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.
| spiritual concepts | positivity | spirit tools | |
| 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 |
Attachment is: adherence, faithful, loyal, devout, staunch, steadfast, constant, pious, adhesion, firmness, allegiance, love, affection, fondness, connected, stuck. Attachment is the state of being firmly affixed to someone or something. Our culture has long celebrated attachments of various kinds: romantic love, family loyalty, even attachment to our faith and beliefs. In our present society we […]
People are so taken with selfies, images of ourselves. I find the whole thing kind of amusing, but wonder what it says about us as individuals. Is there a way to move this idea for self documentation and self sharing into something more meaningful, a spiritual selfie? Is social media sharing in general just a mask
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Reliability Reliability is: dependable, secure, tried, tried & true, trustworthy, safe, compelling, convincing, valid, certain, accurate, confidence. We seek people and things that can be counted on. Counted on to be there, not to fail. People demand confidence and trust in something or someone. If a reliable person says they will do something, they can
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For a long time I thought of meditation as a formal thing: sitting with legs crossed in a darkened and quiet room, wearing some kind of pale loose garment, with hands folded just so. This setup was to be accompanied by some formally prescribed breathing, chanting or humming. Maybe a Sanskrit mantra would be good
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Belief is: faith, credence, credit, assurance, doctrine, conviction, acquiescence, dogma, conclusion, judgement, persuasion, principle, idea, inevitable. Belief is trust. You can trust a person, an idea, a statement, a decision or a path in life. It seems that this should require proof of some kind, evidence, but often we believe without evidence and sometimes we
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Passion is: desire, affliction, appetite, craving, itch, agony, affection, sentiment, frenzy, transporting, lusty, craving, coveting, aspiring, aiming, intense, fiery, enthusiasm, zealous. Passion, in all of its various meanings, always suggests intensity. Intensity of emotion or belief, which can be experienced as an esoteric euphoria or great suffering. When you feel passion you are living right
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Tolerance is: fortitude, gut, grit, strength, patience, forbearance, clemency, stamina, endurance, indulgence, lenience, mercifulness, advanced, humane, sustained. Tolerance is the force that binds us to all life and to all spirit. It is a divine gift that gets us through difficult trials, unpleasant experiences and pain of all kinds. It teaches us that we cannot escape
Contentment is: satisfaction, delight, gratification, grace, peaceful, appeased, delighted, thrilled, smiling, purring. Contentment seems like a passive thing; in some ways it is, because you can feel it without doing anything. But for the state of mind to be more than fleeting and occasional, it requires a great effort. Not necessarily at a checklist (although
Anger is: provocation, human, release, riled, fury, annoyance, healthy, indignant, creative, destructive, pique, alarm, necessary. Anger is viewed by our culture as primarily a negative thing, and as such we try to avoid it and shame it out of existence. The trouble is, it exists and serves a purpose in the overall scheme of the universe.
Epicureanism is a ubiquitous term, and yet I include myself in the presumable majority with little to no prior understanding of what it actually stands for. So it was interesting to find a book about epicureanism as an ancient set of ideas on how to live that can be applied to contemporary life and that
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