spiritual practice
Soul-nourishing ritual routine
A spiritual practice is any regular activity undertaken for inner development, transcendence, or connection with something beyond the self—prayer, meditation, yoga, fasting, chanting, pilgrimage.
The emphasis falls on practice: repeated, intentional action rather than mere belief.
Her morning meditation is a spiritual practice she's maintained for twenty years.
The term is broad enough to include traditional religious observances and secular rituals aimed at mindfulness or meaning-making.
- meditationFocused attention practice
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- body scanComplete physical examination
- yogaMind-body exercise discipline
- prayerAddress to deity
chanting · astral projection · hymn singing · fasting · scripture reading · daily practice · ecstatic dance · purification rites · sacred dance · invocation · tai chi · worship · contemplation · vision quest · prostration · sweat lodge · breathwork · qigong
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- HinduismVishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh, Ganesha
- Buddhist monasteriesabbots, lamas, monastery life, monastic life, monastic vows
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- Guru Traditionsparampara, disciples, master, spiritual lineage, darshan
spiritual practicematerialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
careerism · consumerism · money-making · hedonism · pleasure-seeking
spiritual practiceescapism
Habitual mental retreat
doomscrolling · binge-watching · dissipation · dissociation · compulsive behavior
spiritual practicesecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
physicalism · naturalism · rationalism · empiricism · nihilism