Spiritful Living Teachings

Spiritful Living offers a broad range of powerful, new teachings to enhance the life of anyone, on any path. While there are other far-reaching teachings and tools, as well as many pearls of wisdom, in the various Spiritful Living publications, we touch upon a few foundational teachings below.

The Wellness Vehicle

Spiritful Living is the most powerful and practical source for Spirit Wellness. And Spirit Wellness is the missing link to total wellness.

Total wellness involves attention to and the integra­tion of body, mind, and spirit. But with our busy modern lives, understanding, or knowing what to do with, spirit is the hard part. Too often approaches to spirit are too shallow, too vague, or too rigid. As a result, the full power and potential of spirit are unrealized, preventing us from experiencing total wellness.

Spirit is like the big wheel on the front of a tricycle: it steers us where we desire to go. And it's the largest wheel because, unlike the body and mind, spirit never withers (unless we let it). It only deepens and grows stronger with time and circumstance.

Let's look at the basics of each. Other than a beating heart, in order to be well, the body ultimately seeks to function, to act. It needs to do things that needs doing. It wants to feel, smell, hear, see, and taste. And it wants to celebrate itself through movement, like exercise, dance, sex and even laughter. To ensure that our bodies can do this we must maintain a lifestyle of wellness that includes healthy nutrition, staying fit through regular and safe exercise, routines medical exams and tests, and periodic relaxation and resto­ration. And when things go a bit wrong, either because of ques­tionable genetics, questionable habits, or not-so-good luck, we have both traditional and alternative medicine to help us get back on track (and increasingly, to help us prevent things from going wrong in the first place).

The mind, on the other hand, wants to discover and understand. It wants to solve, plan, and navigate. And we keep it well through education, puzzles, reading, writing, watching or ob­serving, reflecting and ongoing engagement in life. We can also relax our mind, and help to restore it, by meditating, praying, contem­plating, or centering. And when things go a bit wrong there, we have psychology, counseling, and psychiatry to turn to.

But what about the spirit? Where does it fit in? And how do we keep it alive and well? Just as the body ultimately needs to func­tion and act, and the mind ultimately wants to discover and understand, we must ask ourselves what the spirit requires. And at Spiritful Living, we have the answer. The spirit lives in and for desire, specifically the Six Fundamental Human Desires.