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The Raw Ingredients of Spirituality

By Pat Matson

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I normally write articles using the words obese, or fat, or self acceptance or self love. Behind all of that is the fact that only through the exercise of spirituality can you make any changes to your sense of self or sense of body that are permanent and effective.

Some folks think that spirituality has to happen only on solemn occasions or only in a location that has been set aside for "things spiritual." I don't happen to agree with that concept. I think that every time and every place is spiritual.

We first have to define spirituality. In Webster's 1828 edition of his dictionary (the edition that is the most spiritual for my money,) spirituality is defined as the essence distinct from matter; immateriality. That seems fairly simple to me. Do you see life as a spiritual experience, distinct from matter, immaterial? I'll just bet a dollar to a donut that some of you do not. Huzzah for those of you who do.

I think that the "I" of you is the spiritual part - the soul part - the mental part. I know that if I died and you saw me laid out on a slab, all my physical parts would be there, but the part that animates me, would be missing. That would mean that without my spirit self and with two ears, I would not be able to hear. The same would be true of all the other parts. Without my spiritual self present, none of the other parts could perform their function. I wouldn't be seeing, feeling, touching, tasting, thinking, etc.

And what all that means is this: the spiritual part is the real part. The spiritual part of each one of us is our spirituality.

I'd like to take this one step further. If I am a spiritual self with a body, is this earth experience spiritual or physical? Well, it seems to me that if my spiritual self, and your spiritual self is the real part of self, then this world would have to be spiritual also so that the real self could function, could ambulate, could unfold.

In order to gain enlightenment, I believe you have to reason your way to the position that Life is Mental. I could also say Life is Spiritual. I view Mental and Spiritual as the same. I believe spirituality is our very nature.

Our world today is so much about gratification. We go about satisfying our needs and wants in an almost ravenous fashion. I know, I know, I'm an oldster and you may think my ideas are archaic. I'd like to offer the slant that perhaps after dozens of years of experience, I might just have unfolded a truth or two and am now sharing those truths with you. I think that in working to gratify ourselves with the next good job, the bigger car, the more expensive wardrobe, and so on, we miss out on what is truly happening silently behind the scenes.

In a spiritual experience, the unfolding that goes on is silent and invisible. Only the good can see its reality. I hope you are good enough to see it. When you elevate yourself to a purely mental plane, you can see that the unfoldment of your faculties and your virtues is what has been happening silently and invisibly behind the scenes of your going to school, or dating, or functioning inside a family, or purchasing that car, or anything you could name.

I think I've set the stage substantially enough to get back to my first idea, which was the raw ingredients of spirituality. As a spiritual individual in a spiritual universe, everything is the raw ingredients. And to live consciously in this environment, you simply need to ask yourself some key questions:

- What can I learn from this experience that will augment my spirituality?

- What have I been thinking (a most spiritual action) that has caused this to happen in my experience?

- How can I use this experience as a stepping stone to bring myself up higher in the realm of spirituality?

At some point, if you continue to work consciously to gain all the good you can from each of your experiences, you will be propelled into a functioning spirituality that is rich, rare, easy, convenient, normal and natural. You will exude the aroma of goodness. You will manifest all the money you want and need. You will experience perfect health. You will be one of the happy people.

Many of you know that I am an advocate for self-acceptance for folks who struggle with their bodily image. My wish for you is that you discover sooner than later that your nature is spiritual. I hope you will learn how it functions so that you can enjoy its fruits as quickly as possible.

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