I think it depends on who you are talking to? I’ve met chicks who have thought they are spiritual simply because they do yoga for exercise…but haven’t given any other thought about themselves as a soul or life beyond the physical world. I know people who believe in life after death and ancestors and angels but don’t really do any work on themselves or relationships to improve their life or break unhealthy patterns.
It’s a real wake up call to me to reflect on the fact that many of us refer to ourselves as ‘spiritual’ and that could mean hundreds of different things to all of us.
These are my thoughts to come… they may help but please note the following may not be your truth. Yep. No probs. Glad we cleared that up…LOL
One thing I feel clear about right now is that spirituality isn’t a lifestyle — it’s a way of being.
It may shape your lifestyle but its more than just saging your room and having crystals. For example…to be spiritual isn’t about escaping the human experience, nor is it a trend or type of fashion or food you eat.
I’ve also met so many ungrounded and traumatised people escaping reality and calling it spirituality. I don’t begrudge them escaping their pain…. but I do believe we as souls wouldn’t have made the journey if there wasn’t something we needed to understand and grow from that experience???
I feel we came down as a human to be fully in it. But consciously… breaking through levels of consciousness like levels in a game maybe? Remembering we are actually a soul here having a human experience and why.
Spirituality isn’t about how much you know — it’s about how deeply you’re willing to feel, to grow, to remember. It’s not about pretending to be enlightened with memorised knowledge from great texts eeeekkkk, it’s about being engaged — with life, with love, with truth, with soul.
Now, for some people, their spirituality flows through religion — through prayer, ritual, and devotion to their specific god. And that can be beautiful, especially when it’s rooted in love, service and humility. But spirituality wears many faces.
For some, it’s religious. For others, it’s a path of energy, nature, soul, spirit, or ancient philosophy — witchcraft, Buddhism, paganism, shamanism, astrology, or modern forms of metaphysics that help them remember there is more to living and provides tools and philosophies to remember who they are and where they came from.
There are people who follow a particular lineage or teaching. There are those that hold their particular way like a gospel — their way, their truth is THE way.
And then there are others — free type ones — who don’t follow any structured path at all. They just know, deep in their soul, that we’re more than these bodies, more than this earth plane, and that consciousness continues after death.
I know many people who were raised in religion and still hold deep love for parts of it — the prayer, the devotion — while also acknowledging how some of those teachings have been deeply wounding.
I wandered in and out of many different philosophies myself. I’ve seen the beauty and the distortion, the wisdom and the control.
For me, I’ve learned not to hold anything too tightly really. I’ve found to take what resonates for the time being, let it move me through a stage of healing or awareness if needed. and then, when it’s done, I let it go.
My spirituality works like that — fluid, intuitive, guided by the truth of my own soul.
What shows up for me in a moment or a point in life is what I need to reflect on to move through it. When it’s no longer aligned, I release it with gratitude.
I think there are many of us like this — the bridge-walkers, the open ones. We don’t need to cling. We don’t need to be right. We just need to keep listening.
All of it is spiritual.
But how we move with it is what makes the difference — especially between someone who is on a continuous path of awakening and raising their consciousness, and someone who isn’t.
Does your spirituality awaken you or keep you stuck and disempowered?
Just something I think we all should think about.
I believe our spirituality in whatever that means for each of us should be the vehicle that continues to awaken us – to keep us moving through the levels of consciousness and expand our level of vibration. Not by pretending or being fake or doing what everyone else is because that’s the right thing to do or say.
Something you have come to understand and know deep within your own soul. Not what you’ve been told to believe.
Each time you do, life invites you to meet yourself more and more honestly — to integrate what you’ve learned, embody it, and bring that awareness into how you live, love, and lead.
Being spiritual doesn’t mean you have all the answers — it means you’re humble enough to keep asking questions. To be open to many truths.
It doesn’t mean you never get triggered — it means you notice when you do, and you choose to respond instead of react.
It’s not about perfection — it’s about authenticity.
Spirituality, at its core, is how you show up — with yourself, with others, and with life.
It’s in the way you speak to the person at the checkout.
It’s in how you forgive yourself when you mess up.
It’s in how you hold space for your own evolution without rushing it.
To be spiritual is to live with awareness.
To keep remembering who you are — soul and human, light and shadow — and to honour both.
That’s what awakening really is. Not an end goal.
A way of living — awake, honest, and deeply alive.
Love Bec
