Spiritual Self

Prepared by: Ms. Jenny Sequiña

Objectives:
1. Identify and understand the different aspect of
spirituality from existence, relatedness to inner soul.
2. Differentiate spirituality from religiosity.
3. Develop certain steps on how to develop or enhance
spirituality.
Initial Activity: : How intimate are you
with God?
• Rate themselves from 1 to 10 (one being the lowest and 10
being the highest) of their closeness with God (intimacy
with God)
• Cite some of the spiritual practices or routine that they are
doing to prove their rating.
• Share some memorable experiences they have in
connection with their faith in God.
Spiritual Self
• It is an ongoing, personal life journey, contextualized by the
belief in a Higher Being, culture, relationships, nature, and
the discovery of meaning in one’s life.
Spirituality vs. Religiosity
Spirituality Religiosity
• associated to an ▪ adherence to one
individual’s process of belief system as
seeking and expressing agreed upon through
meaning by connecting different traditions and
self to significant and
practices to be done.
sacred matters.
(Puchalski, 2014)
 Religiosity
Spirituality ▪ It is a formal
• It pertains to one’s attachment to the set
experience of contact of beliefs, values, and
with the Divine Being. practices of a
(Beauregard and particular religious
O’Leary, 2007) sect.
Spirituality Religiosity
• Individual ▪Communal
Spirituality Religiosity
• it includes need ▪beliefs and
for spiritual practices are
quest and inner within the
peace religious group
A person can be
spiritual without
being religious.
How Spirituality is Enhanced?
•Enhancing spirituality lies within the self.
•Self must practice constant reflection and meditation
of life choices and decisions, develop empathy and
compassion towards other people, and have faith in a
Higher Being.
It is not about finding
meaning in life, but
rather, how meaning
is applied to life.
How Spirituality is Enhanced?
Connection with nature
1. Affinity
• It means “nature-connectedness”
• It is defined as the extent to which individuals include
nature as part of their identity.
• If people feel that they are one with nature, then destroying
it can mean self-destruction and vice versa.
How Spirituality is Enhanced?
Connection with nature
2. Ecopsychology
• It is concerned with the fundamental interconnections
between humans and the natural world through a
phenomenological and sensorial link, and the integration of
practices based on the notion that direct contact with the
natural world has healing potential.
Finding and Creating Meaning in Life
Logotheraphy
• It is a term coined by Victor Frankl (1905-1997), an
existential philosopher.
• “Logos”- Greek word which stands for meaning.
• It helps the person search for the meaning of his existence.
• Logotheraphist- task is to assist and guide the client in
finding meaning in life.
Three Basic Principles on Discovering
Meaning in Life
Meaning Will to Freedom
1

3
in Life Meaning to Will
Three Basic Principles on Discovering
Meaning in Life
Finding meaning in life The meaning one People are given
1. Meaning in Life

3. Freedom to Will
2. Will to Meaning
does not mean that attaches to experience freedom to make own
people should strive to may vary from decisions which
be perfect, thus, even in individual to individual. respond to how they
times of great loss and With this, individual respond to life events.
deep sorrow, finding must discover the People discover
meaning in life is still means to fulfilled meanings through the
possible. experience. value that they attach
It is more of answering to things connected
the question, “Why am I with their lives.
doing what I am doing?”
 Activity: “Me Time”
Direction: In connection to the discussed topic in II. How is Spirituality Enhanced?:
1. Think of something feasible to do or you want to do. (e.g. Spending time alone in a
Coffee shop/Milktea shop, Volunteering to an Outreach program, Attending Worship
service, Hiking, etc)
2. Perform the task you want to do or is feasible to do.
3. Make that moment a time to reflect on yourself.
4. Take a picture or document your chosen activity.
5. Answer the following questions after:
a. What is something I learned from this activity?
b. What meaningful things this event made me realize?
c. Will I do this activity again in the future? Why or Why not?
6. Be creative on your way of presenting your output
 Goodbyes are still beautiful.
--Jenny Sequiña, 2020

I had one of the best semesters because

of you all. Thank you!!!!