In our textbook, Bruno Cortis asks, "How can health be without spirituality? Can the body live without the soul that makes it? The spiritual powers within far surpass any others; transcendent, they lift all of humanity."
Spirituality not only lifts all of humanity but it also effects the rate a which people are able to heal. In a study done on successful business executive and other prominent people, researchers found a correlation between good spiritual health and good physical health. The people who had a sense of spirituality reported a more complete recovery from minor illness than the national average.
Another study was performed on 300 terminally ill and non terminally ill hospitalized adults. The patients with the greatest spirituality showed a more resilient emotional health. They all had low fear of death, low discomfort, decreased loneliness, emotional adjustment, and positive death perspectives.
A panel of experts carefully reviewed many studies in medical literature and found that spirituality and religiousness were related to greater subjective well being, life satisfaction, and marital satisfaction. It also caused less depression, delinquency, and drug/alcohol use.
Spirituality helps people have better health and resiliency because they often have a needed social support that can carry them through times of bad health and give them something to live for. People also have faith in a supreme being who is always there for them and is always looking out for their well-being. They have an identity of a child of god and it gives them something to live for because they have that reassurance that the right thing will happen in their lives.
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