r/Meditation • u/Praise81 • 1d ago
Question ❓ How to know if I am growing Spiritually.
I was awakened 1 yr back due to some heart breaking painful experience and my awakening was a divine grace on me helped me immensely going through it.
Since then i have been meditating everyday, as if today i am meditating approximately for an hour every day. My perception towards life have changed- being true to myself is my priority. i am a Reiki Master Healer . Healing to me seem to be part of my soul purpose .
But since few weeks i am questioning if my spiritual growth has stalled ? How do I check that ? And what should i do to keep ascending? and there is kind of yearning for new experience too.
If any one can guide me 🙏
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u/Diced-sufferable 23h ago
Ironically, you can check your growth by how little you check.
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u/Praise81 23h ago
Can you explain a little more
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u/An_Examined_Life 18h ago
As you deepen your practice, you will transcend the insecurity and need to verify your progress. The anxiety and analyzing tones down
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 23h ago
A student once asked a Zen master, “How will I know if I have made progress?” The master said, “You have made progress if that which used to make you mad now makes you laugh.”
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u/Praise81 23h ago
Wow 👏👏……..i have made much improvement with every one, be it my partner, family , friends, strangers but when it comes to my teenage daughter, she still has ability to get on my nerves. I hope i will be able to make some progress there as well.
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u/w2best 23h ago
This sounds quite counterproductive to want to make sure you're growing spirirtually. A bit of spiritual materialism there?
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u/Praise81 23h ago
Could be …actually thats the purpose of coming out with this question , i wanna know …here i am feeling void of having a guru.
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u/An_Examined_Life 18h ago
I recommend reading Be Here Now by Ram Dass. It gives unbeatable spiritual advice and touches on how you don’t need to find a guru
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u/fishnoises01 22h ago
You're not growing spiritually, you can't.
You're already there, the most perfect life form, the best you can do is remove the rubble (ego identification) to see first-hand what you truly are, but that's not going to, it can't change.
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u/PopulousWildman 23h ago
maybe you can try in r/spirituality , this is a meditation subreddit that doesn't necessarily have to do with a spiritual practice.
That said, the rules to measure progress both in spirituality and meditation practice is by not having any rule to measure them.
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u/fishnoises01 22h ago
You can kind of measure it by your reaction to life's mundane problems, but it's not exactly scientific, more anecdotal.
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u/grahamsuth 14h ago edited 14h ago
I spent 35 years meditating 2 hrs a day. The only real way to be sure you are making spiritual progress is by seeing if your law of attraction improves. eg You will attract more loving people and less nasty selfish people into your life. Your law of attraction provides opportunities to grow towards God and it is always positive even if it is profoundly uncomfortable and challenging. When we refuse to make use of the opportunities to grow in love that your LOA offers, the offers get stronger and less comfortable. If you are making real progress you will be more sensitive to the opportunities offered and making more use of them. So your LOA won't need to ramp up to break through your resistance. The human mind has the most incredible capacity for self deception. Most people want to believe themselves to be better, more spiritually evolved than they actually are. People tend to believe what they want to believe, often despite the evidence to the contrary. So observing your LOA is the most reliable way of knowing if you are really making progress. Everything that happens to us can be considered our law of attraction. If you look at everything that happens in your life as an opportunity to be a better person, you will not miss so many of the opportunities offered. Meditation is not an end in itself, you still need to cultivate the desire to be a better person and to see through and correct your erroneous beliefs (which everyone has).
I used to attract a lot of angry people to show me my own anger that I was in denial about. These days it happens a lot less. It shows me I am making progress with letting go of my own anger. First I had to let go of my belief that I didn't have a lot of anger. In reality, what I was was numb! These days I am a lot more open to feeling my real emotions without judging them. I let them flow freely rather than try to control them. All that has made a big difference to what happens in my life.
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u/Elegant-Sympathy-421 1d ago
You will be kinder, more compassionate and less self centred... end of😎
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u/Praise81 1d ago
Thank you for replying …but i have always been kinder, compassionate , and not self centered at all since i was kid. Rather one of my awakening lesson was to learn to create boundaries and respect my true self, at-least for now…probably gradually I will be able to reach to one soul consciousness
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u/khyamsartist 23h ago
What are you getting out of ascending spiritually? It sounds like ego to me