What makes something a spiritual practice?
Where do you draw the line? Is a spiritual practice solely meditation and prayer? Can making a cup of tea be a spiritual act? How about cooking? Walking? Playing music? Making love?
But what about raising children? Is that a spiritual practice? Eating a fine curry? Drinking a whisky? Sitting in the sun?
What about doing the laundry? Shopping? Paying a bill? Commuting to work? Politics?
You may say, “It depends”… but on what?
What makes the difference between something that has “spirit” and something that is devoid of it?
The spiritual is often separated from the mundane: “This is ‘special’, this is ‘just ordinary’, this is ‘bad’.” But does this judgement speak more about you than the thing you are categorising?
We can never speak for anyone else and their experience of life (although plenty will try), but perhaps the critical piece is the quality of your attention. The infusion of what you are doing with your presence and awareness.
When you show up with this foundation, you may find your life and the world transforms. It becomes not so much about the outside, but your approach to it.
You find the world is not a thing; it is as you are. Which means you are free to choose to experience the world as you wish.
Change you, change the world.