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Questions to Promote Love and Meaning
Thinking through paths out of anxiety and fear If it rings true for you that you need to train your brain to tone down anxiety and/or discover more about yourself – your sources of love and mattering, and your purposes – find a trusted friend or loved one or a small group and work through some of these questions together. Getting in touch with love: What are your fundamental beliefs about being loved–for just who you are? Not what you do, but just who you are now? Pause. Close your eyes, take 3 slow breaths–imagine God is looking...
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Living at the Intersection of Joy, Meaning, and Balance
Research indicates spirituality links meaning to joy, and may provide insight into the balance and purpose we seek.
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The Balm of Being Loved and Held
How does love contributing to thriving? The practice of the 5 B's of love is explained here.
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Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States
Author: Kim, S.-H., King, P. E., & Trudeau, S. M. Abstract: Given the significant shifts in religious affiliation and spiritual seeking over the last 20 years, a rigorous and updated understanding of how spirituality functions are essential to understand the impact of these changes on individuals and society. Drawing on an integrated view of spirituality informed by relational developmental systems (RDS) and meaning-making approaches, in the present study, we sought to identify commonalities within varied expressions of spirituality described within interviews of a religiously and spiritually diverse sample of adults. Structural topic modeling (STM) was applied to infer the...
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Religion, Spirituality, and Youth Thriving: Investigating the Roles of the Developing Mind and Meaning-Making
Author: Pamela Ebstyne King, Susan Mangan, Rodrigo Riveros Abstract: In this chapter, we draw on positive developmental psychology, psychology of religion and spirituality, and developmental neuroscience to explore how youth religiousness and spirituality contribute to thriving through the process of meaning-making. Thriving involves the individual, relational, and aspirational development necessary to pursue a life purpose that is meaningful to the self and one’s surroundings. Meaning-making is the process of constructing and internalizing abstract beliefs (about oneself, the world, and one’s priorities) into salient values that contribute to the moral development necessary to thrive. When youth consider abstract ideas in the...
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On the Road to Healing: Meaning-Making and Beliefs
Dr. Stephanie Trudeau continues her discussion on loss, and how meaning-making and beliefs can guide us toward healing.
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