I've been reading posts from the #naturalmedicine Community and came across the Spirituality Challenge posted by @miriannalis.
I've been reading some of the entries and all have been really interesting and I couldn't help it but think about my own opinion on this topic.
I invite @tsunsica to participate.
The challenge's questions are:
- What is spirituality for you?
- How do you experience spirituality? Have you had any mystical experience?
- Who is a spiritual Master for you?
- What practice would you recommend to achieve a spiritual connection or development?
- What impact does a spiritual life have on your healing processes?
I'll focus more on the first one. I've never been a very religious person but I do consider myself a spiritual person at some level, for me #spirituality is the connection with everything, with the world, with other living beings and also the connection between mind, body and soul.
I don't pray to a God, I respect all religions and I really admire how persons find faith and strength in the power of praying.
The common thing I find in most beliefs is the trust in a power, it doesn't matter if it's a being, if it's energy, if it's the universe, the point is that is something bigger than us.
And we're all connected with that energy.
As I said, spirituality for me is connection, a high spirituality is the result of having all those connections balanced, your own mind, body and soul being in harmony, aiming for the same direction so you can find inner peace, and being in peace with yourself helps you understand others, not that you get all the answers but you can understand what others are going through because your mind isn't overwhelmed.
I'm not used to meditate in the full sense of the word, but not the same form of meditation is supposed to work on everybody. I realized that I've had deeper thoughts when I'm drawing or painting, so I see that as my way of meditation, and meditating is when I feel that connection with my surrounding world, I can hear the wind moving the leaves of the trees outside, and that same wind moving my hair; I can hear my pets breathing the same air I breathe, it hear my neighbors, some complaining, some laughing, all of us under the roof of the same building.
All of us, persons, animals, plants, elements coexisting in the same space, it makes me feel part of something bigger and at the same time each one with our individuality.
When I'm feeling down either by having a bad day or receiving bad news I draw to reach my meditation point where I feel connected with the world, I don't see myself as a tiny insignificant point in a random place in the universe, I see myself as part of that huge universe and that makes me feel special in spirit, thinking that I share the same energy flowing through me with the energy of the sun shinning everywhere, with the energy of the plants growing, flowers blossoming, water waving.
Spirituality is an unstoppable force.
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