What is spirituality?
Spirituality is a mixture of aspects linked with the soul and our experience on earth.
Whilst not tied to a specific religion, it can come hand in hand with religion of kinds, or it can be linked with something completely different.
Spirituality can be expressed and explored in many ways from prayer to physical activity.
In essence, spirituality isn’t linked with one thing, but instead, it links many aspects of life, often in association with bettering the world, through self development.
The physical and the non physical
Often spirituality relates to something beyond the physical world.
If you’re exploring your spirituality, you are getting in touch with your spiritual self. This sits somewhat out of the context of modern medicine and the physical sciences (at present).
It could be said, that this spiritual self is not of the physical world, but made up of Spiritual Energy of kinds.
What is Spiritual Energy within the context of Spirituality?
I guess one of the big hurdles of understanding, is believing there is something of you, beyond the physical self.
How come when you go from one environment to the next, there is a sudden change in the atmosphere, or ‘vibe’?
Whilst one space may seem the same one day, it may be different on another?
Hopefully one day, there will be equipment to measure this, but for the time being, we have to collectively settle with the fact there is something beyond the laws of physics, and simply put, we resonate with some things at some times, and not at others.
With this as context, we could therefore say that Spiritual Energy is something we feel, or is a form of inner knowing / intuition.
This inner energy changes, and never really stays in one spot. One energy moves into the next, similar to how the mood of a party may change from morning to afternoon to evening.
Is Spirituality only Spiritual Energy?
Whilst I believe everything has Spiritual Energy, the term Spirituality, also encompasses a few things, in particular, the awareness of that energy.
By feeling the energy, we observe the energy.
Being aware of your Spiritual Energy is being aware of your spiritual self. This way you can recognise your mood or state of being with greater clarity.
Partaking in spiritual practices of kinds increases your awareness of your own spirituality, as you are exercising that aspect of you. I guess to an extent, you are seeing what you are made up of, or more importantly, you are observing what is contributing to your ‘vessel’ of Spiritual Energy.
Here are some made up words:
- Spirit-aware
- Spirit-ness
- Spirit-u-all
Connecting with your Spiritual Energy
By connecting with our Spiritual Energy, we begin to understand who we are.
I guess you could say we are looking at what we are made of, and observing how we change. As energy bodies we are affected by the environment around us, and the environment is affected by us.
Spending time on the beach, or walking through the woods somehow does something to us. We get rejuvenated and recharged. We recognise that our energy, is of that energy. For some this could be cooking, for others it could be playing sports.
Simply put, our Spiritual Energy harmonises with other energies, like a choir singing in synchronisation.
Whilst it might be harder to measure than say the physical sciences, the feeling of what we feel is very real. We can’t replicate it, and simply put, if we neglect our feelings, we loose the sense of self. We may even become lost in our own bodies.
Whilst some people may feel one way about one thing, others may feel different.
Acknowledging that we are who we are is also accepting others for who they are. This creates balance and harmony within this existence.
We are all made of energy, and these energies pull and push in different ways. We are attracted to some things, and not so much to others.
What compels us to jump ever higher, isn’t always going to do the same for others.
Therefore, connecting with your Spiritual Energy is a form of Spirituality, as you are finding out more about your energy patterns and how they match your environment.
Feeling, or being spiritual doesn’t need to be complicated, it just needs to be acknowledged. Through this acknowledgement grows an understanding of the self. Through the development of the self (the soul), we understand what makes us tick. From this we can then establish what type of fuel we run off.
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