Many spiritual seekers recognize their call for global healing: healing individuals, our relationships, systems of business, education, political systems, and our environment. We have been living in a sick world, and now we see it healing! Where is our reason for our optimism?
We find optimism in recognizing that the solution to our world's healing crisis lies within each of us. It arises from our personal, individual choice. Choice is power. The collective choices we've made fuel the imbalance of power that sits at the core of this global healing crisis.
An imbalance of power exists because many of us willingly give our power away to others. What does it mean to give our power away? It means we look to organizations, industries, and people other than ourselves to solve our problems. Citizens give their power to governments, consumers give their power to corporations, many followers give their power to religions, patients give their power to doctors, and many couples give their power to each other. It is time to reclaim our own power! How do we reclaim our power? We make conscious choices; we become aware of, and claim responsibility for every choice we make. We claim our role as spiritual stewards of our bodies and our planet.
A spiritual steward is one who embraces responsibility for the survival and well-being of something precious entrusted to them. Spiritual stewardship emerges when we embrace more awareness and responsibility for our health and well-being, and indeed for the environment and our planet. As we become more aware of and responsible for our choices, we begin to understand how our choices affect everything around us.
We are empowered to create true change as we embrace our role as spiritual stewards.
Spiritual Stewardship & Personal Health
We awaken our Divine, already-healed state when we accept responsibility for our own healing. In our search for wellness, we can experience a greater long-term depletion of health as we give our power away to doctors, drugs, and gurus - looking for a quick fix, looking for a magic pill, or searching for someone to tell us how to solve our problems. Both the causes and solutions to our illnesses and disharmony lie within us. We deny responsibility for our own health and well-being when we forget this. When we become aware of the choices we make and take responsibility for our health, we stand in our power and awaken our fully healed state of grace.
When we choose to become our spiritual steward of our own body, we embrace responsibility for our healing and restoration without giving our power away to doctors or healers (traditional or alternative). Healing practitioners and doctors can have a valuable place in our healing process - when we understand our clear intentions for seeking their assistance. Are we looking for a doctor or guru to alleviate our pain; to make our condition or illness go away? Or, are we seeking guidance to empower us and assist us in making our own healing choices? There is a significant difference between depending on someone or something to heal us and seeking guidance along the path of our own healing journey. Each person's healing process is unique, and choosing to become our conscious spiritual steward of our own body awakens us to our fully radiant health.
As spiritual stewards, we learn about our body's natural healing processes. We discover how to effectively support our body with nutrition, lifestyle choices, and spiritual practices that affirm life. As spiritual stewards, we develop a unique sense of discernment and become highly aware of what gives life to our body and inspiration to our spirit. We embrace our body as a sacred vessel for our spirit. We recognize its physical health and harmony directly influence and support our spiritual growth. We remember that our body is a vehicle for our spirit and is precious to our soul's evolution. Spiritual stewardship empowers us by building our own awareness.
The choices we make each day can give life or deplete it. We choose what we eat and drink. We choose what we wear. We choose what we watch, and who and what we listen to. We choose where we seek guidance, what we buy, and what we do. We continuously make choices, and every choice we make affects some aspect of our lives. We become more conscious of the choices we make, and of why we make the choices we do. Our awareness grows.
As spiritual stewards, we choose our transformation into empowered human beings. As spiritual stewards, we choose our radiant health and we actively follow through with each choice, developing a spiritual rhythm of our responsibility and confidence. Every time we make a responsible and empowered choice we pledge integrity and love to our spirit. With each choice that affirms life to our body, we develop greater confidence, respect, and love.
Spiritual Stewardship & Planetary Health
As spiritual stewards we awaken to the truth that every choice we make impacts our lives as individuals. Every choice we make as individuals also influences the collective awareness of groups, families, organizations, communities, and humanity. Ultimately, we realize our choices affect the entire planet. Every thought, feeling, deed, word, and action we choose reflects how we manage our energies in our bodies and our environment. Becoming responsible for our awareness as individuals directly impacts the people and world around us.
Spiritual Stewardship & Planetary Health
As spiritual stewards we awaken to the truth that every choice we make impacts our lives as individuals. Every choice we make as individuals also influences the collective awareness of groups, families, organizations, communities, and humanity. Ultimately, we realize our choices affect the entire planet. Every thought, feeling, deed, word, and action we choose reflects how we manage our energies in our bodies and our environment. Becoming responsible for our awareness as individuals directly impacts the people and world around us.
Would the collective consciousness of humanity awaken into its greatness if more people chose to practice spiritual stewardship? Yes. As we make choices that reflect greater responsibility for our health as individuals - as spiritual stewards - we begin to reclaim the power that previously we gave away to pharmaceuticals, healers, doctors, gurus, and even governments and businesses. As more of us reclaim our power individually, we collectively reduce the amount of power and control we give to others. "Disempowering" modes of healing, as well as "disempowering" organizations and belief systems then begin to find a natural balance.We reclaim the amount of power we placed in these services and organizations, and our own power returns to us.
Imagine this in terms of a large-scale shifting of supply and demand. When we no longer choose to depend on services and products that disempower us, the demand falls. The evolution and healing of humanity and Earth occurs naturally when we choose to empower ourselves rather than give our power to others. We broadcast our choices to businesses and organizations through what we buy and invest our money and time in. Our purchasing dollars speak volumes - especially to big businesses whose primary motivation is their bottom line.
When we choose to become spiritual stewards of our bodies, there is a natural evolution in what we choose to purchase and why. This fuels the change and evolution of businesses and other organizations as they try to satisfy consumer demand. We impact our individual health, businesses, the economy, and much more.
Our actions as spiritual stewards support our Earth's healthy environment. Our empowered choices give life to our bodies, and naturally give life to the planet. This flow of consciousness connects the health of our human body with the health of our planetary body. For example, choosing locally grown organic foods for their quality and nutrition also supports healthy agriculture and healthy land. Choosing renewable energy sources and conserving energy within our homes decreases pollution in the air we breathe. Choosing non-toxic household cleaners, detergents, and body products reduces the toxic accumulation in our bodies as well as the planetary body. Installing water filters in our home reduces toxic accumulation in our bodies, while reducing the amount of waste from plastic water bottles purchased at the store. Choosing more natural medicines for health and well-being reduces the amount of pharmaceuticals and chemicals that accumulate within our bodies and the environment.
As spiritual stewards, every empowered choice we make gives life to our body, and every empowered choice we make affirms life to our planet. Spiritual Stewardship extends throughout our world as each individual grows into greater expressions of responsibility and empowerment. As humanity chooses individual responsibility and health, our consciousness naturally extends outward and we embrace our role as spiritual stewards of Earth.
Imagine what kind of impact spiritual stewards of Earth have! Many of us hear the call to reclaim our power. As we answer this call, we align our spiritual health with our physical health. We become responsible for the choices that affect us and Earth. We embrace responsibility for the survival and well being of our human body and Earth's planetary body, simultaneously. As we reclaim our power, we propel ourselves to create a New Earth - together.
