8 Spiritual Wellness Beliefs
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Angie Wyatt in Blog
Loading ...What Beliefs Sustain a Healthy Spirituality?
“For in Him we live and move and have our being” -Saint Paul
1. Spirituality requires a belief in God. Spiritual Wellness requires a God-connection. Most definitions of Spiritual Wellness focus on the process of finding meaning in life. Such definitions omit the requirement that Spiritual Wellness include a belief in God. How ludicrous! At its most basic definition, spirituality involves the incorporeal. Any working definition of Spiritual Wellness must always include a belief in God. But, I’ll go a step further. Merely believing in God will not result in Spiritual Wellness. In fact, it often only leads to religious behavior. True Spiritual Wellness is the result of making your God-connection. To practice Spiritual Wellness, you must both believe in God and also learn ways to hear Him.
2. God is both transcendent (I am not God) and relational (God is with me). Though God is both transcendent and relational, most worldviews tip the scales in a particular direction. Some believe that God is relational to the point that I am one with God, or I am God. Others believe that God is transcendent to the point that I cannot even experience or communicate with God. Spiritual Wellness holds the belief that while I am not God, I can relationally connect with Him.
3. I find my center in God, Who sustains all that exists. Finding my center indicates that I know my true self. I know my true convictions, beliefs and ways to inner peace. Finding my center is intricately connected to God’s existence. Because God’s Spirit holds everything in place, I can only find my true self in Him. God becomes my center. Thus, my self-actualization is God-empowered. God empowers the journey of finding my true self, my center. I am never more powerful than when being my true self.
4. To make a God-connection, I must name my God. Following many gods leads to a disjointed faith, but a healthy spirituality commits to one God. To practice Spiritual Wellness, we must name our one true God. Names are a relational tool. If we’re not willing to name our God, then perhaps we don’t want to connect with Him? I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God. I am made in God’s image. Thus, the Divine Nature is also seen in human form (not idols) through Jesus. In Jesus Christ, we revisit the idea of God being both transcendent and relational. Jesus was both completely God and completely human.
5. My God-connection is not dependent upon my ability, but upon God’s love. My God-connection is possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Through His death and resurrection, Jesus atoned for the sin of humanity and my personal sin. Sin is anything that keeps me from having a strong God-connection. Through Jesus, God created a literal, spiritual pathway for me to connect with God. Thus, my God-connection is not dependent upon my ability, but upon God’s love. This is our greatest and most beautiful spiritual mystery.
6. I can trust God with my journey in Spiritual Wellness. My path to Spiritual Wellness will be met with various turns, pitfalls, trials and triumphs. Through it all, I can trust my journey with God. God never leaves me. He is always with me. He always loves me. Trusting my journey means that I am growing with God through the various seasons of my life. I may not always feel like my true self; but with God, my identity is secure. I can trust God to help me become the person I am destined to be. Because I trust God with my journey, I can also trust God to help others with their journey. My own Spiritual Wellness requires that I relinquish any control or manipulation over another person’s spiritual journey.
7. Hearing God is essential to my growth in Spiritual Wellness. Spiritual Wellness is a journey that requires guidance. Through hearing God, I can receive His guidance for my life. I can hear God through His Holy Word, as well as through encouragement, support, teaching and input from others who practice a healthy spirituality. God speaks to me in multiple other ways – such as through nature, meditation, intuition and creative thoughts. To grow in Spiritual Wellness, I must practice hearing God. No one can hear God for my life better than me. If I am having trouble discerning God’s voice, I find truth in the Bible. The Bible is always true.
8. My inward, spiritual reality motivates my values, goals, relationships and actions. Spiritual Wellness is an inward journey with external results. As a result of my God-connection, I add value to my family, community and world. I seek to integrate my spirituality with the totality of my life. From finances to health, every aspect of my life is impacted by my God-connection. True religion cares for the orphan and widow. True religion thinks evil of no one. True religion is an overflow of my journey in Spiritual Wellness. By human nature, I am an autonomous being created to live in God-empowered community.
What belief challenges you and helps you grow in Spiritual Wellness? How can you practice a healthy spirituality?
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Alan Smith
23. Sep, 2010
Angie,
This is an amazing post. I especially like your concise and powerful description of God’s transcendence and immanance. The way you applied this truth is really good.
Alan
Christa Barclay
26. Sep, 2010
This is progressive in thought and definitive in analysis, Angie. I like how you broke down the inherent steps of defining one’s God, concluding with the rewards of a developed God-connection.
fred greenwood
24. Oct, 2010
Angie- a very good summary of spiritual wellness as opposed to being religious-the key is communication with the Lord-the communication key is believing in God and the death of His Son for Our sins and His resurrection along with hearing God.You cannot hear God unless you know Him and know how to listen to Him.He speaks all the time in ways that we may not understand.Listening to God enables us to bring out our core God given abilities and to be able to excel in everything we do beyond our merely human abilities,by overcoming obstacles,and to help others do the same.Then, and only then are we true Christians- walking with the Lord in HIs way-for He has given us the power to be like Him.
Mads Lauridsen
28. Oct, 2010
Great post Angie.
Angie Wyatt
30. Oct, 2010
Well said, Fred. Thank you!
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David flagg
03. Mar, 2011
I seen your adds on TV, and just wanted to see your beliefs .
For a second, I thought this was a new age, Oprah type spin off of spirituality .
I don’t have any trouble hearing God, I have a spiritual gift for that and know things no one knows or understands .
I can’t agree with that belief that others can not hear God better than you can . It really depends where a person is in their life . Jesus had no sin, and came forth from God , so his connection was perfect , to the point he could say of himself I AM the Truth, because indeed that is what he was, He came forth from God and there is a secret that I know of why He being joined with man, was still God .
Your def of sin, is abstract , but that is not surprising because as far as I know, no one understand it other than me, that I know of .
I am not boasting, it’s just the truth and I leave post like this on occasionally to see if I can peak curiosity and perhaps even connection with others of spiritual enlightenment of some depth .
God does not give anyone man or woman all the secrets, He makes us dependent on each other like pieces of a puzzle that must be joined for the strongest image of Him and revelation of Him .
Because of Pride and self , Truth is not found, because of this thing called ego or self esteem, which is the image of how we see ourself .
Because the pharisees, had a image of them self and a image of who they though Christ was , they rejected the truth for what they wanted to believe about themselves, and thus killed the truth as we all do, who reject the truth in others .
I have not met anyone yet, who has been able to hear the truth that I know , because of their own self esteem .
But even hearing the Voice of God or having the knowledge of truth and revelation, is only one gift .
I think, I have the ability to gain knowledge that man has never known, but knowledge is not faith .
And for me as I have had a gateway open to hearing God, He has weaken my faith, by my situation or circumstance becoming very, very difficult to almost unbearable, which has destroyed my faith .
Faith for me, has been God actually doing not just speaking . Speaking is good, but you can reach a place where doing is what is needed .
Moses could have came and said any million of things God said to the Jews , and even the Jews could have heard it from God’s own mouth , but if God did not move and do they would never of had faith .
Even when God did move and move in a way no man has ever seen , they still did not have faith , when a new circumstance or difficulty came against them .
Faith is trusting God from Past experiences, when God spoke , then backed up his Word by actions and believing God will do it at the present difficulty is what faith is .
I can hear God fine , but it’s been 3 years since he has moved and he has put me in a circumstance that is as overwhelming to me as the Jews in the wilderness .
And I have not see God move in 3 years, unlike the Jews who got Miracle after Miracle, so even thought I can hear God as far as get revelations, it destroy’s your faith, when the word is not backed up by action .
ERVIN HEJL
28. Jun, 2011
well said, angie, god bless you and your dad from a christian!