Balancing the spiritual world with the material world is challenging for most if not all people. 

The human body is designed to process and perceive that which it can directly experience. The spiritual world is a part of our world, just as much or even more than the material world. However, due to the fact that it is not readily perceivable, it often gets grossly neglected. Humans tend to believe the saying ‘seeing is believing.’

It is the time that we stray from this limited method of exploring the world. As is evident in our everyday lives, there are a number of things we can’t see, but we have found to be true. The electricity that runs your households can’t be seen, but we sure as hell know that it is real.

If we start to view life from this approach, and we accept that there are more facets to life than we can perceive, then we will begin the arduous journey towards balancing our material existence with our spiritual existence.

Both the material or spiritual worlds are important, but it can be argued that the spiritual or intangible world is more important as it gives rise to the material world. 

Take a tree, for example, the tree is not made a scratch, it comes from a small seed underground. The spiritual world can be likened to this. Everything in existence came from nothing; our own experiences in life come from thought, something completely intangible which could be considered to be a form of nothingness.

If we focus on what gives rise to our material world at the same time as we focus on our material worlds, then our lives could be more fruitful. When we focus on our spiritual worlds, we move with ease through our material worlds.

While focusing on our material worlds, it is essential to create a routine with which we use to take care of our spiritual and mental worlds as well. Engaging in daily spiritual practices are a great way to ensure that we maintain both. The good news is that effective spiritual practices are often time efficient and do not require a huge amount of maintenance.Since the spiritual realm is largely invisible, it is completely effective to do a lot of spiritual practices with our eyes closed, or in our bedrooms. Common spiritual and mental practices are meditation, yoga, journaling etc. We can spare time in our day to do each of these.

Through meditation and yoga, we become more grounded and at peace. We pay more attention to our thought content and modify them in a way which allows us to move gracefully and easily through our physical lives.

Journaling allows us to physically map out the problems we encounter in our mental and spiritual worlds. We can begin to pay keen attention and analyze our thoughts and emotional processes in an effort to control and modify them which will in turn impact our material worlds.

With clearer minds, we can tackle or physical problems more easily and we can avoid getting caught up in physical matters which are not worth the destruction of our peace. When our peace is firmly rooted in our mental and spiritual world versus our physical world, it becomes harder for problems in the physical world to change our emotional state from one of peace to one of despair.

When our emotional state is rooted in peace, it, in turn, becomes easier for us to move through and solve our physical world problems, as we consume less energy, time and focus on worrying and feeling emotionally distraught, and more on actually fixing our physical problems.