Frustration With Spiritual Practice

So we are happy beings – content in establishing a strong spiritual and personal growth regimen in our daily lifestyle. We practice patience, love, peace, joy, harmony and much more.

Then comes the time when all our practice is put to test. You are faced  by a family member that always pushes  your buttons, someone makes a snide remark at you, people try to hurt you for no reason.

You find yourself inundated with thoughts of anger, revenge and hate. You want to spew vicious words, get your own back, act out of character.

The you find yourself wondering “why the hell am I feeling this way”? “I practice patience, love and kindness every day, yet I am filled I get anger, frustrated, disillusioned.”

This can be highly frustrating. Spiritual practice can give us a sense of entitlement. An aura that says “I am in some way better than you.” Of course we do not express it but in one instant or another most of us have felt this way.  Then when our character is put to the test, we find we are no different from anybody else.

A lot of what we deal with is frustration. Frustration for not acting in the way we aspire to be through our spiritual practices. This frustration is then dealt out in anger, rage, jealousy and so on.

The core essence of spiritual practice is to let yourself grow at your own pace. Have no expectations, no sense of entitlement. Spiritual practice is essentially selfless. It’s not meant to boost your ego or make yourself better compared to the rest. You are only meant to better your former self.

The benefits of spiritual practice takes time. It’s a very disciplined and thorough process that changes you from the inside. You cannot expect instant changes – results trickle in.

After some years change will start to flow, slowly at first, then a gush of sweeping change will overcome you. At this comment you don’t ever need to be concerned about how you come across to others. You will be beyond such trivialities.

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