What is Spiritual Health
What is spiritual health? This is a great question to be asking. Spirituality can be thought of as connecting with the Divine Spirit. Spiritual health is about love and appreciation. A sense of completeness and wholeness. A feeling of unity, of being connected to other people and to the One Being or Spirit. Man is composed of spirit and matter. We experience ourselves as spirts in the material world. Spirituality is getting to know our authentic self. Being aware that we come from heaven and yet have our feet on earth. Being able to enjoy a sunrise or sunset. Stopping to smell the roses. Having compassion for all things. Spirituality is about knowing our purpose in life. We get that guidance from our hearts. Body, mind and spirit. There are certain exercises that one can practice to develop one's spiritual capacities, just as there are for the body and mind.
Create An Environment that
supports Spiritual Health
Find an environment that is conducive. A quiet place or, "sacred spot", free from distractions and interruptions provides an optimal environment for spiritual awareness.What you can do: Providing an environment for spiritual awareness and growth. 1. Meditation or quietude, listening, breath, heart 2. Prayer, speaking 3. Visualization 4. Yoga, mind-body practices, and breathing techniques 5. Dreamwork 6. Nature 7. Art 8. Music and sound Spirituality plays an important role in your overall health and well-being. Sprirtual moments can happen anytime and anyplace.
What is Spiritual Health?
We can talk about spiritual health and also about the spiritual power of a mystic or sage or prophet. We can do spiritual healing by learning spiritual teachings like the mystery of breath or music and sound. Experiencing love, harmony and beauty. Spiritual health is our about our consciousness and then later, our expanded consciousness or awareness or heart. Hazrat Inayat Khan said: "Man has neither been created to be as spiritual as an angel, nor has he been made to be as material as an animal. When he strikes the happy medium, he will certainly tread the path which is meant for a human being to tread, the path which leads straight to the goal... Balance is the keynote of spiritual attainment." Puran Bair said in Living From the Heart: "Advancing in insight, in self-mastery, in love, and in peacefulness is all that matters. The problems of life are exercises to develop these qualities.
Deepak Chopra Videos on Spirituality
Here's a short video on What is Spirituality by Deepak Chopra.Here are more Deepak Chopra Videos about the heart and mind-body practices and tools.
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