When shareholders are breathing down your neck it may feel that talk of incorporating spirituality into one's life and work is nothing short of a nuisance. I would like to suggest and try to show however that in fact introducing what I will later define as a spiritual energy into your life and work will help you to enhance your performance, reduce your stress and improve your health.

Let me first start with what I mean by spiritual energy as it may surprise you. Have you ever experienced yourself in what many have called "the zone"? This is often experienced as some or all of the following: a feeling of clarity, energized, alert, self aware, empowered, and joyful, everything feels effortless, in the flow, everything moves in a positive direction as if you are being assisted by some external force, happy, relaxed, uplifted, inspired, and creative and so on.

Would it surprise you if I said that in fact this "zone" experience is actually what I refer to as being fully spiritually present? Many individuals who use the zone concept refer to it as a physiological state of sorts. In my view this is too limiting and actually misses the truth about what is really being accessed here. This is an important distinction because by calling it what it is allows us to take the matter much further.

What does it mean to be fully spiritually present? Well if you have ever had an experience of being in the zone you will recognize that it is an experience of you being more present in your body. It is the result of you being more present that naturally makes your body and your life function closer to its peak abilities. In effect what I am saying is that the reason that you generally don't function at your peak all the time is because most of the time you, your spiritual energy or presence, is somewhere other than fully in your body.

What's more, this state of not being fully in, and fully in charge of your body and your life is actually not a natural or normal state. Hence what I'm saying is, is that you are most of the time not fully functional. It