The Importance Of A Daily Practice By Sonia Choquette
Unless we maintain a daily practice of connecting with our Spirit, we won’t feel its presence and support in our lives. My grace in life was learning early on how to connect with the Holy Spirit within on a daily basis. In fact, I was shown how to make it the foundation of my existence through many practices that have been so reinforced by repetition that they are now woven into the very fabric of who I am.
One of my favorite daily traditions, for example, was first introduced to me when I was a child in Catholic school and reinforced years later while I was a student working with my spiritual mentor Charlie Goodman. The practice was to recite the Lord’s Prayer—the Our Father—out loud every morning. I started doing this in the first grade, and it’s still part of my regular morning routine. This ritual immediately connects me to my Divine Source, my Creator, and leaves me feeling grounded, balanced, and confident as I begin a new day. Another daily practice is one my mother introduced to me when I was no more than six or seven years old: before I go to sleep each night, I thank my unseen spiritual guides, ancestors, guardian angels, and all Divine helpers for the assistance, support, and blessings they bestowed upon me throughout the day.
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These are just two of many practices used for connecting to Spirit that have been handed down to me by my mother; my spiritual teachers and mentors; my wise elders; and at times, by life itself. All have become a cherished part of my being. Some practices I’ve kept the same, doing them exactly as I was taught to, and others have evolved over the years. The constant, however, is that not a day goes by without my taking the time to anchor my awareness in Spirit, with gratitude and wonder, and ask the great Creator—the Giver of all life—to lead me in this day.
Shift in Consciousness Thankfully, these days more and more people are open to living a spiritually empowered, positive, and peaceful life. We’re much more willing to entertain the notion that we create our own reality and aren’t simply
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After much reflection on how I’ve been so lucky to have such an intimate and powerful connection with Spirit, it became obvious that it was the result of my daily focus. Each day (sometimes several times a day), I pray to, invoke, or meditate on Spirit for guidance, direction, and leadership; and then I completely surrender to its force.
arises from the ego, your sense peace returns. When you su your attention to this higher fo allow it to direct your life, mag Synchronicity replaces strug
victims of circumstance, as evidenced by the wildly successful films The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know!? We’re more willing to explore and even speak with others about spiritual possibilities. And yet, in spite of these encouraging signs, we’re still suffering with, and causing some of, the worst personal
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