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Are you a Whole Foods groupie? A Jamba Juice junkie?
Are you hooked on Starbucks' chai tea or the green tea frappachino?
Is your next vacation to the tony Ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains?
Does your dog practice doga (a.k.a. dog yoga)?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may be a metrospiritual. But don't panic, it's not necessarily a bad thing. And you'll have company with other Americans who are embracing spirituality and seeking inner peace and harmony through yoga, organic foods, supplements, and other products and services rooted in ancient traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism -- and any other "ism" that stems from the Far East.
In a nutshell, metrospirituality is about being hip and holistic. It's about seeking inner peace and looking great while you do it. From Jamba Juice, Starbucks and Whole Fields to Origins and Aveda, this nouveau form of spirituality comes in easily digestible and buyable forms.
But buyer beware, says Robert Schneider, MD, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management in Vedic City, Iowa. Vedic City is an entire city built on principles of the ancient Vedic religion.
"Metrospirituality is all that glitters, but it doesn't glow," he says. "The media and advertising world are jumping into the spiritual world because they see the possibility of profit, but I would advise the consumer to discern all that glitters isn't going to give them the inner glow they seek," says Schneider.
I didn't know that being addicted to Starbucks or Jamba Juice made you spiritual. I don't know what to call my belief system and if I hadn't read this article MetroSpiritual would have been a fun name to call it since I pull a little from a bunch of different beliefs but now I'm just.. jaded by how religion is being pushed to the point that it's about advertising and not finding peace within yourself, which by the way I don't even think you need religion to do. I find peace when I'm in a quite room and just focus on my breathing.
Are you hooked on Starbucks' chai tea or the green tea frappachino?
Is your next vacation to the tony Ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains?
Does your dog practice doga (a.k.a. dog yoga)?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may be a metrospiritual. But don't panic, it's not necessarily a bad thing. And you'll have company with other Americans who are embracing spirituality and seeking inner peace and harmony through yoga, organic foods, supplements, and other products and services rooted in ancient traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism -- and any other "ism" that stems from the Far East.
In a nutshell, metrospirituality is about being hip and holistic. It's about seeking inner peace and looking great while you do it. From Jamba Juice, Starbucks and Whole Fields to Origins and Aveda, this nouveau form of spirituality comes in easily digestible and buyable forms.
But buyer beware, says Robert Schneider, MD, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management in Vedic City, Iowa. Vedic City is an entire city built on principles of the ancient Vedic religion.
"Metrospirituality is all that glitters, but it doesn't glow," he says. "The media and advertising world are jumping into the spiritual world because they see the possibility of profit, but I would advise the consumer to discern all that glitters isn't going to give them the inner glow they seek," says Schneider.
I didn't know that being addicted to Starbucks or Jamba Juice made you spiritual. I don't know what to call my belief system and if I hadn't read this article MetroSpiritual would have been a fun name to call it since I pull a little from a bunch of different beliefs but now I'm just.. jaded by how religion is being pushed to the point that it's about advertising and not finding peace within yourself, which by the way I don't even think you need religion to do. I find peace when I'm in a quite room and just focus on my breathing.