Building a Spiritual Wellness Routine
What is Spiritual Wellness?
Spiritual wellness is being able to find purpose and justification in your values. Self-love ties into this as well. The ability to maintain health and wealth in the mind, body, and spirit.
What is self-love?
There are so many ways to define what “self-love” means. Simply put, self-love is the ability to love yourself unconditionally. Self-love is having a high regard for one’s self and values.
Why is this important?
Having a wellness routine helps us to achieve our life goals and values. Over time as we practice self-love and spiritual wellness, we learn how to set personal boundaries and address them. Applying these boundaries, we create a form of self-discipline and set higher respect expectations!
If you find you are putting yourself last, you might also realize you’re overcompensating in other parts of your life. Not prioritizing yourself may lead to not processing emotions fully, holding onto burdens, and an emotional imbalance within yourself. When you build healthy wellness habits, you begin to meet your needs more efficiently. In return for this, you’re showing yourself self-love and respect. Self-love is crucial when finding yourself and your spiritual wellness journey. When you start to love yourself, things seem to get easier. You begin to process emotions and heal from emotional wounds with ease. How you communicate changes, as you may have a deeper understanding of those around you.
Finding yourself is not a linear process. It takes time, and there are many ways to welcome this.
A very effective way to practice this is by building a sustainable self-care routine. Having this allows you to take time away from your daily life and stressors, to dedicate some alone time with yourself. By doing this, you’re creating a habit that invests in yourself and builds self-discipline. A simple yet effective daily self-care routine can help you to prioritize your needs over others’ wants. For example, instead of staying out later with a group of friends and being behind in the morning, you went home and followed a set night routine. You may find that the following morning you felt better and had an easy-going start to your day. The same goes for having a successful morning routine to lead a successful day!
How can I build a wellness routine?
Everyone’s journeys look different. Your wellness routine may be simple and free-flowing, or it can be direct and down to every detail! However, there are many examples of showing yourself love and wellness.
First, it all begins with your habits! Building healthy routines and practices such as yoga, skincare, clean eating, working out, and healthy sleeping patterns are great ways to maintain physical wellness. Mentally, meditation, journaling, sound therapy, and healthy peer communication can keep you balanced as well. A huge part of spiritual wellness is being honest with yourself. Taking time to set expectations and boundaries helps us become more aware of who we are and what we want. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, sad or disappointed, don’t just bottle it up! Notice it, reflect on what’s causing this emotion, then solve and release. Doing the shadow work means doing the inner work leads to the outer work! Along this journey, you’re ever-curious and constantly learning! This cycle is repeating and evolving you as a person in the process!
While building a spiritual wellness routine, you may find tools and resources such as gemstones, tarot cards, oracle cards, natural remedies, etc. These tools and resources can assist us with connecting to our spiritual selves. When you feel loved and connected to who you are, you might notice more synchronicities, express a better sense of empathy, you’re more intuitive, and feel more in control of your life.
Over time, there are ways to tell if we are balanced or unbalanced within ourselves.
A few ways to tell if you’re on a good path are:
- You handle stress better, and life seems easy.
- You learn to slow down and appreciate life more.
- You have a sense of self-satisfaction and don’t feel the need to compete in life.
- Overall you’re more optimistic about life!
- You aren’t afraid to be alone/ You enjoy your own company
- You can respect the differences between peers and those around you.
What are some examples of Self Love and Spiritual wellness?
Self-love and wellness come in many forms, such as:
- Healthy morning/night routines
- Healthy eating habits
- Regular yoga/meditation
- Regular exercise
- Journaling
- Healthy skincare routine
- Clean eating
- Affirmations
- Being kind to yourself
- Allowing and processing your emotions
- Taking some alone time
- SELF CARE HABITS
- etc.
Takeaway:
Although we barely scratched the surface of what can come from practicing self-care and wellness, you must be kind to yourself! Take it one day at a time, and work in baby steps! Taking time to tweak your habits can benefit you in many ways! Spread the love and uplift yourself and others! You are always learning new things about yourself! By practicing wellness, you’ll attract loving people and healthy relationships.
Self Love vs. Self Centered
There is a difference between self-love and being self-centered.
It’s not selfish to want to take care of ourselves, but we still want to show compassion! It’s okay to put our needs over others’ wants. It is a growing process! Take time to yourself without guilt – but don’t shut yourself off from the world. For example, you’re on an outing with friends, but you’re feeling drained, and you’re ready to leave. Instead of having low vibrations and staying the whole time, express how you feel to your friends and set a time limit before you depart! Doing this allows you to set boundaries and be involved simultaneously! Or let’s say you’ve had a rough morning instead of allowing this to set the tone for your entire day. Take a few minutes to practice deep breathing and release those negative emotions. Doing this helps us to be honest, and reflect on ourselves, so we don’t affect others around us.
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