There’s a very good chance that what is preventing you from maintaining a strong meditation practice, or committing to your devotional or consciousness-raising practices like yoga, has nothing to do with discipline.
It’s highly unlikely that you’re failing because you lack internal commitment or willpower. What’s far more likely is this: the number one impediment to deep, consistent devotion is low self-worth.
This is the silent saboteur of spiritual awakening. Even when we know the benefits of meditation or devotional practice, self-esteem is often the deciding factor in whether we can sustain it.
When I first encountered the research that confirmed this truth, it was revelatory. It shifted my entire understanding of spiritual practice.
If you don’t believe you are good, valuable, or worthy, your nervous system will resist letting you enter the deep states of devotion where you truly meet yourself. Why? Because low self-esteem drives us to run from ourselves.
Most of us don’t avoid meditation because it’s “too hard.” We avoid it because sitting in silence forces us to meet the parts of ourselves that whisper we are not enough.
If we do not tend to the dominant subconscious narrative we carry about ourselves, we will sabotage even the most sincere devotional practice.
This isn’t about sticking affirmations on your bathroom mirror and hoping they work. This is about courageously meeting the parts of yourself that do not yet agree that you are a divine piece of a benevolent universe.
That’s why in all devotion, I teach this: first we meet our fear, and only then do we create a new reality. Without this step, devotion is unsustainable.
As soon as we begin to change these narratives, the ego resists. The ego’s arsenal is impressive, it hijacks the nervous system, the mind, the heart rate, even your brainwave state to keep you in the familiar territory of self-doubt.
This is why you wake up one morning and think: I can’t be bothered. Meditation doesn’t work for me. Yesterday it felt great, today it feels terrible.
That isn’t laziness. That isn’t failure. It is the wrestle between ego and soul for dominance. And this is a holy battle, worthy of your full commitment.
This journey is not about quick fixes or racing to a finish line. In truth, there is no finish line. There is only liberation, moksha, and it is available to all of us.
The path begins with softening the way you speak to yourself. The next time you find yourself cruelly judging your spiritual practice, pause. Offer yourself compassion. Remind yourself: If quantum physics tells me I am one with all, then I am worth more than these harsh thoughts.
This is how we evolve. By increasing self-worth, we expand access to our divine truth. Devotion becomes less about discipline and more about allowing yourself to be the vessel of infinite wisdom.
The work is not easy, but it is sacred. It requires what I call spiritual sweat, the willingness to meet fear, shift perception, and step into your inherent worthiness. when you do, everything changes. Your practices no longer feel random or inconsistent. They become a living, breathing communion with the cosmos.
You are the oracle. You are worth the effort.
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