Coaching practices for Spiritual Materialism

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Spiritual Materialism, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’ve started catching a smugness in myself
• I’m going through the motions on work I used to care about, and I’ve lost the thread of why it even matters
• This one task in front of me feels like dead weight, pure drudgery I have to force myself through
• Now that the warm feelings have drained out of my practice, I’m forced to see how much I was in it for that glow
• I race through spiritual books the way I race through everything

Practices that may help

1. Don’t make gods into demons
   Don’t let spiritual practice become a source of pride, judgment, or superiority over others.
   Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
2. Use a purpose anchor to recharge spiritual energy
   Reconnecting to your deepest "why" before demanding work regenerates the motivational fuel that tactics alone cannot replace.
   The Energy Audit
3. Connect daily tasks to purpose to sustain spiritual energy
   Schwartz and Loehr’s "spiritual" energy is simply the motivational fuel of purpose — work feels effortful without it and effortless with it.
   Energy Management, Not Time Management
4. Working with attachments in the night of the senses
   Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
   The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross
5. Slow reading of a wisdom text
   Read one short passage from a contemplative text, then sit with how it applies to your life right now.
   Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
6. Attending to the true self beneath the false self
   Recognize the constructed social persona (false self) and rest in the deeper self beneath it.
   Contemplative Prayer: The Inner Journey
7. Connect to purpose (spiritual energy)
   Anchor effort to values and meaning, the deepest and most renewable source of drive.
   The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
8. Invest in experiences rather than possessions
   Experiential spending produces more lasting happiness than material spending of equivalent cost.
   Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes)
9. Treat physical energy as the foundation of all other dimensions
   Sleep, movement, and nutrition are not separate wellness items — they are the substrate that makes emotional, mental, and spiritual energy possible.
   The Energy Audit
10. Cultivate B-Values: truth, beauty, goodness, and wholeness
    Attend to and create more encounters with what Maslow called the Being-Values — qualities of existence rather than means to ends.
    Maslow’s Self-Transcendence, Made Practical

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