Diving Into Personal Well-Being Through the Royal Way Experience of Spiritual Growth

“The world has gone mad.” It’s a common refrain these days, and it’s hard to argue against it. The ordinary challenges of life can seem daunting enough—making a living, forging meaningful relationships, staying healthy, and dealing with stress. Add in political divisions, global conflicts, and environmental crises, and it’s understandable why so many are so anxious about their lives and the future.

So where do we turn for peace of mind? For lasting meaning and personal significance?

Royal Way’s answer to these questions: Only through personal spiritual growth can we find the peace, clarity, balance, and well-being we all seek.

Bringing the Modern Person to Higher Consciousness

Royal Way is a community of men and women who are seeking personal well-being through spiritual growth. Its founder, Michael Menahem Gottlieb, established Royal Way for exactly that purpose: to bring the experience of higher consciousness to the modern individual. He taught that everyone carries the spark of the divine. We only need to experience it to bring it forth.

That is why Royal Way offers so many joyful, fascinating, and uplifting experiences. Through direct experience, we can taste higher consciousness and touch the divine within us, rather than theorize or preach about it. As Michael Gottlieb stated: “God is not a theological argument; religion is not a philosophical theory; and spirituality is not blind faith. Royal Way experiences God as the ultimate taste of the senses and beyond, religion as the melting of the mind, and spirituality as the quivering of the cosmos within.” Royal Way is rich with teachings, but the approach is not mental, and spiritual growth is not a matter of adding to one’s store of knowledge. It springs from transformative experiences of our higher being that are not of the mind.

Royal Way’s Approach to Personal and Spiritual Well-Being

Meditation and mindfulness are at the core of Royal Way’s growth practices. Michael Gottlieb taught that stilling the mind in meditation enables us to discover the pure consciousness behind the mind. With that, he said, “You expand the parameters of your mind and of your outer world. This enables you to be more effective at every endeavor and in all your areas of interest.”

• So retreats at Royal Way Spiritual Center teach and incorporate meditation and mindfulness, while also providing the opportunity to explore personal spiritual growth in the company of others. The setting is extraordinarily conducive to this process. The retreat center is in the high desert of Southern California near the small town of Lucerne Valley, where the desert meets the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains—truly an oasis of tranquility. Simply being in the beauty of this special place is an experience of personal spiritual growth that fosters healing and self-discovery.

But the Royal Way approach is also to take out into the world what we gain from retreats and meditations. Royal Way teachings give us the tools to live fully in the world and approach daily life with clarity and an open heart. The sense of well-being we gain through developing a spiritual practice carries forward as we take on the challenges of daily life. In the words of Michael Gottlieb: “Royal Way means the experience continues.”

The Link Between Personal and Spiritual Well-Being

People who explore spirituality at Royal Way Spiritual Center find that developing a spiritual practice is the key to personal well-being. Examples:

• The clarity that comes from a calm center enhances both body and mind.

• The experience of touching our divinity becomes a connection to something greater than oneself.

• The worries and concerns of daily life become far less stressful.

• We gain a fresh outlook on life.

• We become able to apply mindfulness to our daily tasks and experiences, whether we are enjoying the company of friends and loved ones, working, eating, exercising, or relaxing.

Modern science has clearly established the link between stress and illness. Chronic stress can have a serious negative impact on our health, and it underlies many anxieties. Stress can seem difficult to manage—but that is often because we attempt to deal with problems at the level of the problem. Royal Way takes a higher approach. Through meditation, mindfulness, and a number of other spiritual practices, we learn that what we do inside ourselves can transform our experience of the world. As Michael Gottlieb said, “What you do inwardly creates your outer world, creates your reality.”

Another key Royal Way teaching is the importance of gratitude. Michael Gottlieb once asked a group of pupils what they thought was the key to happiness. A number of answers arose, such as love, wealth, health, and friendship. Michael Gottlieb’s answer rang with the clarity of truth: The key to happiness is gratitude. People who live the Royal Way teachings live a life of gratitude for all their blessings. They tend to be among the happiest people on the planet. They don’t just learn about the link between personal and spiritual well-being; they live it.

Staying Committed to Spiritual Growth

Once one has experienced these benefits of personal spiritual growth, the challenge of staying committed to one’s growth can become surprisingly easy. That’s because Royal Way emphasizes living a life of joy, fun, adventure, and bliss. And because Royal Way offers so many experiences at Royal Way Spiritual Center that are so joyful and uplifting. A growth mindset becomes second nature. It’s not a matter of discipline. It’s a matter of choosing between the seeming madness of the world and a life of gratitude and happiness, shared with others who are also seeking the experience of the divine. It’s a matter of choosing the enduring value of personal spiritual growth versus the tantalizing but fleeting highs the world tends to offer. This choice comes with a bonus—because it becomes possible to thoroughly enjoy the many wonderful offerings of the world without being owned by them.

Joining the Royal Way Community

If the prospect of experiencing the benefits of spiritual growth and developing a spiritual practice is appealing to you, we invite you to Get in Touch, and we will be happy to connect with you and discuss our upcoming retreats.

In Conclusion

“The main function of a human life is to evolve toward, to reach for, to fulfill one’s greatest potential,” wrote Michael Gottlieb. Royal Way Spiritual Center is a place where that exciting journey has begun for thousands of seekers. It’s a journey that can lead to a life of great happiness, deep personal relationships, and a sense of well-being that blossoms into bliss.