5 Weird Things I do to Remind Myself that I am a Spiritual Person

#1 Focus on dripping of the faucet

I am afraid to tell people I am spiritual.

Spiritual has become such a corrupted word that it has lost its essence.

Simply put, spiritual is something that is not physical. Like gravity. You can’t see it, but it’s working as you and I sit here. Another way of seeing it is spirituality is a way to transcend your biological human nature.

Balancing your spiritual core with the materialist life comes with its own sets of challenges. You know you can’t bullshit yourself. You cannot find rescue in drinks and cigarettes, you know you can’t blame God.

My blood boils when I see people pretending to be spiritual by dressing up like an angel and modulating their voice to a haughty tone and talking about stardust and fairy tales. They know all the prophecies and the scriptures but lack common sense.

People usually that are spiritual, don’t talk about heaven, hell, or stardust.

They are not firm believers in any religion, however, they can choose to practice religion.

If you ask them about heaven or hell, they will tell you to first figure out who are you? Who is asking this? Who wants to know about heaven and hell?

There is nothing like a spiritual person and not a spiritual person. Everyone is spiritual. Some people recognize it while some people need few lifetimes.

I say these things are weird because anything sensical you do these days in society is weird.

For Instance, if I sit alone just staring at the wall, just enjoying the present, the mom thinks I need psyche help. Or if I stopped eating nonveg, something is wrong with me.

Anyway, I can keep ranting on and on. I don’t want to waste your time. So here are some weird things I do to remind myself that I am a spiritual person.

1. I Focus on the sound of water drops.

When I enter my washroom, I open the faucet and let the water drip, drip, drip as slowly as possible. I then set my full attention on the sound of the water drop as it hits the bucket.

Why do I do this?

The reasons behind this are twofold.

If you are a creator, your life revolves around creating content. When you are not thinking content, you are thinking about how to reel in more readers, or how to cook a jaw-dropping sentence.

In the rush of this creative madness, we never take time out to be still and truly present. We might write advice on Medium, “incorporate stillness in your life” but not follow it ourselves.

As Ryan Holiday wrote, “Stillness is the key to, well, just about everything.”

So combining the knowledge of habit stacking, I savor my washroom time to cultivate 7 minutes of stillness. The silence between each drop is pure bliss.

Another reason for doing this from mystic and yogi Sadhguru, who tells us the idea behind doing this is to pay attention to something which has no significance or relevance to us.

He says, “People have divided the universe into likes and dislikes. This is important to me that is not important. This person is important for me that person is not important to me.”

The goal of fixating your attention on the drops is to attain everything around you with the same attention. To look at a rock with the same attention as you would look at your partner. Not staying, marry a rock.

2. I have a weird obsession with food.

Before I used to gobble food with no clue how it was making me feel. I wasn’t aware of how food impacted my body.

After regular spiritual practices, my bodily awareness grew. Suddenly the same food was not for filling the stomach. Each piece of food was making my body feel good or uneasy. What’s tasty turned into what’s healthy. I stopped consuming meats. It was not a moral thing.

Non-veg and veg, for me, are never about morality. Not even about an environmental concern, It’s just bodily sense. When Your bodily awareness increases, you get a sense of how food is behaving in your system.

The moment you have that realization, you won’t touch any food that destabilizes your system. Vegetarian nerds, can all shout at all nonveg beasts. But it isn’t gonna change their minds. That’s why I won’t talk a nonveg guy into veg. It’s a waste of time.

What will work is to make them meditative. If they truly become more aware of their body and realized how meat is harming their body. They’ll start consuming less meat. If not completely get rid of it.

How I consume food has become equally important.

Nowadays, I make my intention to eat food with reverence and joy. My spiritual teachings says to me that if you eat food with gratitude, it behaves differently in the system.

Food is a personal experience. We should develop an Inner awareness to know what food is good and bad for us.

Eat food, drink water with gratitude, and don’t listen to me. Don’t wait for scientific research. Ask your body how does it feel after eating some meal. When a plate of food is presented in front of you, How your body reacts to it.

Our body contains billions of times more memory and intelligence than our mind.

3. I bow down to Akashic Intelligence

We are going to go a little scientific and mystical here.

Nikola Tesla wrote about aether long before we had a strong Idea of Einstein’s relativity theory. Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher’s stone.

Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena. — Nikola Tesla

After the Michelson-Morley experiment yielded a null result; there was no evidence for the aether at all. Scientists denied the existence of anything known as aether.

Science now tells us it has not disproven the existence of the aether, science just tells us that if something has no observable, measurable effects on our universe in any way, shape or form, even in principle, we consider that “thing” to be physically non-existent.

But the fact that nothing is pointing to the existence of the aether doesn’t mean we fully understand what empty space actually is.

As Carl Sagan famously said, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” We have no proof that the aether exists, but can never prove the negative: that no aether exists.

What are aether and akasha?

Akasha can be translated into the aether.

In a spiritual sense, Akashic intelligence is that which holds everything in this universe, It’s the empty space.

Akasha is an empty space that has a certain intelligence, In my spiritual thirst, I have learned that if akashic Intelligence works for you, the life force will work in your favor.

They say people who dragged by life and always seem to be in some sort of trouble constantly have not yet got the cooperation from the Akasha.

To get the cooperation of this larger existence, I practice what I came to know from Sadguru article on akashic Intelligence.

after sunrise, before the sun crosses an angle of thirty degrees, look up at the sky once and bow down to akash for holding you in place today. After the sun crosses thirty degrees, sometime during the day — anytime — look up and bow down again.

Again you don’t need to believe it to be true or false.

4. How I See karma

Karma translates literally to action. But it’s not as simple as that.

Simply put karma is your own life-making. You are the pilot of your own ship. If you are drunk and drive, you die and take people with you. At any given time you can change the course of the ship.

The meaning of karma is flipped on its head in the west. It’s more complex than saying what goes around comes around.

Karma is not just what you do, it’s who does it. If you act from compulsions you are in karmic loops that is if you live unconsciously you are not free from karma even if you do good deeds.

Karma is not only about doing good or bad in the world, it’s asking yourself who is doing it?

Sage Ramana Maharshi presents another viewpoint when he says, “If the agent, upon whom the Karma depends, namely the ego, which has come into existence between the body and the Self, merges in its source and loses its form, how can the Karma, which depends upon it, survive? When there is no ‘I’ there is no Karma.

When you progress on a spiritual path, your ego begins to lose its form, so does Karma.

Throughout the day, I remind myself, “ I am not the body and I am not even the mind” This gives me a little distance from my thoughts and action and that’s how I stay away from karmic compulsions.

I am not an expert in the field but I highly recommend the Highly-Anticipated book on Karma by Sadguru which he specially catered to western audiences.

5. I Practice ego-less thinking

If you take residence in my mind, you won’t think I am a spiritual person. Heck! my internal chat box is constantly judging and putting labels on people.

Earlier, I used to be pissed at myself for criticizing people in my head. The poor me couldn’t separate me from my thoughts.

After my spiritual growth, my perception became crystal clear. The same thoughts were now just spectators and strangers to me. They sure were not mine. Instead of accepting them, I would ask

Why do I think this way? Is it really true?

See, your ego is shapeless like water. When you go on a spiritual quest, your ego says “ Hey I see you, you are trying to outsmart me, I am going to be spiritual too”

So your ego becomes a spiritual ego. That’s why a person can be spiritual but still be narcissistic and demonic to others. Because now he operates from his spiritual ego.

When you are active in daily life, it’s hard to make the distinction of who is thinking. Is it you? or it’s that ego guy?

I try to be aware that I do most of my thinking.

Bonus# I give food to ants

In India, we have rituals based on the offering. When we step into a temple, we have to offer something to god, even the poorest of the poorest offer garlands to god.

As a kid I never understood this, why do we offer to god, isn’t he all-powerful? why does he need our offering? Of course, my highly Intellectual educated brain couldn’t comprehend it. It took me some time to understand the Importance of offering.

In act of giving, we open ourselves — we become receptive to god’s grace.

When we offer something with love we open our hearts.

I love offering foods to ants because they are so dammed little. It’s almost an insignificant creature to people who are sleepwalking through their lives. Like how many ants have you stepped on accidentally? I can count many. It’s time we start repenting our old sins.

Final Thought

When you become more spiritual, you start conducting experiments on yourself, because now you are less prone to suffering, you are willing to take huge strides in the chaos called life.

I want to know what are the weird things you do that keep you connected with your spiritual nature.

Don’t hold back I won’t share your secret with anyone.