Friday 16 March 2018

Real Treats To Awaken Your Spirit: The Heros Journey

By Sandra Fisher


Spirituality is essential for many reasons. It has been shown that those with higher levels of spiritual connections are happier and healthier overall. This is inline with the more recent trend in the medical sciences to focus on both body and mind health for healing. If you are feeling spiritually empty or lacking in the more liminal elements of your life, you may get something out of going on the heros journey.

Spirituality has been said to be a state of mind where you live with purpose and find that life has meaning. Many people do not struggle with this concept, but it can be hard to put into practice. With the stressors of daily existence, it is easy to lose touch with what gives your life meaning and purpose in the first place. There are many ways to recapture your spirituality. You do not have to be religious to do it, and you can enhance your religious beliefs by improving spiritual connectedness. The huge amount of retreats available to you may be just what you need to get your spiritual self back again.

Spirituality is often defined as feeling that life is greater than you are, and having purpose in life. For people involved in the creative arts, life is most meaningful when their creativity is at its optimum. Since artists often find it difficult to concentrate in the bustling noises of the city, they may choose retreats as a way of either breaking through a creative block, or to finish their masterpiece. Many creative retreats exist. The purpose of them is for you, the artist, to spend your day with like-minded people either drawing, writing, or painting the whole day. Then you receive constructive feedback about your work. After a two-to-four week stint in the tropics of Costa Rica, or the deserts of Arizona, many come back with renewed energy and belief in their purpose and ability as an artist. This is a spiritually uplifting point in the lives of many artists, both aspiring and accomplished.

There are those that feel most at peace when the are centered, taking care of their health and mental wellbeing, and living a healthy life. This is difficult to achieve in todays fast paced world. However, yoga retreats offer the perfect solution to this problem. These abound in places like India and Thailand and last up to three months. In this time, most of your day will be spent meditating and doing yoga. You will also eat a very strict, vegetarian diet. These retreats are highly acclaimed for restoring your body to a natural balance of energy and calm. After all, who can beat the combination of stress-free living, a well-balanced diet, and constant peace and serenity? It is no wonder that many flock to these retreats.

Do you spend your whole day surrounded by people, working a stressful job, and then coming home to a noisy environment? It is easy to lose yourself in all of this chaos. This has lead to an increasing interest in solitude retreats. They basically are exactly what the title says - a retreat where you spend most, or even all of your time alone. No cell phones, emails, internet, or other people to bother you. Perhaps the idea of not speaking and basically being a hermit may not immediately appeal to you. However, it could give you the time you need to focus on yourself. Your dreams and aspirations may have gotten lost in the busy daily life you lead. To find your purpose and be true to yourself requires time for contemplation. Solitude retreats are the best way to accomplish this.

A retreat gaining in popularity are retreats centred around nutrition and health. It is well-accepted now that the mind-body connection is a strong one. Basically, the healthier your body, the happier and less stressed your mind is. For people always on the go, eating a balanced diet can be tough. If you really are feeling down and frazzled it could be as a result of your diet. These retreats are perfect for that as the provide detoxes, juice diets, probiotic foods, and vegetarian meals so that you can get your body back into sync. Once you are getting the vital vitamins and minerals you need, your emotions should change. You will feel happier and less stressed. This helps you to concentrate on what is important in your life and what brings you the most meaning. It is a great way to boost your spiritual energy really. This may be an especially important retreat for those who generally subsist on junk food.

The kinds of retreats available out there are endless. There are relationship retreats, health retreats, nature retreats and more. Whether you want to focus on improving your marriage, your health, or just find some quiet time, there is a retreat for you.

The significant thing about retreats is that you are forced to concentrate on yourself. Not everybody is happy to think about their lives, limitations, successes, and problems. But if you are going to gain that all important spiritual connection, you need to have the time to work on concentrating on what your life is truly about. Retreats give you the space to breathe and cut out all unnecessary elements in your life that are ruining your spiritual connections. So why not try one? You will only gain happiness, rest, and find purpose in the process.




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