The faiths chosen for this analysis are Islam, Sanatana Dharma (Hindu), the Native Americans, and Christianity. Each faith has their own needs from the health care provider during the course of healing, but share similarities in requiring the same areas of one’s self that need to be addressed. Spiritual Healing requires spiritual awareness by the individual in conjunction with the belief system in place that aids towards complete health. Islam’s spiritual perspective involves prayer and worship to Allah, following the teachings in the Qur’an scriptures, and guidance by the Imam. Sanatana Dharma and the Native American beliefs involve finding a balance in life and karma.
It doesn’t just use medicines but also meditation using smudge sticks. This meditation process works that the natives grab the smoke and push it on to their bodies and find a focus to help clear their mind. This article is a little contradicting to the first source in that they carried healing ways through their bloodlines, rather then learning it from earlier timed ways. These answered some of the things that Native Americans used for healing and meditation. Rheanna Stoutt Literature Review Source
Holistic, Anatomilcal benefits and therapeutic applications of Spine twists Asanas As indicated by Rama Jyoti Vernon of the The American Yoga College, “Twisting poses symbolize rovolving the front body, or what is conscious, to the back body, the subconscious, they bring light into darkness and the dark into light, a process essential to yoga.” (EP Notes Asana Lab 4, April 2014) Hollistic This to me implies that twisting poses is highly beneficial for our mind to create more awareness in areas of our body that we don’t normally pay attention to. This process of twisting essentially can enhance our conciousness with respect to the physiology of our body and its surroundings. Spine twist is deeply healing not only in a physiological sense but when viewed hollistically in the perspective of our Kundalini energy, where our Nadis, our energy channel, in particularly the Nadis at the navel centre are further enhanced when in this posture, igniting agnis, the digestive fire, which helps improve the digestive system. Anatomical The idea that our spine is a self supporting structure, capable of remaining without the help of its surrounding muscles, indicate that twists helps create energy in the spine which result in relinquishing (relaxing) control of the surrounding muscles. This will further strengthen the spine, massages its surrounding muscles which will then reduce its obstruction to spinal alignment.
Each one of these components is synergistic. To focus on the component of the Spirit is to look at what gives patients the will to live or gives purpose and meaning to times of wellness and times of crisis or illness. Harold Koenig is a registered nurse and board certified physician in psychiatry and geriatric medicine. Breakthroughs in research and determination Koenig has brought awareness in addressing the need for a spiritual history and assessment by all disciplines that provide care to patients. Koenig's effective patient advocacy and leadership have brought the spiritual needs of the patient in to the holistic model of nursing care.
If we accept that spiritual care is a legitimate goal of nursing then we as nurses are able to care for the “whole” person and not just their physical ailments. Spiritual needs and psychosocial needs are often abstract, complex and more difficult to measure. These needs have often been given a lower priority than the much more obvious and easily measureable needs. So, if we are able to identify spiritual needs then we can provide spiritual care, but first we must have some sort of understanding of the nature of spirituality and how it can be expressed by different individuals. Simsen defines spirituality by saying, “The Spirit is that part of man which is concerned with the ultimate meaning of things and with a person’s relationship to that which transcends the material.” We need to be aware that spirituality may not always be expressed within a religious framework so we need to make a distinction between spirituality and religion.
As active, it consists in the impartation of ideas, or suggestion, by the healer to the patient. As passive, it consists in the reception and assimilation of such suggestion. The healing power, however, is sought in the consequent mental activity of the patient himself[59]. Spiritualistic: It is claimed by spiritualists that the spirits are the only doctors they require, and that these spirits can both diagnose and prescribe the proper remedies because of their superior knowledge. Spiritual: Spiritual healing, in its strict and proper denotation, may be said to be synonymous with faith-healing in the stricter sense.
This technique of massage is used to increase blood flow within the muscles. Sprains and swellings could be healed by this technique. They used massage in many ways. These manipulations to the body are essential for the muscles when needed. They sometimes mix massages with ointment treatments, so it can be potent.
I achieved this by personally interviewing my fiancé’s surgeon Dr. Rapp port. During this interview I questioned the benefit of treatments such as chiropractic care, acupuncture, acupressure, massage therapy, and hypnotism. Massage therapy is in fact a component of some physical therapy regimens. When the muscles are less tense, less pressure is put on the nerves, resulting in less pain. Acupressure and acupuncture are widely supported by eastern medicine and skepticized by western medicine.
Either silently, or in our head, was to rub the pain away. Right? The same was true with our ancestors. Healers from ancient times to today have used touch as a tool to relieve pain and stress from both the physical and psychological person. The scientific proof of the benefits of massage is far-reaching.
Naturopathy, whole medical system with a philosophy and principles, uses different modalities such as nutrition, herbs to treat patients. Yoga, from the Sanskrit root ‘yug’ ‘to join’, is a modality in natural medicine. This essay presents first, the origins and evolution of naturopathy and yoga. Then, it explores each philosophy of healing and how to define health and disease. Finally, it shows the similarities between each other’s.