How many names for “God” do you relate to or use?
Actually, I just want to get your attention.
That is a legitimate question, but the topic is much bigger than you realize. I want to talk about “Practical Spirituality”? What does that mean? And what business does talk of “God” have to do with natural health and healing?
“EVERY thing,” literally. If the reference to “God” here outside of “church” or Sunday bothers you, change the label to
quantum physics, or energy, or meta-physics (relating to things beyond the physical world). Let’s get experiential.
Wherever you are, get up and walk across the room. Just take a couple steps and come back and sit down. How aware are you of what actually just took place in terms of the process you just initiated, carried out, and accomplished?
Chances are good, “Not very.” Consider: you rose, straightened to your full height, propelled the body through space, and returned to your starting point, with perfect balance, poise, and coordination (in my rough draft I went into A LOT more detail – but this will do). Now consider the literally inconceivable number of energetic, bio-chemical, physical, and meta-physical dynamics that just took place for you to take those steps… entirely for granted.
We are talking billions, maybe trillions, of interrelated biological and physical phenomenon.
Chemicals firing, cells activating, energy exploding in every nerve synapse involved in your intention, thought, stimulus, action/movement. Think the actual muscle contractions, skeletal forces, relaxations here, balanced activations there… as I say, the list goes on beyond what I have space for or can comprehend. Your few steps are actually a metaphysical miracle… and you take them without thought.
You do the same thing with your health, your life, your existence, and EVERY-thing else. YOU are a Spiritual Being having a physical experience.
If you doubt that, contemplate what happens IF your Spirit or “life” were to leave for just a moment? Here’s a hint: in this world we call that “death” or “dying.” This is an essential point to understand in terms of “Practical Spirituality” – YOU are a Spiritual
Being having a physical experience. Practical Spirituality is how you live, how you exist moment to moment. It is Spirituality minus the “theology.” It is the idea there IS “something” – an energy, awareness, or “power,” –
God – beyond our ability to comprehend – that is greater than our selves… yet is a VITAL part of ALL that we believe ourselves to be. Practical Spirituality is a KEY aspect for a Healthy Focus and our essential well-being.
I am not talking about the various man-made religions here. I am talking about consciously aligning ourselves, our lives, with that greater power – whatever you chose to call it – ultimately in everything we do in order to experience greater harmony, peace, ease, joy, and GOOD in our lives. We used to be “One nation under God.” Somewhere along the line, a lot of us lost our way.
Consider where we are today… as a “humanity,” society, nation, world? Or consider thestate of health in this country – and I am NOT getting political here! Now do you see what “Practical Spirituality” has to do with wholistic, natural health and healing.
We need to make Spirituality practical again – 4A Healthy Focus. I will discuss the theoretical nature of this idea a lot more in days to come. I hope you will take an interest and join me.
Blessings.
