Can Spirituality Help Mental Health?
Can Spirituality Help Mental Health?
We are living in a time and age where mental health issues are felt and experienced by a lot of people across every age, group, and race.
The isolation that we had to go through during the pandemic has made matters much worse when it comes to our mental well-being.
So, what can we do about it? Can spirituality be the answer? Can it help our mental health?
Spirituality most definitely can help improve our mental and physical well-being and overall quality of life. It also better equips us to deal with the challenges that we continually face in our daily lives by offering us hope, and a new perspective on life, and reducing the negative effects of our past regrets, depression, and anxiety about the unknown future.
So, you may be wondering how spirituality helps mental health. Let’s answer that question next.
How Does Spirituality Help Mental Health?
I believe all problems and challenges can be solved by living a spiritual life and having regular spiritual practice.
Spirituality is always where I find my strength and solutions to my life challenges. Here are six ways spirituality helps mental health.
Makes You Realize How Powerful You
When you live a spiritual life and have a regular, nurturing spiritual well-being practice that you do every single day you will realize who you are and where you have come from.
You are on this earth however you are not of this earth. You are a soul (changeless and eternal) that is currently in a body temporarily.
You are not a body with a soul you are a soul with a body. You have come from your very powerful creator. Your Creator’s light and power are within you.
There are no issues that your soul is not empowered to deal with. You are a divine, wise, powerful loving, soul that is here to grow and serve others.
The more you connect to and listen to your soul the stronger you will get and the fewer mental health issues you will have to face.
Have a regular spiritual practice that you do in the morning whether it’s meditation, prayers, reading a religious book, listening to something spiritual, or watching videos that are talking about spirituality.
Allows Connection To The Real You
A regular Spiritual practice will guide and help you to sit in the quiet, connect, and turn to your soul for your solutions to all challenges and mental health issues.
You will be guided to align to your authentic soul’s qualities which is your true essence. Some of these qualities are love, peace, compassion, purity, divinity, joy, and not anger, jealousy, depression, and anxiety.
Helps You Access Loving Inner Guidance
Your spiritual practice will also allow you access and hear your loving inner and creator’s guidance which is always available to you.
Learn to turn inward because all your wisdom, answers, solutions, and healing from any mental health issues are within you.
You can also turn to your creator, ask, and listen to the loving guidance by asking why you’re feeling the way you’re feeling. What are your emotions trying to tell you?
Have you formed the wrong identity, and beliefs, thinking thoughts that don’t serve you, saying and doing things that are not aligned to your soul, and helping you fulfill your purpose?
Your creator has blessed you with a sacred mind and free will to navigate through life however your creator is always available to guide you. You just have to sit in silence, connect, and ask for help.
Helps You Realize You Are Bigger Than Any Problem
You will begin to realize that your soul is wise, divine powerful, and bigger than any problem that you may be facing. You are a powerful, wise, individualized expression of your creator whose powers are within you.
Do not let anybody ever tell you who you are and what your limits are. Don’t let society, your family, friends, and peers tell you who you are. Always remember
Your true identity is that you are a soul with a body and you’re powerful just like your creator. Do not compare yourself to anybody because you are here for a reason and purpose that is different from why others are here.
Make You Aware Can Tune In To Inner Power
When you have a regular spiritual practice you will know without a doubt that you can always turn inward for any solution to your problem.
Your wisdom is within you and so are the answers for whatever you need to fulfill your purpose. Don’t get distracted by what society and family tell you matters and is important.
Know that you can turn inward for all your solutions you have the wisdom available within you to deal with any mental issues so learn to connect to the soul and listen to its guidance.
Your soul whispers while the ego screams so you will have to create a quiet space to hear the wisdom from yourself the more you hear it the more it’ll talk to you.
There’s no problem that is not solvable by you figure out the solution it’s within you the wisdom is within you and it helps somebody else solve that problem as well let’s make mental health issues think of the past
You did not come here to waste your life by having regrets, feeling depressed because of your past mistakes, and being anxious about your unknown future.
Do not let someone tell you that you don’t measure up to what society wants you to be You’re not here to please the society you’re here to help people who need your help.
Improves Your Confidence And Self-esteem
You will be able to improve your confidence and your self-esteem when you live a spiritual life and have regular spiritual practice.
You will know without a doubt that you are here for a reason and purpose or you wouldn’t be here. You are here to do your creator’s work and fulfill your soul’s calling.
You matter, are enough, special just the way you are. You have a perfect body, sex, and color and were built for the work that you are here to do.
Don’t let anybody tell you that you are not enough or not measuring up to what society wants you to be. Don’t let anybody tell you that you don’t dress right because you have your unique style or that you are not smart because you get a D in school.
You’ve been given perfect unique gifts and wisdom to fulfill your purpose which the school may not be measuring at all.
Focus your energy on serving others powerfully. Discover your purpose and unique gifts by looking at clues like what comes naturally to you, what people come to you for advice, and what people always compliment you for.
Always remember you are not an accident otherwise you wouldn’t be here. You belong and are fine just the way you are.
Figure out What problems have you solved for yourself and serve others who are having the same problems. Live your best life and mental health issues will become a thing of the past for you.
In conclusion, you now know that spirituality most definitely can help improve our mental, and physical wellbeing and health and overall quality of life.
It also better equips us to deal with the challenges that we continually face in our daily lives by offering us hope, a new perspective on life, and reducing the negative effects of past regrets, depression, and anxiety about the unknown future.
I hope you will embrace spirituality and make mental health issues a thing of the past in your life and join me and help others do the same. Best of luck!
Next, read What does spirituality mean for further helpful insights and tips.