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Table 3

Spiritual practices – categories (48–100%) and quotations

Lower-level categories	Quotations
Self-reflection, self-analysis, perspective	“I have to be grateful because even with some difficult times, things have had an effect and I have quality of life (…) so this exercise is perhaps the first and the one that I do most regularly, which is the question of being grateful (…), the exercise that I do regularly is trying to understand myself, ok, it makes it much easier my experience (…) with myself and with others. But it is a difficult exercise and it is an evolutionary exercise” (P1); “I try to be a correct person, a person (…) who helps others, a person who does what is right, that is, guiding myself by certain values. This is very important to me. Feeling that I am doing good, I am helping people, I am helping myself and my people, I am being fair. I don’t know if you can call it that, but for me that’s spirituality and it contributes to my well-being. Another thing that I also try to do more and more is to live in the present (…) give thanks to God for what you have” (P4)
Contact/connection/part of nature	“in my relationship with nature (…) I am very passionate about [an outdoor sport], and (…) for me these sensations (…) that I have, unconsciously and consciously, sometimes I give them a more transcendental dimension, I don’t know, I can’t explain, there is a concept that is fluidity (…) the flow, to be a flow” (P2); “The spirituality that I live today is really more connected (…) to nature (…) I like nature a lot, and therefore, hiking and walking outdoors (…) opportunity to really, sometimes, think about things and find some peace, and really see the beauty of things (…) because there is this contemplation (…) if the relationship with things and with the world is spirituality, therefore, this will be the experience I currently have” (P15)
Meditation	“I’ve been discovering meditation lately, which I couldn’t either, and I think it makes us better, because many times, with the aggressiveness of the world, in general, our tendency is to respond, or if we don’t tend to respond, it’s feeling bad, or both, and I think it’s a little bit to be able to have that calm and that inner peace” (P8); “you can either take it personally, or not, or you can contextualize it (…) this requires training, it requires a lot of mental exercise. For example, I try to do meditation, because of that too, because meditation helps us a lot to having that serenity, and the ability not to act reactively and emotionally, in situations (…) then you have different types of meditation” (P12)

Lower-level categories	Quotations
Self-reflection, self-analysis, perspective	“I have to be grateful because even with some difficult times, things have had an effect and I have quality of life (…) so this exercise is perhaps the first and the one that I do most regularly, which is the question of being grateful (…), the exercise that I do regularly is trying to understand myself, ok, it makes it much easier my experience (…) with myself and with others. But it is a difficult exercise and it is an evolutionary exercise” (P1);“I try to be a correct person, a person (…) who helps others, a person who does what is right, that is, guiding myself by certain values. This is very important to me. Feeling that I am doing good, I am helping people, I am helping myself and my people, I am being fair. I don’t know if you can call it that, but for me that’s spirituality and it contributes to my well-being. Another thing that I also try to do more and more is to live in the present (…) give thanks to God for what you have” (P4)
Contact/connection/part of nature	“in my relationship with nature (…) I am very passionate about [an outdoor sport], and (…) for me these sensations (…) that I have, unconsciously and consciously, sometimes I give them a more transcendental dimension, I don’t know, I can’t explain, there is a concept that is fluidity (…) the flow, to be a flow” (P2);“The spirituality that I live today is really more connected (…) to nature (…) I like nature a lot, and therefore, hiking and walking outdoors (…) opportunity to really, sometimes, think about things and find some peace, and really see the beauty of things (…) because there is this contemplation (…) if the relationship with things and with the world is spirituality, therefore, this will be the experience I currently have” (P15)
Meditation	“I’ve been discovering meditation lately, which I couldn’t either, and I think it makes us better, because many times, with the aggressiveness of the world, in general, our tendency is to respond, or if we don’t tend to respond, it’s feeling bad, or both, and I think it’s a little bit to be able to have that calm and that inner peace” (P8);“you can either take it personally, or not, or you can contextualize it (…) this requires training, it requires a lot of mental exercise. For example, I try to do meditation, because of that too, because meditation helps us a lot to having that serenity, and the ability not to act reactively and emotionally, in situations (…) then you have different types of meditation” (P12)

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