I have been immersed in a deep personal search this year to understand what spirituality really means to me. Maybe for most of us, it sounds like a hippie word involving psychoactive plants. Indeed, this is what many people from the New Age movement are trying to make us believe. And while these may be useful tools for some people, for me this is not the way at all to connect with spirituality.
Recently, some neuroscientists, like Bruce H. Lipton has explained that we humans have two types of neurons: some in our brain and others in our heart, which work independently from each other and their coherence is what allows us to have our own personal and unique connection with the outside world.
On the other hand, some scientists believe that we humans create everything in our minds and that emotions are therefore created from them. And however, I agree with this in some part. For me, this is like denying that the heart has its own way of giving us information and giving all the credit to the brain.
I was confused for some time by these two different views about the brain and the heart, but it wasn’t until I had an inexplicable experience that everything finally became clear to me.
A few weeks ago, I attended a regular yoga class with my friend Javier. This time, the class was accompanied by Tibetan singing bowls throughout the entire session. Not just at the end, not just for a few minutes, the entire class was immersed in the sound of Tibetan singing bowls.
I always knew that Tibetan singing bowls touched my soul because of the vibrations and frequencies they emit, but I had never been so aware of their true power. During the class, Javier was giving the usual instructions to follow, but after a while my brain was no longer able to follow him.
I felt as if something else was guiding my heart, and I couldn’t think anymore. The reality around me disappeared, and I was simply floating somewhere else. I was scared because, as much as I wanted to keep floating and enjoying the moment, I was aware that I was surrounded by strangers, and I didn’t feel in a conmfort place to be myself. In that moment, I felt caught between two worlds: the rational one from the brain that knew I was in a yoga class, and the emotional one from the heart that simply wanted to surrender to the experience. When the class ended, I ran back to my room and had to lie down for a couple of hours before I felt able to work in this world again.
That day was a huge revelation for me. I experienced these two worlds clearly coexisting inside me with equal importance. That day I understood that neither one is greater than the other and both have an equally crucial role in my life.
After having this experience, I asked myself: from now on, how can I make sure I give both of these energies equal space in my daily life? This is what spirituality or better said Spiritreality means to me right now: living in reality while embracing these two worlds. Not going to a specific place to feel surrounded by some guru energy, but making sure that everything around me is in harmony with both my brain and my heart in everything I do.
I used to think that our main role in life was to succeed in our careers and something I feel greateful for have been able to live my passion as a Documentary Filmmaker. But as human beings, I don’t believe that is the universe’s plan for us at all. Work is a goal we have created on Earth, but I don’t believe it is the reason we came here.
This is the time in my life when I am becoming much more aware of where I live, how I live, and what is important for me to have around me. Is this the city where I truly want to live? Do I like my neighborhood? Am I part of a meaningful community?
Nowadays, when everything is online, we tend to believe we already have everything we need. But is that really true? Maybe when it comes to physical things but what about our human connections?
Are we creating long-term communities around us? Or are we only staying on a superficial level? I ask this because these days having everybody on WhatsApp makes us believe we have wonderful connections all over the world. But how many of them are real? How many of those people do we actually see or call regularly? How many do we truly know deeply, and how many truly know us?
We live in a world with more external stimuli than ever before, and very little of it involves genuine human interaction. Something that was never part of our natural way of living, and that, in my opinion, can leave us disconnected from ourselves and ultimately living only in our minds.
For me, this is the time to live in Spiritreality, where I don’t need to travel somewhere special to experience this so-called hippie feeling, but instead integrate it into my everyday life, making my real life richer and more meaningful.
I am still processing many of the experiences I have had this year, but I wanted to share with you some of my favorite sources along this journey, in case you are curious.
My favourite Books
- Living in a Mindful Universe — Eben Alexander, MD & Karen Newell
- Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander
- The Biology of Belief — Bruce H. Lipton, PhD
- The Energy Codes — Dr. Sue Morter
- The Biology of Transcendence — Joseph Chilton Pearce
- The Greatness Mindset — Lewis Howes
My favourite Podcasts
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Lizeth
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