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5 Spiritual Practices That Can Increase Well-Being

Spirituality is slowly but surely crawling out from under the yolk of religious practices and reaching a more mainstream audience. People are looking for spirituality in whatever form they please to now, instead of just copying some type of spirituality that was written in a book at one point. It’s led to a huge exponential increase of techniques and theories about how we can center our minds and bodies effectively in a society that is growing increasingly busier and more stressful.

While this sadly comes with the disadvantage that a lot of those practices are solidly in the realm of pseudoscience, we can at least identify a few that have been tried and true for decades and can help you increase your well-being on a metaphysical level. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular ones! Don’t worry, you won’t have to do any weird stuff.

Meditation

Meditation shifts the focus from the outside world to the inside world. Most forms of meditation involve some sort of focusing on your breathing and reaching a point where you can single out one or a few stimuli so you can allow them to completely take over your mind. Those stimuli can be everything from light coming through the windows, a bird tweeting in the distance, or even something that isn’t tangible, like the warmth of caring for a loved one. You’re pretty much free to do that as you please, as long as you keep your attention focused on one specific thing.