The strategies and habits we've developed to survive life's pressures are precisely those we need to give up to advance spiritually now; especially if those habits have proved eminently successful. When we repeat a habit we are effectively locking ourselves into the person who first established the habit, which means we are refusing the transformative processes of life. Such processes are welcomed when we start to relax into life's pressures – when we start to admit, through our actions, that every part of life is meaningful. By meaningful I mean full of spirit.