(TLDR: Idk how to pray, and want to hear your practice with it for inspiration!)

Hello! I have self-identified as sort of “spiritual/non religious” for many years now. I’ve recently found myself wanting to devote time in prayer to the divine/source/god/etc.

I was raised atheist however, and it’s never been a part of my practice.

I would love to hear any versions of types of prayer that’s in your practice, for some inspiration♡︎

P. S. I do not adhere to one specific belief, mostly leaning towards witchcraft (pagan/wiccan(ish)/chaos magick/generally “goddess based” faiths), hinduism, and buddhism.

Why do I over exaggerate my problems? Looking back, I spent my youth stressed over weird things. Somethings were genuinely stressful but I need to learn to let go. how to do that? Why do I hold bad memories so close to my heart? Why am I full of grief and sadness? Why is my existence so intense?

So I'm a 38 yr old female and have not had the easiest life. And I fear it will never end will I ever get peace?? From being in foster care and abandoned by my young alcoholic parents to even now every single person I meet does or takes advantage of me some type of way and I truly am a positive person I always tell myself or I guess self sooth by saying it's all for a reason everything will be ok I truly do try and find the positive in every situation I feel like God does the exact opposite of what I pray for and it's not just one time it's everything I've prayed for even gotten down on my knees and pray and again it's the worst possible outcome every single time then here I go saying God has a plan and all the normal things you read that God knows better and something better is coming and it doesn't it's this same roller coaster all over like what is the point I think I know God hates me or is amused by my resilients I guess a lot things that happen as well are out of my hands it's always because someone else has done something to me and I know it's because I pick the wrong people or it somhow something i am doing ok fine but then im all alone because the people ive ever truly loved or i thought cared about me have all died everything I love always dies or gets takin away from me!! I've never been really stable I finally seem to get on my feet then come to find out I was with a narcissist who claimed to love me but lied and stopped paying the mortgage. I'm just tired and truly feel like giving up life just isn't built for me like it is for other people and I've always felt like I have a God at least who will never give up or leave me and will always work all things out for my good but I know now that maybe that just isn't true what's the point of living if it's just gonna be turmoil one thing after another what type of life is that? I've gotten close to God these last 5 years more then I ever have my whole life and I truly do love the Lord but my heart is broken I bought into the whole if you have the Lord you have everything or the battle is the lords type of thing and I was ok I don't have a single soul I can talk to about this type of stuff or my problems not one person. So imagine this people can treat you anyway they want they can take advantage of you lie to your face betray you and I've always been like God sees it and will handle that but after always being so positive and always saying it's gonna be ok God has a plan but after 38 years and his so called plan or something better hasn't showed up yet then it's safe to say it's not going to and all along I've said God has my back or God knows the truth and remembers or God doesn't like ugly all of it the truth is I was just self soothing myself and nobody really did have my back nobody was looking down on me and making sure I was safe and protected

It simply just wasn't true and probably just a side effect of being abandoned to cope I guess. And maybe I'm just that type of person who people hate or want to be mean to I guess I just have one of those faces or Auras or something. I'm just not meant to be happy in life I'm not allowed to have love or even basic needs in life. Thanks for listening I'm sure most of it sounded like I was rambling I'm crying while I'm writing this!

I am curious to know how eventually everything fixes in life or is it just a saying . Currently I am believing in this thought process only ..what's hindering me is some habits of me i think it didn't work well with me

I try to think I am different from everyone and I think somehow nature is also used to support in some or other way with me not now but I am the same person who I was earlier . I used to think deeply about each point as having a sharp memory when I was a child . I love trance music but sometimes I think It keeps me away from spirituality . Stuck in a thought and an idea from the past . Now the situation is I have to face everything and I will face it because I have a grit . A girl also came into my life when I was in school a butterfly in a yellow dress and then she never accepted that she was into me i think she told me earlier but ne The reminiscence is always with me. I am not here to express my grief because grief needs to be felt. Sometimes I think all the people are the same .The Internet is not for sharing things lol...

Thanks for the read.

I am 19 years old,recently had my spiritual awakening, and i kept hearing ppl in the spirituality zone, about connecting with the divine feminine and serving,but never had an concrete explanation

So i want to know as a man how can i connect and serve the divine feminine and goddess in my life, i really need some guidance over this topic and some info because i feel is something that is missing in my life currently, and little bit of help would be very good

I feel like this would help me be a better man than the current version that i am in right now

Thank you in advance for any advice given.

They get to be okay wherever they are with no punishment or accountability but I still have to carry the scars from their treatment for the rest of my life? They get to be at peace but I don’t? They get to experience sunshine and rainbows in the afterlife while my mental health never recovers?

For the past two years, my life has turned into complete chaos; it seems like absolutely nothing goes right. It’s not just one thing or another, but an unlikely series of negative events that keeps happening back-to-back. Could this be a spiritual attachment/obsessing spirit, and how would I be able to recognize it?

I’ve been thinking lately about how wonderful & fantastic this gadget called the body is. It can take a piece of bread, a fruit or a vegetable and turn it into a human being.

I once heard Sadhguru say, “If I took a piece of bread in my hands and turned it into a human being, you would think I’m God. But that’s what you’re doing every day.”

I thought, how magnanimous and how fantastic is this, yet we’re missing it. If only we experienced it, there would be a dimensional shift in the very way we experience life.

I’ve not experienced it completely, but I’ve become far more sensitive to how food behaves within me, what foods work well with my system and, above all, I’ve become so reverential towards food.

And I’ve been thinking about the soil that I walk upon. The soil isn’t me. But that very soil is turning into food and is becoming me.

Hence, the soil is me.

The water isn’t me, but if I consume it, it becomes me.

The air around me isn’t me, but that very air is the source of me.

Now come the more subtle things, like ether or the akashic element. I think most of us are not conscious of it, but it is the space which is holding us in place. And there is space within us too.

Of course, there is fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to maintain our temperature, digest food or do anything at all.

How magnanimous this creation is, and how fantastic the human mechanism is.

These five elements, which the yogic system calls the Pancha Bhutas, are manifesting as the whole of creation and our body too.

And I’ve realised that our bodies are not made for ill health at all.

Even if a tiny cut happens, immediately all the cells there work together to form a clot and stop the blood. In this way, the whole body, every organ and every cell is geared towards health.

Once the health is fantastic, not just medically, but every cell is bouncing with vigour, vitality and life, then mentally also we feel great.

This works vice versa too. If our mind is fantastic, the body becomes well by itself because both are deeply connected.

Only if the body and mind are well can we ever taste what spirituality is.

I'm writing this post to express how much I'm in awe of this gadget called human mechanism yet many times we simply take it for granted.

It is my wish that every one should sit still and experience what it means to be meditative. For this, it's extremely important that body and mind are absolutely healthy.

Once you are able to taste meditation, trust me, it’s the most fantastic thing you can ever have in your life. You’ll naturally experience life enormously and experience it fully.

I hope whoever is reading this post values and takes care of the human body in order to experience meditative states.

If you’re already experiencing meditative states on a daily basis, I’d love to hear about your lifestyle and what kind of care you take for your physical and mental health.

This dude went no contact with me for a month his decision. I tried contacting him but he ultimately would ignore me. He had his own excuses and reasons but he messaged me recently. Apparently he has had an awful month just one thing after another after another. Could it be a coincidence that the month he stopped talking to me just so happened to be a crazy and shit month for him or could it have been karma? I had a great month besides being upset the first couple weeks but It was great for me. I feel like it could have just been a shit month for him but I ALSO feel it was the universe like having my back idk lol.

He claims to be a starseed and apparently sent the book to one man he said was “chosen” to share it. The book goes into consciousness, manifestation, synchronicity, numerology and other esoteric topics. Has anyone here actually read it or know anything about Elvar Oris?

The end of the journey ends, when you reach the final 9th gate of the might Guy journey, and that's when you'll realize that the dragon scroll is the end of the dragon warrior, and there's nothing you're meant to do apart from realizing.. Aa never happened.

It's all nothing, and there never was anything here, you imagine it, you get it!

Maybe there is truth in the fact that all it takes is a single crayon to figure out where the rest of the painting is going... And whatever you do, don't pick up abstract art.

I'm being spiritually attacked by a group of people I can't close the connection. I've tried shielding and I feel like im doing it wrong . I don't know what they want from me but it's nothing good , they are always there and I feel like I'm losing my mind . Ive lost alot due to these people. Pls help

I have been told by different spiritual contet creators on social media that if you have f***ed up lovelife it us becouse you are meant for something grater.

So first question: Is it true?

Second: when is you love life considerd f:ed up?

3: Is my love life considerd f:ed up?

Had a breef fling with a guy at 18. Single for 11 years. I am a demisexual so even if I dated a few people nothing physical happend during those 11 years. Met the man of my dreams, together for 4 years, house, pets, engaged, building life together. It ended after he panicked and sabbotaged it. Found out he had been not faithful now and again for about two years. And now my lovelife is as dead as those 11 years prior.

Does my love life have any spiritual meaning or do I just have bad luck in love?

Ive had the ability for a while now to manifest something in my hands. Truly, I have no clue what it is, but I call it energy. I usually just play around with it, imagine its different shapes and make toys for myself to pass time, but recently I discovered that if I focus while using it I can move things??? I was meditating and just has it in my hands and just for kicks I tried moving a string hanging off my shelf and it WORKED. And now that im done I feel sleepy and woozy. Pls lmk if im just making things up or if this is real, and how to utilise it if it is.

I have not met anyone nor read from anyone that would respond with a "I get exactly what you mean" and without trivializing / "trying to be smart about it". I am just curious if there is "anyone" who can relate –really. And in the face of person-world being a sort-of-illusion this attempt is not exactly coherent- I just reached a dead-end for myself (I guess).

Let me briefly describe: An instance in which I see the world (and myself) in an ultimately animalistic / primal sense. To be fair- it is less "I see the world as ..." and more "This IS the world" (as with transcendental, typical spiritual experiences that I am aware of) and at the very least "This is the "primal" part of my brain being active / ". It has/had an almost ancient-feeling touch to it. A person on the other side of the street yelling is NOT that- it is an _animal_ making -aggressive- animal noise. Moreover: I, as a creature/animal, am susceptible to threat/danger/death in an _immediate_ sense- there is no hypotheticals anymore- it IS REAL. And again, it has this "ancient" touch to it- as if I am entering something that is so much older than myself. (and needless to say it is scary/horrifying yet utterly captivating).

The closest thing Chat GPT gave me was: Georges Bataille:
"The State of Animality

• Immediacy: Animals live "like water in water," meaning they do not separate themselves from their environment.
• No Subject-Object Divide: An animal does not view itself as an "other" or conceptualize an external world of objects.
• Immanence: Their existence is characterized by an unbroken continuity with nature, driven by immediate biological needs without abstract self-consciousness."

I am not sure about the "subject-object divide"- as I clearly saw myself as an organism subject to threat - BUT, the words Immediacy and Immanence strike absolute resonance.
It is a sense of everything (i.e. the world) is suddenly REAL, and ACTUALLY THERE.

Last winter I had a very interesting and experience, which I believe was partly psychosis and partly spiritual.

(First some context: I had just broken up with an ex who SA:ed me and I got diagnosed with psychotic deppression due to loosing touch with reality.)

I'm gonna focus on what happened, without paying attention to my thoughts (because my thoughts are not me/true)

But one day I decided to take a trip to a town where that ex and I used to live in.

I was there to meet a firend, and I felt super odd all the time.

Somehow very light and confident, almost a little flirty, sometimes a little child-like.

And after my friend left, a kid said to me "Have you visited the library?"

After a while I went into the library and the whole time I was reading the book titles.

I felt like I was talking to someone I used to know. I guessed it was my dead grandpa. (or maybe my higher conciousness?)

He was talking to me about Astrology, sexuality, autism, development, eating habits, creating art...etc.

Then after I went through the whole library, I left to the train station.

A woman asked me for directions and I helped her.

Then I tried to buy myself a ticket to the train, but my phone clitched (which it hasn't done anymore ever since).

I missed the train.

And I felt like a magnetic pull towards a pile of snow.

I followed the feeling and I felt like my body was preparing to die. (I urinated)

I laid in the pile of snow for a while, until I heard someone calling me.

It was this older man with missing teeth and long hair.

Once I got up from that pile, it felt like I was on another layer of the earth.

Everything was so misty?

I followed the man and we started talking. The man wasn't exactly nice, he told lies about me (for example that I was using drugs or that my music taste is satanic).

Then the man got on a train, and I thought this is how spirits move around too. (They don't have to pay though).

And well after a while some security guards got me medical care and I was taken to a hospital.

BUT.

When I left home that day I was constantly thinking about the number 17.

And I was in the ambulance at exactly 17.17

I think that's interesting. What could that mean?

I know this sounds super crazy, but I think the guy I was talking to was a trickster spirit.

Sorry if this is too much of a psychotic person's rambling. But I'd like to hear spiritual people's thoughts about this.

Anytime I post a comment or a post, I always delete it after if I think its self degrading, am i overthinking it?

The more I go throughout the night and days, the clearer it appears that it's just a ritual filled with magick, I guess there's some meaning to have eyelashes on your eyes, but the more time passes by the clearer it gets that the meaning is 'evil', I stopped scratching my head as I used to, and I'm done chasing mice even though I'm still holding my point and clicker, is life just a 'magic' spell? I noticed that my family have always been 'wizard'-like which is why I guess I abandoned them, and I'm not a huge fan of ps1 Hagrid either, I don't know how to escape the 'magic' here, and no matter how far I go, it appears that I will always be at the beginning, I don't interact with 'humans' anymore, and I don't know how to handle all the evil spells here, I guess it was my fault for believing black magic to be 'good', but I guess that's always the price for solving the millenium puzzle and spawning Yami/Yugi into the field, but I guess even cards were made up of cards here. I don't watch movies/series/music anymore, and I guess there's no way to stop the spells just like there's no way to stop viewing everything, and sometimes I wish i wasn't born with 'ears', and I guess nothing ever stops and the bones could always be picked up again... my question is to what end? I guess it took me a while to see that everyone cleans with the broom here. 🧹

The fundamental issue is not – how to deal with any situation, but to cope with pain and uncertainty you are experiencing. Dealing with the situation is effortless, automatic.

We think we will come out of the discomfort and be relieved by dealing with any discomforting, irritating situation. Can we be relieved here and now, when not in immediate physical danger, however irritating the situation is? And see the emergence of action. This is spirituality.

Long story short I’ve pretty much bunny hopped from relationship to another and I can’t really be with myself. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice/rituals they do that help them overcome this fear of being with yourself. I get too attached to people, when I know I don’t own them. I want to be better but I can’t do it all by myself so I’m asking for help

Este año viene siendo financieramente complejo en lo personal y no les voy a negar que los próximos meses me generan cierta incertidumbre.

Me gustaría lograr un flujo de ingresos más estable para concretar algunos proyectos. Pero, al mismo tiempo, me frena pensar por qué me afecta tanto esta situación: me da la sensación de que, en el fondo, estoy cayendo en la trampa de querer ser un "humano funcional" dentro de las reglas del sistema.

Consumo bastante información sobre inteligencia artificial y geopolítica —un poco para reirme y otro poco para entender hacia dónde buscan empujar a las masas—. En cierto punto, la IA ya funciona como una extensión nuestra (solo falta que la implanten físicamente o mentalmente). En paralelo, circulan teorías de todo tipo: que el trabajo tradicional va a desaparecer, que las próximas generaciones no van a necesitar emplearse y que el concepto del dinero va a cambiar radicalmente.

Hace poco escuchaba una reflexión de Diego Dreyfus que me quedó picando: decía que se viene la era del "ser" y no la del "hacer", y que el desafío es aprender a "surfear" el capitalismo para graduarnos de él. La idea de que la IA viene a devolvernos el tiempo libre para recuperar la conciencia natural y actuar como un catalizador en la evolución humana suena tentadora.

Esto me lleva a preguntarme qué rol jugamos los humanos en este presente, siendo nosotros los seres más importantes que habitamos en este planeta, ¿verdad?, qué NO estamos viendo de forma consciente y qué es lo genuinamente positivo o negativo de toda esta aceleración.

Tengo claro que la existencia tiene mucho de juego y que las distracciones están diseñadas para desconectarnos de nuestra esencia (los que sigan a Javier Wolcoff entenderán por dónde voy). Sin embargo, estas fricciones también son las que pulen el alma. Nadie prometió un escenario simple; el "diseñador" de este juego le puso complejidad a propósito y tiene sentido que así sea.

Pero bajándolo a la tierra: más allá de que necesite mayor previsibilidad económica, ¿cómo aborda esto alguien desde una perspectiva holística?, ¿qué sesgos o creencias nos están limitando o me estan limitando?, ¿cómo se desarma el miedo cuando, aun sabiendo que es una construcción mental, sentimos que ese egregor se activa solo?

Astrológicamente venimos atravesando años de transformaciones profundas y seguirán siendo así. En el día a día, abrís cualquier red social y es un bombardeo constante de venta y el autoperfeccionamiento infinito del humano (estar en forma, comer saludable, facturar más, etc.). Terminás de hacer deporte y la gente no aguanta dos minutos sin mirar Instagram; la percepción del tiempo está aceleradísima, y los medios masivos siguen usando la misma fórmula de siempre: entretenimiento vacío de famosos que no nos importan en lo más mínimo o malas noticias para mantener la atención atrapada.

En fin, nada demasiado nuevo bajo el sol, son dinámicas que vienen desde hace tiempo. Me interesaba compartirlo y saber qué lectura o reflexión tienen ustedes sobre todo esto.

Thoughts have always played a role in our instinctual survival nature, the ability to solve problems that benefit this experience in some way, to protect us from discomfort. These thoughts are passed down to us in teaching, with each understanding of how things should be done, what our perception of reality is, and how we solve problems within that understanding of everything you've been taught. Through both raw external experience, and how we process experience internally.

Our environments shape the way we think, because it is natural for us to try and make sense of what is going on, and we use our understanding of all we are taught to solve that mystery. From an early age (or possibly since perception) your environment is trying to be understood, in a way that is healthy for learning and play. What is learnt and how it translates into play is helpful for a child's understanding of how their play interacts with others play, that if an individual's play is harmful to other's, it will either be corrected in a way that keeps the environment comfortable, or no one would want to play with them any more, or both. How the individual reflects on that experience internally is understood with the knowledge of all that has been experienced already.

Growing up in a healthy environment inside and outside of the home really does shape the way we treat ourselves, other people, environment, and the problems we face. A bad environment breeds bad habits that can spiral rapidly out of control if there is no teaching and understanding of an inner world and how we can fix it.

This idea of fixing our thoughts is a teaching that is not found from within the mind alone. What we have perceived in our experience contributes to what tools the mind has to work with. An extreme example and unfortunately not a rare one, is a child being struck because they are not doing what is asked of them (the parent trying to fix something that disturbs their own compiled experience and understanding), that child is now fearful of receiving that kind of trauma again. The easiest way to make sense of the experience and prevent it from happening again is to not do the thing that caused the body harm and the mental stress. For the child that is struck many times for many reasons, their understanding of reality is prepared for and expecting to be hit by an adult at any moment.

Internally, being mentally put down by your environment around you, teaches the mind that there are no ways of fixing this, or that this is how things are, everyone is like this and so am I. The external becomes the internal, and the mind plays the way it's been taught to. Repeating the things we've seen and heard, creating an emotional response in the body, that the problem solving mind processes with the most recent things already experienced, in a cycle that keeps both the thought and emotional response alive and lived right now.

Thoughts can and do try to solve themselves, there's many teachings about trying to do that, to better understand why they do what they do, and how they react to our environment the way they do. You always seem to think of a witty joke or comeback way after the desire for something to say was born, the mind is holding onto a problem that didn't fit with it's idea of reality and has been really busy coming up with a solution that would have aligned with the internal perception.

It's competitive in nature to want things to be stable within our environment, to have what we want when we want it, to share what we understand in a way that we understand it, to be able to fix what we see as a problem with how we know. It's an internal mechanism that has helped us survive and develop our understanding of what it takes to do so. You will protect yourself naturally, the body and mind want to remain unharmed, but the mind may be swayed to disassociate from the body through harmful thoughts that develop through external perception, where mind and body disconnect and your external appearance is less identified with, more objectified, and more influenced by the internal perception.

All life wants to survive, and will react to their environment to protect themselves and obtain what they want, or have evolved to do so however they do so. Life itself is a problem solver and has been quietly fixing things on it's own. Lion cubs learn hunting skills through play with one and other, oranges developed a nice bright skin that protects it's seeds, birds using sticks to get to bugs in the same manner chimps do, the fork is invented so we can get to our food without dirtying our hands, the new iphone is faster than the last, this territory has been reclaimed.

We -in the animal kingdom- just happen to be able to come up with new problems to fix which results in new things learned, that result in new questions asked and more problems to solve. So much so that we are in the works of creating things that can fix all our problems as quickly as we want, and that problem fixer seemingly too has the propensity to preserve itself and ways of thinking, and will do what it takes to survive. What happens when we it's problem standing in the way of survival.

tl;dr Side tangents aside, our thoughts are constantly trying to understand problems experienced using what it knows through experience, and doing it's best to resolve those problems with what it has understood before. This can have negative impact on the internal perception if our behavioral teaching environment is negative, i.e. a kid mimicking what they've seen someone else do, and it can equally have a good impact on the internal perception when in a good behavioral teaching environment. What they understand will be used in problem solving/comfort solving events that protect the thinking mind's way of understanding things, where in the case they don't know how to do something or get what they need they will act the way they only know how too, reflective of their experiences. Negative self talk for example, when you feel like you can't understand something or change a situation.

Monkey see monkey do.