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Spiritual wellbeing in New South Wales

Connect with your inner spirit using spiritual wellbeing providers.

Spiritual wellbeing is not only for religious, spiritual practice or ideology, but also to the human need for meaning, purpose and connection to something greater than ourselves.

In this article, Dr. Jackie Bailey talks about the need, in current day Australian society, to use four skills to maintain our spiritual wellbeing : reflection, courage, connection and mindfulness.

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Typical things to do for improved Spiritual Wellbeing :

  • Yoga, meditation, introspection
  • A weekend at a sanctuary to experience a simple, tranquil life in prayer & rhythms
  • Connection to the culture & community around us
  • Emersion in healing rituals
  • Connection to self, others and the environment around us
  • Engaging with spiritual or religious practices and communities
  • Find and maintaining purpose and meaning

Wellbeing PERMA

The PERMA acronym is a model of Wellbeing theory in the field of positive psychology, by Martin Seligman. PERMA makes up five important building blocks of wellbeing and happiness:

Positive Emotion : feeling good. Including hope, interest, joy, love, compassion, pride, amusement, and gratitude. From exercise, meeting friends, being out in nature, seeing sights, sounds, smells, tastes…

Engagement : being completely absorbed in activities. Living in the present moment and focusing entirely on the task at hand.

Relationships : being authentically connected to others. Feeling supported, loved, and/or valued by others

Meaning : purposeful existence. Belonging and/or serving something greater than ourselves

Accomplishment : a sense of accomplishment and success. Achievement, mastery, competence, attaining goals…

Wellbeing Service

Services relating to the people & groups served

Experience Type

This is a categorisation of the wellbeing experience activity that, in some way, improves your overall Wellbeing

Entertainment : passive watching where you appreciate the activity or performance

Aesthetic : passively engrossed in the beauty or artistic qualities of an object, and not it’s functionality

Sensory : where the activity engages & focuses on one or two of your 5 senses; touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste

Learning : you actively absorb the experience. The activity enhances your knowledge or a skill

Participation : active participation in the activity, where your actions have an effect on the outcome

Volunteer : freely giving your time or knowledge to help others

Embodiment : putting an idea, thought or concept into a physical form or action

Transformation : an activity that takes you from one state (of body, mind or spirit) to a new desired state

Physical , Occupational , Financial , Spiritual
Intellectual , Environmental , Emotional , Social

Wellbeing Dimension

These 8 Wellbeing Dimensions are commonly used in Wellbeing frameworks, to highlight and seperate the various aspects of our lives.

We use these 8 dimensions to categorise listings for better findability, using the filter options.