Nourishing your soul refers to feeding your soul, feeding it with positive thinking, mindfulness, and intentional self-care. The moment you start nourishing and growing your soul is the moment you start understanding yourself deeply and loving yourself unconditionally. Therefore, just like our body, our soul also needs to get fed to maintain a healthy life balance. A nourished soul is nourishment to your spiritual well-being and creates a positive flow into your life.
Growing your soul needs regular exercise every day, just like the body. However, you don’t need to do a physical exercise; focussed attention naturally orients towards the spiritual. Thus, when you decide to nourish and grow your soul, the first activity to indulge in your daily activity is to stop several times a day in your work and busyness and dedicate yourself, even for a few minutes. Moreover, follow the below-mentioned steps to let your soul nourished:
- Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness is the practice of focussing on the present moment and getting a deep awareness and understanding of everything happening around you and affecting your life. Moreover, the best way to practice mindfulness is to practice meditation and other deep breathing activities. Starting the meditation with just two minutes in the morning will gradually turn into 8 minutes, 24 minutes, and even an hour. Mindfulness is an important and primary step towards nourishing your soul as it controls your thoughts and brings healthy thoughts over negative thoughts that can damage your mental health and slow downtime.
- Eat Clean & Move Your Body:Your soul is unambiguously connected to your body, and its nourishment highly depends on the food we eat and the exercises we do. Thus, always focus on the whole foods, primarily fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts that directly come from the earth. Moreover, moving your body also counts on the overall comprehensive health and wellness, including your spiritual health. Thus, try to do natural physical activities that you enjoy, which will simultaneously boost the endorphins that relieve you from stress and lower your depression symptoms. In addition, regular light exercise will also boost your coping skills and even increase your self-confidence. These boosted copying skills and confidence are bigger steps towards greater spiritual well-being and feeling more fulfilled in life.
- Practice Kindness:Kindness is like the glue that connects you to humans and humanity. Giving an act of kindness helps us be fulfilled, meaningful, and peaceful on a spiritual level. Thus, practice the art of kindness, and you will find your soul nourished and content.
- Reading A Good Book:It is said that reading helps you connect yourself with others’ stories. Getting into the activity of reading from a young age makes the person connect to others’ stories easily and increases their act of kindness. Moreover, when you, an adult, read a book, it becomes an active activity and hence reduces your stress, promotes imagination, and helps you get better sleep. These small effects of reading the book will eventually help you nourish and grow your soul.
- Take Time For Self-Reflection: One of the most important and critical activities to nourish and grow your soul is self-reflection. A journal of all your daily tasks reporting them to the highest authority you believe in, will make your soul realize its mistakes, and acknowledging the number of good acts you did in the day will track your activities and nourish your soul with more good acts than bad.