What Do You Think of Spirituality?

Spirituality gets a bad rap. 
Too often when people hear the word spirituality, they think hippies, love and light, crystals, New Age, rituals...
They're thinking of people burning candles and spinning in circles, chanting under a full moon. 
Now, do some people who practice spirituality do all that? Yes 
Do all people who practice spirituality do that? No

Some people who practice spirituality are Christian. Some people who practice spirituality are Jewish. Some people who practice spirituality are Buddhist. Some people who practice spirituality are Muslim. Some people who practice spirituality don't prescribe to any particular religion. In fact, some people who practice spirituality think all religions are BS.

So What IS Spirituality??
Spirituality, in and of itself, is merely the belief that we are more than just flesh and blood; that we are more than just these bodies. We are more than just the lives that we lead. Spirituality merely says that we are the spirit within the body. We are the 'soul' that lives inside the mortal vessel that is our body. Spirituality is the belief that the soul is something bigger than just the short mortal life that we live. It is the belief that the soul is connected to something bigger; a puzzle to which we just don't have all the pieces. Many would say that the soul is a piece of Divine/God that dwells within each of us.
Simply put, Spirituality encompasses a wide range of belief systems, yet most of those include these basic principles:

• I accept that I am a small piece of something bigger. 
• I accept that I am connected to a whole. 
• I am a piece of the Light. 
• I am a piece of God. 
• I am connected to all living things and all living things are connected to me. 

Spirituality says there's more to this world than what we see with our eyes, what we feel with our hands, what we hear with our ears. 
Spirituality is the acceptance of our place in this world, as a piece of this world; a living breathing extension of the energy that makes up every corner of this beautiful world.

How can you use Spirituality to help you in your everyday life? 
Because that's kind of a point, right? 
We live an everyday life. 
Everyday we get up.
Everyday we get our kids ready for school or we get ourselves ready for work.
Everyday we get in our cars or we go and we get on public transportation.
Everyday we get into the rat race. We get into the hamster wheel. We get on the grind.
Everyday we have to go out into the world and do our job.
We do what we're supposed to do and live the life that society says we are supposed to live. 
‘This is what you're supposed to do- this is how you make your money- money is what you need to make sure that you can put a roof over your head and food in your mouth and clothes on your back.’ 

How can we use Spirituality to make our lives more than just this mundane day in day out life?
Too many of us walk around feeling empty, feeling lost; knowing that there's more to life than just this grind; knowing that there's more than just this hamster wheel. So many of us know that there is more; but don’t know what that ‘more’ is. So many of us don’t know how to access that ‘more’. 
So many are just sitting here, knowing that they're miserable, but looking around and saying ‘Why am I miserable? I have great kids. I have a wonderful husband. I have a great wife. I have a job that I like. I have friends that I like. I live in a nice house.’ 
Even if you don't live in a nice house; you look around and you say
‘My life is not that bad, why am I still miserable? Something is missing.’ 

What is it? What is missing from your life? 
It's Spirituality. 
It's the connection with that spirit; that soul; that God; that energy; that light within you. 
So, what is that? What is that within you? What is that more, that extra? 
What is that thing; that elusive thing that we are reaching for; that we are looking for, that we can't quite figure out? 
We always look outside of ourselves for it. 
We think-
if I could just make enough money-
if I could get enough friends-
if I could be thin enough-
if I could be smart enough -
if I could be rich enough-
if I could be tall enough -
if I could be short enough- 
if my hair was straight enough-
if my hair was blonde enough-
if I could be pretty enough-
if I could be famous enough -
if I could get enough followers-
if I could get enough friends-
--then I would understand -then I would feel right -then I would understand what people talk about when they say that they feel fulfilled. 
Yet it never happens. There are people with millions of dollars who walk around feeling horrible. There are people with millions of followers who walk around feeling terrible. There people who get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of plastic surgery and never feel beautiful. Yet a fat, old, ugly, person living in a shack can be the happiest person in the world. 
What is their secret?
What do they know, that you don't? 
What is their secret?
What do they know about the universe, about life, that you don't know? It's the missing piece.
It's that elusive quality.
It's that thing that you have been searching for in your every waking moment, without even realizing it; in every competition and every promotion. 
Every time you buy a bigger house,
every time you get a nicer car,
every time that you get a better wife,
get a better husband,
every time you leave a marriage,
every time you leave a relationship;
you're searching for it;
you're searching for it;
you're searching for it;
...and what is IT?
The secret to everything! 
IT is the secret to everything in this universe. 
IT is the secret to happiness. 
IT is the secret to Joy. 
IT is the secret to being content, to being self-satisfied, to being self-confident. 
IT is the secret to forgiveness. 
IT is a secret to quieting that voice in your head that's always screaming at you and telling you that you're not good enough. 
IT is the secret to stopping the pain and the anguish that you feel in your life every single day. 
IT is the secret to stopping the drive that makes you go out and force yourself to do things you do not want to do. 
What is IT? 
IT's called unconditional love of self and it's incredibly simple to achieve, but it's very difficult to  actualize. 


Simple to visualize, difficult to actualize. 
IT's simple. Spirituality equals the belief in unconditional love because unconditional love is the energy of the universe. 
IT is the energy of God. 
IT is the energy of connection between all things. 
IT is the collective unconscious mind that connects everything. 
IT connects all of us. 
IT connects me to you.
IT connects you to me.
Unconditional love…..
IT is the electrical energy that runs through your body and animates your limbs, that makes you think, that makes your heartbeat, that makes you walk around.
Unconditional love….
so I think that's exactly where we need to start.
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