Spirituality assessments provide a series of questions to reflect, identify, define essential components of life, and much more. The question and answer process supports the exploration of some deeper parts of individuality and existence that encourage people for self-care, transformation, and embodiment in better living, livelihood, life, love, and learning.
Spiritual needs with inquiry topics vary at the different stages of the cancer journey and life in general. You may wish to revisit these questions at times of transition and profound introspection. Some of your answers may evolve depending upon the circumstances. You can also add other questions and answers that feel important.
These spirituality assessments were created through a review of spirituality assessment tools used in health care, including for cancer patients, cancer caregivers, people focused on cancer prevention, and anyone else of interest. Explore spirituality assessments with an open mind and heart. Some people like to write answers, talk them through with another person, or discuss with groups of individuals. Of course, the choice is up to you.
Meaning, Purpose, and Joy
What activities and experiences in your daily life are joyful and provide deep fulfillment? When are you most happy?
What gives your life meaning?
What is your most definite sense of the meaning of your life at this time?
What is your purpose? Where does that come from in your awareness?
How can you embody your meaning and purpose more?
Does your life reflect these beliefs and values?
What is your style of action?
What are your greatest hopes and dreams? What encourages them? How can you maintain a stable connection with your ideas and pursue them more fully?
What do you fear? What supports your fears? Are you ready to transform into faith?
What feelings, activities, and experiences in your life are not life-giving and instead life-draining? Are you ready to move through, release, and embody clarity in yourself and life?
What do you value most in life?
What are you grateful for and consider it on many levels?
Love, Belonging, and Connection
What people in your life are meaningful? Do you have deep connections together?
What characteristics give those connections their meaning?
How do you engage those connections and relationships?
How do you feel a sense of connection with the world?
What do you hold close that you do not tell others or even yourself?
What and where do you want to give voice?
What do you think people see as your predominant qualities?
What personal qualities are less visible that you would like to show more?
How and where do you give your love?
How and where do you receive love?
What are the greatest gifts you have given?
What are the greatest gifts you have received?
What sustains you during challenging times?
What comforts and encourages you the most?
What are specific ways that you communicate and make decisions more from your intellect or your heart?
How can you love more?
Life Review
What are your most significant accomplishments and successes?
What are you most proud of about yourself and life?
What have been your most formative life experiences?
What people have influenced you the most in your life, and how have they impacted you?
What are your biggest regrets and disappointments? Do you feel a need to incorporate acceptance and forgiveness in these areas? If so, how can you do that?
Where do you live your life fully?
Where do you not live your life fully? Where do you hold back?
What can you do to come more fully into yourself and life? What are your goals?
If you had one last day in your life, what would you do?
What will be your legacy?
Spiritual Engagement
How do you define your religion and/or spirituality?
What do you believe in spiritually that gives meaning to your life? How do you define that presence?
What importance does your beliefs and faith in your life? How do you define them?
How do your belief system and faith influence your mindset and how you take care of yourself?
How does your religion and/or spiritual transform challenges into opportunities?
What are your spiritual values, and how do you live them?
Are your religion and/or spirituality connected in the community? Is it a source of support, and if so, in what ways?
What people in your life do you talk with for reflections and guidance about religious and/or spiritual matters? How do you nurture those connections?
Who in your life truly sees who you are?
What is your daily practice of contemplation and connection through religion and/or spirituality?
How do you define and use prayer, meditation, and/or other practices in your life?
What are some of your life experiences, if any, where you felt a strong religious and/or spiritual presence?
What is your relationship with silence and stillness?
Who are you? Are you more than your physical body?
How do you experience your spirit’s presence?
What is your core? What is your essence? What is your center?
Soul & Soul’s Evolution
Are you aware of your soul? How do you define and experience it’s existence?
Is your soul internal or external? What is your connection as an individual?
How did you feel your soul early in your life compared to now? How did it change over time?
How do you experience your soul’s presence and expanded force?
Are you aware of your soul’s development and the soul’s evolution?
Do you recognize an evolved awareness with what you are meant to do in this lifetime?
What do you see about transformation with your meaning and purpose in your soul’s evolution?’
Are you ready to embrace and embody to both transform and transmit?
Do you have knowledge and wisdom about higher levels of consciousness incorporated with your soul and soul’s evolution?
Do you have insights into past, present, and future lives? Are you aware of ways to embrace the script?
Bottom Line
I commend you for pondering some aspects of this spiritual assessment. Feel free to learn more here about integrative whole person strategies and ways I can support your journey.
