Spiritual views help us make sense of the world around us. What is the intention of human life? What is the meaning of life after death? Is there meaning to our daily existence?
Just as it is important to integrate the biological needs of the body to counseling (ex: exploring sleeping, eating patterns with biological changes in age and medical status), it is important to consider your spiritual views and how they inform your problem, needs, and support structures. Keeping your spirit involved with counseling can look like exploring your theology, using spiritual practice to center or ground your experience. It can also look like you following the prompting that you sense within yourself to go, sit or rest.
Spirituality looks different to each person and is an individual journey that yields connectedness and a sense of wholeness. Everyday practices like deep breathing or meditation can become spiritual cornerstones as you reflect and engage intentionally with your soul to facilitate renewal and healing.
The practice of integrating yourself with your spiritual beliefs can create a renewed sense of purposefulness and meaning while you may still be in a problem. With spirituality as a piece of counseling, the problem you are experiencing serves a purpose beyond the content of the problem (ex: God showing you something or you learning about yourself/your needs/your passions).
Spiritual practices within the Christian tradition include prayer, meditation, solitude, deep breathing, and surrender. All practices that can be integrated into a neo-Christian or other spiritual background. Humans are more than flesh and bone. We are more than thinkers and feelers. There is a component of a relationship within ourselves that can draw us to a higher meaning, connection and/or relief amid the pain we experience.
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