In The Seven Lessons of Love, I wrote that spiritual practice is a crucial step on the path towards greater self-love. By rooting our love in something larger or something greater than ourselves, we remove any limits on how much love we can bring into our lives.
However, when I talk to people about deepening their spiritual practice, I often get replies like “I’ve always struggled with meditation,” or “prayer doesn’t really resonate with me.” It seems that “spiritual practice” to a lot of people means just a few actions one can do: go to church or temple, pray, maybe sing or chant.
But the landscape of spirituality is wide and vast, and there are an infinite number of paths one can walk to deepen one’s experience with the divine. For those of you also looking for more things to do, I offer you this list of 184 Spiritual Practices To Bring Into Your Life.
As you look at the list, ask yourself: which ones have I tried? Which ones have I never heard of? Which ones did I not think could be done in a spiritual way?
Don’t forget that you can practice your spirituality daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Daily you might visit your shrine and chant with prayer beads, weekly you might garden to commune with The Great Mother, monthly you might go on retreat, and every year you might make a pilgrimage. As you take a look at this list, consider how you want to deepen your spiritual life.
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Activism
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Affirmations
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Aikido
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Altars/Shrines
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Amulets
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Ancestors
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Angels
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Animals
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Aroma Therapy
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Art
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Astrology
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Awareness of Death
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Bathing
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Bearing Witness
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Bible Study
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Blessings
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Bodywork
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Bowing
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Breathwork
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Candles
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Caregiving
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Celebrations
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Centering Prayer
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Chakras
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Chanting
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Coaching
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Community
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Confession
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Contemplation
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Conversation
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Creating
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Creativity
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Dancing
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Discernment
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Study Groups
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Divination
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Drawing
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Dream analysis
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Drumming
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Eating
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Embodied Prayer
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Empathy
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Enneagram
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Equanimity
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Ethics
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Fasting
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Feng Shui
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Food
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Forgiveness
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Friendship
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Games
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Gardening
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Generosity
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Gratitude
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Grief
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Haiku
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Helping
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Herbs
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Holidays
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Humility
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Hymns
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Icons
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Intentions
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Incense
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Intuition
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Japanese Arts
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Jesus Prayer
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Journaling
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Karma
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Kirtan Chanting
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Kneeling
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Knitting
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Koans
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Labyrinth
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Laughter
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Learning
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Lectio Divina
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Letting Go
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Loving Enemies
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Loving kindness
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Mandalas
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Mantras
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Marriage
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Martial Arts
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Massage
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Meditation
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Mealtime Graces
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Mindfulness
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Monastic Life
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Mudras
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Music
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Nature
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Nonviolence
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Not Knowing
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Offerings
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Oracles
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Painting
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Parenting
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Passion
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Patience
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Pausing
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Perseverance
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Pets
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Photography
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Pilates
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Pilgrimage
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Places
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Plant Medicine
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Plants
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Poetry
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Positive Thinking
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Pottery
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Prayer
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Prayer Beads
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Prayer Rugs
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Prayer Wheels
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Protests/Marches
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Reading
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Recovery
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Reflexology
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Relationships
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Religious Seasons
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Religious Symbols
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Renunciation
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Repentance
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Repetition
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Retreats
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Restorative Justice
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Resurrection
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Right Livelihood
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Rituals
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Rosary
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Running
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Sacraments
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Sacred Space
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Sacred Texts
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Sacrifice
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Saints
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Sculpture
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Self-Inquiry
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Service
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Sewing/Quilting
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Sexuality
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Shadow Work
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Silence
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Singing
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Simplicity
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Smiling
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Social Justice
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Solitude
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Speech
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Storytelling
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Study with a Teacher
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Sweat Lodges
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Suffering
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Surrender
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Synchronicity
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Tantra
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Tai Chi/Qi Gong
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Tea Ceremony
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Teaching
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Therapy
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Tikkun
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Time
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Tolerance
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Tonglen
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Totems
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Transitions
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Travel
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Vigils/Attending the Dying
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Virtues
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Vision Quest
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Visiting the Sick
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Vocation
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Volunteering
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Vows
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Wabi Sabi
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Walking
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Welcoming Strangers
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Wholeness
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Work
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Worship
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Writing
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Yoga
What do you think? Did I miss any? Which practices are your favorite? Comment below:
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