It is important that you choose carefully who you allow to get close to you or choose to do business with. Connections have a strong affect on you spiritually! People are not just mere reflections of you. You need to choose friends who value what you have to offer and in which offer you something of value in return. As you advance further spiritually you will better sense intuitively which people are of positive value to relate to and which are best to avoid. You can only help others spiritually who are receptive to that help.

Some people are not good investments of your time and energy. Make sure you are a good investment of the time and energy of others. We exist on this Earth in order to develop and contribute something of value to its well being. This world has a lot of people who are messed up spiritually. You need not reflect their lack of spiritual development, but can make a strong effort to advance to a higher level spiritually yourself and help others who are receptive to do the same.

Cycles of abuse happen a lot on this Earth with those who have been abused tending to either abuse others in return or to abuse themselves. Most people do not take really good care of themselves when it come to diet and exercise. Lots of people are addicted to drugs, drug like foods,addictive type relationships and other things that harm their ability to get the most out of themselves physically and spiritually. Some spiritual/religious beliefs act like drugs in that they tune one out from the importance of making the most out of the reality we exist in now on this Earth! This reality we exist in is very challenging and we need to have spiritual beliefs/theories that help us handle these challenges and the pain that comes with them.

Pain, and spiritual growth go together. Past traumas(from past abuse) can be very painful to face and heal from. But, we can not end the cycle of abuse we are in, if we do not heal ourselves. Those that can handle the most pain can take on the toughest challenges inside and outside themselves and achieve the most. Effective spiritual/meditative training is very difficult and challenging. But, well worth the results that come from it. One can not do really challenging and effective spiritual training if ones spiritual theories/programming does not connect one enough to the very challenging reality one now exists in so as to motivate one to do it.

Here is a link to the type of meditative exercises I do, which also has a link at the end of it to all sorts of ideas on how to meditate based on my long history of experimenting and developing them:

https://astrogoodwin.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/meditative-walking-developing-a-stronger-spiritual-connection-with-the-physical/