@Lili clearly someone is in love with a word very few people understand. That word is esoteric. It beggars belief that the team came up with it and are insisting on maintaining it. I can show you polls within my group that suggest people simply DO NOT know what it means - so why would they bother to click it. Personal development is often considered different from spiritual development. However, the two are integrally related. You can’t have one without the other. Indeed, if you seek a more profound spiritual experience, your spiritual practise needs to include a personal development practice as well. Personal development and spirituality are one and the same. There is no difference. Every personal development conversation I have comes back around to spirituality. The best way to deepen your spiritual practice is through a focus on personal development. It does not relate to making cushions… that is an activity… personal development and spirituality are actions within to improve our lot within - you might say that is an activity but the focus is completely different - one is internal (being) and the other - well writing a pretty travel journal or blog (doing).… With your placement of Spiritual practices aka Shamanism (in my instance) in with Lifestyle you reduce it to a chattel, a meaningless nothing, Whatever spiritual actions taken are demeaned into nothingness, empty manner. Personal Development - Spirituality - Shamanism is clear and direct. Personal Development - Esoteric - huh? Even worse Lifestyle - Esoteric - yes you are focused on sticky fingers - sales - with a word people do not understand. You are focused on sales without a thought to the ethical and cultural problems we face as instructors in these areas.
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