Embracing our environment is a good direction a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment.
Energy can't be created or destroyed and energy flows. It must be in a direction with some kind of internal emotive spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord she said and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.
It is easier to find guides someone to tell you what to do than someone to be with you in a discerning prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow live and love in the spiritual life.
You are a great mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity direction and purpose.
Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.