Q&A for How to Become More Spiritual

You could start each morning when you wake up by greeting the new day. You might want to meditate, if you feel like it, or just have your breakfast and enjoy every bite of it. Before you go to sleep at night, think of three nice things that happened and be thankful for these experiences.

There is no special rite to convert yourself to Buddhism. You only have to truly want to follow the Buddha's teachings.

A religion is a set of beliefs that a group of people subscribe to, while spirituality a personal journey that takes place within oneself.

Anger is a natural emotion and only negatively affects your spiritual health if you feed it negative energy or push it aside and do not reflect on how to see this in better light. Acknowledging your emotions, good and bad, and letting them flow through you, is a healthy habit.

Whatever you put in focus, you set in motion! So focus on what you love or like and make it reality.

Different groups have preferences on food, but spirituality is growing the soul, so instead of normal food it requires spiritual food or knowledge to grow it. So your diet can be regulated but only to keep your body healthy while you grow your soul.

Many people feel this way. You may want to take a more spiritual approach to life to find more fulfillment and discover your true self.

No, you don't need to stop your sexual relationship with your wife - you're married! The very strict spiritual paths that don't allow sex also do not allow marriage. Plenty of married people have fulfilling spiritual and sexual lives - otherwise no religious families would have any children. Sexual desire for your partner is not bad. Consult a leader of your faith if you are concerned about various sexual behaviors, or extramarital or premarital sexual desires - different groups have different ideas about these issues.

If you're initiating a discussion of your spiritual development with a woman, that's probably a significant relationship you're talking about. Make sure you have a handle on your strengths and weaknesses and your spiritual goals before raising the topic. Being able to honestly evaluate and articulate where you think you're at will make for a better, more authentic conversation.

Some people believe different colored candles bring different energies. If you don't believe that, you don't need to burn colored candles.

If you are ruminating on bad thoughts, acknowledge that you are doing it. As you can only have one thought at a time, start looking at objects or people around you and focus on thinking positive things about them. If you are looking at an object, name it quietly in your mind and then move on to the next, do this as long as you feel is neccessary.

If you're afraid of him, then you absolutely must leave him before something happens to you. Confide in a family member or friend who can offer you support as you plan how this can happen. If necessary, you can call an abuse support hotline for assistance in planning how to get out of this relationship safely.

It's normal to get angry sometimes, so your expectations for yourself may be unrealistic. That said, if you feel that anger is a problem for you, start to explore what, exactly, makes you so angry in various situations where you think anger isn't warranted? Is it lack of control over circumstances or other people? Disappointments when your expectations aren't met? Through prayer and counseling and self-reflection, you might get to the root of your anger and begin to experience more victory over it.

Daily you should read the bible Psalm 91 and the Beatitudes. Pray and talk to God about your depression, your sadness caused by this divorce and pray for your parents. Ask others to pray for you.

You can do whatever you want. Don't let anyone pressure you into having sex if you don't want to. If they threaten to leave the relationship, that's not fair of them. Sex will definitely affect your spiritual life. But in a positive sense. It is a passionate, intimate and intense experience, not just physically, but mentally as well. The intimacy can lead to a deeper trust between you two, strengthening your relationship and giving you peace of mind. But if you want to save sex until after you're married, do so. Or get married.

Yes, you can. It just requires you to connect to something spiritually.

Try to think about the things that make you laugh when you feel negative. You probably won't laugh in the moment, but you'll probably smile. Think about jokes you've heard and how corny they are. Think about the people who make you happy. To free yourself from negative thoughts, have positive thoughts. Or at least try. Smiling also automatically makes you feel happy, try it!