Beauty surrounds us in nature, art, and music. Yet we often miss the beauty within us. Appreciating the beauty of who we are inspires us and leads us to greater wholeness. The following is a text version of this posting. I recently went for an afternoon walk in my neighborhood. … Read More »How to Experience (Your) Beauty: A Spiritual Practice
Do you meditate? Do you pray? Do you do spiritual things? Is that what you think spirituality is all about: doing things? Consider this: could spirituality be part of who we are? Connected to all of the other parts of ourselves? Today’s video will introduce you to research on these… Read More »Spirituality As Part of Us
Sin: it’s a word that many Christians use. Honestly, I think it’s more frequently used in Christian vocabulary than words like love and forgiveness. So, what is sin and why do Christians talk about it so much? When we commonly think of sin, we think of doing something wrong. From… Read More »Christians and Sin: It’s Not Biblical
The following is a brief excerpt from my book, The Integrated Self: A Holistic Approach to Spirituality and Mental Health Practice. In this passage, I explain that the commonly used distinction between religion and spirituality is very narrow and prevents us from appreciating that spirituality is a dimension of all… Read More »Spirituality: A Dimension of Human Experience
Work-Life Balance. It’s a popular concept. Many business magazines and other publications have lists of recommendations to improve a person’s work-life balance. The idea is that the time and effort put into work has to be balanced with life. It’s a strategy to avoid becoming what used to be called… Read More »The Deception of Work-Life Balance
What does it mean to find happiness in life? As I scanned the headlines of a news service I use on my smart phone, I saw a number of articles on the pursuit of happiness. Like this one from Quartz (http://tinyurl.com/jqcqvy8), such articles explain that direct attempts to find happiness… Read More »Finding Happiness
About a week ago, one of my Facebook (FB) friends posted this comment as a status up-date: “Everybody sins & God loves everybody. No exceptions. How come people like to separate the clauses?” I may not have given the comment much notice, but this FB friend is known to be… Read More »Sin: Can We Talk About It?
Often times, when people talk about spirituality, it sounds like spirituality is something “out there” or something one needs to get. Other times, people will refer to activities or events as being “spiritual” or “not spiritual.” For example, meditation is spiritual but hanging out at a corner bar is not… Read More »Exploring the Spiritual Dimension of Self
