1. The way I define spirituality is how people connect with a higher power. I think that spirituality is very individual and differs from person to person. Some people like to meditate, some like to do yoga, some pray, some go to religious services, etc. Spirituality helps people cope with the stresses of life. There isn’t one way to find your own spirituality. I do think it is important for each and every person to be spiritual because health definitely has three parts to it. Mind, body, and spirit and people aren’t truly healthy until they figure out the spirituality part of their lives in my opinion.
  2. Spirituality definitely does differ from religion although sometimes they do run together. Someone can be both spiritual and religious, but another person can be spiritual but not religious, or even religious but not spiritual. There is nothing wrong with being spiritual and not religious because a lot of people including myself feel that they don’t belong in one specific religion. There are things about each religion that they feel they believe and things that they do not. There are some people who are religious and not spiritual. These people go to religious services and follow their doctrines, but they never actually put in the work to build their spirituality. If people do this, I personally think being religious is a waste of time without the spirituality component.
  3. I define creativity as the ability of someone to think out of the box, to think the differently than the way they have been taught in schools to think, and to be able to put their imagination into something tangible. I think creativity has been extremely underrated in my schooling, and I think that everyone has the ability to be creative, we just weren’t taught to practice this part of our brain going through school. I personally think this is why I don’t think I am very creative because I never got the chance to practice it very often.
  4. I have a little different view on the source of creativity than the author of the article. I don’t think that the creativity comes from spirituality because people can be amazingly creative without being spiritual at all. I think the source is more so people’s life experiences who make up who they are as a person. These experiences come together to form the view and interpretation that the artist has of the world and creativity comes from their desire to express those interpretations. People who have a narrow interpretation and view on the world, their creativity can be hindered in my opinion.