How can environmental variables and personal challenges affect religious commitment and spirituality, and what is the way to return to a state of piety and devotion after a period of estrangement?

One must adopt the means of steadfastness, such as accompanying the righteous, frequenting Islamic centers, listening to sermons and lessons, and striving against the self with gentleness and leniency to gradually accustom it to goodness, while adhering to remembrance (dhikr) and supplication (du'a), and contemplating God's beautiful attributes and having a good opinion of Him.