Hello my lovely people and welcome to my first “Wake up with me Wednesday”
This week I just want to talk to you about spirituality. This is an expansive subject and each person will have different views and opinions, so all I’m going to do is talk from my own experience and what I’ve found to be true for me. As I said in the last blog post I respect everyone’s views and opinions so please respect mine. Although, if you have any questions feel free to ask them.
I’m fairly confident that everyone reading this will know what spirituality is or at least heard of it.
But, I’m going to answer; what is spirituality? Spirituality is a way of life, its not a religion (although many spiritual people follow religions, be it Christianity, Paganism, etc.) I however don’t follow a specific religion. My spiritually is what connects me to the earth and to nature and to worlds within our own that many people cant see (I will go into that in a later blog post when I know exactly who I’m writing these posts for) spirituality is also something that in my case, came after a traumatic experience. Some people will be born this way and brought up this way but others will have to “Wake Up” hence the title of this blog series.
Another misconception about spirituality or “finding yourself” is that you have to travel the world and visit all the spiritual countries, but the truth is no, you don’t have to go to India to find yourself. Travel can play a part of course but in my experience you can find yourself just as easily in your own home, if you’re finding things hard, if you’re looking for answers, or simply just know there’s more. There is something bigger out there.
My own spiritual journey didn’t start properly until December 15th 2019, when I had a conversation with my mums oldest friend. A group of us had been to a Christmas ball, my plus one was someone who I’d had an on and off again thing with for a few years, I’d been getting mixed signals left right and centre and and I was pondering the usual questions, ‘What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with my love life? Will I be alone forever? What am I going to achieve in life? What the hell am I doing with my life? What do I even want in life?’ And she suggested that I did some soul searching, to research more about spiritual journeys and how that can help me. And little did I know at the time, that it would be the best thing I would ever do. Don’t get me wrong its not for the faint hearted, its tough sometimes, as a lot of the beginning stages involve looking at every aspect of your life and answering al of those questions. I figured out what’s wrong with me, I figured out why my love life was a string of disasters, and although I’m still trying to figure out exactly where I want to go in life, this journey has taught me invaluable lessons so far. And it’s shown me a new, better way to look at life and see the world including everyone and everything in it.
Next week I will be doing a post on Spiritual Awakening (what I refer to as waking up). What it is, the process is and signs and symptoms to know weather or not you’re going through or have gone through a spiritual awakening. This is where I suspect to lose followers and be called crazy but I’m ok with that, I just knew this part of my life I couldn’t keep hidden forever. Part of my journey is to speak the truth always, and while that doesn’t get you a lot of friends it dos get you the right ones. So if this isn’t for you then I wish you all the best but if your sticking around then I appreciate you, get ready for the weird and wonderful ride.
Jessica Stone 