creative spirituality

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Creative spirituality is observing that we create our own lives and spirituality.

Creativity is spirituality. Explore your unique spiritual journey. Keep your mind and heart open without judging ideas or situations. Learn to believe that in spiritual terms all is equal, that labels like good and bad are barriers to that equality. Practice by doing what you love. Get the spirit tools you need to support that journey of spirituality.

Creative Spirituality Big Ideas

  • Every creative journey is unique. We are all on a creative journey.
  • Don’t judge ideas or dreams, your own or those of others. Unnecessary labels are judgments.
  • Negative emotions are needed as part of the journey. Learn to embrace them, and use them to grow. Release the fear of the unknown.
  • Our spirit is practiced in what we think about and in the actions we take. You cannot hide who you are. Your spirit reveals all.
  • Spiritual practices should be custom made to enhance your needs and goals.
  • Positivity enhances life, but it cannot be your only view.

Spirituality theme family

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A few ways to focus on spirit

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what Ideas that represent actions and ways if thinking from a spirit based point of view. The belief that the world is better when we spread positive energy. Creative spirituality can be practiced with tools that focus our attention on our spirit.
examples attachment, belief, forgiveness, motivation, unity compliments, pay it forward, putting someone at ease, smiling affirmations, journaling, meditations, prayer

February Affirmations: 16 ways to expand your world

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In the northern hemisphere, February is the last full month of winter. The darkest days of the year have passed, and we can begin integrating the inner lessons and revelations we learned through our winter retreat. Spring has not emerged yet. We aren’t ready to go out and bloom, but we can ask ourselves some

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January Affirmations: 17 ways to combat spiritual lethargy

So often January can seem like a time of waiting. Those of us who live in climates with harsh winter weather spend more time indoors. The festive holiday season has passed,and with the visits with friends and loved ones over and the decorations down, life can seem plain. It is easy to give in to

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Positive Focus: challenges staying positive (Week 2)

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As my Positive Focus moved into its second week, I felt really good. I thought I had made some good progress last week, and had figured out what was most needed to improve. But I hit some road blocks this week. I should have expected this, because whenever I make a statement of intention to

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Pain Purpose: suffering, healing, hope and courage

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People who have suffered and who have chosen a positive attitude toward life are a model and a source of hope to fellow human beings who are hurting now. This applies to all kinds of suffering. In Man’s Search for Meaning,  author Victor Frankl tells how the Jews who survived the death camps were different

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Positive Focus: a positive week (Week 1 Review)

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On November 1 I started a month long positive focus, where I wanted to really see how much habitual negativity I could banish from my daily routine. The first full week of my formal positive focus went smoother than I thought. Things that came easy In casual situations, like talking with a cashier, I found

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