Holistic Retirement Living - Reconnect With Your Spirit
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Home and Family
Holistic Retirement Living understands that retirement is a time for changing the way we honor our body and its relationship to our spirit. It reminds us that aging is a journey of faith in things unseen.
There are things we can do to affect our health and longevity, but this is only part of the story. No matter how well we exercise control over our physical health, we will always be participants in a grand plan taking us down a path that includes illness and decline, ultimately moving us into another form of consciousness. We do not, and never will, consciously control our fate. The sooner we admit this humbling fact, the better off we will be.
Once we can say this, we can move toward a middle ground, between control and fear. We seek what the Buddhists call “middle path”; a place where we can honor our Self, while being fully aware and accepting of a passage which reflects our destiny. We come to see life as a dance of opposites.
There are examples of this dance all around us. We see people with cancer defy medical prognosis by seemingly deciding they were not going to allow that to happen to them. Some outlive their doctor’s predictions by many years. Similarly, we can find many others suffering from similar serious illnesses, exhibiting the same strength of character, spirit and hope, who are not blessed with the unexpected recoveries or spontaneous healing others have enjoyed.
We do not understand all the factors that play roles in health and illness. One would think though, that a belief that assumes we can consciously control our fate creates a very false sense of power and security, setting us up for great guilt when things don’t work out the way we planned. Perhaps looking at life through a different lens would help.
Remember the words Jesus spoke when questioned about the man born blind: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s work might be revealed in him.” Could seeing our trials as opportunities for grace take away the guilt that can accompany not being able to control them?
Shaping a view of life that doesn’t break down when incomprehensible things happen to us; developing inner strength that can endure the truth and is capable of coping with the world and accepting our destiny might be a better way to go. For within an attitude of acceptance in experiencing seeming defeat, lies the hidden power of victory over it.
In taking time to learn to listen to our inner voice, the voice we’ve carried with us all along, we can grow deep in the sense of oneness with life as we move closer to our destination in a Holistic Retirement.
Has this article got you thinking? Would you like to read more on this and other topics pertaining to retirement issues? Perhaps you would like your story to be included in a book I am writing about women and retirement. If so, you are invited to contact me, Nancy Montani, when visiting my blog: http://womenneverretire.com or email me at womenneverretire@cox.net
Just put “about the book” in the subject line.
Tags: God, Health, Holistic, journey, retirement. living, spirit
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