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Most adults develop a vague or clear sense of human spirituality (vs. reli-gion.) Personalities, relationships, and families range between "spiritually una-ware" and "very spiritual." Many thoughtful adults include "spiritual health" as one of four essential components of personal wholistic health. Do you? Premise - every person has unconscious needs to evolve (a) spiritual (vs. religious) awareness and growth, (b) faith in, and experiential contact with, a benign (vs. punitive, demanding, judgmental) and responsive Higher Power; and (c) the ability to calmly maintain these in the face of doubts and social criticism, scorn, trauma, and/or rejection. A related premise here is that every child needs empathic spiritual guidance and modeling from his or her caregivers in early child-hood. Our epidemic American cycle of wounds and unawareness often inhibits well-meaning caregivers from filling this primal need. Common result: kids grow up unaware of the spiritual side of their personality and relationships, and their options and right to seek personal spiritual awareness, guidance, and growth. Our for-profit U.S. media ceaselessly promotes adults' and kids' obsession with speed + excitement (stimulation) + instant gratification. These hinder typical adults from modeling personal meditation and self-motivated spiritual growth for minor kids. Some kids develop motivation to grow spiritually, and others do not. Premises: (a) parents who evolve high-nurturance families consistently value spiritual awareness and growth in their family members; and (b) genuine (vs. intellectual or pseudo) spiritual awareness and growth is essential for redu-cing psychological wounds from low-nurturance childhoods over time. Many average U.S. adults appear to have such wounds - and don't (want to) know it. More detail / related info 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 / close |
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