Road to Better Health – The Divine Aspect

I believe a spiritual aspect is an integral part of the overall human condition. If that is true, then everything else is a precipitation of that fundamental feature. I believe a good working relationship with that part of who we are is the most important asset we can cultivate in helping to generate a positive outcome for anything we create in our lives.  That would, obviously, include the state of our health which is what this series of posts is about.

The relationship anyone develops with the Divine is going to be personal and unique. I would not presume to tell anyone what they should believe in that regard. But, since I believe it is the most important ingredient on the road to better health, I think I have an obligation to delineate what some of my views on the subject are. And so, I will do that now and, as always, welcome your comments.

1. For a variety of reasons, I am as certain as it is possible to be certain that there exists an Unfathomable Complexity we have come to call God, Goddess, All That Is, Jehovah, Allah, and various other labels. I believe that Complexity knows our name, loves us unconditionally, and wants us to be happy. These fundamental ideas are, of course, tenets of virtually every religion and all other sources of spiritual teaching. So, they are shared generally by approximately 85% of the world’s population.
2. I believe our responsibility is to learn to let in an ever-greater amount of that available love and use that to help us generate an ever-increasing amount of that state of happiness. Life is a gift. Ours is to learn to receive that gift and then learn to make it fun. Included in the package is the gift of choice. It is not required that we do, or guaranteed that we will, learn how to make life fun. But doing so is our ultimate reason for being and that reason will not end when this life does.  
3. I believe the inherent worth of every human being is exactly the same. It is a gift that cannot be added to or subtracted from, and it is eternal.  This idea is also one taught by virtually all religions and other sources of spiritual thought. For example, the idea that all are equal in the eyes of God is mentioned at least a dozen times in the Bible.  It is a concept, though, that it seems like we don’t pay a whole lot of attention to. I think the primary reason for that is because we often confuse the inherent worth of a person with the expressed worth. That does cover a broad spectrum in the human population.  But I think it is important to remember that we are all on an eternal journey of experience and growth. Part of that growth is to learn how to better and more appropriately express that inherent value of who we truly are. And I believe the Bible is right when it says we are our brother’s keeper. I believe that when we have the opportunity to help others on their way, and when they allow it, we have an obligation to try and do so.
4. Everyone has a relationship with the Spiritual Aspect of our existence, whether we think we do or not. We don’t need to learn to meditate or pray or go to church on Sunday for that to be a good one. We don’t even have to believe it exists. All those things may help the process. But, if our beliefs, attitudes, imagination, desires, and other resources and tools we use to create our reality are pure and sharp and, if we have learned how to make life fun and create successes, we are fulfilling our most fundamental purpose. If, however, we are going to make that life sizzle, if we’re going to make it zing, if we’re going to make it what it was meant to be, we will have to find some way of receiving and interpreting the information available to us that is above and beyond what we receive through our physical senses. Meditation, prayer, yoga, Qigong, and many other techniques can be very powerful tools to help us do that.
5. Thank God for the skeptic. There are, hopefully, enough of them to save the planet and ourselves from ourselves. Having an open-minded skepticism means you will take the time to think about, to consider, and to evaluate the things you hear and read about before forming an opinion or conclusion. I would certainly hope that would be done by anyone who reads any of the ideas I have just put forth or any I might do in the future.  Having a certain level of skepticism means you are willing to modify current beliefs to bring them in line with new evidence and information. I think it is important to remember, however, that it is only a short step from skepticism to cynicism or defeatism or arrogance.  We need to continually be on guard that our skepticism does not turn in to any of those.  From time to time, we all need to assess the way we respond to new information, especially any which might challenge our current set of beliefs. How willing are we to be wrong in our pursuit of being right? There is no shame in being wrong. That’s a standard feature of the human condition. But the unwillingness to be wrong sometimes leads to very nasty things in our world. Right now, that world needs skeptics. Can we count on you being one of those?