This is the basis of spiritual hygiene: tending to the health & well-being of your spirit body just as you tend to the health & well-being of your physical body.

It has nothing to do with religious baggage laden ideas of purity nor morality, it's about tending to *all* layers of your being.
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And the same way that physical health concerns can affect us spiritually, concerns with our spiritual health can affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical body. We exist as all of these, together as one—not a collection of parts but a series of layers.

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All of this impacts your capacity to do any sort of magick because the same way that symptoms of this physically originating matter affect not just your physical body but also your thoughts and emotions—your spirit body is affected, too!

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Think about how you feel when you have a cold, the flu, or a bad chronic illness day: you may feel tired, you may have trouble concentrating, you may be in pain, you may be irritable, your thoughts may be scattered, you may snap at people around you.
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Everyone here has hold that advice of “don’t do magick when you’re sick.”

Why is that guidance tossed around?

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You exist as physical body and you exist as spirit body, both essential to who you are, both integral for you to be alive, both occupying the same space time and directly contributing to your experiences and your well-being.
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We’re conditioned to believe our smallest contributions wont make a difference. That our $5 wont help. That a couple cans of veggies wont help. That one coat & a pair of shoes aren’t worth donating. It all counts. This is a reminder to myself as well.

Sometimes everything you want to avoid stands between you and what you want, between you and a healthier future.

This thread is about ancestor work as much as it is about antiracism and political activism.

Edgar.😶