Your Spirituality matters … And here’s why!

Here’s how I would define spirituality. This is the ability to connect with the Spiritual. It is a practice, not a skill, which allows you to deepen your awareness about your own spirit.

As you may already know, there are a lot of suggested ways to work on your spirituality.

Speaking as a Christian, being a spiritual person isn’t only grounded in some spiritual practices. It derives from a personal connection with God. Out of this relationship comes a set of ways that help with maintaining the connection with the spiritual.  

In the Christian faith, prayer, Bible reading, service and communion with other people are good examples of practices that will help you grow spiritually.

But, why being spiritual matters?

Your spirituality enables you to better live.

Everyone longs for a better life!

But, a better life comes as a result of choices. A person makes choices based on their personal values.

Your values then come from your personal belief system. This is a set of habitual patterns you’re living by everyday. These patterns affect your character and behavior. They also affect your choices.

What you believe in is what defines the kind of life you want to have or already have.The practice of connecting to what you believe in is spirituality. 

Living better, for me, then means bearing good fruit in life. The ability to do so is dependent on your connection to the vine, based on John 15. Jesus Christ is referred to as the vine and humans as the branches. One bears fruit only when they are connected to the vine. This is a very natural principle, but also spiritual. 

Your spirituality is then choosing to stay connected to the Divine. And doing so gives you the ability to be effective and fruitful in life!

Your Spirituality helps you stay focused.

Your spirituality matters because it allows you to stay focused.

Staying connected to the spiritual requires discipline. And discipline is the practice of a set of actions to achieve certain goals in life.

Here’s what you could do:

• Decide on what kind of spiritual disciplines you want to practice. A time of prayer, reading the Bible, serving others and being in communion with other people. 
• Decide on when to practice your discipline. You can do it early in the morning, during the day or in the evening. 
• You may need a mentor/coach. This is a person who can encourage and hold you accountable to what you want to accomplish.
• You may also need a companion. This is someone who shares similar goals with you. You need a friend for the kind of practices you would like to do.
• Add it to your calendar. Make this a daily task.

Your Spirituality helps you with productivity.

Your spirituality matters because it helps you with productivity.

Practicing spiritual disciplines will allow you to be clear about your priorities. This will result from the clarity you get about your life through the process.

Here’s what happens:

• You are more aware of who you are.
• You learn how to value every resource you have in life.
• You become able to wisely use your resources.
• You are clear about what to do and when.

Your Spirituality helps you maintain good relationships.

Being aware of who you are will help you be clear about your relationships.

The benefits of that are:

• You are aware of your own emotions and feelings about yourself and other people.
• You are aware of other people’s emotions and feelings.
• You perceive every relationship you have as a gift.
• You see yourself as an instrument for change in you and in the lives of people dear to you.
• You look for good in people around you.

Your spirituality will equip you with what you need to be a problem solver everywhere you are. You will not fix people. But, you will brighten people’s perception of life. 

Bringing it together.

Everything in your life depends on your spirituality. The benefits of being a spiritual person are: a better life, clarity on priorities, productivity and good relationships!

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