No matter if you want to, you cannot outsource your Spirituality

Oftentimes we conflate spirituality with religion. At Grafted Roots, when we say spirituality we mean the connection to deep knowing, intuition, and unconditional love. Spirituality is an internal practice that can be enhanced or fortified by an external expression like religion, but they are not synonymous. To go internal and connect with intuition is a brave undertaking that cannot be taken for granted. Connection happens when we let our guard down. When we are open to the beauty within the storm. We each sign up for a different experience when we choose to be on Earth, and most of the time there is some learning we desire and it is not easy.

Spirituality gives you the playbook to your life. It gives you the ability to center and ground into the truth of you within the chaos and, frankly, hurricane winds, of our current environment and climate. 

Spirituality cannot be outsourced. 

You can use external modalities to help express or access it, but you cannot outsource your own deep knowing. You cannot outsource your own unconditional love for yourself.

You cannot outsource you. 

And many people try…

And fail…

And don’t understand why the world seems so out of their reach, so out of control, so maddening. And instead of getting quiet, they will double down on what isn’t working to keep themselves as far from their truth as possible. 

The human world is rigged 

By those who want to control, power over, hoard and harm.

Our biggest offensive to this behavior is to go within, trust our own artistry and create from the well of unconditional love. No one can take that from you. Even under the worst of circumstances. They can make it hard to go within, they can send tsunami waves of lies to continually push you down onto the sea floor, and they can create policies and systems that sound great, but in practice only work for whiteness. 

Where to begin? 

Friend, it starts with the way you talk to yourself every day. What is your inner monolgue saying? Has it been affected by the external? If so, start compassionately. What are ways you can say something to yourself every day that you believe? What qualities do you know deeply that you hold and, maybe, haven’t had the opportunity to share with the world yet? 

One of my biggest lessons as a high school teacher is that I am not for everyone. Not every student is going to connect with me, not every student will be aligned with my approach, and it isn’t about me. Once I shifted to an approach that followed the needs of each individual student, then I started to see that it isn’t my job to “be everyone’s cup of tea.” I can love each student, follow their lead, and let them go. 

Be your best teacher. Love yourself, ask what you want, and listen for the deep answer.

React with compassion…sometimes we find out that we have been our own oppressor and it hurts to know that we have been actively holding ourselves back and down.

But today, as Anne of Green Gables says, is a new day.

Still not sure how to get started? 

Download our Readiness Range tool which gives you a place to start.

In love, always, 

The grafted roots team. 

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