This is my BLOG No.101, and I have to admit writing has been my strategy for spiritual well-being.
Spiritual well-being is a terminology I heard in the hospital I went to nearly a year ago for my rotator cuff treatment; I have been exploring the opportunity to practice the same for healing. After nearly 8 months of writing I have to admit spiritual well-being has had an extremely positive influence on me to cope with adversity and my physical handicaps.
It is really good to practice spirituality with traditional healing, and that’s exactly what I did. I did everything to keep my values and share my life story coupled with the amazing Ayurveda oil from Kerala, treating myself to hot oil and dry heat.
Medical practitioners had prescribed surgery, and nearly 18 months of agony before I can lift my arm to do any normal work. I took advice of the complete human being I know, to enjoy the pain. This helped me to do rigorous exercise 3 times a day enjoying the pain, I had my dear ones who supported me with constant supply of Ayurvedic oil from Kerala and expert advice on exercises too and I can move my arm now.
Spirituality is not about any religion, it’s not a set practice of rituals, Spirituality is an experience of LIFE, for me it’s the force that helps me to survive, it has been a long journey and the bumps and humps has been countless, in the middle of LIFE,
and what is LIFE?
It’s a journey with laughter, falls, success, personal tragedy, crisis, challenges, stress, sickness, intolerable pain, suffering, jackpot of luck, pleasures, lots of fun and lots of tears. There are always people around in LIFE, People and Places and Purpose.
For me spirituality is WRITING, COOKING, MUSIC, PEOPLE, TALKING, SHARING, WORKING, VOLUNTEERING…..
I will hold on to the spirituality, that has been passed on by my dear and near ones.
Many a times, things are taken for granted and today I want to reflect on the strategy I took to improve my spiritual well-being.
FIRST was listening to myself,
What is my strength?
What is my emotion telling me about my strength?
What will give my life meaning and purpose?
What gives me comfort?
What gives me hope?
How do I get through tough times?
What makes me feel life has a sense of meaning?
Every question had definite answers and they were all reflections of my life!! My experience, my acquaintance with the people I grew up with.
My strength is my self-esteem, My fights and conflicts with people I live with, has been because of my strong stand about my self-esteem, my will to fight and my desire to share answers a lot of the questions.
Now when I write I am excited as I am connecting with my loved ones around the world, and that is one of my tools for spiritual well-being, next is volunteering. I love to volunteer, to share the knowledge, experience, work, food whatever and that gives me immense satisfaction, purpose and meaning in life.
Time and again I have read how forgiveness helps you be positive, and then I think of the politicians around us, who stir up one thing after the other, and cause confusion to the whole world, and still stay positive to lead.
I don’t think about the people who hurt me and the instances, I just remember the good they have done and the fun we have had with them, most of the time it’s not worth to keep things within, best is to temporarily forget and move on and be watchful and smart not to repeat the same scene in life.
NEVER BE EMOTIONALLY ABUSED.
There are many out there trying to do that to you
I keep visualizing the best I want to see of things, like in celluloid, when I see clutter anywhere I used to visualize how nice and pretty the place would be if everything is in order and all these years I used to volunteer and do it, but now my rotator cuff truly holds back my arm, not my brain, even though I read in a book how the brain capacity diminishes by the years and in stress.
Now my latest movie is Kerala and how brilliant it will be once we rebuild Kerala.
#Me too 2 Rebuild Kerala
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