The Spiritual Connection/Dimension of Life: Sanctum One
The Spiritual Dimension of Life
We have three aspects that affect our wellness: mental, emotional and spiritual.
To be truly well, all three of these aspects need to be truly inter-connected
and integrated.
The first two are the most familiar,
but the spiritual aspect is often misunderstood.
Being spiritual does not necessarily mean being religious: you can be very
spiritual without ever stepping inside a church.
But you can also be a church-goer and be very spiritual.
Being spiritual has to do with the inner knowledge of connectedness – that all
things are connected and related.
It also means being fully connected to ourselves, and within ourselves.
There are personal qualities that go with, or result from being connected:
Spirituality is reflected by being loving to oneself and others.
A spiritual person cares about people, animals, and the planet.
A spiritual person knows that we are all one, and consciously attempts to honor
this oneness.
A spiritual person is a kind person.
Conversely, someone who is consistently unkind cannot be spiritual.
There are many people who do not practice a religion, who do not meditate,
pray or belong to any group, who are very spiritual people.
These people naturally do caring things for others.
They think about how they can help. Their thoughts are kind rather than
judgmental toward themselves and toward others.
When you look at them, you see their kindness in their eyes.
Spiritual comes from the Latin "spiritus" which means breathing (it concerns all
things to do with the spirit, the breath inside the body).
Your spirit, or 'soul', or inner self is an important, integral part of you.
It is not your inner child, yet related to it.
Being Spiritual means acknowledging that we are part of the universe
- and thus part of everything around us,
and trying to understand more about what this means.
Being Spiritual means accepting responsibility for our actions,
and even our thoughts, conducted under our free will.
Knowing that actions and thoughts, like pebbles thrown into a pool,
create ripples that spread out into eternity.
Being spiritual means being connected with ourselves, within our selves,
and being aware of ourselves.
One way to increase such self-awareness is to be in touch with yourself
through such things as familiarity with your bio-rhythms, for example.
To be spiritual means to strive and connect with a higher force
that is hidden from our ordinary view and perception
but that can be felt when surrendering one’s ego.
It is our spiritual aspect that tends to be poorly integrated,
and without its full integration, wellness is incomplete.
Because we believe in holistic healing for wellness
(holistic means to have all three aspects integrated into a complete “whole”)
we devote a section of the site to spiritually-related things.
Dawn Cove Abbey provides an “unchurch” chapel (Sanctum One) for those
wishing to exercise and explore their spirituality in the company of others
– becoming part of and forming a community
- to assist you in developing this aspect of yourself further
- without forcing you to accept anything you do not want.
Use the related menu on this page (top right)
to explore this part of the site further.
We have three aspects that affect our wellness: mental, emotional and spiritual.
To be truly well, all three of these aspects need to be truly inter-connected
and integrated.
The first two are the most familiar,
but the spiritual aspect is often misunderstood.
Being spiritual does not necessarily mean being religious: you can be very
spiritual without ever stepping inside a church.
But you can also be a church-goer and be very spiritual.
Being spiritual has to do with the inner knowledge of connectedness – that all
things are connected and related.
It also means being fully connected to ourselves, and within ourselves.
There are personal qualities that go with, or result from being connected:
Spirituality is reflected by being loving to oneself and others.
A spiritual person cares about people, animals, and the planet.
A spiritual person knows that we are all one, and consciously attempts to honor
this oneness.
A spiritual person is a kind person.
Conversely, someone who is consistently unkind cannot be spiritual.
There are many people who do not practice a religion, who do not meditate,
pray or belong to any group, who are very spiritual people.
These people naturally do caring things for others.
They think about how they can help. Their thoughts are kind rather than
judgmental toward themselves and toward others.
When you look at them, you see their kindness in their eyes.
Spiritual comes from the Latin "spiritus" which means breathing (it concerns all
things to do with the spirit, the breath inside the body).
Your spirit, or 'soul', or inner self is an important, integral part of you.
It is not your inner child, yet related to it.
Being Spiritual means acknowledging that we are part of the universe
- and thus part of everything around us,
and trying to understand more about what this means.
Being Spiritual means accepting responsibility for our actions,
and even our thoughts, conducted under our free will.
Knowing that actions and thoughts, like pebbles thrown into a pool,
create ripples that spread out into eternity.
Being spiritual means being connected with ourselves, within our selves,
and being aware of ourselves.
One way to increase such self-awareness is to be in touch with yourself
through such things as familiarity with your bio-rhythms, for example.
To be spiritual means to strive and connect with a higher force
that is hidden from our ordinary view and perception
but that can be felt when surrendering one’s ego.
It is our spiritual aspect that tends to be poorly integrated,
and without its full integration, wellness is incomplete.
Because we believe in holistic healing for wellness
(holistic means to have all three aspects integrated into a complete “whole”)
we devote a section of the site to spiritually-related things.
Dawn Cove Abbey provides an “unchurch” chapel (Sanctum One) for those
wishing to exercise and explore their spirituality in the company of others
– becoming part of and forming a community
- to assist you in developing this aspect of yourself further
- without forcing you to accept anything you do not want.
Use the related menu on this page (top right)
to explore this part of the site further.
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| Related link: Hilde Kok's Sacred Space (it is in dutch - just use Goodle translate to read it in English) - to visit, click HERE |
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