10 Tips for Spiritual Wellness 

When it comes to wellness, taking care of your body, mind, and emotions do not encompass all that you are. Tending to your spirit is just as important as the other pieces and can bring you tremendous satisfaction and peace. Your spiritual wellness includes your sense of purpose and meaning in life as well as the guiding principles behind your thoughts and actions.

How can you improve your spiritual wellness? You will need to explore strategies to find ones that work best for you and your needs, but here are my top ten spiritual wellness tips to get you started.

#1. Practice Gratitude

Being grateful for what you have in life that brings you joy and peace is a wonderful way to recognize your own values. In my course, Developing a Gratitude Practice, I suggest taking time each day to acknowledge your gratitude by recording your appreciation or blessing in a gratitude journal.  Another great way is to send thank-you notes or messages to others who contribute to your spiritual growth and health.

#2. Get to Know Your Spiritual Core

Understanding what drives you as a person and what brings meaning to your life is essential to spiritual wellness. Reflect on your values, your purpose, and your identity regularly to ensure you are aligning your beliefs with your behaviors and feel confident in your choices. Regular reflection helps you recognize and address problems in your spirituality before they become too large to manage.

#3. Work On Self-Acceptance

Tending to your spirit means being comfortable with who you are and what you believe. Accepting that you are unique in this world and that you don’t have to agree with or be like anyone else means you are confident in your mission and choices in life.

#4 Explore the World

Exploring the world, even if it’s just within your own community, helps you appreciate the diversity of thoughts and ideas in our society. I believe it's important to take advantage of opportunities to travel because its a great way to get you out of your comfort zone, which is often the best place to identify your real values and needs in life, too.

#5. Be More Mindful

Living in the moment teaches you to appreciate life and all its everyday pleasures and curiosities. Paying full attention brings you into harmony with your environment and others and allows you to stay more connected to yourself and your needs, too.

#6. Explore the Deeper Meanings

When you see recurring patterns in your life, dig a little deeper. What do these tell you about your values, beliefs, and behaviors? How can you use this understanding to enhance your spirit and control your path forward? Awareness of these deeper meanings can help you feel happier and more at peace in life.

#7. Focus on the Positive

Thinking positively lifts your spirits as well as helping you consider alternatives to problems. Positivity helps you focus on what you want to achieve and what brings you joy and satisfaction in life, as well. Reframing your thoughts to be more positive is one way to enhance your spiritual wellness every day.

#8. Express Yourself

When you keep emotions or thoughts bottled up, it can cloud your mind and leave you feeling unsatisfied. Writing your feelings down or talking about them with a trusted partner or friend can help you clarify what is bothering you and how this connects to your values and beliefs. Remember, your feelings are created by your thoughts, so as stated above, reframe your thoughts to be more positive and smile...it has the power to change your emotions.

#9. Try Yoga and Meditation

These activities are both based on mindfulness practices that reduce stress as well as emotional and physical strain, which can block your spiritual growth. These practices focus on teaching you to listen to your body, to quiet your mind, and to be present in the moment, all of which are healthy for your spiritual growth and development.

#10. Give Back

Giving back to others through donating time, money, or even blood can provide you with ways to align your values with your actions. Volunteering gives you a direct outlet to support your spiritual needs by attending to the needs of others in many ways.

As a spiritual being, you have the powers to live an extraordinary life! What are you doing to "air" out your Spiritual Room?

Do you have a practice of going into your four rooms daily? I'd love to hear about it! Go over to the the page or group and share with Our Village! www.facebook.com/ahousewithfourrooms

Cheers!

Lisa