Topic Archive
Spirituality
Self-Care
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Do your Habits Promote Growth and Support your Purpose?
Healthy practices help us live into our values, reflect on our choices, and connect us with others and God.
Meaning
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Meaning Making (Part 2): What Does Spirituality Have to do with Meaning-Making?
In order to assign meaning we must believe in a bigger picture.
Meaning
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Meaning-Making (Part 1): The Power of a Meaning-Making Mindset
The practice of meaning-making involves exploring our belief systems, especially our beliefs around spirituality, which offer a distinct and powerful role in making meaning.
Practices
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Take a Breath: How Breath Work Provides a Portal to Our Spiritual Lives
Paying attention to the pattern of our breath is a spiritual practice with power to gain insight into meaning and change our lives.
Spirituality
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Do you have practices to support healthy spirituality?
Nurturing our spiritual health involves times of reflection and connection to our body, mind, and emotions.
Spirituality
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Transcendence (Part 2): How Transcendence Can Lead the Way to an Open Heart
Believing in Something Greater Than Ourselves is an integral part of our spiritual health.
Spirituality
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Transcendence (Part 1): The Beauty of Transcendence and How it Informs our Spirituality
Our minds are designed to receive loving transcendent experiences. Learn more in this post and try some practices.
Spirituality
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What is transcendence?
Spiritual health includes experiencing transcendence, so seek out opportunities to connect with something beyond yourself.
Spirituality
Episode
Teaser: Our Spiritual Brains: The Science of Our Innate Spirituality (Lisa Miller)
“Every single one of us is born with natural spirituality.” This preview clip features Dr. Lisa Miller—bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain, and researcher and professor in clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Lisa shares about her findings in the science of spirituality; our innate capacities to perceive, to feel, and to know a transcendent relationship; and the amazing role of the human brain in seeking out this transcendence beyond ourselves. With & For is launching in January 2024! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app. With & For is launching in January...
Spirituality
Research Link
Religion as Fertile Ground
Abstract An extensive body of research points toward spirituality and religiousness as resources for promoting human thriving. People with strong connections to the transcendent and religious meaning in life often view morals and values as central to their self-concepts. Although moral identity theory and contemporary views of virtue development emphasize the importance of narrative identity for habituated moral action, the two are often discussed in isolation of each other. In this chapter, the authors highlight how their commonality is particularly evident when examining the potential of religion to provide a transcendent self-narrative that leads to virtue formation and moral action...
Spirituality
Research Project
Measuring Spirituality Among Adolescents
Pamela King and team test the psychological viability of the MDAS scale among diverse youth.
Gratitude
Research Project
Shades of Gratitude
Our team seeks to test and develop a theoretical framework to help guide future research on gratitude.
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