LifeDesign | Spirituality
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.
— Thomas Merton
Class Resources
Spirituality is a connection with something greater than ourselves and is often affiliated with the transcendent or God. This can also involve a search for meaning and purpose in life. Research shows a positive association of people who lean into spirituality and/or are part of a religious community with well-being (especially subjective well-being).
What is Spirituality
In this a concise exploration of the question from the University of Minnesota series on Taking Charge of Your Health and Well Being
On Being: Martin Sheen
“Spirituality unites us because its about our humanity” Martin Sheen talks with Krista Tippett about the role of spirituality in his life.
Talk w/ Dan Groody
The Heart's Desire and Social Change: Finding the Path to Meaning and Mission.
The Science of Spirituality
Links Between Spirituality and Wellbeing
The Relationship Between Spirituality, Health-Related Behavior, and Psychological Well-Being, from Frontiers in Psychology
What Does Spirituality Mean to Us?
Insights into the spiritual lives of people in the U.S. In focus groups, interviews, and a national survey, the Fetzer Institute listened to people of all spiritual and religious backgrounds sharing what spirituality means to them.
Do Spirituality and Medicine Go Together
From the Harvard Medical School Bioethics Journal. The authors, a physician and a theologian, strongly suggest that they should work together in a more holistic way, as modern medicine often neglects, and at times is hostile towards, the humanistic concerns of paramount value in spirituality and religion.
Effects of Spirituality in Health Care
Religious and spiritual interventions in mental health care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials, from Psychological Medicine, Cambridge University Press
Make it Happen
16 Tips to Build Your Spiritual Practice
A helpful guide for concrete steps
Introduction to Centering Prayer
Contemplative practices help quiet the mind, and facilitate and deepen our relationship with God. Fr. Thomas Keating provides an introduction to Centering Prayer, with additional recommendations for Centering Prayer