At the beginning of the spiritual journey we spend a lot of time and space gathering accoutrements in the hopes of building awareness and improving our spiritual connection. Some people binge on crystals, others like different forms of prayer beads, of course I collected (and still do) tarot decks. The more rare, the better. What all these items really are, are training wheels (stabilizers to my UK friends) that help us get in the mode of, "now its time for spiritual practice". After a few years of practicing, a funny thing happens along the way. You realize you don't need all the little devices and items any longer because you feel connected to the spiritual realm as you walk across any room, just as if you were in a meditative space.
Why does this happen? What you've realized is that you are always connected, the only thing that made you feel disconnected before your spiritual journey was what you chose to focus on. In other words your ego. The Ego tends to pump us full of rules, fears, guidelines, categories and judgements that may or may not even be true. What it does do is shift our focus 100% on the things the Ego is telling us is true, rather than the awareness of our physical and spiritual.
That's when you realize you are always connected, you just didn't realize it. The spiritual realm is around us all the time, you just have to get out of your own way.
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