Is There Room For Spirituality In Our Daily Lives?

Two key focuses of my blog are Health/Wellness and Spirituality. A key aspect of our personal health that can often get overlooked is our spirituality. The following contributed post is entitled, Is There Room For Spirituality In Our Daily Lives?

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For many people, spirituality is a ‘fluffy’ term that doesn’t factor into the practicality of their daily lives. But what does it really mean? Spirituality is the process of being focused on the human condition, rather than physical or material items. It looks beyond someone’s job, status or wealth, and looks at them as an individual. In our fast-paced human world, it is the process of looking at the human condition. Is there room for spirituality in our daily lives? This article will try to answer this question.

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Spirituality Can Help You With Your Wellbeing

Wellbeing has practical applications in our daily lives. We need to be okay in order to perform at full capacity. Spirituality can help you with your wellbeing. There are a number of practical exercises that have roots in spirituality that can help you to feel good and at your best. Techniques like meditation can help you focus the mind, and yoga even releases endorphins, which make you feel happy.

Spiritual Literature Can Help Us Achieve Our Core Values

We all have core values, even if we don’t physically sit down and list them. Spiritual literature like the Bible or the Quran can help us explore certain moral codes and ethics and see how well they align with our own. An online theology course is a great way to learn about religious texts if the idea of reading the whole book seems daunting. Discovering our core values can help us establish meaning and purpose in our daily lives.

Becoming More Spiritual Can Help You With Resilience

Spirituality can help us with several incredibly useful skills, like resilience and determination. Learning how to focus the mind through meditation can help you stay calm in stressful situations, or even help you cope when you lose your job. Regularly practicing yoga can help you develop a skill that boosts your confidence and sense of independence. Spirituality can help with several fundamental life skills that make navigating the complexities of our world easier.

Spirituality Helps You Remember There Are Bigger Things Than You

Perspective is everything, and spirituality can help you remember there are bigger things than you out there. If you’re preoccupied with worrying about that event at work, or whether you said the right thing to your boss last week, then spirituality can help you remember that these things may not matter a year from now.

Conclusion

There is room for spirituality in our daily lives. Spirituality is a way of looking at what it means to be human, rather than simply focusing on work. It can help us better understand our core values, and even boost our wellbeing and resilience. Spirituality can be reviewed through religious or spiritual texts, as a way of exploring our core values and code of ethics. Finally, spirituality is a way of connecting with others around you. It can help you realize that there is a whole world out there and those problems might not be as bad as you think.

Author: anwaryusef

Anwar Y. Dunbar is a Regulatory Scientist. Being a naturally curious person, he is also a student of all things. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Prior to starting the Big Words Blog Site, Anwar published and contributed to numerous research articles in competitive scientific journals reporting on his research from graduate school and postdoctoral years. After falling in love with writing, he contributed to the now defunct Examiner.com, and the Edvocate where he regularly wrote about: Education-related stories/topics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Financial Literacy; as well as conducted interviews with notable individuals such as actor and author Hill Harper. Having many influences, one of his most notable heroes is author, intellectual and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of books including Outliers and David and Goliath. Anwar has his hands in many, many activities. In addition to writing, Anwar actively mentors youth, works to spread awareness of STEM careers, serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, serves as Treasurer for the JCSU Washington, DC Alumni Chapter, and is active in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church. He also tutors in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics. Along with his multi-talented older brother Amahl Dunbar (designer of the Big Words logos, inventor and a plethora of other things), Anwar is a “Fanboy” and really enjoys Science-Fiction and Superhero movies including but not restricted to Captain America Civil War, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Prometheus. He is a proud native of Buffalo, NY.

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