https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSpirituality is meant to make us whole, complete, and full. Physically, when we feel that peak health is diminishing, we can always go to the spa. Spas are places where people go to deeply relax, detoxify, and reinvigorate themselves in the hope o...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhile visiting Brazil recently, I met an environmentalist who transformed my way of thinking about our current climate situation. Her kind, gentle voice expressed the most surprising views. “The river isn’t polluted,” she said, “the river is pure,...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingGrowing up I was expected to accept things as they were. When I asked, ‘Why do I have to do it this way?’ the parental response was always, ‘Because I said so’ or ‘Because that’s how it is done’. As an enquiring teenager I gravitated towards socia...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThey say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it is true that through time, what has been considered beautiful has changed as the centuries have rolled by. Most of us have around us things we find to be beautiful, attractive or remind us...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPeace is a state of mind that is stable, harmonious, accepting and powerful. It is experienced by others as calmness or tranquillity. Some think peace is impossible, that they are not wired for peace; that their minds are too busy to be peaceful. ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually Speaking“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” —Lilla Watson As a social activist I used to believe that I needed to name and confront t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt only hurts to give up something if there is no attainment in return. Renunciation is a well-known concept on the path of religion and spirituality. Renunciation is the idea that by giving up aspects of the physical world, we receive the return ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually Speaking“Things are moving at an alarming rate, if I choose to be alarmed.” Jayanti Kirpalani Watching world events has many of us alarmed. Everywhere we look we see sorrow, extreme weather events, sudden deaths, and disasters, and all of this happening i...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is said that to master any art, it takes more than 10,000 hours of the right practice. 10,000 hours is approximately 417 days or 1.1408 years. However, it would seem quite a feat to practise for 24 hours a day for 417 days. If more reasonably, ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOne of the hardest experiences in life is to watch the suffering of someone we love. Our intense desire to help is frustrated by an equally intense feeling of helplessness. When faced with the discomfort of this inner intensity, I have often jumpe...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingDo you hear the call of the world? The headlines shout at us about environmental calamities, the pandemic, the constancy of war, struggle, and injustice. It can be overwhelming to look and really see the unhappiness, anxiety and fear in which peop...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLabour Day celebrates the achievements of workers. On this day, we honour workers and their importance to our society. Its origins are in the labour union movement focused on balancing a worker’s day; with eight hours for work, eight hours for rec...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAlways rushing, never enough time, having too much to do is our reality. Why do we rush? We sometimes feel that our schedule controls us and because we are smart, caring and committed people, we can always add just one more thing. Even now when ma...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIs it possible to see a better world into being? The answer for me is a resounding ‘Yes’. My philosophy and daily spiritual practice are based on the understanding that, as spiritual beings, we have the ability and power to transform the world. Se...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/a-spa-for-the-soul/June 15, 2024, 4:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Soul-spa-300x169.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAny normal action that takes on a special degree of attention, expression, finesse and value is an art — a high standard of doing things.” —Purity magazine, April 2016 Living becomes art when every thought, word and action is an expression of spir...