I keep noticing on social media and in real-life people being confused with spirituality and religion. It is possible to be spiritual without following a religion?

In this article, I will express my own opinion on this matter. 

I’ve never felt attached to a particular religion, but I’ve always felt spiritual. I didn’t know what it was before. When I was a child I’ve always thought that spirituality was connected to being religious, that was what I was feeling when going to church, the sense of lightness and relief and magic after the ceremony.

Now I know it wasn’t because of the church, neither because of the religion. It was the connection between the people sitting around me, their energies, their voices, filling the room, at that moment we were becoming one, the colors, the light of the candles, the rituals, the beautiful paintings everywhere, the architecture, everything together contributed to add the atmosphere and everything seemed more beautiful and meaningful.

So for me, now I know, it was the energies of the people connecting together that made me feel like that. Unfortunately, even when I was really young and I was listening to what adults suggest to me it was right, I’ve never felt those words to be my truth, I’ve never liked the way religions want to make you feel you are wrong, I’ve never liked all the rules that you have to follow in order to be a good human being, I’ve always felt that if there really is something and someone bigger than what we can comprehend, it doesn’t want you to be in this world following rules and shrinking yourself or hiding. If there is someone that good and powerful it must just want you to spread your wings and shine as shiner as you can.

A powerful being or energy cannot create these kinds of rules and cannot do some of the horrible things that religions did during history. These rules and these actions were written by humans, in order to control other people with the illusion of a connection.

In conclusion, being spiritual is very possible without being religious, for me, every one of us is a spiritual being, human beings, are meant to be spiritual creatures. Being spiritual is unconscious knowledge of being part of something outside what we can feel with our senses. For me just to feel the energies from the universe, from the planets, the elements, the environment is spiritual. It is the knowing inside that we’re not only flesh and bones, we are made out of energies that are in synchronicity with the universe, unfortunately, lots of us forgot about it, but it’s an ancient knowledge that each one of us has hidden inside.

I hope you find this article helpful, if you have any question I will be happy to answer in the comments.

Thank you for reading.

XOXO

Claudia