Spiritual Tools and how to use them.

A list of Spiritual Tools?

Bowing
Repeating a mantra
Reading scripture
Chanting
Yoga
Proper eating habits
Meditation
Ti-chi
Right thought

Bowing

Bowing… A simple spiritual tool………… What does it do?……………….. Why Bow?   When we stand in front of another person we energetically connect our hearts energy to theirs.   Science can now measure the hearts energy in many ways.  We are just now understanding all of the hearts beautiful facets!  Along with the connection of the heart energy comes another energetic level of energy called the human aura.

Just by standing in front of another person we mingle our aura and heart energy.   This aura energy is said to measure up to one mile from the body.  Therefore, when we stand in front of another person we are sharing the highest charge of our mingled heart and aura energy.   As our energy’s mingle at this high frequency, we communicate with one another.  This type of communication is most often silent to us.   However it still reaches us on a deep level.   Some of us are not the slightest bit conscious of it. While others listen more carefully to the subtle messages they receive in forms of gut feelings or through the voice of intuition.   A daily spiritual practice is a wonderful way for us to develop our awareness.   Plus there are easy spiritual tools that we can use through out our busy day that can help boost us into deeper states of understanding.

One of these simple spiritual tools is the act of bowing.

Bowing is about recognizing the highest good in an another person, and also recognizing that same innate goodness in your own true self!   Bowing humbles us in deep, deep ways.

First it important to examine what it means to be humble.   An effective method for examining words such as this one, is to study the teachings of the great saints and enlightened beings whom have spoken to us thought-out the ages.  With-in there teachings we find deep understanding of why we are here and how we process our word.  We are also given a glimpse of the layers of unfathomable growth with-in our own being.

For example, Buddha said “Life is suffering”.   In order to examine this quote we will first need to develop our contemplation skills.    We need to focus our minds on this one idea.  Then we need to allow whatever answer surfaces to be considered a possibility.   Sometimes, a “knowing” surfaces easily while other times one contemplation can take several days or months to resolve into a kind of “knowing”.   A sort of “fit” occurs inside us and we feel an over all settling in when we know a truth.
When Buddha said “Life is suffering.”   What we believe he was conveying was a deep understanding that when we identify ourselves by the things that we own, the job that we have, or our social standing, we are lost.   And if we are lost then in some way we are suffering.  The Buddha said “To be totally FREE of suffering we must realize that true . Joy can not be found in these temporary things.”  Only once we are free of our attachments can we be truly free.    Only when we stop looking outside of our selves can we find true Bliss in this life.

He, and thousands of other enlightened beings all report the same teachings.  These great teachers live in the highest state of being and that high state can best be described as “Love”.    All the great sages say, “Until we realize how empty our lives are, until we realize that everything is temporary, we will live in a state of suffering.

In reference to bowing and experiencing what it means to be humble, I quote the living saint Guru Mayi Chidvilasananda.   “When we stand before God, we must remove our turban.”  In other words we must release all of our identity’s and be humble.

The great sages all speak the same messages, over and over again as they encourage us to use the simple spiritual tools they offer.  They freely give us all the tools to get there! All we have to do is use them.   One simple tool that can be used for us to be more humble is……….. bowing.