Are you feeding your spiritual health

Most people are concerned about their physical, emotional and mental health but what about their spiritual health. What is spiritual? What is spiritual health? What activities strengthen and exercise spiritual health? How does taking care of spiritual health affect health?

What is spiritual?

Spiritual means pertaining to ones spirit. Most people believe that the human body is comprised of a physical body and a spirit. Perhaps the spirit of an individual could be categorized as their conscience, their inner voice, the guiding light within, their principles and morals or a still small voice. It is common to relate all spiritual matters with religion but this is not always the case.

What is spiritual health?

Spiritual health is considered essential by many practicing therapists and researchers have determined its effectiveness to health to be very high. Many alternative health practices are placed under the umbrella term "holistic health". Holistic, basically means addressing the entire health of the body; it's physical, emotional and spiritual.

By addressing the spiritual health of a person their physical health is inadvertently addressed. Many people believe that ones spiritual health is intrinsically connected to their physical health.

What activities strengthen and exercise spiritual health?

Most people will think of religion when they hear or see the word spiritual and activitly living a religion is a great way to strengthen spirituality. By adhering to a religion one can gain direction, a foundation from which they can base their choices upon and a hope for happiness through the being or idea of something or an eternal being.

Formal religion is by no means the only way to feed spirituality. Meditation, yoga, sound healing, motivationally therapy, recreational therapy, literature and nature are all ways that are considered effective in strengthening spirituality.

How does taking care of spiritual health affect health?

It is believed by many that spiritual health is almost as or more important than physical health. Some believe that a healthy spirit will heal a broken body. There have been many studies carried out that affirms the positive influence a healthy spirit has on the entire health of an individual.

A healthy spirit can generate an optimistic attitude, kindness, service and general good will.