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Spiritual care: is it the nurse's role?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper argues that although health-care professionals claim to deliver holistic care, spirituality is overlooked. This may be because of lack of recognition of this role in nursing and secularization of the contemporary society. The findings of this descriptive exploratory study originated from nurses (n = 77), chaplains (n = 71) and patients with myocardial infarction (n = 53). Spiritual care was perceived as an integral part of the nurse's role in liaison with the interdisciplinary team. While taking into consideration the factors which may inhibit or enhance the delivery of spiritual care, recommendations address fu...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - March 27, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Donia R. Baldacchino Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

The spiritual brain: a neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul, By Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary, New York: HarperOne, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-085883-4, 368 pagesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - March 27, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

New horizons aheadEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - December 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Tags: Editorials Source Type: journals

Digest - a review of research, literature, music and mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - November 5, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Niko Kohls Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - November 4, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Presentation of editorial/advisory boardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - November 4, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Mindfulness and stress reactivity: a preliminary investigationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study supports the validity of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, indicating that people who score more highly on this measure of mindfulness show less marked cardiovascular reactivity to a low-grade mental stress task. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 16, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Timothy C. Skinner, Carla Anstey, Sharon Baird, Meg Foreman, Ashley Kelly, Chris Magee Source Type: journals

An exploration of spirituality, spiritual beliefs and paediatric rehabilitationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussions around the concepts then took place with service providers from multiple disciplines, administrators, advisory board members, childhood disability researchers and parents of children and youth with disabilities. Practice implications from the literature and from the discussions resulted in six recommendations related to implementation of holistic care to address the spiritual needs of children and youth with disabilities and their families within the context of paediatric rehabilitation. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 14, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Patricia J. Baldwin, Janette McDougall, Jan Evans Source Type: journals

Spirituality and health: a knowledge, attitude and practice study among doctors of North IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among doctors of North India (n = 250) with the help of self-administered questionnaire. The mean age of doctors was 42.18 years (standard deviation = 9.108). Of the total respondents, 74.35% were male and 25.65% were female; 65.65% had a strong or very strong belief in the spiritual dimension of health; 55.22% believed in the preventive role of spirituality; 80% believed in the curative role of spirituality and a similar proportion held the view that spirituality has an important role in day-to-day patient care; and 92.5% wanted to know more about the scientific work being done in the...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 9, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Rahul Bansal, Khan Amir Maroof, Pawan Parashar, Bhawna Pant Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 24, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Niko Kohls Source Type: journals

Healing with 'spirits': ethical issues arising from neoshamanistic practices and similar forms of alternative healingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The communication with spirits in the 'non-ordinary reality' (NOR) represents a central element in neoshamanistic treatment methods. Shamanistic practitioners each have their own personal 'power animals' or 'spirit helpers'. These provide information that is used both for diagnostic purposes and for everyday practical decisions. Even in the healing rituals, it is not the shamanistic practitioners who initiate the healing process but the spirits. On the one hand, this viewpoint leads to a certain humility, but on the other hand, it also presents the question of responsibility because the helping spirits from the NOR are mad...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Gerhard Mayer Source Type: journals

Rehabilitation nurses' experiences providing spiritual careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine rehabilitation nurses' experiences providing spiritual care. Rehabilitation nurses provide care for patients and their families after life-threatening events and are in a unique position to meet holistic health care needs. Little is written about rehabilitation nurses' perceptions of providing spiritual care. Fourteen rehabilitation nurses self-identified as providing spiritual care and agreed to participate in individual interviews. The interviews focused on the nurses' definition of spiritual care, interventions the nurses perceived as spiritual and their comfort ...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Mary Catherine Gebhardt Source Type: journals

The most precious resourceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Nurturing a new discourse: mental health and spiritualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On the 1 November 2006, Staffordshire University, in partnership with the National Institute for Mental Health in England and the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum, organized a multi-faith symposium on perspectives in mental health involving all nine of the major faiths and the Humanists, with a strong user voice. It is planned that a series of symposia on related topics will be held on an annual or biannual basis. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - July 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Peter Gilbert Source Type: journals

The development of a scale to measure the experience of spiritual connection and the correlation between this experience and valuesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous research shows religiosity (across several religions) is associated with conservative values (tradition, conformity and security) from the Schwartz value scale and not with spiritually oriented, self-transcendent values. The relationship between religiosity and spirituality is controversial. We developed a 48-item scale, the Spiritual Connection Questionnaire (SCQ)-48, to measure experience and beliefs of spiritual connection, an aspect of spirituality that is consistent with religious and non-religious or New Age interpretations of spirituality. We selected 14 items (SCQ-14) that best predicted health and then te...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - May 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Philippa Wheeler, Michael E. Hyland Source Type: journals

Presentation of editorial/advisory boardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - April 30, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Digest - a review of research, literature, music and mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - April 30, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Niko Kohls Source Type: journals

Faith, experience, actionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - April 28, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - April 28, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Attitudes to mysticism: relationship with personality in Western and Eastern mystical traditionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conceptually, attitudes to mysticism, is related to, but distinguishable from, mystical experience. Empirical data that attitudes to mysticism and mystical experience bear different relationships with personality traits such as psychoticism will provide good grounds for distinguishing these variables. Personality correlates of these two variables were assessed in this study; the latter was more directly linked with psychoticism. Comparisons were also made of how Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Pagans scored on measures of attitudes to mysticism and of mystical experience. Buddhists and Pagans scored significantly higher on...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - April 8, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Anthony C. Edwards, Michael J. Lowis Source Type: journals

Mindfulness groups in palliative care: a pilot qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, the study raises some themes and issues around mindfulness in palliative care which might enrich future practice and research. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - March 21, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Paul Chadwick, Tracey Newell, Chas Skinner Source Type: journals

Healing as a creative art: opportunities to provide for the spiritual health of families when children need critical careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Children's Hospital science, wisdom and compassion must be interwoven into the fabric of everyday in order for the children and their families to heal and the staff caring for them to remain healthy. The challenge is to practise both the art and science of medicine and to respond to the different cultural and spiritual beliefs of those brought together by a child's illness.This paper summarizes the special needs of parents and children in the ICU, the obstacles and opportunities encountered by staff, and research from Vancouver which helps those who provide holistic and spiritually orie...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - March 20, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Andrew Macnab Source Type: journals

Neurobiological perspectives of free will and freedom of choiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The issue of free will and freedom of choice has been debated by countless theologians and philosophers throughout the history of mankind, but only recently have neuroscientists begun to address the subject from a neurobiological perspective. In this paper we explore the potential contributions of neurosciences towards answering the question of whether free will exists in humans and its potential neurobiological correlate. To accomplish this, we discuss the neural mechanisms of free will from two perspectives: that of voluntary movement and the stimulus response paradigm. We also address the role of awareness in free will ...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - March 19, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Daniel A. Drubach Source Type: journals

The elusiveness of spiritual wisdom in the art and science of nursing practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As two students and a teacher immersed in practice education at a Canadian nursing school. We were curious about how to engage in spiritual health care practice, viewed as relational nursing practice that assumes interconnections of spirit, health and healing. This paper explores how to interpret theoretical understandings into pragmatics of teaching, learning and engaging in spiritual health care practice. There is discussion about story telling, taking a stand of 'not knowing' (Irving and Moffatt, 2002), opening space for diversity, authentic dialogue across, within and through difference to inform pragmatic ways of know...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - February 25, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jeannine Moreau Source Type: journals

Wounds that heal: theology, imagination and health, Edited by J. Baxter, London: SPCK, 2007, ISBN 978-0-281-05830-3Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - February 25, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Helen L. Leathard Source Type: journals

Digest - a review of research, literature, music and mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - February 4, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Niko Kohls Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - January 30, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - January 30, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Spaghetti Monster and quality control - new religions taking overEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - January 30, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Source Type: journals

Spirituality and depression: the role of spirituality in the process of recovering from depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explored the role of spirituality in the process of recovering from depression. The findings revealed that spirituality played a significant role for participants in their recovery from depression and that it was experienced as connections. Connections enabled participants to form relationships with God/Higher Power, self, others and nature, and through these relationships participants found meaning and purpose in their lives. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - January 22, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sarojni Rajakumar, Carol Jillings, Margaret Osborne, Paula Tognazzini Source Type: journals

The concept of spirituality: its role within health promotion practice in the Republic of IrelandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Spirituality is increasingly recognized as a key determinant of health, and it has been adopted by the World Health Organization as part of its seven principles of health promotion. However, little is known about the extent to which it is incorporated into health promotion practice. This paper reports on a survey on spirituality and its perceived role in health and well-being among Health Promotion Officers within Health Promotion Services in the Republic of Ireland. Although the importance of spiritual health promotion was recognized, it was discussed within health promotion practice relatively infrequently. The need for ...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - January 21, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sean Fleming, David S. Evans Source Type: journals

The Sikh spiritual model of counselingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In accordance with the holistic principles of modern medicine, this paper will present the Sikh religious and spiritual view of mental health. With the continuing migration of a large number of South Asians, especially the Sikhs, to Western countries, mental health professionals should be aware of their clients' world-view and cultural/religious specific models of counseling. Use of Sikh spirituality can reduce stress; help in treating psychosomatic disorders; and improve mental health of the individual and of the community. This paper will conclude that as the Sikh religion is a universal religion, everyone can use Sikh s...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - December 13, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Kala Singh Source Type: journals

Construction and validation of a scale to assess attitudes to mysticism: the need for a new scale for research in the psychology of religionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper argues that two concepts, attitudes to mysticism and mystical experience, need to be distinguished carefully. This implies that a new questionnaire is needed to assess the former, and the paper reports on construction of a new scale to assess Attitudes to Mysticism. This scale was found to have good internal consistency, criterion-related validity and construct validity, and evidence is also given that this concept is related to but conceptually distinct from mystical experience. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - December 10, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Anthony C. Edwards, Mike J. Lowis Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - November 22, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

The impact of a home-based spirituality teaching programme: qualitative exploration of participants' experiencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that the programme used with these participants impacts on mood by expanding spiritual beliefs and by shifting perspectives of life situations, in terms of both oneself and others. Spiritual teachings and practices could be an innovative and valuable adjunct intervention to improve mood. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 29, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sabine Moritz, Mary Kelly, Maureen Angen, Hude Quan, John Toews, Badri Rickhi Source Type: journals

EventsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 29, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Fostering spirituality in community development: the role of soulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper argues that a need exists for spirituality to be incorporated into community development. Such a process necessitates a clearer understanding of spirituality's defining essence. Drawing upon the thinking of Indian philosopher-sage Sri Aurobindo, this essence is defined as 'knowing oneself as soul'. Some implicit problems for introducing this spiritual approach into community development are discussed, and the spirituality/self/soul nexus is juxtaposed against concepts of vertical and horizontal spirituality. The efficacy and roles of spirituality in community development are addressed, and a concluding suggestio...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Brian Spittles Source Type: journals

An intense community: two weeks on a neurosurgical wardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - October 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Peter Linnett Source Type: journals

A science of spirituality?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 18, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Source Type: journals

Why is this happening to me? Illness beliefs held by haredi Jewish breast cancer patients: an exploratory studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cultural factors influence how cancer patients interpret their illness. This paper explores the meanings haredi (strictly orthodox) Jewish breast cancer patients give to their illness. In-depth interviews were conducted with five haredi breast cancer patients. The full transcripts were subjected to interpretive phenomenological analysis. Participants' interpretations of their cancer were strongly influenced by their religious beliefs. Two interwoven themes emerged: the cancer came from God as part of a meaningful plan; the disease was a test. The implications these beliefs may have for healthcare behaviour in this group ar...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Kate Coleman, Jonathan Koffman, Charles Daniels Source Type: journals

Cultural care and Indian elders: Hindu spiritual life in the AshramEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In contemporary India family structures have shrunk from an extended, or joint, family to a small or nuclear family. This modern residential structure typically contains a two-generational household - and represents a much less complete world with truncated supports. Despite Indian high principles about parental care, the family system increasingly cannot cope with the needs of elderly 'retired' parents. As the family has diminished so the ashram has become more important for support in older age. This paper aims to bring together these two strands of rising concern: the problems of ageing and the solutions offered by ashr...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Bernice J.M. West, Michael H. Lyon Source Type: journals

Spirituality: its starring role in recovery from addictionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The recovery experiences of professionals and volunteers in the alcohol and drug addiction recovery field serve as a glimpse of the role spirituality played in transforming them from substance abusers into abstainers from their drug of choice. Study participants include former addicts who now serve as outreach workers, mentors, peer and professional counsellors to people with addictions. The paths and forms of spirituality are varied and, for some, changing but from the participants' experiences two aspects of spirituality emerge. The first is the notion of community, which the author calls 'we-ness'. The second aspect is ...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Victoria Marie Source Type: journals

Epiphanies: Writing for compassionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interest grows in the concepts and applications of narrative medicine. Medical practitioners and healthcare educators can use stories to describe experiences. When practitioners and educators use the principles of creative writing - plot, imagery, character, sensations - they are listening differently and expressing their understanding in narrative form. When practitioners and educators describe experiences in these ways, they are more likely to see the ethical dilemmas, and feel compassion for others. When patients write of their experiences in narrative ways, as some samples here show, they may feel that their lives have...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Deirdre Maultsaid Source Type: journals

Digest - a review of research, literature, music and mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Niko Kohls Source Type: journals

Announcements, Conferences and EventsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

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Source: Spirituality and Health International - August 17, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Religion, 'religion', and spiritualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Spirituality and Health International - June 1, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harald Walach Source Type: journals

'Divine unknowing': lessons from the Christian mystical tradition for healthcare todayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The article explores the hermeneutic of taking five key facilitating attitudes of the Christian mystical tradition and seeing their relevance to healthcare, pastoral care and psychotherapy/counselling today. The five attitudes are Contemplation, Embodiment, Openness, Integration and Discernment. Each is discussed in turn, drawing on their origins in classical Christian sources and their relevance to contemporary practice. The author argues that in a time of potentially lethal religious conflict they offer an alternative vision of spiritual care. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Spirituality and Health International - May 25, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Peter M. Tyler Source Type: journals

Death in traditional Bulgarian cultureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Life and death were once inextricably linked in Bulgarian culture: healers of the body were also spiritual leaders in their communities. In the days of the ancient Greeks, the healer worked to soften suffering and stave off death, while the spiritual counsellor sought to understand suffering and help make death meaningful. The twentieth century saw the growing separation of medicine and religious beliefs and practice. Yet the two realms are still intertwined, as a new body of research on spirituality and health is demonstrating. Because relieving suffering is more than just relieving pain, some students of medicine in some...
Source: Spirituality and Health International - May 25, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Hristo Saldzhiev Source Type: journals