritual wings in preparation for ascension.

As you continue your walk through life, be kind to yourself and others on this journey. Look for the positive in all things. The good you do in the world will be carried over into the next in your subtle body… It’s all you get to take with you!

I’ll leave you with some wisdom from Maya Angelou, who’s struggles in life lead to a transformation and ability to write and share beautiful stories.  This piece is  titled, Continue.

My wish for you is that you continue.

Continue

To be who and how you are.
To astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Continue

To allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.

Continue

In a society dark with cruelty
to let people hear the grandeur of God in the peals of your laughter.

Continue

To let your eloquence elevate the people to heights they had only imagined.

Continue

To remind the people that each is as good as the other
and that no one is beneath nor above you.

Continue

To remember that your own young years and look with favor
upon the lost, the least, and the lonely.

Continue

To put the mantle of your protection
around the bodies of the young and defenseless.

Continue

To take the hand of the despised and diseased
and walk proudly with them in the high street.
Some might see you and be encouraged to do likewise.

Continue

To plant a public kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick, the aged and infirm,
and count that as a natural action to be expected.

Continue

To let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel
to say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil
and welcome good.

Continue

To ignore no vision
which comes to enlarge your range and increase your spirit.

Continue

To float happily in the sea of infinite substance
which set aside riches for you before you had a name.

Continue

And by doing so, you and your work
will be able to continue
eternally.

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