EXPLORE SPIRITUALITY

As psychologist Christa Mackinnon writes: Studies find correlations between spiritual well-being and positive psychological responses when people are confronted with existential crisis situations. A recent study of 60 lung cancer patients in America, for instance, found that aspects of spirituality, namely meaning in life and prayer, have positive effects on psychological and physical responses, and an in-depth study of 160 terminally ill patients in palliative care came to the conclusion that spiritual well-being provides a sense of peace and offers some protection against end-of-life despair in those for whom death is imminent.

You don’t need to buy into anyone’s bullshit – find what type of spirituality works for you. That might be simply praying or lighting a candle, or it could mean learning how to be a spiritual healer and finding a higher sense of purpose.

I personally enjoy the path of inner work and I incorporate many eclectic practices into my spiritual path like working with the archetypes, spirit guides, practicing meditation and mindfulness, creating sigils, connecting with nature… the list goes on.

TIRED OF LYING IN THE SUN -

SHINE, STAYING HOME TO WATCH THE RAIN

YOU ARE YOUNG AND LIFE IS LONG, AND THERE IS TIME TO KILL TODAY AND THEN ONE DAY YOU FIND TEN YEARS HAVE GOT BEHIND YOU

NO ONE TOLD YOU WHEN TO RUN, YOU MISSED THE STARTING GUN

PINK FLOYD’S TIME

EVERY YEAR IS GETTING SHORTER, NEVER SEEM TO FIND THE TIME PLANS THAT EITHER COME TO NAUGHT OR HALF A PAGE OF SCRIBBLED LINES HANGING ON IN QUIET DESPERATION IS THE ENGLISH WAY THE TIME IS GONE, THE SONG IS OVER, THOUGHT I’D SOMETHING MORE TO SAY

I wrote that when I was 29 years old. The bits in the song where it goes, ‘No one told you when to run/ You missed the starting gun,’ it’s about my experience of being 29 years old and certainly going, ‘Fuck me. It’s the middle of life. I’ve been told that I was preparing for something.’

-Roger Waters on “Time”