Spirituality for me has to be practical or else, it just does not make sense. Yes, I do often live by faith, but there is a difference between faith and believing a paradigm just because you were told to believe it. I’m grateful to be beyond the point in my life where I hang on to “tradition just because”.

If it does not empower me to live a healthy, happy and prosperous life – it just has to go. The ideas have outlived their welcome. There was a time in my life when I used to blame the devil for the drama in my life.

It was a funny thing; I wondered how was it that this devil knew all of my thoughts? How was it that it could “make” me do anything and how was it creating the drama in my life and fear thoughts? Here’s something interesting – spell devil backwards and notice what you get.

Devil is “Lived” spelled backwards. Well, knowing what I know now, I’d say I was living my life backwards all right. In fact I commonly lived with regret and worry all the time. Or, I was unforgiving and bitter about something from my past. I rarely lived in the present moment.

Here’s something else. Notice that “evil” is “live” backwards. I personally don’t see life as “the devil made me do it” anymore at all. In fact, the closest thing I see to some devil is a wounded ego. I don’t believe that the ego is the enemy; it is just that if your thoughts and your sense of self formed in the brain’s area of “autobiographical memory” is full of negative perceptions, you will wire your nervous system with negative self-talk.

Your ego, or “false sense of self” just needs to have its stories re-written, so to speak. These thoughts/beliefs literally get wired into your body at a cellular level. Well, when your negative wounded ego storyteller gets going, you start thinking negative thoughts and acting on them.

This is the source of those negative thoughts. There’s no devil doing anything. It is just your unconscious management of your life happening. You are living your life going in the wrong direction. Instead of learning the “secrets of the Universe”, the principles that will expand your life and bring peace and joy, you are inadvertently creating fear and drama for yourself.

The key to empowering spirituality is to heal an unforgiving perception so that your heart can open and heal, and you can start to remove the emotional blockages that block your Light from shining and that constrict the vision for your life.

Practical spirituality based on universal principles instead of folklore or hand-me-down systems that you have outgrown, is something that can help you to live a healthy, happy and prosperous life.  Once the wounded ego is healed of its emotional blocks and healthy flow restored, those devils and boogymen under the bed will probably flow right on out of your awareness as well!  Any thoughts?

Tags: Confidence, Ego, Self-Esteem, Spirituality

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