Spiritual Wellness

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Spiritual Wellness

• By Meg Carver
• Onani Mentoring
• www.onanimentoring.com

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What is Spiritual Wellness?

• Having a sense of purpose and direction
• Realizing, developing and expressing our personal
  values, rights and responsibilities
• Integrating our beliefs and values with our
  actions

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Characteristics of Spiritual Wellness

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Characteristics of Spiritual Wellness

• Having a sense of meaning and purpose in life
• Feeling a sense of individuality as well as a
  sense of connection to others and often a
  connection to something larger than life
• Keeping life in perspective while pursuing
  personal growth and development
• Integrating personal values and morals into
  everyday activites job, family, recreation,
  community and activities

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Characteristics of Spiritual Wellness

• Finding comfort, joy, beauty, support, peace,
  balance, creativity
• Being compassionate towards others
• Accepting the unknown, mystery, the unanswerable

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Signs of Spiritual Depletion

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Spiritual Depletion Is

• Inability to see your own responsibility within
  a difficult life situation (lack of empowerment)
• Using blame and judgment in relationships with
  others
• Feeling overwhelmed, lack of direction, tired of
  life, nothing really matters
• Feeling a need to be dishonest within yourself
  and with others
• Addictions
• Unable to calm your mind

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Spiritual Depletion Is

• Consistent, ongoing feelings of sadness,
  fearfulness or anger
• Disregarding your own needs and always giving in
  to others
• Extreme need to be helpful, nice, listening,
  agreeing, understanding, accepting and forgiving
  with others
• Feeling lonely and isolated
• Low energy level

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Developing Spiritual Wellness

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Ways of Developing Spiritual Wellness

• Acknowledging your own gifts and talents, your
  own uniqueness
• Valuing your self so that you contribute and
  connect to others through your own personal
  expression, rather than denying your own needs
  and simply serving others
• Prioritizing your life activities so that your
  health, energy level, creativity and feelings of
  joy are supported
• Asking for what you want and feeling worthy of
  receiving a life of balance, harmony and
  connection

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Ways of Developing Spiritual Wellness

• Establishing firm boundaries, including the
  ability to say no to anything that is not
  honoring to you
• Taking the time and space you need to awaken to
  your dreams and passions
• Creating a support system of others around you
  that also value and honor you. This includes your
  friends, co-workers, boss, spouse or dating
  partner, physicians and other health care
  practitioners, any other professionals you may
  use in your life
• Appreciating others for their unique way of
  expressing their love

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Spiritual Wellness Is

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Being Spiritually Connected Means

• Connecting to all other aspects of your life
• physical
• emotional
• intellectual
• social
• family
• occupational
• Begin improving any one of these aspects and your
  spiritual wellness will also improve

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Spiritual wellness is knowing you are worthy of
receiving a life of ease, elegance, joy, beauty,
connection, creativity, abundance, peace,
contentment, health, vitality, inspiration,
meaning and purpose.
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Spiritual Wellness

• By Meg Carver
• Onani Mentoring
• 937.767.7922