Spiritual Self Care

Spiritual self-care is unique because it focuses on a more profound and higher level of connecting with yourself, your values, beliefs, and life's purpose. Just as physical, emotional, financial, or other types of self-care are essential to our well-being, spiritual self-care is just as important. Some people assume that spiritual self-care means that you have to be religious. However, you don't have to be religious to care for your spirit. And for religious people, there are practices in most religions that are used to help one care for their spirits.

There are many benefits of Spiritual self-care. It helps you feel more connected to others. It helps to bring a deeper level of calm and groundedness. Spiritual self-care allows people to have more clarity and intuition about life. Spiritual self-care helps people become more aligned with their values and beliefs.

Definition: Spiritual self-care involves practices that nurture people's connection with their higher selves.

Examples:

• Meditate

• Reflect in a journal

• Go on a spiritual retreat

• Spend time in nature (i.e., meditating, walking, sitting)

• Repeat a mantra that you love

• Volunteer

• Praying

• Read spiritual or religious content

• Connect with a spiritual or faith-based community regularly.

• Engage in acts of kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others

• Read, listen, or watch inspiring stories.

• Look for the good in yourself and others.

• Practice gratitude.

• Show acts of kindness to others and yourself.