What core structures of purpose and spirituality do you have in your life that honor your soul?
Finding Freedom in a Framework: Moving Out of Chaos and Into Purpose by Michelle Hubert.
To ground you, you need a frame of reference to help you move toward freedom in your purpose. This system is the premise of Michelle Hubert’s book. She defines freedom as “being so truly, madly, and deeply attached to your own soul, that you can’t bear if only for a moment, a life that doesn’t honor it.” (p. 6)
How we spend our time, how we maximize our waking hours are elements of this core structure that help us move in the direction of personal independence and intention.
Freedom comes from boundaries that help you grow in your purpose. The author describes four areas that foster empowerment:
- Personal
- Professional
- Family
- Spiritual
Spirituality
I appreciate the section of the book on spirituality, the journey to facilitate feeding your soul. Some spiritual practices that Hubert mentions are movement, stillness, mindset, creative pursuits, and service. (p. 143). These categories are practical and real, enabling a connection of one’s spirituality with everyday life.
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.
– Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
A Spiritual Framework
What do you do to nurture your spirituality? Do you have a structure that helps you nourish your soul? That enables you to encircle ambiguity and make some sense of the unknown? What is your frame of reference that allows you to foster your spirituality?
Some elements I think about for a spiritual framework are community, gratitude, solitude, quiet, retreat, stillness, meditation, and journaling. This groundwork has aspects of activity, guidance, a wideness that encompasses all of life, exercises that help me stay on track, and relationships that nurture meaningful conversations.
Core Structure of Purpose
Do you have a framework that helps keep you focused on your intention in life? Whatever your plan, it enables you to align your being and doing with your authentic self.
According to Hubert’s book, your spiritual framework is meant to be liberating, not limiting. Spirituality is not only about a specific religion or a particular location, or time of day, or specific day of the week. The spiritual life includes these parameters and more. Spirituality encompasses the whole of your being.
I explore a spirituality that envelops the whole of life. I seek to find God, (one of the names for my higher power), to discover Love, (another God name), in everyday life. When my spirituality is aligned with my higher power and in sync with my authentic self, I migrate to a greater good, a more profound goodness, and a desire to do something better in life.
What is your liberating framework of purpose and how do you live this in everyday life?
I welcome your comments.
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