Spirit

So what happened to spirit from the first to the last post you ask? Well, I’m glad you did. Now, spirit can be defined in multiple ways. Spirit or spirituality is often connected directly to one’s religion and their belief system whether that is God, Allah, Buddha, Gandhi, Confucius, The One True Power, or any other higher power that a person chooses to believe in. However, when you break it down w/o necessarily having religion in it, it’s the connection of a person to their belief system.

A belief system is a person’s own moral, views, and decisions on how they want to live their life. Yes, sometimes religion tells us that but sometimes people don’t believe everything that their religion tells them (like some Christians acknowledging homosexual relationships as fulfillment of love while others believe it to be a sin). Many of our morals and views on living our life have come from the environment that we were raised within – our family. We learn right vs wrong at a very early age because our parents most likely punished us when we tried to strip off our clothing and run around in our diapers. We learned that it is not socially acceptable in our society (unless you live in a nudist community) to walk around naked so we learned to be ashamed of this behavior and wear our clothes in order to gain acceptance from others around us. 

But I want to go back to the fact that this is each person’s own belief system and we all have different ones. Most are not right or wrong – just different. 

For example, most people have a tendency to want to help others – some people think it’s most appropriate to extend that help to only those they know and care for, others donate to charities and think that’s the best or only way to help others, some don’t donate but might be willing to help a stranger who appears to be having difficulties. Each person is living within their own moral code.