Happy Holy Friday! Today for Christian is good Friday, observing Christ’s crucifixion and the start of Easter weekend, Sunday Christ’s resurrection. Today follow many traditions, superstitions, and rituals. Like no meat” flesh” instead eat fish, the Easter bunny, avoid swimming in sea or river, etc. In our family, we look forward to hot cross bun and fish. A cross on the bun goes back to the 12th Century when an Anglican monk places it on top. The Belizean culture adopted this tradition, and we look forward to the eats and, yes, not forgetting the spiritual symbolism behind this day.
Spiritual Detox Transcends Religion
Usually, when people hear “spirituality,” they often associate it with religion. This really is too bad. After all, religion, in our modern times, is one concept many people struggle with. Many even consciously try to run away from it. What if I told you that spirituality and religion are not synonymous? In fact, depending on the depth of your spirituality, whatever it is that you are doing, thinking, and believing maybe 180 degrees different from religion.
It’s easy to see why religion has gotten a bad rap throughout history. You only need to look at religious wars, the often-repeated charges of intolerance, bigotry, and exclusion. It becomes as clear as the light of day why people would rather stay away from religion.
Whether you agree with this or not, and whether this is justified, is the case. Certain religious traditions and family customs indeed go a long way in distorting and misrepresenting the tremendous spiritual riches religion could offer.
Maybe some people come from every specific type of family or cultural tradition. Religion can quickly become suffocating, repressive, and ultimately discouraging, whatever the case may be. It’s not unusual for many people from specific strict religious backgrounds to feel that they always have to suppress themselves.
They have this overwhelming need to apologize for things constantly. It’s as if they’re always walking on eggshells. This is the whole atmosphere surrounding religion, and that’s why any talk of spirituality is usually distorted because of this background noise. If you have discovered the power of detoxification and become interested in spiritual detox, I’ve got some excellent news.
Spiritual detox goes beyond religion. While it clarifies things and cleans one of the typical hang-ups of old-school traditional, cultural religion, it goes beyond that. Spiritual detox is all about reconnecting with one’s sense of purpose.
While it could be said that all religious and spiritual traditions do focus on the idea of purpose, spiritual detox goes beyond this because it reaches people who couldn’t care less about religion. Agnostic people, atheists, or humanists can relate to the broader definition of spirituality, one’s concern with the meaning of one’s life.
This is the golden thread that unites all people of all backgrounds. It doesn’t matter what kind of religious tradition you grew up in. It doesn’t matter what part of the world you come from; we will all come to this question on one level or another.
Spiritual detox enables you to achieve a tremendous sense of balance because you let go of unnecessary baggage from your past. These poison your sense of purpose and deaden your sense of possibility and adventure. Click here for the only framework you would need to tap the power of spiritual detox so that you can live at the level you deserve to live at.
XOXO
Marcey
*Look out for my e-book on “How to be touched by Spirituality”
