If you came to this post expecting clear directions on how to provide spiritual guidance you might be disappointed. This post doesn't give a "how to" on spiritual guidance.
This post teaches you what you need to do to develop your own ability to provide spiritual guidance.
Bottom line: experiment and learn from the results.
Be a true and dedicated thumonaut. Explore spirit. Learn about spirit. Figure out what affects spirit.
As in previous explorations, start with yourself.
Learn what calms your spirit. Learn what excites your spirit.
What expands your spirit and what contracts it?
What warms your spirit and what cools it?
What weakens your spirit and what strengtens it?
When your spirit is wounded or broken, what heals it?
As you experiment, keep a "no failures, only feedback" attitude. Keep a beginner's mind, open, full of wonder, and eager to learn.
Share what you learn. Share it with me. I'm eager to know what you're discovering in your explorations as a thumonaut. Let's share our stories and compare our notes.
While not a very experienced thumonaut, I have spent some time considering the questions you've posed in these writings. What comes to me is that there are constants, and there are variables. There are people, places and things that always calm, always excite; other people, places and things may calm or excite depending on circumstances. Or may do both simultaneously. So it is with expansion and contraction, warming and cooling.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this tonight as I saw a play about the life of Bessie Smith. The Blues is one of those simultaneous things for me--not one or the other; something of both, tortured and uplifting, pained and yet full of release.
This is my long way of saying that exploring spirit is a complicated matter, and the answer is not always crystal clear.
Oh, I whole-heartedly agree that exploring spirit is complicated and not always crystal clear. I too find variables as you mention.
DeleteLet's keep exploring!