What is spiritual well being? Does it really mean anything? Is it important at all for overall well being?
Physical well being happens when our body is well tuned; we eat well, we work out and we commonly treat our body well. We also might call physical well being our capacity to manage our "survival" on earth (make money, create positive results...).
Mental wellness or well being indicates that our thoughts are well balanced. We have the ability to think "straight" with steps that will take us from point A to B. Our activities are well structured and have a sturdy thinking behind them.
Emotional well being means we are able to manage our emotions efficiently. We encounter them, we can moderate our reactions to them and we can manage them well in our daily activities.
When it comes to spiritual well being, we are talking about everything that is not physical, mental or emotional. The challenge with spirituality is that it cannot really be explained like other types of well being. Anything that is not in our experience, we can't really say we know it. If I explain to you what music is, you will never know what it really is.
It's comparable to music; you could understand the theory of all different kinds of music, whether it's jazz, blues or classical. But music is something that cannot be described. Someone can explain to you what music means but if you never heard music, it's impossible to grasp, no?
Spirituality is similar in some way to music; it cannot be explained. We as humans have the tendency to ignore or deny something that our mind cannot grasp. That is why we can do things that really hurt us such as creating bad habits or hurting people we love. We deal with life only to the extent that we experience it. If our mind doesn't grasp spirituality (which it won't) we simply ignore it and go on with our lives. There are many reasons for that and we will explore them together with time.
Religion can trigger spirituality yet it doesn't cause it automatically. You could live a spiritual life, take a spiritual path without ever visiting any type of temple or area of praise.
Because spirituality cannot be clarified, the best that we could possibly do is to aim towards it, never ever in fact comprehending it. Nonetheless it absolutely is possible to stroll to it if we have the yearning to do so and some discipline.
To point out spiritual well being, I would say it's to experience a dimension of existence that is new. Spiritual well being signifies not being "offended" with the affairs that life tosses at you because your experience of life is deeply rooted within you. It's not affected by what is happening outside of you.
A certain level of ease takes over you. You are not controlled by your emotions, you are not controlled by your mind or by your physical desires and you experience life to its fullest.
This is what spiritual well being or being on a spiritual path means.
Physical well being happens when our body is well tuned; we eat well, we work out and we commonly treat our body well. We also might call physical well being our capacity to manage our "survival" on earth (make money, create positive results...).
Mental wellness or well being indicates that our thoughts are well balanced. We have the ability to think "straight" with steps that will take us from point A to B. Our activities are well structured and have a sturdy thinking behind them.
Emotional well being means we are able to manage our emotions efficiently. We encounter them, we can moderate our reactions to them and we can manage them well in our daily activities.
When it comes to spiritual well being, we are talking about everything that is not physical, mental or emotional. The challenge with spirituality is that it cannot really be explained like other types of well being. Anything that is not in our experience, we can't really say we know it. If I explain to you what music is, you will never know what it really is.
It's comparable to music; you could understand the theory of all different kinds of music, whether it's jazz, blues or classical. But music is something that cannot be described. Someone can explain to you what music means but if you never heard music, it's impossible to grasp, no?
Spirituality is similar in some way to music; it cannot be explained. We as humans have the tendency to ignore or deny something that our mind cannot grasp. That is why we can do things that really hurt us such as creating bad habits or hurting people we love. We deal with life only to the extent that we experience it. If our mind doesn't grasp spirituality (which it won't) we simply ignore it and go on with our lives. There are many reasons for that and we will explore them together with time.
Religion can trigger spirituality yet it doesn't cause it automatically. You could live a spiritual life, take a spiritual path without ever visiting any type of temple or area of praise.
Because spirituality cannot be clarified, the best that we could possibly do is to aim towards it, never ever in fact comprehending it. Nonetheless it absolutely is possible to stroll to it if we have the yearning to do so and some discipline.
To point out spiritual well being, I would say it's to experience a dimension of existence that is new. Spiritual well being signifies not being "offended" with the affairs that life tosses at you because your experience of life is deeply rooted within you. It's not affected by what is happening outside of you.
A certain level of ease takes over you. You are not controlled by your emotions, you are not controlled by your mind or by your physical desires and you experience life to its fullest.
This is what spiritual well being or being on a spiritual path means.
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