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In fact, God might be trying to tell you something in the dream. 1.11.1 Spiritual Care Teams have a significant contribution to make following a major event, incident, or disruption of service delivery. This could be a national event or a local event such as the death of a member of staff. You can get personalized help 365 days a year by telephone and online. Dummies has always stood for taking on complex concepts and making them easy to understand.

Ultimately, more research needs to be done to better understand this emerging trend. The origins of the word "spirituality," in the context of Christian theology, lie in the Latin noun spiritualitas, which derived from the Greek noun pneuma, meaning spirit. Interestingly, "spirit" in its original context was not the opposite of the "physical" or "material," but of "flesh," or everything that is not of God. Therefore a "spiritual person," in its original Christian sense, was simply a person within whom the Spirit of God dwelt. As the brain processes sensory experiences, it naturally looks for patterns—and our conscious selves often seek meaning in those patterns.

Most of these encounters were with deceased family members, and most happened during what were apparently lucid dreams, but they set the stage for his later waking experiences. His experience is a reminder that humility and gratitude help us to recognize blessings and experience greater joy in our lives. Because Jesus shows up at Christmas as a baby, it’s easy to see Jesus’ kingship as something cute. If we allow our thinking to be fuzzy, Jesus the newborn king becomes something adorable—instead of someone to literally adore.

Fixed star Antares is a military star that gives courage, toughness, mental alertness, strategic ability, liberality and broad-mindedness. Harsh aspects give a malevolent, destructive, belligerent, pugnacious, rash, ravenous, headstrong, obstinate and daredevil nature. There is a risk of sudden and unforeseen events, violence, accidents, self-destruction, danger from fire, weapons and machinery, and violent death in battle or by the law. Sun conjunct Moon represents cyclic renewal as a new 28-day moon phase begins.

Although all Catholics are expected to pray together at Mass, there are many different forms of spirituality and private prayer which have developed over the centuries. Each of the major religious orders of the Catholic Church and other lay groupings have their own unique spirituality – its own way of approaching God in prayer and in living out the Gospel. A spiritual person sees herself as a thread in the grand tapestry of life. She understands that there is an intelligence and beauty far beyond what she can ever fathom with her limited mind and perspective. They also have an innate sense of danger, moving them out of the path as quickly as possible. Even with this defensive nature, Squirrel loves a good challenge and adapts well to necessary changes.

When we move away from God and a healthy prayer life, we may feel a certain kind of depression that comes with a lack of the transcendent. Spitzer calls this "existential anxiety." It refers to the absence of the sacred in modern nonreligious people, which introduces a heightened anxiety about existence, meaning, and reality. It comes from "the absence of things yearned for"—that is, the absence of the transcendent, which we desire implicitly or explicitly. (For more on this topic, check out The Anxiety of "Non-Religious Man"). We tend to think of depression in purely natural terms—a mental illness that is treated solely with medication and counseling.

Those weaknesses are part of you, some will never change, but acknowledging them is half way to a solution. Because we’re all on our own journey, though, we receive different messages. "These occurrences are believed to reflect the alignment of our inner state with external events, offering insights into our subconscious desires, fears, or aspirations," explains astrologer and spiritual healer Danny Santos. That said, synchronicities and coincidences are not always numerical.