Toxicity: Life Experience

As I mentioned before, one of the keys to wellness is the decrease of toxins in your environment whether social, emotional, physical or even spiritual.  Today we’ve done an inventory on some aspects of our life that may be toxic such as our habits and relationships. 

When I speak of spiritual wellness or spiritual toxins; “spiritual” in this case is referring to what you believe.  Because spirituality is an undefinable concept with various attributions from person to person, I need to be clear about a few things.  For one thing, I’m NOT talking about religion and I am not even referring to something supernatural (although for some people it can mean that).  Your spirit, in this particular case, is reflected by how you’re experiencing your life.  I used the concept “spirit” because it includes our mental, social, emotional, psychological and physical all in one concept.  In other words, you could be an atheist who experiences spiritual toxins or wellness.  A loved one in my family makes it clear that he doesn't believe in God, however, he may feel listening to piano sonatas is spiritual because it brings him such pleasure that it takes him over. 

So with spirituality looked at in that light what does it mean to have spiritual toxins?  Well, if life for you is horrible and difficult and everything is scary and negative this would be the best example of having spiritual toxins.  Life isn’t good or it has no hope.  When you bring yourself to believe this, you have spiritual toxins.  The detoxification of spirit can be addressed in a number of different ways.  This belief could come from a physical condition like depression, an emotional state like grief or it could even be something environmental.  For example, you could have mold in your house that is affecting your body and in the end it’s driving you to create these negative thoughts.  When life is viewed with hope and with faith that everything in life is for a reason that we will all benefit from, or with overwhelming gratitude for the little things; this is a person with low levels of spiritual toxins.  These are the “happy” or “positive” people that we all wonder what they know or understand that we don’t. 

How do you experience life?  What could be the source of spiritual toxins in your life?