If you've been watching anything online lately, you know it's time to connect to Spirit and activate it in your life. But do you actually know how? Before I can show you that, I need to tell you what I actually mean when I say Spirit, because it's bigger than most people assume.
My Definition of Spirit
Spirit isn't a place, a building, or a set of rituals. It's every connection that already exists around you, whether you've noticed it or not. The work isn't creating the connection. It's seeing it, understanding it, and eventually, being intentional about it.
Does that include people? Obviously. Neighbors, the mail carrier, church members, coworkers, people you run with, people you bowl with, anyone you're around for any reason at all, that's Spirit.
What about the people you don't particularly like? They're Spirit too. That connection is real, even when you choose to keep it distant. You don't have to be closely connected to every single person out there, and you never will be, everyone sits at a different distance from you at any given moment. You have real say over how much connection you actually cultivate with the different parts of Spirit around you.
Nature is Spirit, just as fully: the ground, the trees, the plants and flowers, the cannabis I love, the animals we share this world with, the air, the oxygen, the carbon dioxide, every element making up the universe. Everything is Spirit. Nature, ancestors, a conversation with family, a walk, a story, a song, all of it something you interact with energetically.
Even the garbage. We're connected to the literal garbage in the dumpster, whether we want to be or not. That connection raises real questions: how are we treating it? What are we doing with it? Are we paying attention to what it's doing to our earth?
That's the whole definition. Spirit is not a category of special, sacred things set apart from ordinary life. It's everything, including the parts we'd rather not claim.
Connection Is the Starting Point, Not the Finish Line
Once you understand Spirit this way, connection stops being something you have to go find, and becomes something you're already swimming in. The first move isn't building a connection from nothing. It's waking up to what's already there.
But connection alone isn't enough to activate anything. That takes two more things.
Intention
In my Anxiety series, I walk through ten Habits that help minimize negative thoughts, and intention is the word that sums up why all of them actually work. They require putting real, deliberate thought into how you're living your life, your relationships, your decisions.
Intention is how you move Spirit to act on your behalf. So: what is your intention? That's the question, if Spirit doesn't seem to be activating for you, or things aren't going the way you want.
What do you actually want? Is your life currently showing that? If not, why not? You want money, sure, but why do you want money? What will it let you feel, or do? Why do you want that? Keep digging until you find the real why underneath your time, energy, and choices. Once you're honest about your why, Spirit has something clear to work with, because it knows exactly what you want as soon as you do.
Creation
The third piece is creation. You can connect with everyone you know, spend hours in nature, do all the yoga, church, meditation, and breathwork in the world, but without creation, it's an empty vessel. If nothing comes out of you, out of your body, your existence, into something real, Spirit has no medium to work through.
You're not the only creator. Everything you're connected to is creating too. But your own creation is how you activate Spirit specifically on your own behalf.
This is the same idea behind the Hart Habit Show: taking the thoughts, visions, and senses inside you and putting them into some kind of recorded form, audio, visual, painting, sculpture, writing, journaling, whatever fits. If you want a fuller version of this, I wrote about it directly in Vision Board Technique. It doesn't need to be complicated, and it doesn't need to be some divinely inspired masterpiece. You just need to let what's already in you come out, and see what's been created.
A Note on Inclusion
The point of all of this is inclusion. These principles apply to you no matter your religion, your gender, your color, or any label you or anyone else has put on you. You are energy. That's the only qualification. I love you.
Recommended resources:
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Calm
Question of the day: What are your favorite ways to get connected, intentional, or creative?