Being religious doesn’t make you spiritual (Only 2 things everyone needs)
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What you can expect today:
- Riley’s Raw Thoughts: The only two things you actually need
- Story & Lesson: Being religious doesn’t make you spiritual
- Questions & Answers: What’s your story?
Riley’s Raw Thoughts: The only two things you actually need
Something on my mind & heart:
Today I put what’s on my mind & heart into a video I think you will resonate with.
What I am building & learning:
Last week I ran the Men’s Retreat and holy Shit was it amazing!
I found my calling, and the feeling was so good.
This is the one thing I have done that I can say I was made for.
I’ve learned the importance of patience and persistence…
- I failed so much before this happened.
- I felt so lost, and hopeless at times.
- I considered giving up.
But I knew in my heart and soul I wasn’t crazy. It would work if I kept going.
It WORKED!! This is only the beginning.
More retreats I am co-hosting are about to be publicly announced.
Let me know if you are interested.
How I recently won & failed:
I recently won by realizing my dream of helping people to heal… for a living.
I recently failed…
To be honest this is the first week I have struggled to write about a failure.
Sure, I haven’t been perfect.
But I’ve owned it, and made it right.
The only thing I can think of is I have failed to create new content, and share it constantly.
However that is changing – and I finally know what I am going to talk about.
More on that below.
Pretty cool if you ask me.
Story & Lesson: Being religious doesn’t make you spiritual
Warning this may trigger some religious people or those with religious trauma… Have an open mind, and be brave lol.
This is probably not what you expected me to write about, but it’s on my mind.
I grew up in a culture that wasn’t exactly accepting or kind to me. (Mormon culture)
Now, I know a lot of amazing LDS / Mormon and religious people. I am not saying they are bad people.
I just realize that most “christian” or “religious” people do not practice what they preach or believe in.
Those experiences with religious people pushed me to become an atheist for a short period around age 18-20.
- I felt lost and questioned the meaning of life.
- I had no belief system around a “higher power”.
- I began to feel self destructive and aimless.
What was the point? Why am I here? What is “the truth”?
A lot has happened since that period of my life, and I can undeniably say I have full knowing there is a higher power.
Hell, I even love Jesus. But guess what? I am not a “Christian”.
I don’t belong to a religion.
I don’t even care if you call it “God’, “The Universe”, “Source”, “Allah”, “Waheguru”, or any other name we try to use to label the un-nameable.
I know for a fact you don’t have to be apart of a religion or belief system to experience “God”.
You and I are as they say “made in the image of God” meaning we are a sliver of God in physical form experiencing itself through the unique perspective of “you” or “me”.
We come from the same sacred source.
A lot of religious people aren’t really that “spiritual”, and a lot of spiritual people aren’t “religious”.
We tend to look at religions as if they are different books… my experience is they are all chapters in the same book.
A different way of telling the same story with unique lessons in each.
So if you are fixed minded on your religion, open up – even the Hindu’s teach about Christ and the Sikh’s believe in one universal God.
And if you are resisting being spiritual because of a past experience with religion – let it go. You don’t need it to explore that which you are.
You can’t really Fuck it up.
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Life is a lot cooler when you lean into that.
Questions & Answers: What’s your story?
This week I have a question for you.
What’s your story?
I don’t mean the pretty parts. I mean the deep Shit.
For example: I come from a family that puts the “fun” in “dysfunctional”.
- I grew up experiencing and witnessing physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse.
- I did drugs as a kid.
- I lost family to drugs.
- I hurt people.
- I was hurt by people.
- I also grew up super young.
- Etc.
Now, through healing from and finding gratitude for & wisdom from those experiences I gained skills and a “why” to help others do the same.
It gave me purpose, and a reason to keep fighting.
So now, my content is shifting. The best way I can describe it right now is this:
To help people heal from what holds them back, and then manifest a life by their design.
Rather than beat around the bush I decided to lean into the thing that makes me unique.
My story.
I now ask you to think about, or write about your story.
What makes you, you?
Feel free to share it with me if you are brave.
It will help you to get it out, and help me to understand how I can better support you.
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In Case You Missed It:
In Saturdays Issue, I covered how you can always be a winner plus how something called a “paradigm” runs your life.
You can read it here.
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Thank you for joining me this week.
With love, support, & gratitude,
Riley Conder
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
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