Signs of Spiritual Progress

In his Amsterdam, Netherlands workshop of March of 2019, Kambiz Naficy outlines signs of spiritual progress for the seeker of spirituality and inner-joy.

If you are a seeker of inner happiness, here are some benchmarks to keep track of in order to measure your spiritual progress:

• The ego-identity of I am a physical human being running my own life with a first name and a last name, begins to give way to a spiritual identity of “I am Spirit breathing in an out to act through this body.”
• Simple joy of just being alive. Your needs are becoming simpler. You no long have a list of conditions that must be met before you can enjoy life.
• You are simplifying your life; your closets are less cluttered, so are your home, your life, relationships and possessions. You may own very high-quality belongings, but you have fewer of them, so you can simplify your life, your relationships, and your inner life.
• Every one of your ambitions and possessions is completely serving your happiness and that of your loved ones. A contrary example is; if your vacation home is financially burdening you and you are not using it enough, then your second home is not serving your happiness. All of your belongings should have a high "joy-to-Dollar ratio."
• Through very deep understanding of your past, you are now finished and done with your old emotional/psychological baggage. Your Spirit hovers like a Witness, sailing over previous subconscious negativity that used to bring you suffering.
• Loving detachment means, that you face life's daily challenges without drowning in them because of over-attachment to the results. Your Soul looks at the ups and downs of life as the “play of Life”. You play your role in the game of life perfectly, while you calmly follow your breath with mindfulness, knowing that “I am a Witness to all this; I am not entangled in this game that I play on earth.
• You understand in that in our world of energy, for every one of your actions, nature returns an equivalent reaction. You get to “reap what you sow”, therefore the state of victim-hood no longer makes sense to you.