There is a very close connection between “Spiritual and Emotional Health” that is what we will try to discuss in this article. We have already studied in a previous post related to being Spiritual but not religious that spirituality is all about internal situation and nothing related to the dogmas we normally associated with religion. Some of the components of spirituality and spiritual health are as follows:

Spiritual Health

1. Meditation
2. Yoga
3. Practicing religion and rituals
4. Studying and reading about Spirituality
5. Reading the texts that deal with spirituality
6. Being a part of religious teachings and learning
7. Having a Guru and following his teachings can also lead to spiritual development

It is up to you to choose the path that suits you the most. We have discussed in most of our articles about all the paths that we have mentioned above.   Each path can work for a different person. The aim of all these paths is the same. Each religion and each culture have their own version of attaining the spiritual health and growth. Spirituality has many benefits some of them are:

1. It can improve your physical health
2. It can make you more calm and matured as a person
3. It can help you to get close to the divinity and experience a sense of peace
4. It can make you emotionally more secure and happy
5. It can improve your mental health and also make you more strong as a person
6. It can improve your knowledge about others and improve your inter personal skills
7. It can improve your ability to concentrate and as a result you can see your quality of life improving
8. It can take you closer to god and make you feel blessed
9. It can help you to look at the deeper meaning of life and appreciate your religion even better.
10. It can make you more knowledgeable as a person lead to your overall development.

You can look at developing your spiritual health at any age. The earlier you start to learn about the spirituality the better it will be for you and your family. It is not something that is meant for the Sanyasi. It is something even the householders and the working people can learn and pursue. We will now explain how spirituality can help you become emotionally healthy. First let us understand the emotional problems that we all face:

1. Anger for no reason and we shout at others only to regret it later.
2. Depression is another emotional problem that many of us deal with.
3. Frustration and taking it out on our family members is another mistake we often do.
4. Taking unnecessary stress and as a result spoiling our emotional and physical health is another problem that we need to deal with.
5. We tend to long for things that we do not have as a result we feel more depressed and we become more unhappy and upset.

There are many such emotional problems that we all need to deal with on a regular basis. We will now discuss how you can handle these emotional problems when you get deeper into spirituality and improve your spiritual health.

When you are in sound spiritual health, you realize how meaningful life is and how you can make the most out of life. You tend to feel happier and you have a better control over your mind and soul. As your control over the mind improves it ensures that you can channelize your mind to more positive emotions is life and do away with hate, jealousy and anger.

As you are able to control your emotions you will notice that you do not get angry easily and neither do you shout at others. Your level of patience increase and you are more control of the situation. You will notice that more and more people around you are pleas your company and your friends and family will like opening up to you. Your personal relations will improve and you will feel more positive as a person.

You often are not able to concentrate and your mind keeps diverting into things that will perhaps never happen. This is exactly why you must try spirituality as it will help you to focus on things that matter. As your work improves you will feel less frustrated and eventually you will see an overall development in your quality of life.

We hope that you must have understood by now that how spiritual and emotional health goes hand in hand. In case you are emotionally not strong and suffer from insecurities then you must definitely try learning about spirituality for a better and improved life.