A recent study showed that the average American family spent 37 minutes a day actually connecting with one another. Only 37 minutes! This is such a small fraction of a day to develop the connection needed to be in a spiritual relationship with one another, to actually connect soulfully. How often do you pass over or gloss by those you love the most? 

Spirituality at its core is about connection. Connecting spiritually with a community or another person gives us meaning, greater happiness, gratitude, compassion, and positive relationships. When we connect with another person, we discover a well-spring of well-being within us that carries us through whatever life brings our way. 

Connecting consciously with another person also means we attune to them. We allow our own spiritual state to shift as we resonate and connect with the inner state of another person. We ‘feel’ the other person without trying to make something happen. It’s a natural interconnected response to one another.

Sitting back to back with another person is a tangible practice that can help you attune and connect spiritually. This week take 1-minute of real, authentic connection to build a relational base and solid space you need to relate to one another with intention. 

1. Invite a loved one or friend to sit back to back with you, ideally outside where the natural world can support you. You can also take a photo of a cherished loved one and use it in the same way. Place the photo behind you.
2. Take one hand and place it over your heart and breath inward. 
3. Take your other hand and place it over your navel and breath downward through your inner channel.
4. Then, with eyes open or closed, expand your awareness around you (which just means pay attention to the landscape that surrounds your body). 
5. Bring awareness to how you are and where you are in this moment. Stay present in you. Then bring awareness to how your loved one is and where they are in this moment. Stay in your own experience as you attune to them.
6. Notice using your 2nd senses of seeing beyond what your eyes see, feeling beyond what your body feels, hearing beyond what your ears hear, and knowing beyond what your mind knows what you are aware of in that moment.
7. What emerges around you? What emerges within you? What sensations do you experience? What do you feel in the other person? 

‘Feeling’ another person is a foundation of spiritual connection. Our idea that we are separate from one another is an illusion. When we spiritually attune and connect, we discover the truth that everything is interrelated, and we know that we are not alone.

With love,

Annie