There are many ways to work on having a better body image, but have you ever thought about how spirituality could help? Read on for three spiritual practices for improving your body image. 

The divine feminine is a higher power that helps you find balance in your life and become a better version of yourself. Some people believe that only people who identify as women can or should have relationships with the divine feminine, but this isn’t true.

A sacred space carries with it spiritual power. Have you ever visited a place that just felt more divine to you? Perhaps when you were there you found yourself speaking in a whisper without realizing it. Maybe you felt inclined to kneel, or to turn your eyes to the sky. A sacred space is a powerful tool for developing spirituality.

People are less religious now than they used to be. One Pew Research survey showed that in 2017, the percentage of people in the U.S. who said they were not religious was 24%, a value that had tripled the percentage from only 25 years previously.

“I’m tired.” This is the new go-to answer to the question, “How are you?” You’ve probably responded this way before (we all have). And you say it with this little smile, usually followed by a sigh, as if your universal tiredness is a sweet joke or a fact of life.

Eating can be a spiritual experience. In fact, we argue that it should be a spiritual experience. Several religions incorporate rituals or health codes surrounding eating (or not eating). For thousands of years, people have gathered to share meals with one another. Many people choose to pray before they eat.

The Latin root of the word “compassion” means “to suffer with”. But it doesn’t just involve suffering with someone; it also involves being motivated to act as a result of suffering with someone. This brings out the paradox in exercising compassion: you act out of love for someone else by sharing their pain with them.

The fact that we’re even writing an article about the benefits of getting into “nature” shows that there’s a huge problem in how we’re living: we’re seeing nature as separate from ourselves. In reality, humans are part of the interconnected web of nature that makes up our world.