Spiritual Wellness – Your core values and beliefs affect your wellness, try meditation, prayer, or spending time in nature to help.

Spiritual wellness is being connected to something larger than yourself and having a set of values, principles, morals and beliefs that deliver a sense of purpose and meaning to life, then using those principles to guide your actions.

There are several elements that play a part in defining spirituality- religious faith, principles, beliefs, values, ethics, and morals. Some may gain spirituality by developing in their own personal relationships with others, or through being at peace with nature. Spirituality permits us to discover the inner peace.

Signs of spiritual wellness
• Developing a purpose in life
• Having the ability to spend reflective time alone
• Taking time to reflect on the meaning of events in life
• Having a clear sense of right and wrong, and acting accordingly
• Having the ability to explain why you believe what you believe
• Caring and acting for the welfare of others and the environment
• Being able to practice forgiveness and compassion in life

The human spirit is the most overlooked aspect of our selves. Just as we exercise our thoughts to condition to improve on our bodies, a healthy spirit is nurtured by purposeful practice. The spirit is the aspect of ourselves that can transport us through anything. As long as we can take care of our spirit, this can able us to experience a sense of peace and purpose. A strong spirit can help us to survive and flourish with grace, even in the face of difficulty.

Creating time for self-reflection is a great way to build self-awareness and improve your spiritual wellness. Ensuring that you take time out for yourself to contemplate and reflect on your inner world.

Ask yourself questions like:

• What gives my life meaning and purpose?
• Who do I want to become?
• What difference do I want to make?
• What do I value most in life and why?
• Do I feel clearly guided by my core values?
• What gives me hope?

Meditation is an involvement of relaxing the body, calming the mind, and arousing the spirit. Meditation encourages an increasing of consciousness or awareness, and also aids in a deeper understanding of self and others.

The following six examples are some of the best-known ways to meditate.

Loving-kindness meditation – benefits include: positive emotions and decreases negative emotions, decreases migraines, chronic pain, and PTSD. Individuals who regularly practice loving kindness meditation are able to increase their capacity for forgiveness, connection to others, self-acceptance, and more. 

Body scan or progressive relaxation – Throughout a body scan meditation, you’ll observe how each body part feels, from your toes up through your legs, chest, and head. The benefits of body scan meditation include getting a better night’s sleep, managing chronic pain, reducing anxiety and stress.

Mindfulness meditation – Benefits include: lower blood pressure, relieves stress, treat heart disease, reduce chronic pain, improves sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.

Breath awareness meditation – benefits: When the parasympathetic nervous system is activated, your blood pressure and heart rate will lower, which can assist in reducing anxiety, depression, stress fatigue, and chronic pain in the process.

Kundalini Yoga – Is a supernatural science that uses sound, mantra, energy healing, exercises and meditations to free trauma from the energetic body, which surrounds the physical body. Benefits include: An increased spiritual connection, controls your thoughts and emotions, increases vitality and wellbeing, positive deepens connections energy and reduces stress.

Zen Meditation – Often involves keeping your eyes semi-open unlike most other form of meditation. Training the mind to think of nothing, the goal is to become more aware of preconceived notions and gain insight into oneself. Benefits include: increases cognitive functioning, psychomotor response, improves emotional intelligence and moods and gives resilience to pain.

Self-Discipline and control

Through learning one can control their thoughts and physiological response to surrounding stress, an individual can reach their potential. Yoga supports individuals to develop skills to become more mentally and physically disciplined, so they can free themselves of fears or situations that have been holding them back from what they want to achieve. They can achieve this by means of a mantra through meditation. One keyword or phrase is focused on during each session. The person repeats it aloud or in their mind.

This helps to permeate it into the subconscious to make success in that area happen more easily. Yoga also teaches that if somebody begins to see the world around them as a continuous source of energy that they are tied to, then they can tap into that energy to be able to manifest their desires. This contributes to a change in the common mentality of being stuck without hope because of self-sabotage.