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What is Spiritual Wellness?
"Spiritual wellbeing relates to our sense of life-meaning and purpose. It can include our connection to culture, community, spirituality and/or religiosity and includes the beliefs, values, mental models and ethics we hold."
Source: "Spiritual Wellbeing" from Teach in the TerritorySpiritual Wellness Resources
Develop Your Spiritual Resources
This resource from the University of Minnesota provides a list of practical ways that anyone can cultivate spiritual wellness.
How to Meditate
On this website you can learn the basics of Buddhist meditation. A few books are mentioned that will help you to deepen your understanding if you wish to explore further. Anyone can benefit from the meditations given here, Buddhist or not. We hope that you find this website useful and that you learn to enjoy the inner peace that comes from meditation.
Institute for Spirituality & Health: Virtual Resources
ISH staff has curated a selection of digital resources that we feel can be helpful during this unprecedented time. Please explore the following pages - we hope you find something that can help you navigate through this experience with ease and grace.
Cool Culture: We Are A Work of Art: Health & Wellbeing Spiritual Toolkit
This is the one of five Wellbeing Toolkits that are designed to support discussions about individual, family and community health and wellness, whether at home or while in schools, museums or other community spaces. Each Toolkit is informed by conversations with the Cool Culture network of families, educators and our partners across New York City.
CA Dept. of Social Services: Spiritual Wellness
Learn more about Connecting to More than Self, Exploring Your Spirituality, Clarifying Your Values, and Finding Your Purpose on this webpage that features resources and excercises for each topic.
Achieve Spiritual Wellness/Avoid Cultural Appropriation
It is important to be mindful of the ways in which Western wellness culture can appropriate from other cultures, especially when considering spirituality. These articles all provide examples of when and where this commonly happens and how we can aim to achieve spiritual wellness in less harmful ways.
Spirituality or cultural appropriation?
This article explores a variety of ways that Western spirituality has appropriated other cultures and features an interactive map exploring the origins of some popular spiritual practices.
The Contemporary Whitewashing of Wellness and Spirituality
This article reflects on the ways Spirituality and Wellness have been whitewashed in contemporary culture. It also provides suggestions on ways in which people can avoid appropriation.
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