The Start

It does not matter why you try a spiritual path or practice.  Just begin.  Most of us begin with some selfish reason.  We want to feel better and think "spirituality' the solution.  I think of people who walk into AA.  They  are there to stop drinking.  That is their presenting issue or problem.  If they hang around long enough, they begin to find out that this AA thing is about a lot more than the drinking.  They stop drinking, so their presenting problem is diminished.  But then the steps, a spiritual program, reveals to them a lot of shortcomings in their personality of which they were clueless.  This is when the spiritual solution to their immature and crazy life really begins to take off.  So start your spiritual practice for whatever reason.  Eventually, a lot more will be revealed.  Growth is always surprising with a newness of light.  The old solutions that did not work were just a rut of the same old stuff.