Faith can provide individuals with a sense of hope, comfort, and resilience during difficult times. It can serve as a source of strength and motivation, helping people to maintain a positive outlook and persevere through challenges. Faith often involves a belief in a higher power or a greater purpose, which can provide a sense of meaning and guidance during adversity. Additionally, faith communities and religious practices can offer social support, encouragement and a sense of belonging, which can be very beneficial.. Studies have found that religion/spirituality can be a powerful resource and are related to self reports of well-being. People who have faith/religion tend to have less anxiety, depression and have more stability in their lives. It is important to note that the impact of religion/faith varies; it is personal and subjective. Many people today are moving away from religion, but maintain a spiritual connection and a belief in loving creator.
There are several meanings of faith that apply …
Faith is a belief in something bigger and essentially good:. For some that is God, Allah, spirit,
the universe, growth, nature, and love ❤️
Faith also means hope and trusting that things can get better ❤️🩹
Faith can also mean believing in yourself and your own resilience.
How faith helps;
It can be helpful to have faith in something that is bigger than ourselves.
It can be helpful to have faith that is strong enough to get us through tough times.
It can be helpful to have a faith that connects us to our higher self so we can become all we can be.
Ultimately we can rely on Faith that in the face of being rejected, attacked, criticized or even loosing everything – we have a belief, a trust that somehow on the other side of the challenge, we will triumph with strength, wisdom and resilience, or at least survive.
The benefits of integrating faith into therapy may Include turning;
- Tension into relaxation….
- Sadness into happiness…
- Discouragement into empowerment…
- Hopelessness into hope….
- Irritation into patience ….
- Judging into acceptance …
- Constriction Into expansion …
- Jealousy Into Encouragement …
- Unhappiness Into Joy …
- Self doubt Into Confidence …
- Fears Into Faith…
