Spiritual Birthdays/Anniversary

The birthday is an extremely important day to the spiritual aspirant. Whether we realize it or not we do arrive at a particular time and place for a specific reason. There is nothing random about you being born on the date and time you were born.

For this reason we should treat our birthdays with real reverence.

We have all sorts of grand and magnificent potentialities and our birthday is a time to reflect upon our highest image of our self. Realign and centre ourselves.

Brutal honesty is needed on our birthday. Are we progressing towards that highest vision? Are we loving more than we have in the past? Are we more unconditional with our love? More on target? Are we evolving the fastest? Most of us are not able to answer all these questions in the affirmative. So if not, our birthday is the day to rededicate ourselves to the real in us, with renewed vigour and renewed commitment.

Make your birthday an example for the rest of your life. Say to yourself “what would I do on a perfect day? How would I live?” And then just follow your heart. In this way each birthday becomes a visionary precursor to the following few years.

Marriage is a spiritual communion.

It takes a long time to grow young

PABLO PICASSO

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family. Pope John Paul II Take a minute to forget the Hallmark cards, chocolate and romantic dinners that we often associate with wedding anniversaries. At their source, anniversaries are meaningful milestones that couples deserve to honor and celebrate. In fact, research now shows that marking important anniversaries can actually help strengthen relationships.

If a marriage was worth celebrating originally, then it ought to be worth re-celebrating. An anniversary is much like a shared birthday and ought to be a memorable occasion. Wedding anniversaries, like other celebrated days, are worth putting some time and effort into making that day something to be remembered. A wedding anniversary is a time to rethink commitments made in years past. It is also a time to set new commitments with each other that are in keeping with the growth and development of the marriage. It is a time to give thanks to each other for joys experienced, care given, love extended, hopes shared, comfort given in times of need, acceptances of weaknesses as well as strengths, along with feelings expressed and promises delivered.

An anniversary is a positive day of celebration that allows the couple to step back from the daily grind, and remember a moment that changed their lives together. Reminiscing and showing admiration for each other can help remind a couple why they fell in love in the first place. This helps them focus on each others’ positive qualities, helping them reframe their relationship and see things more positively. We recommend you spend at least some time in meditation on your birthday/anniversary. If you can, take a break from all your routines. If you are working, ask for the day off. If you have a holiday, spend the day doing things to pamper your soul. Be in nature. Go to the beach. Read a book. Listen. In silence.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity

SENECA