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Now that you’ve taken the quiz, create an account to unlock your personalised profile. It’s time to rethink your ethos; to see where your values and behaviours don’t line up and explore some spiritual practices that can help.
Area to consider
Values and behaviours are in tensionYou pay attention to what your body is telling you and treat it as connected to your emotional and inner life, not just a machine to keep running. You notice physical signals as clues to what's going on beneath the surface. You have a sense of home: people, places or practices that ground you. You can be fully present where you are, while remaining open to new experiences. However, although you ... Show full
You pay attention to what your body is telling you and treat it as connected to your emotional and inner life, not just a machine to keep running. You notice physical signals as clues to what's going on beneath the surface. You have a sense of home: people, places or practices that ground you. You can be fully present where you are, while remaining open to new experiences. However, although you ... Show full
To be human is to have a body, to exist in a time and place.
There are parts of your life you didn’t choose.
You didn’t choose the body you were born into, the places that first shaped you, or the moment in history you arrived in. And yet all of these shape who you are and how you experience life.
The Reality section of Ethos invites you to look more closely at how you relate to the world. How comfortable do you actually feel in your own skin? Do you have a sense of home – somewhere or something you belong to? And where do you find meaning? Your answers to those questions affect everything.
We live in a culture that can’t quite make up its mind about our bodies: either they’re everything, or they’re not important at all. We’re told we’re here by chance, that this life is all there is, so make it count. But that doesn’t quite reach the ache we all have for meaning, for something more, the sense we have that there has to be a bigger story.
Below is a spiritual practice to help you slow down, ask the questions that actually matter and go deeper.
Start with the spiritual practice of reflection
Take a moment to stop, ask deeper questions and reflect on your life and values.
Everyone wants your attention. Social media is literally engineered to keep you scrolling. And most of the time it works. We give our attention away because there’s no dopamine hit for putting your phone down. But what are constant distractions actually doing to you? They stop us from reflecting on what’s actually going on in our lives, our minds, our hearts.
Reflection is an ancient Christian practice, and it’s not complicated. It’s the radical act of stopping, paying attention to your day, your reactions, what gave you life, and what drained it.
There’s this moment in the Bible, just after Jesus has died, where two of his friends are walking home, trying to make sense of everything. And a stranger falls into step beside them. He listens. He asks questions. He eats with them. And it’s only after that they realise: it was Jesus! He’d been with them the whole time; they just hadn’t noticed. That’s what reflection does. It creates space to notice where God has already been in your day – the moments you rushed past, the coincidences that might not have been, the conversations that meant more than you realised.
So, try this tonight: phone in another room. Ask yourself some reflective questions: what am I grateful for today? When did I feel most alive? When did I feel most drained? And where might God have been in my day?
“Were not our hearts burning within us?” Luke 24:32
To go deeper, click on the button to start your four-week journey on the practice of reflection.