By A.S.

If you constantly read spiritual articles, or read political analyses, or scroll through social media, or even constantly talk to people, then metaphorically speaking you’re over-filling your bowl. This can lead to stress, ungroundedness and not being connected to your own voice and your own intuition.

Whereas if you only do a bit of that, and you also take walks in nature without any music, you meet your own needs, engage in self-care and do spiritual practice such as “whatever arises, observe that” — then likely you’ll be more relaxed, grounded and you’ll be more connected to your own intuition. After all, a bowl is most useful when it is empty.

Information works a lot like food: occasionally consuming an article containing other people’s thoughts is fine, and can indeed be nourishing.

But if you constantly consume articles containing someone else’s thoughts, and you eat the next one before the first one has been digested, then you may have spiritual “weight gain” or “indigestion.” As we can see with lots of people in the spiritual community having lots of conflicting opinions, and everyone’s convinced that they have genuine intuition and everyone else is wrong.

But then, how can your own voice shine through if you’re constantly consuming other people’s thoughts?

If you read several spiritual articles per day, you’re probably so filled with spiritual indigestion that you’re just going “this feels good and is therefore true, that feels bad and is therefore wrong.” But that isn’t genuine intuition.

So: practice the art of saying “no” to extra input. Don’t read things before the previous article has been digested. If you can, take a walk in nature this week. And that will help you further find your own voice and connect to your own intuition.

With all my love,

A.S.