11 Benefits Of Spiritual Growth

When we are spiritually healthy and growing, every other area of our lives seems to fall into place. Our spiritual state influences how we feel and react to the things happening around us. If we are not at peace with our spiritual growth journey, there’s a huge chance that we’d feel lost and restless most of the time. 

Conversely, when we are spiritually unhealthy, everything starts to go downhill. We may not even realize how much it affects the quality of our lives. 

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In this article, you will learn not only about the benefits of spiritual growth but also how spiritual growth affects our lives. Also, which areas of life spirituality have the most influence?

How is the quality of life gets affected by our spiritual state?

We understand it or not; there’s a certain kind of power that works like a battery or power source for the human body. It’s not the type of energy we get from food or energy drinks. It’s a completely different kind of power. The power that helps the whole body function and keeps it alive. When that energy or source of life is disconnected from the energy it belongs to, we experience chaos in life.

That connection can only be restored through simple spiritual practices, such as meditation, mindfulness, and gratitude. These spiritual practices help us feel close to that source of energy to which our spiritual body belongs. As we continue these small practices, it really changes how our mind works and how we perceive everything around us. Especially doing regular meditation practice can change a lot. 

How spiritually grown you are will determine how you respond to problems and how you handle success. How you treat people, and it’s influenced by who they are and where they are in life. How do you make connections and establish relationships. The spiritual awakening stage you are in can change all that. These simple things have a significant impact on what your life will look like in the coming years.

Now let’s get to understand the 11 ways spiritual growth changes you and enhances your quality of life:

How Spiritual Growth Changes You And Enhances The Quality of life

There are many ways spiritual growth affects you and enhances the quality of life. Let’s take a look:

It makes you a positive thinker and gives you a positive perspective on life

As we grow on the spiritual level and establish a deeper connection with ourselves, we become more positive. Humans tend to look at the negative aspect of things first because our natural instinct is to keep ourselves safe. That is also why we tend to overanalyze a lot of things and overreact to a lot of situations.

Spiritual growth helps us realize that there’s no need to always be in fight or flight mode. When there’s not so much fear and worry, it becomes easier to notice and look at the positive sides of everything. You will easily notice the shift once you start meditation or gratitude journaling. 

It makes you emotionally strong

Let’s first understand what it means to be emotionally strong. Because to this day, many people believe that not being emotionally vulnerable means being emotionally strong. It’s not true at all. Understanding your emotions, your emotional weakness, and being able to act on what’s right for you is being emotionally strong.

Spiritual maturity and growth help you cultivate that emotional strength naturally. You can feel and experience everything. You can be vulnerable and emotional, but you have the knowledge and power to manage emotions.

This is one of the valuable benefits of spiritual growth because it changes how we react. When we learn to respond with emotional intelligence, it benefits us in several ways, thus enhancing our quality of life.

You become more compassionate about the world and the people around you

It becomes effortless and natural to feel compassion for the world and the people around us because being able to feel a sense of oneness and empathy for everyone is one of the effects of spirituality. When you are at the later stages of spiritual growth, you will be able to experience that there isn’t really a difference between you and the people around you.

We also develop a deeper connection with ourselves as we grow in the spiritual journey. That also helps us feel compassion and a deeper connection with the people around us. 

Your mind is at peace

There are so many spiritual practices that can help us keep our minds at peace, such as journaling, meditation, and prayers. Of these, meditation and prayer can be especially effective.

Prayer is a way of communicating with a higher power and can be done in any way that you feel comfortable with. You don’t need to pray in a specific way to feel peaceful. Just praying in your heart with pure intentions is enough. You also don’t need to believe in a certain faith or religion to pray or meditate. This makes these practices accessible to everyone, no matter what their background or beliefs may be.

When our minds are at peace, we find it easier to approach life with a sense of calm and balance. This can especially help a lot when life gets overwhelming or stressful.

You become calmer and less agitated

As we acquire more knowledge and understanding through our spiritual growth, our minds become calmer. Anger, frustration, and irritation are all caused when we don’t understand what’s happening. Or when we can’t have control over certain things we really want to control.

All the things we learn and experience on our spiritual path help us let go of that need to control everything. We also develop a sense of contentment which makes us confident about getting everything right in the end. We acquire faith that whatever’s happening right now, it’s for good. Having faith and developing that kind of confidence and belief in yourself bring that calm within us.

You become grateful for all the good in your life

We start to practice gratitude more and more as we grow spiritually. As our perspective on life and the world shifts, we start to appreciate every experience and every tiny thing. Our vision and mindset have much to do with how we experience life. When you are in a good state spiritually, it becomes easier to be grateful.

This doesn’t mean you will be forcing yourself to see good in your life. It means all the good things you have in your life will become more apparent. Let’s understand it better with a real-life example:

Think about all the times you’ve received compliments and positive remarks at work, with friends, or on social media. There would be plenty, but you might not remember what exactly they were. 

Now think about those times when you received a mean remark at work or a comment on social media. There’s a high chance that you still feel some anger even thinking about it.

Being spiritual changes that. Just like our focus normally gets stuck on criticism because it highlights our insecurities. When you are spiritually more mature, positive things will automatically become more prominent than negative. Which inspires gratitude within us a lot more than usual.

You become happy from within

As we grow even more spiritually and emotionally, it allows us to experience happiness from within. The happiness that comes from within it lasts till the end because it doesn’t depend on any material thing.

When the source of our happiness depends on materialistic things or people, it doesn’t last. Because there’s always a possibility of people moving away and changing paths and things getting lost. Or, we stop feeling the same way about the things we used to feel.

Our relationship with money, property and anything precious can change. We might want certain things today, and you can’t be sure not to find better once you have them. There’s always going to be something that is better, and that happiness won’t last once you see it.

 Trying to find happiness like that only turns into a chase game. But once you find that happiness within, everything changes. You don’t feel the need to chase anything. Everything starts gravitating toward you.

You learn to let go of grudges and live in the present

Spiritual growth also helps us let go of grudges and live in the present. How can it enhance the quality of life, you’d ask? It does because holding on to the grudges and living in the past makes a hollow. It creates a void within us that can’t even get fulfilled even after taking revenge. 

Being spiritual helps us learn the value of living in the present. It helps us understand how powerful we become when we don’t hold on to grudges. Because holding on to grudges takes a lot from us. 

Clarity and focus in life

Clarity and focus are something we all strive to achieve at some point or another in life. Who enjoys feeling lost and confused? Having clarity in life is a lot like having a map and knowing exactly where you want to be. What you really want to do and what you need to do to achieve it.

However, having clarity is not enough because, without focus, actions can feel very tiring. When we talk about manifesting something or having the life, we desire. Focus and clarity become crucial elements. We experience and understand the effect of clarity and focus when we grow spiritually.

Meditation is one of the best tools that can help us get clarity and focus. You can easily experience it through the meditations available on the Enhanced app.

Makes you a better lover

This might surprise you because spirituality is not much talked about in connection with love life. But being spiritually mature comes with a lot of benefits, and becoming a better lover is one of them.

Do you know that love is seen as one of the highest vibrational emotions? Spiritual growth not only helps us cultivate compassion but also helps us experience love in its purest form. You feel more connected to your lover. It becomes easier to see patterns. It becomes easier to resolve conflicts. You don’t overreact when a conflict occurs.

The amount of empathy and compassion you have will also be multiplied. It becomes easier to receive love. You don’t feel lost in contemplating if you deserve to be loved or not. You will always have so much to offer than just being there and showing love.

It helps you deal with stress better

All the points we talked about earlier of them contribute to reduced stress levels. But how does spiritual growth helps us deal with stress better? It helps us find a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life, which can buffer the negative effects of stress. It also helps us develop a support network of people who share our values and can offer us guidance and advice. 

Finally, it helps you learn how to manage your thoughts and emotions better. Makes us emotionally strong and helps us develop empathy for others. Because of these qualities, we become understanding and open to not taking everything personally. Which all can prevent stress from getting out of control.

An article published in Psychology Science says that “Researchers have found that practicing spiritual meditation can decrease anxiety and stress and help maintain a more positive mood.

Conclusion

Spiritual growth helps us navigate through life, enhancing the quality of life we live. Not just on an emotional or mental level but also on physical and financial levels. Because it helps us to connect with our higher selves and to understand our true purpose in life. It can help us to find peace and calm in the middle of chaos and be grateful for the blessings that are all around us. Spiritual growth is a lifelong journey, but it is one that is well worth taking. 

Also, spirituality is a lot more than just religion and prayer. It is an ideology that pertains to how we perceive, understand, and treat this world and everything around us. It is something that can be unique and personal to you.

It’s never too early or too late to focus on your spiritual side!