The vital connection between physical health and spiritual well-being cannot be over-emphasized. Individuals, by caring for their bodies through proper nutrition, rest, and exercise, by default, express their spiritual nature. Neglect or overindulgence can lead to illness, while balanced self-care fosters harmony between spirit and matter, enhancing life's experiences and spiritual connectivity.
The journey of self-examination creates inner harmony through three phases: Intent, Essence, and Synthesis. It involves confronting internal challenges and gaining personal insight. By breaking free from mundane patterns, individuals can achieve a deeper understanding of existence, leading to spiritual growth and unity with the essence of reality.
Life's essentials include sleep for recovery, nutrition for body support, sex for reproduction, and fear for survival. Beyond these basics, spiritual awareness can elevate existence, fostering deeper connections and introspection among all beings.
Developing Spiritual Consciousness is a process of piercing the façade of reality to still 'the Self' within, and expand beyond, the psycho-energetic oneness of ‘all’ existence.
The overall result of chanting the A-U-M mantra is to pierce through the perceptions of separation.
Fist bumping evidences humans as being trapped into mundane reality. Fist bumping also establishes the social nature of the human collective. The tenuous nature of existing in the mundane can be eased through social gestures. The majority of people could not explain the why or wherefore of (their) engaging in normalized social actions. I am not adverse to touching but I do feel that a visual acknowledging, in many cases, is more than sufficient .
Why do we try so hard? What is it that tethers us to the hamster wheel of familiar conformity?
Awareness of and tapping into the continuous cyclical energy flow on earth (the moon, the feminine) and uniting it with the universal, cosmic energies (the sun, the masculine) and transcending them both is the essence spiritual journey
Awareness of the trappings of mundane existence can facilitate one’s elevation into a more spiritually balanced journey
Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness 