How to Use Dice for Spiritual Practices

Using dice offers such an enormous range of possibilities that I know I won’t be able to cover it all. What I hope to achieve here is enough to encourage you to create your own unique system of using dice as part of your spiritual practice.

The best way to start is to be sure you have at least one journal set aside for this process. This can be a digital notetaking app or a physical book, or you can work with whatever you feel comfortable with. You may like to have two journals, one for exploring ideas and another for your actual game practices.

You can use this idea with one or many dice, physical dice, or a dice app, and I’ve added dice rolling buttons to relevant pages.

I love working with the Dungeons and Dragons Dice, which offer a whole range of potential numbers and are available as an app. You can purchase gorgeous physical dice from places like Amazon or Etsy at a relatively low cost. This provides the following numbered dice: D4; D6; D8; D10; D12; D20; D100 the D10 and D100 are often used together to assign a percentage.

However, you can start by exploring the potential of this system using what you have readily available. I’ve created examples for each of the possibilities listed in the Dice Menu and provided some blank templates so you can quickly create your own.

Before you begin, it’s important that you make sure you have set some objectives for your spiritual practice. Just like any endeavour, we can break it down into small, manageable chunks ideal for assigning to the roll of a dice.

For example, boundaries are a common issue for spiritual people. Make notes on the people and situations where your boundaries are weak, where you find yourself depleted because you don’t assert your needs. Equally note the times when you are most potent, capable, and confident in asserting your needs. If the latter is a struggle for you, then take it outside of the context of boundaries and getting your needs met, and instead look at anything or anyone in your life that inspires you to be more assertive and more confident, that gives you a sense of personal agency and power these will form your personal power-ups.

New Dice Cards and templates will be added periodically. Subscribe to be notified of updates, and check back here whenever you want to bring some spontaneity to your spiritual practice. Don’t forget to look out for part two of this gamification adventure. This will include getting creative, using avatars or alter egos, plus building a gamified life to create a more fulfilling spiritual practice inspired by themes from your favourite game, movie, TV show or fictional book.