Soul realization is a major goal of the spiritual path. When you center in the soul, it will inspire all areas of your life. Yoga provides eight main ways to contact the soul and allow it to come forward in our awareness and daily lives.

Jnana yogis realize that the soul, the Infinite Spirit within, is the true nature of every person. The main practice for contacting and attuning with the soul is to develop seer awareness. Practicing seer awareness can lead to the realization of the true self, the purusha

As we grow, our motives become higher and more spiritual. Ultimately, our motives become love and joy. Investigate spiritual techniques like Opening the Inner Gates to refine your motives and allow Spirit’s power, energy, love and light to express.

The Kabbalah examines the ten main attributes of Spirit which can help you grow on the spiritual path. Attuning with these forces already within you allows them fuller expression. Explore these qualities of Spirit which enable you to have a fulfilling, rich, powerful, wondrous and highly motivated life.

Motives are the inner drives, impulses and intentions which cause us to act. They are central factors in influencing our level of happiness and success in life. You can change and upgrade your motives as you open yourself to the strength of soul and Spirit. Allowing your motives to be based on strength, truth and love can enrich your life immensely.

Through mirroring, seeing ourselves through the eyes of others, we receive impressions which influence our self-image. Often, we allow others to strongly influence our view of ourselves, what we can expect from life, and the meaning of life in general. It’s essential to review your accumulated mirroring and then remirror yourself, if necessary.

Sufis at times call the world in which we live the little world. Some Christians call it the veil of tears. Living in the little world, we are limited and under the tyranny of our sense-bound mind. As we rise above the noisy mind, we gradually become conscious of the soul, our true self. You can break out of your prison and live free.

In the view of yogis generally, Creation is an emanation of the Divine Spirit. Creation is furthered every time a person chooses to do good. You are attuning directly with the Lord when you seek to express goodness.

Through spiritual practice we can discover holiness — the holiness of ourselves, of one another, and of the Divine. The two main forces which block this realization are lust and greed. Transmutation of the sex drive liberates us from preoccupation sex. Transmutation of greed usually brings abundance and faith.