By jona bryndis, Dec 13 2016 07:07PM

'Being Spiritual' - what does this even mean? Many of us are looking for guidance, communities or people that can enrich our deeper journey. The amount of Ascension Groups, Online Courses and Spiritual Blog Sites in Social Media and the internet have been exploding in the past couple of years. It shows us the need for guidance in this area of self-improvement and spiritual emergence, but how can we discern the often redundant and often single-sided information? What if we want to grow beyond channelings from ‘spiritual beings’ or the mainstream how-to’s of ‘becoming more spiritual’? To me, that's not what 'Being Spiritual' means!
In my book, 'being spiritual' doesn't mean to look, talk or dress spritual - it's not about being a vegetarian, meditating or hugging trees - and it's definitely not something I project out to others, either! It's about my inner relationship with myself and seeing beauty in all there is, even in the darkness around me. For me 'being spiritual' means to be able to be present in the moment - with all my heart; to love my life regardless of all challenges I am facing; to love myself inspite of all the mistakes I am making; to feel the power in me to transcend pain into love; and to believe in a higher power than my ego...
