I have found in the past that during extreme tragedy and loss, I have an immediate urge to cut my hair off. However, during extended times of joy and contentment, the idea of cutting my hair almost seems wrong. Do any of you have specific spiritual feelings connected with hair length, and if so, do you think it is more instinctual or is it more of a conscious choice?Can choosing to grow your hair long or to cut it very short have spiritual significance?
I read somewhere that after a terrible breakup or other loss that a huge percentage of women change their hairstyle. I know I did when I was younger. In my religion, there's a lot of superstition about hair, and a lot of workings involving hair. I've been asked before if witches have to have long hair, because in the movies all the women seem to. That just made me giggle. I guess now that I'm closing in on 30, I've accepted the light red waves that are mine, and it just looks better and is easier to care for if I wear it naturally and long. Still, I guess I promote a stereotype, oh well, wouldn't be the first time!Can choosing to grow your hair long or to cut it very short have spiritual significance?
I do that too, but I don't think it's spiritual. I think it has something to do with a psychological need to communicate to other people what is going on in our heads. What better way to indicate that there is a drastic change than to drastically change your hair?
You see this often in people who are having a mental breakdown of some sort, the chopping off of the hair. The only religious references to it that I have seen is the way they cuts the nuns' hair off when they enter an order. Again, an announcement of change. Same thing with the military.
Yeah...I'd say it's more psychological than anything else.
I don't know but it is a deep part of the human physchy. The Egyptians shaved all body hair when grieving, and that story of Sampson in the bible. I think it is more a instinctual...but i have no idea why. Maybe one of you super answerers should investigate further...
Your hair is a physical connection to the past. By cutting it you a symbolically cutting your ties to the past. While growing it your are forming a continuity with your past. Some religions believe in the present moment and letting go of the past, as such they cut their hair. While in other religions you are the sum total of all your previous actions, as such growing their hair symbolises a link to the past.
I don't know what that might be due to, for all I know it's just coincidence... But I have too, done that. I've been so happy ever since I met my husband and I've let my hair grow. Before I met him I was a bit depressed and I went and chopped all my hair off, LOL. But more than anything, I think it had to do with the fact of being so down that I didn't even feel like doing my hair, so nice and short was more managable.
Thay say my intelligence is in my hair..
God loves people with long hair and with short hair. It makes no difference. While humans judge appearances, God judges what is in the heart.
long hair is important %26amp; an easy way to gain spiritual strength...long hair that is....it may be case by case, like some of the desendants[tribes] of Isereal contracted more importance in this area than others while setting hit-points in the pre-existance.
howevah....the stengh of our souls when alligned with the Holy one can not be compaired with any studyhelps along the way.
no, unless your Sikh :-P
Spiritually speaking, shaving my own head sends my barber into relgious fits...
