#457 Spiritual practices help you build emotional resilience. (Personal development wisdom snippets)

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In this series, I select my favourite, most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast.

Today's snippet is from my conversation with Cristina Leira, a remarkable individual with a rich & diverse background.

It is about how spiritual practices can help us manage our emotions more effectively, especially in times of crisis.

Learn why it's crucial to build emotional resilience before a crisis hits, much like saving in a bank account for a rainy day.

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Transcript

Agi Keramidas: 0:03

Welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast, and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my favorite, most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today's snippet is from my conversation with Cristina Leira, a remarkable individual with a rich and diverse background. It is about how spiritual practices can help us manage our emotions more effectively, especially in times of crisis. I believe you will find it insightful, and if you do join our free community mastery seekers tribe to go deeper into the episode.

Cristina Leira: 0:47

Mental Health. Well, there is one thing that we don't talk much, and that is mental health. We all want to be especially now with the digital world, right? We all want to look good. We want to say, Oh, we are doing great. The truth is that there is a disconnect between what we see and what we really are going through. So the mental health is about also how we regulate our emotions, and I have conducted a lot of research on that, how the use of spiritual practices helps us learn to regulate better our Emotions. Now, interestingly enough, when we are in terms in times of calmness, right? It's very easy to say, Oh yes, the only thing you have to do is breathe in, breathe out, and then meditate, go within. Beautiful. The thing that happens when we are going through an anxiety moment or a crisis is different. So there you don't have time to say, well, I know I have to believe it, because if you try to do that, you will do that right. So it's like a bank account. We need to put more in the account before we need it, so that when we need to withdraw, we already have it there. So we need to create. We need to create the the practice of building what works for us, what works for us, so that when we are going through a critical moment, we just go there and practice. And that is why we need to practice whatever works for us, right? Some people, meditation works other contemplation and and I in my study, I started religious symbols, and I found that each of the symbols that I analyzed, they had this bodily sensations that help to connect within in different ways. So, for example, incense, you say, incense? Well, yes, incense, because it's when you breathe in, it just goes directly to your neural system as well, but it's what is the symbology behind incense? So you see, everything is nothing is separate. It's it's an impossibility that things are separate is it's an illusion. It's so interconnected that, for example, incense through the through the sense of the smell, or sacred bells through the sense of the sound, or sacred music, or touching the rosary, for example, or touching the, you know, the mandala in the Indian faith. But or some, if you go to Latin America, of course, from Argentina, when you go to the church, you see a lot of people touching the image. And they just touch. They touch the feet of the saint or the feet of Jesus. They even kiss it, because it is a bodily sensation. All that, all that helps to a mindfulness intervention that benefits us, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and it has to be done prior to the crisis, if we like. Now that doesn't mean that, okay, okay, I haven't done it, and I'm going through crisis. I don't have any options. No. Thank God. Thank God. And I do believe in God, and I like saying Thank God. Thank God we do have options, because we It isn't like you only have one chance in your life, and if you miss it, you're doing new you haven't done it. You don't have, you know, the practice built there, and you can learn in terms of distress, which is what happened to me. I wasn't. Using it before. But then I said, Okay, I have option A, I die, because you can die of a heart attack when you're going through extreme stress. And I went through that, or Option B, do something about it, and I did something about it. Now, it's much better to start ahead of time, so that when the crisis comes. You're you're better off than where I started, which I had to start from zero. Had to read about it, and I couldn't concentrate because I was so nervous. I didn't feel like reading. But I was like Christina, read, calm down, meditate. And I was thinking, but how can I meditate when I have to do this and this? So if I humbly, can suggest to the to whoever is listening to this and can feel served with this message is start before. Start before the moment of crisis, building your own account of what works for you, and for that, you have to do soul search you see sometimes what what works for you doesn't work for me. So sometimes meditation may not work for you, but going for a walk in the in the beach May, or just sitting with your back against a tree may, or just listening, I don't know, to some classical music may, or maybe even be listening to, you know, other type of music, whatever works for you. Build that so that when you go through darkness and Agi, we all go through darkness, we all go it's what we do about it, or how long we stay there. That is the only difference. So I only always say, make no mistake, everybody, everybody, mother, Teresa, Jesus, everybody, and every like in the Kabbalah, you know, like all different. Because I don't want to just mention one religion over the other. No, in all religions, we, all humans, go through that it's the moon right the dark side and the light is how long we stay in the dark. What makes the difference?

Agi Keramidas: 7:16

Thank you for listening. You will find the full conversation with Christina lira in episode 350 The link is in the show notes. If you enjoy listening and appreciate what we're doing here the quick, simple favor I'm asking of you is to click the subscribe button until next time. Stand Out. Don't fit in.