How to Improve Your Spiritual Health (and Why)

Your spiritual health matters. Why do plants and trees need water? Why is a baby connected to a cord before it’s born? Because that connection is the life force. Plants and newborns depend on it, and so do you — except that as an adult, your life force depends on your spiritual health. Here’s how to improve it, and first, why it’s worth bothering.

When I coach people I point out the things that apply to their situation and help them move. Sometimes they ask: why do I have to take care of my spiritual side?

One time my answer was simply this:

It’s like wanting plants at home — because you like plants and you like helping them grow — while refusing to water them.

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You don’t HAVE to do anything at all

You don’t have to spend any time contemplating your own spirituality. There is no universal law and no God-like entity demanding you perform at a certain level or behave a particular way.

Those are old limiting beliefs and bullshit mind-fucks, built to get inside people’s heads and control them through fear.

So you can relax. There’s nothing here to stress about — unless you let the expectations of family, friends, teachers and other misguided people get to you.

Relax. It’s going to be fine. You don’t have to do anything.

But if you want to feel better, maybe you should

Let’s be real. You’re alive, and there’s no getting around the fact that you also have a spirit. It’s the invisible part, and it’s the important one.

Unless you believe you’re a simple biological unit with a brain attached — which is also fine. But when life happens, and you’re struggling, and your reality won’t line up with what you wanted, it’s probably worth digging.

The thing is, you are not only your body and your brain. The purpose of living is straightforward. It’s a way for All That Is — the Universe, God, whatever you want to call it —

to be, act, serve and experience life in every possible way, using the small spark that is you and me.

Everything we experience gets fed back into All That Is and becomes part of the collective. It’s also why we get several lives rather than one.

To find your purpose, break old habits and line up with that invisible part of yourself, you have to learn to hear it.

Your spirit doesn’t lie — it always has the right answer

When you feel insecure, confused or worried about your life and the people in it, it’s because you’re out of tune with your core — the spirit inside you.

Your spirit doesn’t lie, so it’s worth getting to know. And it isn’t some separate “other”. It’s you.

So why hide from yourself?

The day you decide to go looking, you’ll find truths that tell you what to do next. And decisions that match the deepest part of you turn out to be the right ones. You’ll feel considerably better.

Give it time.

“But I’m afraid to look inside myself”

I know. You’re not alone in that. And as I said, there’s nothing you have to do. But things do get complicated when you ignore your own life force.

What you’re actually afraid of is meeting the real you. Because we don’t always like the dark, hidden parts. Sometimes we’re ashamed of them.

Do it anyway. Take control. Be friends with yourself. Take small steps, and use methods that make the process bearable and — ideally — interesting.

Meditation will take you there and give you some peace on the way. The right music will let you release things you’ve had bottled up for years — it’s about vibration.

Sometimes it helps to have someone walk it with you. Someone outside your own cluster of family and friends.

I’d like to see you connect with this side of yourself and rebuild the life force in there. Your body will thank you. You’ll be happier, stronger and clearer about what you’re actually for.