What Spirituality Means to Me

If you’re looking for a life coach, there are a million options. It seems like every other person’s barista’s cat is a life coach.

But you need someone who gets you. You’ve tried your friends, your parents, your rebbeim, maybe even a therapist, but you still feel off, like nobody’s just there to relate to you.

 My goal in coaching is to listen. If you want my perspective, I’m happy to share, but I’m not here to decide what feels right for you, diagnose you, or convince you of anything.

So whether you have questions that others don’t take seriously, feelings and thoughts that you can’t articulate, or just need someone to talk to, I’m your guy.

I’m not a rabbi, a doctor, or a therapist, and I’m certainly not your mother-in-law (as wonderful as she may be). I’m a sensitive person who is looking to make sense of life and find beauty in it. And I believe you can too.

I like to think of life mystically.  (Don’t worry, there’s a disclaimer after this!)

To me, in a broad sense, mysticism is a way of looking at reality and our day-to-day experience. No matter your religion or philosophy, the perspective of mysticism and spirituality in general can be helpful. 

For me, spirituality is believing that there is more than only the superficial. Whether to you that means that there is a metaphysical reality beyond this world or even that there is deeper science and logic in what we see, you still believe that you are more than a meat-bag and that the life is more than meets the eye.

Mysticism, then, is what I would call “applied spirituality”. Just as math is theoretical until it’s applied to something like engineering or financial analysis, spirituality is theoretical until you apply it to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. To put it simply, when you put spirituality into practice, it becomes something mystical.

I call my approach “mystical” not because I’m some kind of shaman or energy worker selling you crystals and astrology, but because I believe that the best way to reframe and refresh your perspective is to be unsatisfied with how things seem on the surface, and to insist that there’s something more.

That insistence allows us to see more in ourselves, more in the vicissitudes of life, and more in reality as a whole. It allows us to think positively against all odds and enhances how we experience even the smallest things.

Now here’s the nice thing: if you don’t feel comfortable with that perspective, we don’t have to involve it. It’s how I prefer to deal with my questions and feelings, but this is about you and your needs. Tell me how I can be helpful, and we’ll talk.

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