How Can I Evolve, Need help Options

I want to become better, more connected, a more "spiritual" me. Im working on my downsides, but i would like to know what other activities do you recomend, like tai chi, meditation etc to help me in the things i lack information about.

Thank you.

Now im looking to become more in contact with the "self" inside of me, and im wandering what practices could help me, i think meditation is the best but should i learn it on the web, or take a course etc.

I feel the urge to hurry for 2012, just a hunch.

Any method is appropriate. Some chant, some dance, some simply sit and contemplate their navels. If you look, you will find something that is good for you. Many people start with focusing on being aware of the breath, in and out, but really, meditation is about observation. Observing the self, until thought is understood.

Jiddu Krishnamurti said, "You can sit in the right posture with your back straight, breathing correctly, doing pranayama and all the rest of it for the next ten thousand years, and you will be nowhere near perceiving what truth is, because you have not understood yourself at all, the way you think, the way you live."

Every practice of meditation is just to still the mind, which facilitates spiritual growth in the most superficial sense. Beyond this, only observing awareness, understanding what you think and why, how you react to the world, etc., will give you substantial and lasting growth. Only when you know yourself thoroughly will you know what you are transcending.

Without meditation, however, the mind is too cluttered and busy to accurately gauge it's own anatomy - without meditation, making lists of one's positive and negative qualities is just pointless self-organization.

From there, you are the only authority. Anyone else you ask can only turn your eyes in the right direction, and perhaps give you good shoes for walking.

Until you can revel in stillness, no other explanation about the purposes or uses of meditation means anything, it's impotent knowledge.

peace