In working with Body, Mind, & Spirit, spirit is often the missing component for a lot of people. They can be working the body and the mind, yet they don’t quite get the results they want, they’re missing spirit. We break spirituality down into Personal Spiritual, your connection to yourself; Communal Spirituality, the people around you; and Environmental Spirituality, your connection to your environment, nature and if you choose to, belief in a higher power.
With Personal Spirituality, does your life reflect what is most important to you?
You can delve into personal spirituality through quiet time, inner reflection, doing the inner work to figure out what’s important to you. What are your values? What are your morals? What do you believe? Once you get those answers, it can carry over into everyday life. But does your life reflect that?
I can ask, “What’s important to you? What do you believe in?” You can tell me your health is important to you, your family, believing everyone should be kind. If you look at your life, the decisions you make and the actions you take, does it reflect that? It’s something to ponder.
If you say your health is important to you, are you taking steps to improve your health? To maintain it? To get better? Are you making healthy food choices? Are you exercising your body? Are you exercising your mind?
I say my health is important to me and you’re going see that in my life. You’re going see it when I exercise, the food choices I make, through most of the things I do, you’re going understand my health is important to me. While other aspects I might say are important, but my life doesn’t necessarily reflect.
The bottom line here is just making sure you find out what is important to you, figuring out your values and morals, who you are, and what you stand for. Then using those as the guiding principle for your life, filtering the decisions you make through those principles, values, and morals.
This isn’t to shame or put you down, it’s to bring it to your attention and give you something to think about. If your life reflects your values, great, you’re congruent with yourself. And if it doesn’t, where’s the disconnect?
Also be aware that with Personal Spirituality, these values, morals, what’s important to you, they might be something only you know; it doesn’t necessarily mean you share it with other people. So if you’re incongruent with what’s important to you compared to your life, you might be the only one to know. If you’re lying to yourself, it makes it much easier to lie the others.
Take some time to learn where you stand. If you need some help to get started check out Heath & Wellness Your Way in my Facebook Group.