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Chapter Review
Listen Chapter Summary: Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, and Spiritually Well

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LO 1 What Is Spirituality?
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Although spirituality is hard to define and can mean something slightly different to everyone, it
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encompasses an individual’s sense of peace, purpose and connection to others, and beliefs about the
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meaning of life and how to live one’s life. It involves a person’s values and way of viewing life and how one
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should behave in the world. It is sometimes guided by a sense of connection to a higher presense.
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LO 2 The Benefits of Spiritual Health

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Because of the diversity of human spiritual experience and the overlap of spirituality with religious practice,
it is often hard to delineate the exact impact of spiritual beliefs and actions. However, in recent years, a
number of studies of specific practices such as mindfulness, meditation, and prayer have shown that spiritual
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health reduces stress, decreases anxiety and depression, increases a person’s ability to heal from illness and
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cope with medical treatment, and can increase feelings of hope and optimism, among other positive
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LO 3 Cultivating Your Spiritual Health

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Similar to developing physical fitness, developing spiritual health takes knowledge, guidance, commitment,
and consistency. Learning practices such as mindfulness, meditation, contemplation, right-mindedness,
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prayer, and service, and doing them regularly, will help build a foundation of spiritual health.

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