Spiritual Wellness

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Spirituality has positive affects on our health. There have been

several studies showing how spirituality improves health and healing.

Spirituality consists of the values by which you interpret your world

view, organize your day to day living and assess your way of life. It

is a personal quest for understanding answers to ultimate questions

about life, about meaning, and about relationships to the sacred.

Spirituality is the way that you find meaning, hope, comfort and

inner peace in your life.

Spiritual wellness " is the quest for meaning, value, and purpose...

resulting in hope, joy, courage, and gratitude. It is the ability to

find peace and balance in our lives in which our values and ethics

match our actions. Spiritual wellness involves self-evaluation of

personal beliefs. It is learning to trust your intuition and gain

strength and energy from your surroundings.

Tips for Spiritual Wellness

• Listen to your inner voice.

• Pay attention to your feelings, emotions, and thoughts.

• Trust your intuition: Your inner voice will often help you find

your direction, so you need to stop and listen to it.

• Understand your beliefs, why you have them, and why you value them.

• Continue to seek purpose in your life.

Spiritual Wellness helps us to realize that that we do not have to

suffer to evolve as long as we understand that the seeds to

Enlightenment lay in each day's experiences. As we apply these

lessons to our spiritual evolution, we learn to control our thoughts

and our reality; the health and well being of our body, mind and

spirit.

We learn to recognize how our intentions project thoughts into

reality. As we become conscious of self-defeating thoughts, we can

acknowledge them and replace them with positive affirmations.

We are at peace as the Great Mystery is no longer mysterious. We live

in harmony, with humility, compassion, and a willingness to surrender

to the will of the Great Spirit. When we look at our lives, we

usually assess them in weeks, months, and years, but yet, in truth,

we are meant to focus on days.

Kabbalists teach that a person is given an exact amount of days to

live. Within each day there is a spark of Light that one is meant to

perfect. The totality of all the work that is done in any given day,

from restricting anger to sharing, goes into the perfection of the

spark of Light of that day.

In the Bible, people lived for hundreds of years, but then life

expectancy dropped. The kabbalists explain this with a parable. There

was once a King who owned a diamond mine. After extracting the

diamonds, he would give thousands of them at a time to local

craftsmen, whose job it was to clean and perfect the stones over

several months' time. The only problem was that they never completed

the work. In fact, some of the diamonds came back damaged. Therefore,

the King set up a new method by which he gave each craftsman a

smaller amount and less time to get the job done.

The same happened with humanity.

Initially, the Creator gave each person millions of sparks of Light,

one corresponding to each day of life they were given. But although

people lived for hundreds of years, they often did not perfect their

sparks. In fact, they damaged them. Therefore, the Creator cut down

the amount of sparks given to each person all at once.

We are not given 80, 100, or 120 years of life. We are given 29,200

days, 36,500 days, or 43,800 days, and within each one, we are meant

to perfect a spark of Light. The spark we are meant to perfect today

cannot be perfected tomorrow, just as the spark we could have

perfected yesterday cannot be perfected today. Each day has its own

unique work relating to a specific aspect of soul that needs

purification and elevation.

The Kabbalists teach that at the end of every day, as we go to sleep,

if we have perfected our spark, it is sent up into our spiritual bank

where it remains to protect us and to give us Light and blessings.

When a person succeeds in this work, often the Creator will give him

even more sparks, which, of course, equals more days, months, and

years of life. Naturally, the opposite holds true as well.

The most important understanding from all this is that we do not live

weeks, months, and years; we live day by day. The work we have to

accomplish today cannot be accomplished tomorrow.

This week, awaken within your consciousness an appreciation for the

power and tremendous gift of every day. When you internalize this

understanding, even if days do not start off the way you had hoped,

you will not write them off and push things into tomorrow. You will

realize that what you need to accomplish today you can only

accomplish today, and know that as you are perfecting and sending up

the sparks, you are not only creating an amazing bank of Light that

flows down to you, but you are also earning more days and more sparks

to perfect.