3 Ways to Develop a Greater Spiritual Connection to a Higher Power

I remember 1975 as the year when the subject Communications was first offered in the university where I was studying. This subject was offered in order to deal with the dynamic flow of information within and among organizations. But it did not deal directly with communications of spirits among individuals and groups. It did not teach us how to connect with a higher power. Connecting with a higher power involves more than just the principles taught in the subject Communications.

Silence

The very first step to develop a greater spiritual connection to a higher power is silence. This is strange because in the ordinary affairs of life if you want to connect with somebody you have to speak to him or her. But in spirituality if you want to connect with a higher power, a spirit or your guardian angel or your God, your first step is silence.

By silence I do not just mean that you keep your mouth shut. You also keep your mind closed to the ideas around your head. You listen to the silence within you. This is because the realm of the spirit is beyond words and beyond ideas. And the higher power is in the realm of the spirit. Unless you are silent you cannot connect with the higher power.

Physical silence is easy to understand. You simply do not talk or make any noise. But mental silence is quite a difficult concept for most people because our brain keeps on working even during sleep. During sessions of meditation people often complain of distractions. They ask how they can focus their mind on what they are meditating when swarms of ideas just come to their mind.

The way to mental silence is like the way to physical silence. After a lot of talking you are tired and you want to stop talking. Then you stop talking. You are physically silent. The same happens in mental silence. Just keep on thinking. Distractions will come but soon you will be tired and either you fall asleep or you go into a state when you do not think of anything explicit. Then you enter into mental silence.

How long do you put yourself in silence? You can start with 5 minutes. Or you can do this for an extended period of time when you are at home or in some retreat. But the important point is that you make this as an attitude in your life. When you have leisure you go into this mode of silence.

In silence you will feel the stirrings of the spirit or the higher power. You see, the higher power is more interested in connecting with you than you are with him. But he cannot connect with you while you are busy physically or mentally with other things. He needs your undivided attention and you can give this to him only if you are silent both physically and mentally.

Childlikeness

Look at children as they play. Observe them. If you have an opportunity, go to an orphanage and mix with the children there, embracing some of them. Look at their eyes. You will find a higher power among them.

Children do not care about the problem of adults. They keep on asking questions. They are still fresh from being influenced by the spirits. The spirits are still moving around them.

And be a child again. Play with them. Entertain them. Tell them stories. You will feel being a child again.

It is on occasions like these when the higher power will also play with you. Our human bodies grow old, but spirits grow younger with time. When Charles Hard Townes, the inventor of the maser, the precursor of the laser, was 94 years old, he was asked how he could still work at that age. His answer implied that he was still like a child playing with the electronic gadgets that he was tinkering with.

Inventions are revealed to us by higher powers who connect with us if we behave like simple children, receptive to their impulses and suggestions.

Surrender

The third way to develop a greater spiritual connection to a higher power is simply surrendering to him. Once we are acquainted with a higher power and we know that this higher power is a good one, not an evil one, we simply surrender to him.

In surrendering to this higher power we begin to obtain his own powers, we become like him. This is because by surrendering we are taken to his own level.

Silence, behaving like a child, and surrendering are 3 ways to develop a greater spiritual connection to a higher power.

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What You Can Do When Your Spiritual Life Is Lacking

You are in a desperate situation. You take your mobile phone and call your closest friend. You hear nothing from your mobile phone. Usually you would hear the other side ringing or a recorded message that the number you are calling is busy or out of coverage area with the request to try again later. But this time you hear nothing.

No Contact Whatsoever

You check your mobile phone. It is on alright. You wonder what has happened. Is the company providing your mobile phone service not in operation at this time? Or is there something wrong with your phone?

You are in a desperate situation and you need immediate help. Your closest friend cannot be reached. You try another number just to find out if your mobile phone is working alright and the company providing your mobile phone service is online. But the same thing happens with this other number. You hear nothing from your phone after you dial the number.

What do you do? You do not know what to do.

This situation is similar to that when you seem to have lost contact with God the Spirit. You pray. You call upon Him. But there is no sign that He is still there. You hear nothing. And you need Him most badly now. And you do not know what to do next.

Those who write about prayer tell us that God answers all prayers. The answer can be any of the three: Yes, or No, or Wait. But this time you do not even know if you can still contact this Spirit God. He is out of reach. You cannot hear anything from His side.

This is what is meant when you say that your spiritual life is lacking. You cannot contact God. You cannot seem to move spiritually. Your spiritual life is lacking this most essential requirement: contact with the Spirit God. You seem not to grow spiritually.

So, what do you do?

Fortunately in the spiritual life you can still do something, unlike in the case when your mobile phone does not seem to work. In the latter you will have to ask somebody if his or her mobile phone does work with this service provider that you have. But if you are in a desperate situation and alone, you may not be able to do anything but to pray and wait.

A similar option can be open when you seem to lose contact with God: pray and wait. But there are other options which you can take.

Go to the Sources of Inspiration

The first is to go to the sources of your spiritual life. This is like going to the company that provides service to your mobile phone. Go to the Scriptures, whatever they are and read them. If you are a Christian, read the Bible slowly. If you are a Muslim, read the Qur’an attentively. If you are a Buddhist, read the Tripitaka with care. If you are a Hindu, read the Bhavagad Gita with concentration. Just read. Do not care yet to talk to your God, but listen to the words, to the whispering of your God. He may contact you soon.

Imagine Scenes of Inspiration

This may not work. You may need a picture visible before your very eyes or in your imagination. If you are a Christian recall the image of Jesus dying on the Cross for you. If you are a Muslim, recall the flight of the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) from Mecca to Medina, the turning point in Islam. If you are a Buddhist you can recall the picture of Siddhartha Gautama sitting under a pipal tree or Bodhi tree, waiting for enlightenment. Then from this image in your mind you may feel again the Spirit communicating with you, as He has communicated with these persons in your imagination.

The Desert Experience

But this may not also work. Then you need the desert experience, going into solitude, whether in an actual desert or just in the quiet of your own home and just wait. It may take years before your spiritual life moves again, but you may not be able to do anything else but this. Moses waited for 40 years in the desert of Midian before he heard God calling him from the burning bush. Jesus himself waited in the desert for 40 days before he began preaching, teaching and curing people.

You may just have to sit up late at night when you are the only one awake and just wait for the Spirit to move you, to speak to you.

Who knows, the reason why you seem not to be able to contact your God is because your God is trying to quiet you so that He can really contact you and talk with you. This is the moment when your spiritual life lives again, moves again, and carries you to more exciting places in your life. If you are too busy looking for your God, He knows that you cannot find Him in the busyness of your looking for Him. Only in quiet and solitude shall we really encounter our God.

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Here are my other blogs which may be of help to you:

http://bit.ly/spiritdev for your spiritual growth

http://bit.ly/alterhealthcare for your health

http://bit.ly/novotrends for learning about the new trends around us

http://bit.ly/bepaidonline for earning some income from the Internet

Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.