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I may be opening a can of worms but here goes.

As I get more into holistic health and energy therapies, I feel as if I am getting more and more spiritual. It is almost as if I cannot separate the two. I cannot imagine being one with out the other.

The other day I had a discussion with someone about energy therapies, EFT and Meridian Tapping specifically and saw their hackles rise when I mentioned how it was bringing me to a more spiritual place. She was real against the word spiritual.  Maybe her definition and mine were different.

I went to my Webster Dictionary and looked up spiritual. There is the vague definition of “relating to, or consisting of spirit”. Then there is the second definition of “relating to sacred matters”. The third one says “concerned with religious values”. Maybe I was going with the second definition and she was gong with the third but I don’t think so. She seemed to be real against spiritual.

This reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend who is now in seminary. I once mentioned that I was spiritual but not really religious. She just could not see how the two could be separated. Like many people, I have had bad experiences from my youth that left a bad taste for anything religious but I do like the spiritual aspect. I meditate, talk to my guides, angles, God and look for inspiration from the spirit realm. Some people may say I am religious because I go to church regularly. But I have been known to say that if my religion ever interfers with my spirituallity it will be the religion that goes.

I guess I see the religion as being a man made tool to try and get us closer to God or the Universal Power. It is when our man made tools become more important than what they were installed for in the first place that they start to hinder instead of help. Then it is time for them to be replaced.

So are you spiritual, religious, both or neither? Take part in my survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L85CQS3