Practicing Spirituality as a Life Style
Wednesday 16 July 2014 at 08:08 am
Mindfulness Training
Practicing Spirituality as a Life Style
Often I am asked a curious question that perfectly reflects our 'busy' life-styles, thinking patterns and life habits:
How much of my time the AoL Mindfulness will take?
My answer to this one is usually: 'if you work hard, hopefully you'll manage to finalize it in just a life-time'...
Learning Mindfulness
Learning Mindfulness gives one a gift of experiencing Life fully.
Learning mindfulnessbrings into one's Life the quality of: Awareness, Awake-fullness, Alertness. It brings into one's Life a possibility to experience Life fully, a possibility to listen to one's Soul, a possibility to tune into the Flow of the Energy of Tao,Energy of Divine Life Force.
Conscious Parenting is the AoL mindfulness course designed for parents. We use Transformation Tools and Spiritual Exercises that will help you get in touch with your Soul, with Love, and with Patience when dealing with kids. Explore the magic work with: Soul's Diary, Spiritual Parenting Diary, Developing Parenting Virtues, Meditations, Rhythm, Day-to-day Routine, Happy Family Structure, Cultivating of Relationships, etc.
All throughout our history, cultivating creativity was our major contact with Divine. To master an art-form or a musical-instrument, an artist learns the skill for decades. The purity of their artistic expression takes the viewer beyond the world of day-to-day reality into the world of meditation, Divine exploration, Love. Standing in front of the Botticelli’s Venus within the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, or listening to the Divine sounds of Mozart or Bach within a Cathedral takes the art explorer into the same states of Samadhi a yogi desires to reach.
Now, at this point of the discussion, you will get all the different yogis denying this fact and the echo of their voice brings a touch of truthfulness within this scene - this is the energy, or the stand-point of the viewer. An ability to enter a meditation state observing the true art takes hours and hours of training. A child taken to the classical music concert will not enjoy it no matter how refine the musicians are; yet with a proper training they will learn to enter into the balance created by the composer, musicians and the conductor and would feel the sacred space of the church where the concert is performed.
Attending a school is a training, and it takes a tremendous amounts of time to train reading / writing / thinking. Unfortunately, some people had not ever had an opportunity to train their skills in thinking. Some did not even attend a primary school. At University we read 100s of books to get trained in thinking. It is an admiring amount of time spent in focusing on one subject. Attending a music school, training a sport, dance, or choosing to seriously learn art, is a tremendously difficult training that takes a amazing amounts of time, at least ½ hour a day for 10-15 years, this is why we usually are not in charge of this training but it is in hands of our parents to send us to art / music / dance / sport school while we are kids. Training kindness, truthfulness and compassion should also take this amount of time.
Now, back to the viewers and the experience of meditation or Divine entering the creative sphere and why they are not so different. The viewer’s attitude towards an art form could be polluted by many different influencers: watching TV, reading yellow press, being bombarded by “cheap” and “sellable” images and messages, or brain-washed with the stereotypes of humanity. Still the lack of training within the viewer could cause the experience to stay within the levels of the ordinary. Listening to Divine music, the viewer needs to be still, this stillness will take him into the meditation. If there is no training of stillness, the viewer might miss the opportunity to enter Divine. If we have deep contact with Nature, we live in Nature, we experience the stillness of a mountain or a lake regularly, we have a natural “trainer” within our surroundings that will allow us to enter the states of meditation while creating or experiencing art as Divine form.
Every child is an incarnated soul with a different growth rate and with a potential ithat s varied and vast. Respecting the needs of our little ones from a very early age, listening to their unique voices, hearing their wants will assure them that no matter how tiny they are somebody will kneel down to Listen. Respecting the potential that is hidden within each child, we respect its potential to become a King of its Trade, or a Saviour of the World to come.
What do we do so our children understand the importance of a healthy body, learn to manage their emotions and nurture love for their friends and family? What do we do to help them grow into inspired adults that will make a positive impact on our society, love our mother Earth, and discover the purpose of life and ways to be happy?
