Air, power, and smoke
3 Things You Must Master to Have a Smooth Spiritual Journey
Without mastering these things, you become like a dry leaf in a wind storm
1. Breathwork
When the spiritual journey starts to get crazy, and it will, you have to learn to breathe to calm yourself down.
Breath is the foundation of Spirit-uality.
Your breath is one of the most sacred parts of your existence. If you don’t know how to breathe properly, your journey will be chaotic.
You are probably wondering, “Don’t we all breathe already?” The answer is no. We don’t breathe deep enough into our lungs. Most of us take shallow breaths because we aren’t very deep.
If you’re deep, you will breathe deeply.
Deep breathing is crucial to connecting with your body, especially those of us who disconnected from our bodies because of trauma and being too sensitive.
Your breath is there to help you heal, purge old energy and toxins, and invite in new and invigorating energy.
Breathing positively alters the body, mind, heart, and spirit. When you take deep breaths and you do it often, you immediately come out of your mind and into your body.
Breathing helps unlock trauma and unblock the chakras, especially the throat and the heart, to get the energy flowing.
Wise spiritual teachers advise us to breathe during meditation when we’re connecting to God, the universe, and the gods, so it should tell you how crucial breathwork is.
Your breath is the physical manifestation of your chi, prana, or life force energy.
Whenever things feel heavy and need to feel lighter, breathe. Whenever you’re working through difficult emotions, breathe. When you feel frazzled and need to calm down, take a deep breath, count to 4 and let it all out.
Your breath is one of the most sacred parts of existence. If you don’t know how to breathe properly, your journey will be harder than necessary.
2. Intention
You need to set an intention for every single thing you do on your spiritual journey. If you’re not setting intentions, then you’re just playing around.
When you intend to do something, especially when you say it out loud or you write it, it reinforces the energy of the intention. You can also set powerful intentions in thought by seeing the outcome in your mind’s eye and anticipating what it is you’re intending.
Your conscious intention is one of the powerful things you can use to support your transformation. You must set a strong intention for the things you intend to heal, transform, achieve, or attract.
Do you want to attract wealth and abundance? You need to set an intention for it. Do you want to attract a specific person into your life? You need a very strong intention for it to manifest.
Do you have things you want to heal? Setting an intention is crucial in any type of inner healing or self-transformation work. The intention you put out into the universe is going to decide whether your healing occurs or not. Whatever you focus on, you bring energy to it and it grows.
Before you achieve anything, you must believe you can. To set powerful intentions, you have to believe what you’re intending is already yours. If you can’t believe it, then it’s just a joke.
You must stand strong in your power to set strong intentions. You must know who you are. The more you are in your power, the more powerful your intentions will be and the faster they will manifest. To be in your power, you must be strong in your solar plexus chakra.
3. Smudging
The moment you declare yourself spiritual, you are breaking out of the matrix and you must understand that you will be attacked.
You will be tricked, fooled, and deceived. It happens so you get distracted and do not embark on the spiritual journey where you’ll find your true power.
The enemy doesn't want you to have any power. He will send energy vampires who will come around to steal your energy and drain you of every desire to root yourself deep into your spirituality. He will try to lead you towards places and things that will dampen your spirit and bring you down to your feet, wondering what in the world you're doing here.
And it's even worse if you're an empath. It can make life a living hell when you’re always living with energies you picked up that don't belong to you.
That's why smudging is so useful on your spiritual journey. Smoke is one of the most effective energy purifiers there is.
Smudging with sage, Palo Santo, myrrh, frankincense, etc. can remove any outside energies that can harm your mind, body, and soul and bring in positive energy.
Skeptics may say smudging is woo and therefore doesn’t work and they may be right. Maybe it doesn’t work on its own, but put a smudge stick into the hand of a powerful spiritual person who knows how to set powerful intentions and the stick will rush to work. Why? Because he or she commanded it to work and it did.
These things are to be used as compliments.
They themselves do not have any power. The power is within you. You are the one to give them power. If you aren’t in your power, they are powerless.
Without a strong intention and power, you might as well just use your myrhh as a fragrance stick and nothing more. They do smell good!
Note: This article is meant to provide spiritual guidance and light-hearted content. It isn’t based on scientific research.
