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5 Spiritual Practices That Look Weird From the Outside – But Feel Amazing Inside
1 and 2 are my favourite
Spiritual people are a rare kind. In the most beautiful places, they’ll sit and meditate. In the worst places, they’ll channel their creative life-force energy and make it meaningful.
It can look strange from the outside but internally it makes perfect sense.
Here are five spiritual practices that follow the same pattern.
1. Breathwork
If you’ve ever seen anyone in a breathwork session, you’ll have noticed that they either look slightly possessed or like they’re having an orgasm with the universe.
I know I’ve looked like both in the past and I’ve seen many other people go through similar experiences too.
However, a spiritual person knows that the breath is the doorway to consciousness, to spirit, and to the divine so they don’t care what they look like. They’re more interested in how they feel.
“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
2. Sounding
Sounding is different from singing. It’s not meant to sound a specific way or even sound good. It’s to connect with the divine through vibration and frequency. That can look (and sound) a little strange from the outside but if there are no inhibitions it can feel rather wonderful inside.
To an untrained ear, they might want to turn away or run and hide. But a spiritual person will often sit down and join the orchestra because “Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” (Pierre Schaffer)
3. Osho’s dynamic meditations
This one is perhaps the strangest of the lot. People can legitimately seem like they’ve lost their minds.
There are five phases and each one is as weird as the next. The first phase starts with jumping up in the air with both hands above the head while chanting “HA” over and over again. The second phase then flows into erratic breathing where each participant moves…
