Today we have many sophisticated diagnostic tools available to help us determine our bone density, the iron content of our blood, and even the functional capacity of our internal organs. We even have tests to measure our depression, our tendency toward bi-polararity, or ADD. However, our level of Spiritual health is rarely, if ever, examined.

Since we are all Spiritual creatures having an “embodied” experience, it would make tremendous sense not to overlook what is the permanent and eternal aspect of our true nature. After all, our emotional and physiological health really falls under the umbrella of our Spiritual health. So how does one go about a Spiritual self-examination to determine the vitality of our God Consciousness?

There are actually three tests we can perform to discern the level of our Spiritual health, or the health of anyone else for that matter. Surprised? Don’t be. We all came to the Earth to engage in what Socrates called the great “know thyself” quest, and to know thyself consciously as a Spiritual being is the best that quest gets!

Love is not separate from who and what you are. Love is not earned; it is embodied.

The first thing we want to examine is our perception. This is going to be a bit more challenging than the “turn your head and cough” exam you had in high school gym class. The results depend on how honest we are willing to be about our internal dialogue: what we tell ourselves about our relationship with Divine love, and our value, power and worth. As the great Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 -1772) used to say, “You do not have love...you are love.” Love is not a possession. Love is not separate from who and what you are. Love is not earned; it is embodied. There are no issue hurtles that determine if we are finally deserving and worthy enough to be loved. We do not have love, we are love. Deserving and worthy have never been an issue, unless we make it an issue with what we do with our perception.

Although we have a body, we are awareness. We do not have awareness, we are it. Furthermore, our awareness is our Divinity. It is the part of us that is eternal and unchanging. Our awareness is the part of us that feels it never ages. Therefore, whatever we give our attention to is what we infuse with our God energy. How healthy you are Spiritually depends completely on:

1. How much attention you give to the Truth about your Divinity
2. How much separation you make from the tyranny of your own ego, and the lies it fabricates out of ignorance and the need for self-preservation.

Emanuel Swedenborg used to say that being Spiritually healthy was a matter of remembering and forgetting. Remembering to give your attention to the Truth and forgetting everything else. This means forgetting all your own self-perpetuating stories of unlovable and inept. Forgetting everything that does not align itself with the Truth that you do not have love...you are love! For the sake of this mutual sharing we are going to define Heaven as a place or state of being that is unlimited, and hell as a place or state of being that is limited. If we give our attention solely to what resides in Heaven. Should we find ourselves entertaining something limited with our attention, I suggest we put it down, forget it, and give our attention back to Heaven. When we surrender our awareness to what lives in Heaven, our Spiritual health is unlimited. When we give our attention to what lives in hell, our Spiritual health will immediately become extremely, extremely limited.

How much of the time do you practice owning your Divinity and giving your attention to Heavenly things such as good faith in life and love, and respecting yourself as a force of love? Do you see yourself as reaching enlightenment the fastest most efficient way you can, to the exclusion of all other stories? If you do, this will also to tell you the Spiritual health of your free will. Each of us decides where we go with our attention. Divine Love and Wisdom saw fit to give each person sovereignty over his/her own mind. So how much of your attention you freely surrender back to Prime Source, will tell you the health of your free will, or what Swedenborg called your ‘Ruling Love’.