WHO defined health as “A state of Complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity.” t his reflects a positive thought about our health. Though this idea is not new, in Ayurveda, our ancient knowledge of human health the ‘balance’ between various physical, mental and social functioning of the human body is considered as a core value of health and wellness. Modern medicine is criticized for its mechanistic approach towards human health and wellness. Even the definition as mentioned above is considered incomplete and misinforming about human health by many people. Addition of the fourth dimension, the spiritual dimension gives it completeness in some respects. With all these criticisms the WHO definition is widely accepted and applied definition of human health across the globe by healthcare professionals and researchers. The fourth dimension, the Spiritual Dimension is widely discussed among people, physicians, c...
New Paradigms In Our Understanding Of Spirituality (From a paper presented at an International Conferance at Bangkok (Thailand) on 14th March 2019 by Dr. Mahesh Bhatt)
On comparing available information on the internet and analyzing them we can say Spirituality is a human thought like all other thoughts, and still, it is evolving. We can find the strong view of connecting of spirituality and religions ; it started transforming after 15the century with the advent of the scientific revolution, where scientific thought process started taking a central role in the collective human thought processes. The relationship between spirituality and religions also find newer dimensions after increasing interactions and understandings between eastern and western philosophies. Scientific and industrial revolutions provide answers to many questions and fears of human survival and the existence of life on earth, which were earlier in the domains of gods, religions, and religious practices. In 19 th and 20 th centuries, the spiritual thought gradually being considered as an evolved thought of human brain, it started being perceived as a different thoug...