Spiritual Beauty

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How to be a spiritually beautiful person?

I might be the last person you would expect to write a post about beauty and spirituality. I’ve never been a pretty girl, and I spent the majority of my life very disconnected from my own body. These aren’t things I’ve known for very long, and in my mind I feel like a fresh student trying to become the teacher before finishing the course.

Then again, that freshness might show the truth of what I say since I’m writing it as I’m living it.

Either way, I’m not going to answer the question the way you might think. When you hear the words "spiritual person," you probably think about a person who is in touch with their spiritual side.

If so, I want to reverse that.

When we’re born, before we take our first breath, before we blink our eyes or cry once, we all have a soul. It exists before any personality or sense of identity is formed, and remains whether we’re alone or in a crowd.

That’s the true nature of our essence and our life.

Then, as we grow older and have experiences, our personality develops, shaped by influences in our environment. That soul might not always be able to peek out from beneath the weight of the world, and it might get a bit lost along the way.

Innately, the goodness of your spirit will crave healthy things for your body. This list isn’t the Comprehensive Spiritual Beauty Guide, but it will put a few ideas out there.

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Sleep.

Let your mind rest and be calm, healthy, and working at its best capacity. Sleep deprivation raises stress and prevents you from fully enjoying your life.

Water.

Don’t drink “enough” water, like people say. Drink more than that! So much that your body can process everything it needs and still have some to spare.

Real food.

Nutrients designed in a lab will never have the same effect as the ones that were naturally grown to nourish you.

Sunlight.

Your body will adjust to the natural rhythm of daylight the more time you spend in the sun. Inside under artificial lights, we lose track of our environmental clocks.

Fresh air.

This tends to go along with sunlight, but not always. If you live or work in a city, you aren’t always getting fresh air.

Movement.

Stretch, walk, align your spine, let your spirit enjoy being in your body!

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As I said, these are simple things. Things everyone knows, right? You smile and nod and say yes, but where’s the good stuff? The real stuff? The super deep spiritual-type stuff?

Just take a look around. If you’re here on Steemit, you’re part of the so-called developed world. Your day is designed to begin with an alarm waking you up. You can go to a store and find a selection of 50 varieties of water-based drink that have enough added to no longer be called water next to the aisle of 25 different types of factory-produced energy bars.

You’ll spend most of your daylight hours inside your place of employment, and when you leave you’ll be greeted by exhaust fumes and whatever else you can find in the air before you get back to your own car to drive home.

The entire deck is stacked against your spirit!

It’s already you, and it wants to express itself. It’s beautiful, and radiant, and everything you ever thought each time you smiled alone to yourself and felt real. But it can get disconnected, buried under those paragraphs of daily life and quite possibly worse on top of that.

This list is a guideline, but you might be drawn more to parts of it than others. Personally, I love drinking lots of water and taking long walks with music. Your spirit will have its own tastes, but once it finds what it needs, you won’t be a spiritual person.

You, your spirit, your person, will just be.

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This post had quite a few inspirations. First, I saw @sashagenji’s post about what it means to be a spiritual person, inspired by @eco-alex’s prompt about the topic.

Then, the lovely @hopehuggs encouraged me to contribute to the #feelbeautiful challenge she started with @eaglespirit, encouraging women to share what makes us feel beautiful.

These thoughts blended together into this.

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