Subject:
Spiritual Tools
Ah, spiritual growth! Prayer and meditation. A healthy body and breath. Loving well and communicating well. These are ever-present aspects of life.
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📃Spirituality x Religion (let’s define “spiritual”)
📃Nutritional Health Guide (healthy body fuels a healthy spirit)
The Very Best Books
📚The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
One of my very favorite books! 💗
“Without love, humanity cannot exist for a day."
”If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself.”
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
“Infantile love says, ‘I love because I am loved.” Mature love says, ‘I am loved because I love.’”
(Goodreads) (Hoopla)
📚The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
This book gave me inspiration on how to show love to my people! The initial book focused on couples, but there are editions for singles, teens, and children!
“Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. That kind of love requires effort and discipline.”
“Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.
“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”
(Goodreads) (Goodreads - 5 Love Languages for Singles) (Hoopla)
📚Non-Violent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg
This book is the ✨best✨ I’ve found for learning communication skills, particularly in conflict.
“Step 1: Express honestly. Step 2: Receive empathetically”
“No matter what others say, we only hear what they are (1) Observing, (2) Feeling, (3) Needing, (4) Requesting.”
(Goodreads) (Hoopla)
This video of Rosenberg giving a workshop is gold :)
📚Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
You think you know how to breathe? Think again! 😤 There’s so much more that breath can afford us, if we know how to tap into it.
”The greatest indicator of life span wasn’t genetics, diet, or the amount of daily exercise, as many had suspected. It was lung capacity.”
“Right nostril is a gas pedal… the left nostril is more deeply connected to the parasympathetic nervous system.”
”The fix is easy: breathe less. But that’s harder than it sounds. We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much.”
“Mouthbreathing, it turns out, changes the physical body and transforms airways, all for the worse.”
(Goodreads) (Hoopla)
For more book recommendations, check out my Goodreads best-of-spiritual list! :)