October 10, 2025
Many of us come to this practice of meditation with a proactive spirit, seeking deeper insights into the journey of life even before the clouds of challenge begin to form. That’s a beautiful, advanced stage of spiritual evolution! Just as a seasoned mariner studies the far-off weather patterns, let’s look with clear eyes at the major health shifts that middle age (40-60) often brings, and, more importantly, how a focused spiritual practice is the long-term solution for not just coping, but flourishing.
Last week, we wrote to you about some of the pressing problems faced by many of us. This week, we launched our online workshops, starting with strategies to combat health challenges as our first topic.
Get into Fighting Shape: The Physical Shifts
Meditation is a lot like exercise; it keeps you fit—mentally, emotionally, and even physically. If we neglect our spiritual fitness, the Law of Entropy—the universal movement from order to disorder—takes hold. Our spiritual energy can diminish, and this lack of order manifests first in the physical body.
Here are the most pressing physical shifts in our midlife:
- The Silent Heart Risk: Middle age is when the subtle risk factors for cardiovascular disease often emerge, such as elevated blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar. This is the body’s gentle nudge.
- Metabolic Mastery: As metabolism shifts, many struggle with weight gain and the risk of conditions like Type 2 diabetes, which commonly develops after age 45.
- The Feminine Fire: Juggling the Inner and Outer World: For many women in mid-life, the challenge is an overwhelming external load. They often find themselves in the “sandwich generation,” juggling the demands of careers, raising children (or seeing them leave the nest), and caring for aging parents. This relentless pressure can lead to increased stress, anxiety, and emotional imbalance, compounded by shifts in hormones and reduced sleep quality. This challenging period of shifting focus—from defining oneself by external roles to embracing the deeper, more essential qualities of the soul—is a profound invitation for inner work.
Your Upward Spiral Solution: From Role to Soul
The great irony of mid-life is that as our physical body requires more care, our soul begins its deepest work—a shift “from role to soul.” The psychological and spiritual challenges of this age are a call to look deeper.
This is where our spiritual discipline becomes our anchor.
1. The Spiritual Foundation (The First Ascent)
To begin this deep work, we must first establish our foundation:
- Know Your Inner Blueprint: Realize and understand your subtle energy system, including the Kundalini energy, chakras, and channels. Our online sessions cover these topics in various styles, led by each of our experienced instructors who typically have decades of experience with meditation.
- Activate Your Divine Connection: Work to activate and strengthen the connection of your subtle instrument to the all-pervading universal consciousness. Conventional wisdom and strategies start with making task lists, resolutions and plans, whereas we start with our spiritual connection. And that makes a huge difference both in the approach and the results.
- Unlearn and Surrender: Unlearn the typical meditation technique of focus and concentration. Instead, surrender to this divine force within you and allow it to take you to the higher state of consciousness on which spiritual meditation is established, known as Thoughtless Awareness. Once again, very different from the traditional meditation styles. In fact, tell yourself to get out of your own way in the initial stages.
2. The Daily Deep Dive: Proactive Health Management
Once the spiritual foundation is set, you become a student of your own subtle system, transforming your health from the inside out.
- Inner Diagnosis: As you gain strength from consistent meditation, work on your awareness of what your subtle energy instrument is telling you about your health problems. This includes recognizing specific imbalances in specific chakras.
- Holistic Adjustments: Use advanced techniques such as clearing and balancing your chakras. You can also begin gauging feedback from your subtle system to adjust your diet.
- Re-center Your Life: As you begin to see positive changes and lowered stress and anxiety, re-prioritize your life to make meditation and spirituality the centerpiece of your lifestyle. At this point, you are ready to work on some of the deep-rooted health issues using meditation as a tool.
3. Lifestyle: The Manifestation of Peace
As holistic healing and health improvement manifest, the peace and calm you experience will naturally help you make positive changes in other aspects of your life.
- Embrace Movement: Getting good movement on a daily basis, in proportion to your diet, is paramount.
- Connect Authentically: Avoid excessive sitting combined with screen time. Instead, be proactive in increasing personal exchanges with people instead of relying on social media or email. If things get on the right track, you will want more and more of the collective meditation sessions that energize you and transform your life.
- Sleep with Intention: Good sleep can be achieved through specific techniques, such as meditating during a foot soak. This quality sleep supports better hormone regulation and metabolism.
Top Tip: Commit to the Spiral
Spiritual energy movement takes place along a spiral. The goal is to achieve change in a gradual and sustainable manner and ensure that the connection of the subtle instrument to the all-pervading power continues to strengthen. In fact, this leads to a widening of your Central Energy channel or Sushumna Nadi as it is called. A significant degree of life transformation results when this starts happening.
If you feel you’re already leading a fulfilling life, be open to travelling somewhere new in your spiritual evolution. Just as you can’t fathom how it feels to be at the mountain peak when you’re in the valley, until you get there, you can’t know how you’ll feel when you rise to a higher state in your spiritual evolution. Your commitment is the key to that Upward Spiral. What’s your plan to dive deeper into this experience?