Finding Center by Just Being Yourself

It never ceases to amaze me the things people think they have to do in order to be more "spiritual" or open up to their intuition and psychic awareness.  Let me tell you that the only thing you have to do is just be yourself and do what feels right to you.

There are many people out there that will try to dictate all the dos and don'ts....and if you go don't follow these rules, then you're supposedly not spiritual.  Wow.  Isn't that the reason why so many of us left mainstream organized religion?  So many rules and if you don't follow them, you're not a real whatever?  That would mean that being spiritual and intuitive is only reserved for those special few, rather than be available to everyone.  NOT!

Instead of realizing that these are simply people with their own ideas of what makes one spiritual or not, people start spending all sorts of money on crystals and other tools to get back in tuned with themselves, quit eating meat (even if they're dying for a hamburger), chastise themselves if they think something negative, feel bad about the car they drive, try to change their job because those in the spiritual community would frown upon it (such as serving in the military)............just in the effort to fit in and hope to be able to tap into the various clairs for guidance and knowing.

I say quit punishing yourselves!  Being spiritual isn't about deprivation, outside tools, and feeling badly if you aren't acting in ways that others say a spiritual person would.  You cannot contain spiritualism and intuition into a neat little box.  It's ever expanding!  It encompasses everything!  It's messy!  No matter how much you try to define it and put boundaries around it, it's just going to flow right on over in whatever way it wants to.  How you can you put a label on something that is not only within, but all around you?

There are so many people who have shared what has worked for them.  And that is exactly how you should view things.....advice always with the opportunity to decide for yourself if it's something you'd like or not.  If it makes your body feel good to eat vegetarian, raw, or vegan, then by all means do it!  If you like holding crystals while you meditate because you like the energy you can feel from them, do it!  If you notice a happy difference in getting rid of all chemicals in your environment, go for it!  The point is, it should feel GOOD to you.  If you're feeling guilty for not being or doing all these things, you're moving away from the original intent.  If you do not feel happy while making changes, then you are not staying true to yourself.  Spirit doesn't care if you eat meat, have shot a gun or been deployed to Iraq, or anything else that is an experience but doesn't define who you are.  Do you really think Spirit is going to withhold from you because of what you do?  No.  Only we hold ourselves back.

Just be yourself and march to the beat of your own drum.  You can be just as spiritual and in tuned to your intuition as you do the things you love.  If it makes you happy, you have found your center.  And within your center, you just ARE.  I've said this before and I'll say it again.  "I AM" is the most powerful thing you can ever be.