Week 2 Wellness Experience: Spiritual Wellbeing

When you engage your spiritual side, you can feel purposeful, grounded, and balanced. This week, delve into a personal connection with something bigger than yourself. Allow this journey to refocus your direction in life, or simply allow yourself to notice something new. Either way, this week will help you feel more fulfilled.

Additional menu of options for week of Spiritual Wellbeing

Please choose a wellness activity from the menu below and practice it throughout the week. Please select an activity that you don’t already do, that will be an addition to your usual routine each week.

  • Engage in prayer or loving kindness practice --Take a few moments each day to focus your hopes and thoughts on someone or something outside yourself. This practice builds connection, improves relationships, and reduces depression. Learn how here: http://www.buddhanet.net/metta_in.htm.
  • Attend a spiritual/religious community gathering--- Faith and connection to a spiritual community are both strongly correlated with well-being. Explore/develop/affirm your spirituality in and through community: http://www.wesleyan.edu/orsl/weeklyservices.html
  • Participate in one or more special program or service that is being offered this week:
    • Practice holistic gratitude--Tell the people in your life what you appreciate about them, what you are grateful for, and the impact they’ve had on you. Not sure how to get started or looking for community to learn/share in this transformative practice? Monday, 2/8, at 4:30pm at the Spirituality Lounge at 169 High St.
    • Taizé Service:  Attend an ecumenical service of meditation, music, and chanting from the Christian tradition that was developed in a religious community in Taizé, France.  This service is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday (Feb 9) at 8:00pm in Allbritton 311.
    • Wearing Religious Identity-Hijab for a Day: A workshop in which the concept of wearing ones religious identity is explored. Students will be given the opportunity to wear clothing that is traditionally worn by Muslim men and women and then discuss their experience over dinner later in the evening. Meet in the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (169 High Street, 2nd floor) on Wednesday (Feb 10) at 10:00am then a discussion dinner at 6pm at at the Zelnick pavilion right outside Memorial Chapel.
    • Ash Wednesday Service:  An ecumenical Christian service commemorating Ash Wednesday will be held on Wednesday (Feb 10) at 12:15pm in Memorial Chapel.
    • Shabbat 101: Want to understand how Jews sing and dance?  Join us for a learner’s service filled with dance and sacred tunes on Friday (Feb 12) at 5:00pm in the Bayit at 157 Church St.
  • Get meaningful--Engage in an activity that feels personally meaningful to you this week. Develop a working personal mission statement that captures what you see as your current purpose in life. Having a larger sense of purpose helps us put things into perspective and overcome obstacles. It also contributes to a sense of belonging and value.
  • Coffee with a Chaplain/Spiritual Advisor---Thinking about existential questions? Looking to talk about relationships, justice, double majoring, or the meaning of life? Wes Chaplains are a confidential and non- judgmental resources and this week they are picking up the tab on java/cup of Joe. No need to make an appointment, here's our schedule (below) for bios see: wesleyan.edu/orsl

Chaplain

Location

Date

Time

 

Imam Kaiser

Pi Café

Monday, 2/8

4-5 pm

Usdan Café

Wednesday, 2/10

4-5 pm

Pi Café

Friday, 2/12

4-5 pm

 

Father Bill

Usdan Café

Wednesday, 2/10

7-8 pm

Pi Café

Thursday, 2/11

8-9 pm

Usdan Café

Friday, 2/12

7-8 pm

 

Rabbi David

Pi Café

Monday, 2/8

3-4 pm

Usdan Café

Tuesday, 2/9

2-3 pm

 

Rev. Tracy

Pi Café

Monday, 2/8-cancelled due to the snow!

10-11 am

Usdan Café

Tuesday, 2/9

3-4 pm

Pi Café

Thursday, 2/11

9:30-10:30am

Intern Jon

Usdan Café

Friday, 2/12

10am-12pm