Exploring spirituality, religions, and science in context of human health - spiritual health brings us to the ways we define health. WHO defined health as “A state of Complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity.” This 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 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. The addition of the fourth dimension, the spiritual dimension, gives it completeness in some respects. Despite these criticisms, the WHO definition is widely accepted and applied as the standard definition of human health...
Spiritual health is the fourth dimension of our health. Spirituality and the Spiritual Thought Process are unique to human beings, it is due to the millions of years of natural evolutionary mechanism which makes us human and put us on the top of animal kingdom.