Spiritual Growth: Challenges of Modern Spiritual
Introspection to remember things that happened in one day, week, or month. You need to look closely and reflect on thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Periodically check your experience, the decisions you make, the relationships you have, and things that are involved in providing useful insights about your life purpose, the good qualities you have to defend and bad qualities that you should discard. In addition, provide instructions on how to act, react, and conduct themselves in the midst of any situation. As with any skill, introspection can be learned: it takes is the courage and willingness to seek the truth that lies within you. Here are some pointers when you introspect: be objective, forgive yourself, and focus on your areas for improvement.
To grow spiritually in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a Herculean task. Modern conveniences such as electronic equipment, gadgets, and equipment as well as entertainment through television, magazines, and web has a tendency to restrict our attention mostly to physical needs and desires. As a result, our concepts of self and self-meaning mess. How can we achieve a balance between material and spiritual aspects of our lives?
To grow spiritually is to develop your potential.
Religion and science have differing views on matters of the human spirit. Religion views people as spiritual beings temporarily living on Earth, while science viewed as just one dimension of the spirit of the individual. Self-control is a recurring theme in both Christian (Western) and (Eastern) teachings of Islam. The body's needs are recognized but placed under the needs of the spirit. Beliefs, values, morality, rules, experiences, and good works provide the blueprint to ensure the growth of spiritual beings. In Psychology, realizing one's full potential is to actualize themselves. Maslow identifies human needs are: physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and self-transcendence. James earlier categorized these needs into three: material, emotional, and spiritual. When you have satisfied the basic physiological and emotional needs, spiritual or existential needs come next. Reach the needs of each individual leads to the total development. Perhaps the difference between the two religions and psychology is the end of self-development: Christianity and Islam see that self-development is a means toward serving God, while psychology view that self-development is an end in itself.
To grow spiritually is to search for meaning.
A religion that believes in the existence of God such as Christianism, Judaism, and Islam considers that the purpose of human life is to serve the Creator of all things. Several theories in psychology propose that we ultimately give meaning to our lives. Do we believe in the sense that life is predetermined or independent, grow in spirit is to realize that we are not just there. We do not know the meaning of life at birth, but we gain knowledge and wisdom from our interactions with people and of our actions and reactions to the situation we are in. As we discover this meaning, there are certain beliefs and values that we reject and affirm. Our lives have purpose. This purpose puts all our physical, emotional potential, and intellectuals began to be used; sustain us in our attempt, and gives us something to look forward to --- aim to achieve, the goals to achieve. A person without purpose or meaning is like a drifting ship at sea.
To grow spiritually is to recognize interconnections.
Religion emphasizes the concept of our relationship to all creation, life and death. Thus we call other people "brothers" even if there is no direct blood relations. In addition, the god-centered religions such as Christianity and Islam speak of the relationship between human beings and higher. On the other hand, science expounds on our link to other living things through evolution. The linkage is clearly visible in the concept of ecology, the interaction between living and nonliving things. In psychology, connectedness is a characteristic of self-transcendence, the highest human need according to Maslow. Recognizing your connection to all things makes you more humble and respectful of humans, animals, plants, and things in nature. It makes you appreciate everything around you. Moves you to go beyond your comfort zone and reach out to others, and become servants of all the other things around you.
Growth is a process thus to grow in spirit is the daily meeting. We win some, you lose some, but the important thing is that we learn, and from this knowledge, further spiritual growth is possible.