You don’t have to write about spirituality (as in the publishing niche of spiritual or religious topics) to qualify as someone who blogs with spiritual intention — motivated by a calling, by a higher sense of purpose, with a mind toward changing the world for the good of all.
Spiritual bloggers may obviously be those who write about spiritual subjects:
- Self-improvement
- Personal development
- Pop psychology
- Religion
- New Age
- Mysticism
- Healing Arts
Certainly — but, in my opinion, you don’t have to technically write about spirituality to qualify as a “spiritual blogger”. Your creativity is your divinity. Any contribution you make to the collective wisdom of humanity is a spiritual act. When you create something that did not exist without your actions, you use your life — you act as vessel for information.
The most straightforward way I know to successfully transform who you are and what you love to do into a project powered by passion and a sense of purpose is simple:
Teach someone else how to do it.
When you share your unique personal wisdom with someone else, you empower her — you transform not only your life, but hers. Your life purpose is not necessarily your job — it comes through you no matter where you are, no matter what environment we put you in — it’s about what other people ask from you that you always have to give.
You can live your life on purpose by teaching one person at a time, or by turning up the scale — by reaching as many people with your gift as you can. If you’re a writer, then blogging is the most powerful tool you have available for broadcasting your mission on a global scale.
Words Heal
Words have healing powers. Words transform. Writers are healers; listeners are healers too.
What’s Your Passion?
Do not limit your sense of purpose by believing that “your thing” has to be about spirit to be a spiritual act or to have a spiritual impact. Anything that brings you joy can be shared. Anything you teach someone else how to do that they didn’t know before they encountered you is a higher calling that makes the world a better place.
From this perspective, any form of education or instruction becomes a mission that changes the world.
Web developers or computer programmers may not feel that their work is especially “spiritual” — but the creative work they contribute can be employed to carry messages around the world. From my perspective, any open source programmer who contributes to the code base of WordPress or any other tool we use is a missionary — furthering what I call Adam’s Task — man’s god-given assignment to co-create reality (primarily through language — naming everything in the Universe).
You are a spiritual blogger if…
If you blog about any subject, motivated by the need to share your gifts and your passions, inspired to change the world beyond your own personal reality — you are, in my eyes, a spiritual blogger.
If you write about:
- funny personal stories that make people laugh
- how to deal with the challenges in your life
- how you transform your existence from victim to survivor
- how to make delicious, nutritious food
- how to keep a cleaner, more organized environment
- how to raise happy, well-adjusted children
- how to cope
- how to make music
How to become anything — what is that thing? What is it that you know how to do well? What do you live to do? Is it something you can do for us, or show us how to do?
If you blog because you feel connected, because the person who reads your blog feels less alone, more empowered, more capable, smarter, inspired, healthy, optimistic…
You are a spiritual blogger.
If you take a blank spot on the web, that didn’t exist before you claimed it, and you create your own little Big Bang — opening a window into the Universe of who you are and what you know how to do well, and what you want to give away…
You are blogging with spirit, for spirit, of spirit.
Your blog doesn’t have to be about spiritual topics to be All About Spirit.
When you create something from nothing, you act like god. Everything you see around you began as an idea — a creative thought — made manifest.
You are God — so it only makes perfect sense that you should feel inspired to act like it.
Slade Roberson is an intuitive counselor, ATP®, professional blogger, and the author of Shift Your Spirits, Automatic Intuitive Response, and the PageCoach Problogging Tutorial Series. Slade on Blogging shares behind-the-screens internet marketing, self-publishing, and blogging strategies with other personal development writers, coaches, and healing arts practitioners.
“You are God.”
Hi Slade, I like the sound of that. We have it all, don’t we: law, life, mind, and spirit. Language truly is a blessed medium to make all of these realms manifest in ways that reflect our own unique contribution to the world. Rather than playing small, we might choose to enlarge ourselves within, and what better way to do this than to “create something from nothing”. Great post!
“oooh! oh! ouch!” (That’s me getting poked by your sharp stick!)
The only thing that could have made this an even more clear, more personal, more obvious kick in the pants would be to title it “Dear Lola…”
I hear ya man! I’m gearing up for it!
Thanks Christopher!
We do have it all — what we don’t have yet, we make — and our tools are truly magical. I don’t remember who first said or wrote it: That technology, observed by someone who doesn’t understand it, appears to be magic.
Lola,
The “prick” you felt can be blamed on my Griffins. My posts are carried and delivered by small cherub like entities that feel like house-cat sized griffins. They zoom about and generally behave with the energy of puppies, and like Cupid, they shoot people with arrows.
The main way they differ from cupids: when a griffin shoots you, it makes you fall in love with yourself.