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Most adults develop a vague or clear sense of human spirituality (vs. religion.) Personalities, relationships, and families range between "spiritually unaware" and "very spiritual." Many thoughtful adults include "spiritual health" as one of four essential components of personal wholistic health. Do you? This Web site proposes that every person has primal (unconscious) needs to evolve (a) spiritual (vs. religious) awareness and growth, (b) faith in, and experiential contact with, a benign (vs. punitive, demanding, judgmental) and responsive Higher Power; and (c) the ability to calmly maintain these in the face of doubts and social criticism, scorn, trauma, and/or rejection. A related premise here is that every child needs empathic spiritual guidance and modeling from his or her caregivers in early childhood. Our epidemic American cycle of wounds and unawareness often inhibits well-meaning caregivers from filling this primal need. Common result: kids grow up unaware of the spiritual side of their personality and relationships, and their options and right to seek personal spiritual awareness, guidance, and growth. Our well-meaning for-profit U.S. media ceaselessly promotes adults' and kids' obsession with speed + excitement (stimulation) + instant gratification. These hinder typical adults from modeling personal meditation and self-motivated spiritual growth for minor kids. Some kids develop motivation to grow spiritually, and others do not. Premises: (a) co-parents who evolve high-nurturance families consistently value spiritual awareness and growth in all their kids and grown-ups; and (b) genuine (vs. intellectual or pseudo) spiritual awareness and growth is essential for reducing psychological wounds from low-nurturance childhoods over time. Most U.S. divorcing and stepfamily adults appear to have such wounds - and don't (want to) know it. More detail / related info 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 / close |
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"Spiritual Needs"