Sacred Soul Pathways: Practicing Spiritual Hygiene
- Terri Bentley
- May 23, 2024
- 12 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Thank you for joining us on this journey of spiritual exploration and growth. Your commitment to strengthening your self trust and your soul's journey, illuminates the path to peace and love for yourself and others - and that takes profound courage. As we navigate the realms of the spirit world, it's essential to ground ourselves in practices that reconnect us with our essence and the natural world around us.
As I've journeyed my soul's highest vibrational path, shedding the layers of conditioned consciousness, life's profound truths have become intertwined with each breath. The present moment, a fusion of collective awareness and individual essence, speaks to us incessantly. Prior to accepting my shamanic initiation, I was oblivious to the common existence of potent spiritual forces, both benevolent and malevolent. However, upon embracing the shamanic path, where I specialize in entity removal and soul retrieval, I realized that veering from the present moment only led to distress and turmoil. Deviating the infinite awareness of love and acceptance has severe consequences that one cannot express. Learning over and over, how evil forces trick, trap and manipulate the wounded, vulnerable and awakened souls, did I see how necessary it is to practice self-care and spiritual hygiene.
As a chosen shaman spirit walker, ignoring the whispers, movements, or choices of one's highest vibrating soul feels akin to inviting spiritual demise - death. This is code red for a chose shaman who's preparing for a energetic upgrade, opening up to a new round of spiritual lesson, spirit unfoldments, messages, portals, pathways, creation energy. The service to our soul's path never stops. Even at night we venture through the landscapes of the soul consciousness. Awareness of divine protecting in each breath is necessary.
All of this practice, has left me very silent inside, my mind, in total service to my heart, my soul, to divine - expanding consciousness. I'm grateful to share these self-care practices that have allowed me to see the great divine, in every moment. My hope from this text, is to assist anyone who's soul calls for a dance with the divine or craved a strong foundation with our themselves, Divine Earth, Spirit, God .
I'd want to first talk about our worldly circumstances - in today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, it's easy to lose touch with the rhythms of nature and our innate ability to care for ourselves spiritually. The distractions of modern life can lead us away from the very essence of our being.
It's imperative to recognize the profound influence of technology and modern living on our relationship with nature. The constant exposure to screens, artificial surroundings, and sedentary habits can lead to a significant disconnection between humanity and the natural world that sustains us. This disconnection not only impacts our physical well-being but also hampers our ability to align with our spiritual core.
However, by embracing the concept of spiritual hygiene and incorporating simple, yet profound, self-care practices into our daily lives, we can realign with our souls and the wisdom of the natural world.
As you delve into these spiritual hygiene practices, it's essential to remain mindful of the time spent immersed in the digital realm—whether through texting, social media engagement, email correspondence, web browsing, or even the hours spent at work or leisure in front of screens. Rather than inducing guilt, this awareness aims to foster a conscious understanding of how these interactions affect our emotional state during consumption and afterward.
These invaluable insights have formed the foundation of my spiritual journey, serving as guiding lights illuminating the sacred essence of my being and reflecting the infinite divinity inherent within. Each self-care practice acts as a conduit, forging connections that link us to the expansive realm of the divine.
Calling Your Spirit Daily: Reconnect with your soul daily by saying, "I call my soul, my spirit back to me, and release any energy that does not belong to me." Repeat as many times as needed for the body to come back into alignment. As you practice this mantra, you will notice energy revealing itself in waves. This simple practice reinforces your connection. It's easy to get caught up in the moments that take us away from our higher power.
Why Grounding Practices Are Essential for Spiritual Integration: Grounding is the anchor of the soul into the present moment. We experience spiritual awakening, soul retrieval, or energetic shifts, the body often becomes a vessel of heightened energy, emotion, and expanded awareness. Without grounding, this influx of energy can feel disorienting, overwhelming, or disconnected—like we’re floating without a tether.
Grounding practices—such as walking barefoot on natural ground, hugging a tree, sitting in stillness with the earth, or even placing your hands in soil—help return your awareness to the now, reconnecting your spirit with your physical body and the living planet that sustains you.
The Earth is not just soil and stone. Earth is living, breathing consciousness that emits a natural healing rhythm known as the Schumann Resonance (approximately 7.83 Hz). This frequency mirrors the calm, coherent brainwaves of meditative and heart-centered states. When we are grounded, we naturally entrain with this frequency, allowing our nervous system to regulate, our minds to calm, and our hearts to open.
Ungrounded energy can feel like:
Anxiety, scattered thoughts
Fatigue or sudden emotional overwhelm
Feeling “spaced out” or hypersensitive to noise and light
Difficulty making decisions or trusting intuition
Grounding restores:
Clarity of thought and spiritual discernment
Emotional stability and resilience
A sense of connection to the Earth and your body
The ability to hold and integrate higher vibrational experiences
Think of it this way: You wouldn’t plug a high-voltage wire into a delicate circuit without first installing a grounding rod. Similarly, as you expand spiritually, grounding becomes your soul’s stabilizer—allowing you to hold more divine light, wisdom, and presence safely in the body.
Awakening to Your Soul: Prioritize your relationship with your soul. Our soul is a gateway to all things this universe has to offer us. Our mind is simply catching up to its power. Ask your soul questions, familiarize yourself with your unique essence, and fall in love with yourself, your divine spirit, all your being, daily.
Record Your Visions: Your soul speaks through symbols, sensations, and stories and often whispered in dreams or glimpsed in waking moments of clarity. To deepen your connection to this sacred guidance, begin to record what you see, feel, and sense. Whether through journaling, sketching, or voice memos, capturing your visions invites deeper awareness of your healing, your path, and any energies ready to be released. These reflections become a mirror for your evolution, revealing patterns, messages, and signs that guide you home to your higher self. If ever you feel uncertain, ask your soul: “Show me the way.” Then remain open. The answers may appear in dreams, nature, synchronicities, or even in the spaces between.
Intuitive Connection: Listening to the Language of Your Soul. Your body is a sacred instrument and when in alignment, your intuition speaks volumes. Each of us has an inner guidance system, a subtle wisdom that lives in the quiet spaces beneath thought. Learning to recognize this wisdom is a practice of presence, trust, and embodiment. Start by asking simple yes/no questions, and observe how your body responds. You may notice your heart feels expansive or light when the answer is yes, and your stomach may tighten or twist when the answer is no. This is your soul’s language—pure, personal, and powerful.
You can also use your body as a pendulum: Stand or sit in stillness, align your breath, and ask your question aloud. Feel your body’s natural movement, forward, back, or still. Each subtle shift reveals an answer. This is a great technique to build body-mind connection.
Strengthen your intuitive connection:
Begin with deep, intentional breaths to align your mind, body, and spirit.
Center your awareness in your heart.
Ask your question with love and openness.
Feel, don’t force. Let the answer arise naturally. Do you best to practice detachment.
If unclear, ask your soul’s embodied essence to show you in another way, through the art of noticing symbols, sensations, or dreams.
Triple-checking is not doubt; it's devotion to clarity. The more you practice, the more precise your inner compass becomes. Your body is not separate from your spirit. It is the messenger, the temple, and the guide. All you need to do is listen.
Trusting Your Intuition: The compass within, your intuition is your soul’s quiet voice, subtle and wise. It speaks not in fear or noise, but in soft knowing, sensations in the body, and moments of still clarity. Trusting it is an act of returning home to yourself. Rather than letting outside voices cloud your vision, learn to listen to the one that arises from within. Your inner knowing is your compass, lovingly guiding you toward what aligns with your highest path. The more you honor it, the stronger it becomes.
Not all advice or energy is meant for you. If something feels off, heavy, or disconnects you from your peace, it likely isn’t truth. Stay rooted in love, but firm in discernment. You are not here to absorb everyone’s projections or carry the weight of their perceptions.
Honesty is the bridge to intuition. The more honest you are with yourself about your feelings, desires, and experiences, the more clearly your soul can speak. Let love for yourself be the filter through which all information flows. You don’t need permission to believe in your soul’s wisdom. You already carry the light. You already know. Pause, breathe, ask: “Is this true for me?” and listen with your heart.
Love as Your Default: Transforming Through the Breath of the Holy Spirit – Prana – Life Force Energy: Because you Breathe, You are Living in the Frequency of Love, Prana, and Life Force Energy. In moments of pain, confusion, or challenge, you have a sacred choice, but a return to love. Love is not weakness; it is the most radiant and transformative frequency in existence. It is the vibration of the Holy Spirit, the breath of life, and the divine current that flows through all things.
When you choose love, you awaken a force more powerful than fear and more healing than understanding. You become a vessel of grace. By embracing The Observer within, witnessing without judgment, you shift from reaction to remembrance. You remember you are not your emotions, but the awareness behind them. And with each conscious breath, you return to alignment. Because you breathe, you are aligned. Because you breathe, you are connected to Source.
Let every breath be a prayer. Let every challenge be met with gentleness. The breath is more than a function, it is a portal to power. Use it to transmute fear into truth, heaviness into clarity, and pain into presence. If you feel discomfort in the heart as you breathe through an emotion, know this is a sign of transformation. Something old is releasing, making room for something true.
Let love, not fear, be the language you speak to yourself and the world. Let breath, not thought, be your first response to emotion. The spirit world and your soul are best accessed not through the mind, but through the breath and the heart.
Affirm: “I meet this moment with love. I meet myself with love.” Repeat three times with intentional breath. In doing so, you prevent fragmentation and invite wholeness. This is your power. This is your path. Love is not the goal. Love is the way.
Cleanse Your Conditioned Self: Return to Your True Self: Sometimes the thoughts we’ve carried for years, about who we are, what we’re capable of, or how we should feel… aren’t really ours. They’re shaped by past experiences, expectations, or survival patterns. The beauty is, we can shift those stories.
By gently observing our thoughts and emotions without judgment, we open the door to healing. With each conscious breath, we return to the heart, releasing the tension that weighs us down. Every emotion, whether it's worry, doubt, shame, or sadness, deserves compassion and care.
Through mindful awareness, loving self-talk, affirmations, prayer, and intention, we create space for new, empowered beliefs to take root. This is how transformation begins—not by forcing change, but by choosing love, one thought at a time.
Nourishing Your Body: Your body is the sacred vessel of your soul. You are what you put into it shapes your energy, clarity, and alignment. Nourishment is not just about food groups or calories; it's about intention, vibration, and relationship. Maintain a balanced, whole-foods-based diet to keep your body strong and resilient. Reduce or eliminate highly acidic foods, processed ingredients, refined sugar, and any known intolerances that cause discomfort or inflammation. Instead, invite more alkaline, life-giving foods—fruits, vegetables, herbs, and clean water—into your daily rhythm.
But perhaps most importantly: eat with intention.Before each meal, pause. Take a breath. Offer a simple gratitude, whether to the Earth, the hands that grew and prepared the food, or the nourishment itself. This conscious act of appreciation raises the frequency of your food and attunes your body to receive it fully.
Speak love into your meals. Hold your food to your heart. Bless it with the energy of healing, strength, peace, or joy, whatever you most need. Your words and breath carry vibration, and that vibration becomes part of the nourishment.
Eating becomes sacred when done in presence. Chew slowly, breathe between bites, and notice how your body feels. Let each meal be a moment of connection between you and your soul, you and the Earth, you and the divine.
Daily Movement: Energy in Motion. Movement is medicine. It’s how your body processes energy, clears emotional residue, and stays attuned to life. Whether it’s a gentle walk, stretching, dance, yoga, or strength training, moving daily keeps your spirit flowing freely through your physical form.
Movement doesn’t just strengthen muscles, movement activates and awakens your fascia, the intricate web of connective tissue that stores memory, emotion, and energetic patterns. When fascia becomes stagnant or dehydrated, it can restrict not only physical mobility but emotional expression and intuitive flow. By engaging in conscious movement, especially practices like somatic stretching, foam rolling, or gentle yoga, you begin to unlock and rehydrate the fascia, allowing your energy body to expand. This opens the channels of intuition, emotional clarity, and spiritual connection.
Your body is electric. With every step, stretch, or breath-driven pose, you’re fortifying your magnetic field, the protective aura that buffers your nervous system and spirit from external interference. As Earth’s electromagnetic energies fluctuate (especially during solar storms or shifts in the Schumann Resonance), a strong, mobile, and nourished body can more easily adapt and thrive.
Movement becomes a spiritual practice when paired with intention: Ask your body, “What do you need to release today?” Then let the motion follow. Let each movement be a prayer of liberation, a return to flow, a recalibration of mind, body, and soul.
Embracing the Waking Dream: We are always dreaming, whether with our eyes closed or wide open. Your waking life is a sacred mirror, reflecting the whispers of your soul and messages from the spirit world. Symbols, synchronicities, repeating numbers, birds, songs, even overheard conversations—all can carry divine meaning when you are attuned. Cultivate curiosity. Return to wonder. Let childlike awe open the door between worlds. This is where your constructed life and spiritual reality begin to merge into something entirely more magical.
Connecting With Your Power Animal: Your shamanic power animal is not a fantasy but an ancient, wise, and protective ally that walks beside you, guiding and grounding your journey. Its presence reminds you of your innate strengths and instincts. Invite your power animal into your meditations, dreams, or sacred spaces. Speak to it. Offer it gratitude. Trust that it will appear in form, feeling, or image when you need its energy most.
Discernment in Spirit Communication: Not all spirits carry your highest good. Some may echo your fears or attempt to sway you off your path. This is why discernment is sacred. Always begin spiritual communication with a clear intention and grounded energy. Call on your helping spirits, ascended masters, and ancestors of light to walk with you. Journey to your Tree of Life when you seek truth, the soul’s map through the unseen realms. If something feels unclear, slow down. Ask for signs, wait for dreams, and remember divine truth never rushes, confuses, or frightens.
Embrace Joy: Joy, can also be seen as a vibrations of love, is a sensation that caused a ripple out effect onto the quantum field. It is not an escape from spiritual work, it is the work. When you laugh, dance, create, or feel pure delight, your soul lights up. In joy, your energy expands, making space for new dreams, deeper love, and aligned manifestation. Return to what brings you pleasure. Let joy be your compass. Self-love and lightness are not luxuries, but frequencies that lift your vibration into union with your soul’s truth.
Practice, Patience, Presence: Your soul speaks in the language of presence—not urgency. True transformation happens through devoted practice and gentle patience. You do not need to force your evolution. Instead, meet yourself daily—in breath, in love, in intention. Let each moment be enough. In time, your mind will soften into new rhythms, and your heart will remember the ancient ways. Practice allows for presence. Presence allows for miracles.
A Final Blessing for Integration: By incorporating these spiritual health reminders into your daily rhythm, you are weaving sacred awareness into your lived experience. Your soul’s light is returning home to the body, and your spirit is remembering how to walk in harmony with this world and the worlds beyond. You are not alone on this journey. You are supported, protected, and deeply loved. When turbulence arises, breathe. When confusion clouds the path, return to your heart. This journey is not about becoming—it is about remembering. Because you breathe, you are aligned. Because you breathe, you are free.
“Because I breathe, I remember who I am.”
Because you breathe, because you are alive - you have a choice - endless possibilities to make this life as you wish it to be. Your soul energy, the divine energy around you, will grow stronger with each intentional breath. Trust in your heart to lead, and your mind to dance. Practice the connection to yourself, and the universe will open to you. The world within and around you will come alive with passion, magic and possibilities. Blast off soul-mates!
I love you. You are my everything. Your connection to your divine truth, is life to us. We are so grateful to be shifting through these changing time with you. Thank you again for all of your love and efforts to make this world the way you want it. Anytime you need assurance, we will be there with you. Breathe, call on us, and we will be there.
Love,
Jaida, Divine Guides, Ancestors, Angels,
and Divine Spirit.
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