One noted theology school listed the following spiritual benefits:
- Deepening spiritual awareness
- Expanded prayer life
- Experiencing peacefulness and connectedness
- Fostering unconditional love for self and others
- Community outreach
- Multigenerational / multicultural understanding
- Empowering creativity
- Opening the heart
- Increased self-knowledge and understanding
- Deepening connection with the Divine
- Stress management
- Healing grief and loss
Many walkers of the labyrinth report life-changing experiences, a sense of breaking through a barrier and finding answers--sometimes without even knowing they had a question. For example, Nancy Appling's life was changed when she first walked a labyrinth. Read her story in
"Walking the Labyrinth," by Caryn May in the
Source Weekly.
