Overview: Pause - A Spiritual Power explains how we can find and enter the ’spiritual pause’ between our usual rational approach to life and the spiritual world at the very edge of all we can imagine.

Verdict: Opportunities to enter a spiritual place are all around us, but we often don’t recognize them. Pause - A Spiritual Power helps the reader identify those moments and enter places of spiritual pause. The spiritual life, often neglected, exists apart from our thoughts and feelings. Pause explores how spirituality is separate and how we often mistakenly substitute rational and emotional experiences for spiritual experience.

To be spiritual is not to be religious or bound to a specific understanding of God. To be human is to have a spirit within, regardless of religious commitment or persuasion. Attending to one’s spiritual life, finding pause, is not confined or defined by any one faith tradition.

In Pause, author Rob Wykes relates accounts of his own journeys - physical and spiritual - that have helped him discover his own spiritual self. Part of his story is a literal pilgrimage on foot and by bike that brought him into a deeper understanding of pause.

Over the years, we have been shown that spirituality helps us with our mental health, and sometimes just getting more rest and better exercise are also clear suggestions for living an abundant life. But you may be thinking, what in Heaven’s name does it mean to take care of your spirit?

For lots of people, being spiritual means observing rituals, studying texts, and attending religious services, well, religiously. For others, it’s not at all about traditional structures or notions of God.

You can think of spirituality as connecting to whatever you consider meaningful and holy. You can find it in God, in yourself, in other people, in nature, art, or kindness. Whatever you focus on, spirituality offers many possible benefits, including better mood, less anxiety and depression, and even fewer aches and illnesses.

Over the years I have identified a moment of pause as having a central definition, Wykes reveals, like the moment our body, mind and spirit coalesce in an unmeasureable, unrestricted moment. At just such points of experience our being has no conscious awareness of the need to be anyone or anywhere else in that given moment.

Our intellectual capacity is vital, our body is an amazing structure, yet I want to show how much richer life is when we see we are more than our thoughts and more than our physical bodies.

Indeed, attending to one’s spiritual being is as important as physical health and emotional self-care. Learning to find pause in life’s experiences and to enter those spiritual places yields profound meaning and pleasure many have never before known.

I ask that you walk with me to seek out moments of pause in the ordinary and chaotic, Wykes adds, and in the general run of life both planned and impromptu, where we discover the precious reality of our whole being at rest and in concert.

About the Author - A former Chaplain, Chief Executive, and Champion for social equality, Rob Wykes now writes on spirituality and faith. Rob is a regular speaker in churches of all denominations and has presented in the Houses of Parliament and several Bible colleges. As a young man exploring life and purpose Rob took a trip across Europe, Iran, Pakistan, and India, pushing his world view and faith into new dimensions. His adventures are woven into his writing. He still loves to travel the world but likes to come home to Cheshire, UK.

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