Spirituality
101
Our mission: Earth & Water Wellness is dedicated toward
helping enrich personal and spiritual growth within our clients.
The term “spirituality” is often used loosely, and may mean
dramatically different things to various people, so the following article seeks
to define and explain spirituality within the context of our mission at Earth
& Water Wellness.
It’s All
About the Soul
At the core of spirituality is a belief that everyone is a
soul incarnate. Essentially, souls are eternal beings that choose on occasion
to incarnate into physical bodies on temporal realms such as Earth. Although many
religions also teach belief in the soul, there are differences with what we are
speaking of here. For one, religion tends to acknowledge the soul almost as an afterthought,
something that we happen to possess, but only taking on importance after death.
In contrast, spirituality stresses that we are souls first and foremost, and
everything else follows from that primal fact
.
Many religions also teach dogma that says humans are born “sinful”
and evil, and must be redeemed through various rituals and practices or else
face eternal punishment. People can believe what they want, but the soul is oblivious to religion. Spiritual teaching simply points out that the soul has
existed eternally, and chooses to incarnate for its own purposes. Even though it
inhabits a physical form, the soul is intrinsically part of God and inseparable
from God. What takes place in the “afterlife” is an interesting enough study,
but not as important as understanding what the soul seeks to experience here
and now.
It’s all about the soul, because we each find ourselves here
on this journey, but may not realize why or even who we really are. The
ego-based mind we employ to navigate physical reality is not very good at
sensing spiritual reality. From its limited perspective, we are suddenly thrust
into a cold, frightening environment with nary a clue as to who we are or where
we came from. The “amnesia” effect of incarnation is valuable for the soul to
start each life with a clean slate, so that past lives that may have featured
the same lessons and “cast members” do not inhibit us from plunging into our
current lessons with full intensity.
It’s all about the soul, because many of us get stuck and
don’t have a clue why. The soul often intends a challenging regime of lessons
and experiences that made sense during pre-birth planning, but seem
overwhelming when mired in the fog of ego-based consciousness. Since the ego
has no recollection of signing up for such challenges, it tends to view life as
stressful and filled with suffering for no good reason. Yet, much, if not most
suffering results from resisting the lessons that our soul planned. Generally
speaking, the soul will not plan suffering for its own sake. The only way out
is to complete the lesson and fulfill the soul’s agenda. Embracing the soul’s
agenda is the quickest route to happiness, fulfillment, and reduced suffering. In order to do that, we
must gain some understanding of the soul and its agenda.
It’s all about the soul, because a shift is taking place in
human consciousness that causes spiritual understanding to be more readily
accessible. Many mystics say we are headed toward a higher dimensional
existence, with the entire planet making the transition. However, we still also
exist as humans on a physical and causal plane. The exciting thing is, we can
now more readily access and experience the best of both worlds. We can live
with one foot grounded on Earth and “One Foot in Atlantis”.
My term for this
process is “The Fully Actualized Life" as featured in many posts on this blog.
