12 of The Most Spiritual Things We Can Practice

Sep 24

2 min read

Some of the most “spiritual” things we do, don’t look spiritual at all. They happen in the ordinary moments and in our ability to slow down enough to recognize the sacredness in the everyday.

Noticing

Attending to what is here: breath, light, sensation, sound.
Benefit: Interrupts autopilot and anchors you in the only moment that actually exists.

Being

Sitting in stillness without agenda - doing nothing “productive”.
Benefit: Dissolves the identity of the doer and reveals that you are enough without achievement.

Conscious Breathing

Using breath to return to the present.
Benefit: The fastest bridge between your mind & body. Regulates emotion and creates a felt sense of home you carry everywhere.

Creating

Making something with your hands without striving for “good”.
Benefit: Gives inner experience physical form, bypasses your analytical mind, restores a childlike relationship to expression before judgment existed.

Playing

Engaging in anything purposeless, done purely for delight.
Benefit: Play suspends self-consciousness and time - one of the few states where we are fully present without effort.

Dancing/moving freely

Letting the body lead rather than the mind.
Benefit: Releases held emotion stored in tissues, builds trust in the body’s intelligence, and turns movement into listening

Laughing

Real, unguarded laughter.
Benefit: An instant surrender of control and your body’s way of releasing tension, reconnecting us to joy and to each other.

Touching Slowly

Feeling water on your hands, clay between your fingers, feet on the ground.
Benefit: Sensory contact is presence in its most direct form - grounding the mind in physical reality.

Witnessing

Being fully present to another person without fixing, analyzing, or interrupting.
Benefit: One of the deepest forms of love. Being witnessed heals the loneliness of carrying things alone.

Resting

Choosing sleep, stillness, or pause without guilt.
Benefit: Rest is an act of trust - that you don’t have to hold everything up. It’s where integration happens.

Grieving

Letting sorrow move through rather than around you.
Benefit: Grief fully felt keeps the heart soft instead of armored.

Gratitude

Pausing to feel (not just list) what is good.
Benefit: It shifts attention from lack to sufficiency and physically changes emotional baseline over time.

None of these require belief, technique, or mastery. They're all forms of making contact - with the body, the moment, other people, or the material world.

When we practice these twelve things, we remember what it feels like to be with ourselves without needing to change anything.

From my heart to yours,

xx Lauren