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Sometime in July 2023, a member of my community, True Spirituality with Ange, asked me a question: Am I Spiritual? I have known this woman for over ten years both online and off line and I could have answered the question immediately for her: Yes, in my humble opinion, and yet still my opinion only, she was.

This led me to consider that an answer to this question that offers a process would actually be helpful to my future podcast audience, hence the first episode now being about how to answer this question. But in order to give you the tools to find out, I first had to debunk quite a few myths around what it means to be spiritual because let's be frank here, there is a lot of BS in the spiritual circles.

I always like to start with definitions. I owe this process to my late father who always invited us to pick up the dictionary around family meals to check our understanding of words. (Thanks, Dad. I love you and I miss you.) The Oxford Dictionary defines spiritual as the quality of being concerned with the human spirit and or the soul as opposed to material of physical things. It's a good starting point, but it seems to, at least to me, to exclude people who are living in the modern world. It's creates this divide between people who have renounced the material or the physical, and people who, you know, have jobs, houses, cars, families, friends, et cetera, because this is quite a material world we live in.

I also want to express my concern about this definition because it leaves so many people out.

Now let's look at the definition of religious, which my father was. Pious even. The definition of religious is someone who has a strong belief in God or gods. That's, you can see is different from spiritual as well, in the sense that they're bringing in the whole notion of God into it.

This highlights right away that you can be spiritual without being religious. I really need to make this point.

In this podcast episode, I go through a meme I found on the internet and that I will share in my community when the podcast goes live that lists twelve signs that you might be spiritual created by the Mind Journal. I am not going to list them here as I talk about them extensively in the podcast episode but suffice to say that out of the twelve listed, most of them are not actually signs that you might be spiritual. Not in my world anyway. Mindfulness and meditation, of themselves, do not make people more spiritual. I know someone, who I won't name although the temptation is real, who meditates every day and who is a complete arsehole. in fact, some narcissists meditate or pretend to meditate and use this to lure innocent victims into their web. I will be talking about the danger of manipulation on your spiritual in next episode, so watch this space.

This led me to compile my own list of five signs that you maybe spiritual. I am happy to share it here:

Sign #1: You have kindness as your highest value

Sign #2: Your intent is to refrain from harming or hurting other people

Sign #3: You take responsibility for your feelings

Sign #4: Accept you have an ego and learn what ego is

Sign #5: Aspire at being a better person

Is meditating or eating pure food on my list? No. And I would like to warn you if it is on yours. You might just be buying into false spirituality.

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Hello everyone. I want to welcome you to my brand new podcast called True Spirituality with Ange. I am a spiritual lawyer, an author, and obviously a podcaster. I started calling myself a spiritual lawyer, I think around 2010 when a friend of mine called me a spiritualist on Facebook when he was trying to reintroduce me to some university friends. And there was a big response in me, a big, no, I'm not a spiritualist, even though I am trained as a medium, I've never been comfortable calling myself a spiritualist or a medium. So on that thread, which was lovely, I wrote down, I'm not a spiritualist, I'm a spiritual lawyer. And it stuck. It felt right, and that was what was important. And in this podcast, I want you to understand that what feels right for you is really important, and you have to honor that, okay? Things need to feel right. And this brings me to talking about intuition within the topic of spirituality. When you start to explore spirituality outside of organized religions, you have to be careful. I like to say as a joke that it's a bit of a spiritual jungle out there. And so your intuition will be like a satellite navigation system that is going to keep you safe, okay? You have to keep safe.

You may know me from a previous podcast called The Intuitive Revolution in Business. I ran this podcast from June, 2021 until December, 2022. It has 88 episodes, and it's still live on all the podcast platforms. And I really want to invite you to go and listen to those episodes, especially if you are an ambitious entrepreneur or if you are an ambitious professional and you want to learn how to integrate intuition in your decision-making to create success on your terms. And I suppose I'm expanding my niche a little bit with this podcast because I believe that spirituality can enhance all the areas of our lives from family, parenting, relationship, relationship to your body as well, health, money, but also healing. And I think it's very, very important that we create a blueprint for our spirituality that serves us and that enables us to connect to something bigger, but without the dogma and without the preconceived ideas that other people maybe have dished to you.

I want you to understand that spirituality is going to enhance every aspect of your life. And I have seven points that I've listed that I believe you can get benefits from almost right away. First, it brings more intentionality. When you are spiritually aware, you are more intentional. You set your intent about something. And intent is slightly different from goals in the sense that they're more flexible, they're more open, especially open to the idea that the universe might step in and help you and co-create with you. And we're touching a little bit on the law of attraction here, but I'm going to keep it sweet and short for now. Two, you become aware of your thoughts and their impact on your life. And when I trained as a clinical therapist in 2006 or seven, that's something that was a massive change for me. The way I looked at myself and my thoughts and how I understand how my mind works.

Alright, so what can you expect from this podcast in terms of periodicity? I will issue podcast episodes every Friday, and I'm not too sure yet how often I'll have guests, I suppose at least once a month, maybe more. I might have series of guests if we have a theme.

I already know, for example, as I launched this podcast, that I have seven speakers that I've interviewed for my True Spirituality Summit back in July, 2023. If you would like to sign up to receive the link to the free platform, click here http://eepurl.com/gn0565