How to Connect to Your Spiritual Side
Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit by Sonia Choquette
Sep 6, 2009
One definition of spiritual health is to be at peace. In The Answer is Simple. . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit, Sonia Choquette looks at how life can flow peacefully when a person connects to authentic spirit and experiences truth, love, and divine nature.
Recognizing and Knowing One's Spirit
Recognizing one's spirit means seeking love from within, remembering who you really are, and expressing it in the world. According to Choquette, "To live your spirit is simple: All you must do is detach from your ego and follow your heart."
Everyone has a divine spark of life that is the essence of the authentic self. Welcoming spirit and treating it as an honored guest nourishes this spark. To be critical and hostile toward spirit is the equivalent of hurling garbage at a guest.
Knowing spirit starts by looking for the part of self that is light, happy, creative, and kind and that is present in the moment and laughs easily. Also, it's useful to identify the unique characteristics of one's spirit. Some spirits are fiery and feisty while others are calm and grounded.
Connecting with Soul Family
Soul family are the people who witness and strengthen the authentic you. Ideally, these people include family of birth, but sometimes other people are more of a family. Choquette notes that it's important to show family of birth one's authentic self.
She gives an example of mother and son who both felt unappreciated by the other. Once they showed each other their true selves and real interests, they became close again.
More Steps to Spiritual Health
Maintaining balance is key to spiritual health. The world can be a negative and ego-based place that drains energy. It's important to find ways to replenish balance.
People who want to connect to spirit also need to share their gifts and remember what they love. According to Choquette, purpose in life involves looking deeply into one's heart and sharing what you love.
Another important step for spiritual health is accepting life's lessons with grace. Life will always present challenges. The Answer is Simple . . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit suggests that "the ability to love ourselves and love our Spirits gives us the means by which we can face and successfully work through our stuff and learn our lessons."
Another helpful step is listening to music that resonates with inner self. It is a way to raise personal vibration, serving as an antidote to negativity.
Spiritual Health Includes Choosing Kindness
Kindness is loving spirit in action. "The greatest joy the Spirit knows is to share its light and love with others."
Kindness is a choice to honor the divine in all. "Kindness is less a doing and more of an allowing, " says Choquette, and "it's the one self-loving expression of Spirit that keeps on giving."
A Path of Spiritual Growth
Choquette notes that in her experience people who genuinely succeed and take great pleasure in their lives turn to a higher aspect of their nature, or the Spirit within, to direct their lives.
The Answer is Simple . . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit presents a path of spiritual growth based on loving, knowing, and sharing one's true self with others. It's a worthy goal, and this book is a great way to start.
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