SPIRITUAL SELF

PRESENTER: FRANCENE O. SAMANIEGO

SPIRITUAL SELF

 It is an ongoing, personal life

journey, contextualized by the
belief in a Higher Being,
culture, relationships, nature,
and the discovery of meaning
in one’s life.
SPIRITUALITY
 It is the aspect of self that is
associated to an individual’s
process of seeking and
expressing meaning by
connecting self to significant
and sacred matters.
(Puchalski, 2014)
SPIRITUALITY
 “is a personal and private
beliefs that transcend the
material aspects of life and give
a deep sense of wholeness,
connectedness, and openness to
the infinite.”
(Myers and his colleagues, 2000).
SPIRITUALITY

 Therefore, spirituality focuses on the individual’s

connections to different aspects of one’s existence
including other people, nature, and to sacredness
and divinity. This is to answer one’s pursuit to the
meaning of life.
SPIRITUALITY

 It is something that is not

innate, rather develops
overtime through different
interactions of an individual-
personal, social and
environmental factors.
RELIGIOSITY

 It pertains to adherence to
one belief system as
agreed upon through
different traditions and
practices to be done.
RELIGIOSITY

 It is a formal attachment
to the set of beliefs,
values, and practices of
a particular religious
sect.
 DIFFERENCES
RELIGIOSITY SPIRITUALITY

Communal Individual
Beliefs and practices Spiritual Quest and
within religious group Inner Peace

A person can be spiritual without being religious

HOW IS SPIRITUALITY ENHANCED?

It lies within the self.

Practice constant reflection

Meditation of life choices and decisions

Develop empathy and compassion towards other people

Faith in a Higher Being.

HOW IS SPIRITUALITY ENHANCED?

Connection with Nature

 The spiritual self is not just relating self with God and
other people, it is also about how people relate
themselves to nature.
HOW IS SPIRITUALITY ENHANCED?
Connection with Nature

“nature-connectedness”

Affinity the extent to which individuals include nature

as part of their identity.

feel that they are one with nature, then destroying it

can mean self-destruction and vice versa.
THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES ON
DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
1. Meaning in Life

 Finding meaning in life does not mean that people

should strive to be perfect, thus, even in times of
great loss and deep sorrow, finding meaning in life is
still possible.
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DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
2. Will to Meaning

 The meaning one attaches to experience may vary

from individual to individual. With this, individual
must discover the means to fulfilled experience.
THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES ON
DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
3. Freedom to Will

 People are given freedom to make own decisions

which respond to how they respond to life events.
 People discover meanings through the value that
they attach to things connected with their lives.
THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES ON
DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
3. Freedom to Will

Values can be:

 Creative- artistic expression or by creating a work
or doing a deed
THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES ON
DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
3. Freedom to Will

Values can be:

 Experiential- interacting with social environment
or by experiencing/ encountering something
THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES ON
DISCOVERING MEANING IN LIFE
3. Freedom to Will

Values can be:

 Attitudinal-the attitude people take toward
unavoidable suffering.