The Heros Journey: How To Awaken Your Spirit

By Sandra Fisher


Spirituality is essential for many reasons. It has been shown that those with higher levels of spiritual connections are happier and healthier overall. This is inline with the more recent trend in the medical sciences to focus on both body and mind health for healing. If you are feeling spiritually empty or lacking in the more liminal elements of your life, you may get something out of going on the heros journey.

If you are a city dweller, chances are that you are overworked, overtired, and too stressed. This is becoming a chronic problem for society. The stress you endure can make you feel completely out of touch with who you are and what your life is about. If spirituality can be defined as having a life purpose and a sense of belonging in the world, it is arguable that many people are very out of touch with their spirituality. The great news is that you can do something about that. Retreats are the best way to get in touch with your soul again, and there are several out there for you to try.

Spirituality is often defined as feeling that life is greater than you are, and having purpose in life. For people involved in the creative arts, life is most meaningful when their creativity is at its optimum. Since artists often find it difficult to concentrate in the bustling noises of the city, they may choose retreats as a way of either breaking through a creative block, or to finish their masterpiece. Many creative retreats exist. The purpose of them is for you, the artist, to spend your day with like-minded people either drawing, writing, or painting the whole day. Then you receive constructive feedback about your work. After a two-to-four week stint in the tropics of Costa Rica, or the deserts of Arizona, many come back with renewed energy and belief in their purpose and ability as an artist. This is a spiritually uplifting point in the lives of many artists, both aspiring and accomplished.

Traditional spiritual retreats are still a fantastic form of soul regeneration. These retreats focus on the practice of yoga, meditation, and relaxation. They abound in Thailand and India, but there are a good many in the US too. As you cleanse and strengthen your body and mind through yoga and meditation, so you help to invoke feelings of happiness and relaxation. When you are not critical of everything and everyone all the time, you start to discover your own slice of serenity and become far more aware of your purpose and meaning in the greater universe.

If you work a high stress job dealing with multiple people and constantly being on the go all the time, there are retreats that let you let go of all of that. You can escape your cell phone, your email, and even other people. These are called Solitude Retreats and whilst they offer a range of activities such as yoga and meditation, you have the option of hermitage. Here you live alone, and in silence. You interact with few to no people and never speak. If you need time for introspection and self-reflection, there can be no better retreat. It will let you discover the core of who you are and determine what really matters in your life.

Another type of retreat gaining in popularity are health retreats. Given that doctors now acknowledge there is a strong mind-body connection, it is no surprise that a healthier body leads to better wellbeing and less stress. It also results in higher levels of happiness. This can only promote spirituality as when you are happier about your life, you feel you have more purpose. Health retreats have the primary focus of diet. They encourage full body detoxes which are accomplished by administering juice diets, vegetarian diets, and probiotic foods. As you lose all those toxins which are clogging up vital energy paths in your body, and generally making you feel sluggish, you feel lighter, better, and healthier. These retreats are really worth a try if junk food has become your staple recently.

The kinds of retreats available out there are endless. There are relationship retreats, health retreats, nature retreats and more. Whether you want to focus on improving your marriage, your health, or just find some quiet time, there is a retreat for you.

The important point is that retreats allow you to improve body and mind health. When you feel better, you are more positive. And this will lead you to have greater gratitude for what you have in your life, and give you the space to focus on what is meaningful to you. This is the best way to find direction and purpose. If you feel you are acting on your lifes purpose, awakening your spirituality is an easy step from this. So why not go on a retreat? It is all the




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