What is being spiritual? What does it mean to be spiritual? Personally, to me being spiritual means many different things to many different people.

I’ve had people send me messages ripping into me because they don’t believe I’m spiritual because I use the ‘F’ word when I talk and in my posts. Because that isn’t a part of what they believe is being spiritual.

To me being spiritual is a mix of my religious upbringing and pagan teachings.

To me being spiritual isn’t just a belief but a way of being as well I don’t believe you can have one without the other. That, to me means I don’t purposely try to hurt others, that’s where the old Golden Rule kicks in ‘do unto others as I would have them do unto you’. However that doesn’t mean I’m a doormat either, I will defend myself when accused of wrongdoing, or confront people if they have been spreading lies about me, I’m not totally into the ‘love n light’ thing where you just send out good energy and don’t actually DO anything.

I believe that being spiritual is trying to make this a better world, firstly by example, by doing not just sitting in a room meditating for good to happen.

I get pissed off, angry, upset, cry, laugh and swear. I’m human. That doesn’t mean I’m not spiritual, we all have emotions but it’s how we let those emotions affect or rule us that is the important thing. I’ve learnt that sometimes you just have to walk away, you can’t reason with people and it’s a complete waste of my energy to try and make them see differently, so I just move on, that doesn’t mean I’m not spiritual.

I believe in a god, I like the thought of that, but not the god of the Bible. I believe in angels and spirit guides and I believe that when we die our spirit goes back to that place where they all hang out ready for the next turn to come back. I believe that we should always smile at people, I believe that we should always offer to help someone we can see struggling. I don’t believe in being used for someone else’s gain nor will I let myself, but I’m happy to help others with a helping hand. I believe that we are all walking our own individual path and while some may not seem to have it together or doing it the way I think they should, they’re doing it their way, and I have to let them, after all, it’s their journey, not mine.

To me, being spiritual is to be my best, to do it my way in an honest way, to not intentionally hurt others, to be kind but not to put up with shit either and most importantly, not to lie.

I follow the words of ‘The Rede’ which I will share with you now and to me, the Rede sums it up perfectly.

Bide within the law you must
In prefect love and perfect trust
Live you must and let to live
Fairly take and fairly give
Light of eye and soft of touch
Speak you little, listen much
Honour the old ones in deed and name
Let love and light be our guides again
Merry meet and merry part
Bright the cheeks and warm the heart
Mind the threefold laws you should
Three times bad and three times good
These eight words the Rede fulfil:
“An’ it harm none, do what ye will.”