Introduction to Spirituality
                     ALL ABOUT SPIRITUALITY
What is spirituality?
 Spirituality is something that’s talked about a lot 
but is often misunderstood. Many people think that 
spirituality and religion are the same thing, and so 
they bring their beliefs and prejudices about 
religion to discussions about spirituality.
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Spirituality is a way of gaining 
perspective
 Spirituality recognises that your role in life has a 
greater value than what you do every day. It can 
relieve you from dependence on material things 
and help you to understand your life’s greater 
purpose. Spirituality can also be used as a way of 
coping with change or uncertainty.
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Vision of human existence
 ‘Spirituality’ stands for lifestyles and practices that 
embody a vision of human existence and how the 
human spirit is to achieve its full potential.
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Origin
 During the last quarter of the twentieth century, 
the concept of spirituality moved well beyond its 
origins in Christianity and even beyond religion 
itself. 
 It is now a broadly based quest for spiritual 
experience and spiritual practices expressed in a 
variety of ways.  The term spirituality is being 
increasingly used in the professional world such as 
healthcare and business.
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Spiritual Practices
 Spiritual practices are regular, disciplined activities 
related to spiritual development. They enable 
people to progress along a path towards whatever 
they see as the ultimate goal of human life. 
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Styles of meditation
 Spiritual practices include various styles of 
meditation and contemplation, artistic practices, 
going away on solitary retreats, or undertaking a 
pilgrimage to a religious shrine or place of religious 
power.
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Spiritual Capital
 The term ‘spiritual capital’ refers to the potential 
value of spirituality to our everyday lives. This 
concept is to be used in favour of a humanely 
productive or successful life and involves 
quantifying the value to society at large of spiritual, 
moral, or psychological beliefs and practices.
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Spiritual intelligence
 ‘Spiritual intelligence’ seeks to provide a spiritual 
equivalent to the importance in human flourishing 
of the intellect and of the emotions. The cultivation 
of spiritual intelligence enables us to better access 
our deepest meaning and highest motivations.
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Secular spirituality
 Spirituality that appears in non-religious contexts is 
often called ‘secular spirituality’.
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