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Spiritual Practices



A spiritual practice is an action or activity that is performed regularly in the pursuit of spiritual development or to commune with one’s experience of the sacred or divine. There are countless different practices to engage in, some tied to a religious tradition or an ancestral heritage, and others that someone has developed a more personal, individual connection to. Common practices that span a vast array of different spiritual disciplines include prayer, meditation, song, chanting, dance, breathing exercises, ceremony, and ritual.

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What Is Spirituality and What Is a Spiritual Life?

Dr Roger Walsh is interviewed about the universal practices found in all the world's spiritual and religious traditions such meditation, purification and so forth.

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A Spiritual Journal for Women: Mindfulness, Gratitude, and Meditation Prompts to Reconnect With Yourself

Get the guidance you need to start living every day with greater peace, happiness, and love.

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Why Spiritual Practice Is Essential in Crazy Times

Saying you’re too agitated to meditate or pray is like saying you’re too sick to see a doctor or too tired to take a nap.

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FindCenterAwakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis.

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How Parenting Can Become a Spiritual Practice

This video is part of a series made possible by the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. What was your spiritual life like before you became a parent? Did it change when you became a parent? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues that raising children can be its own form of spiritual practice.

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The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions

Today more Americans than ever consider themselves to be "spiritual" people, and yet attendance at religious institutions is down, perhaps because many of us are searching for a way to encounter the divine on our own terms.

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Spiritual Practices for Times of Crisis

The greatest gift we can give our world is our presence, awake and attentive. What can help us do that? Here, drawn from ancient religions and wisdom traditions, are a handful of practices Joanna Macy has learned to count on.

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FindCenterHowever many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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Sensei José Shinzan Palma: How Your Practice Can Heal the World

Sensei José Shinzan Palma explains how our meditation practice can help us change the world.

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Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work: Seven Spiritual Practices for a Scientific Age

Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects.

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