CHILDREN HEALTH AND SPIRITUAL HEALING

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DR.G GANGADHAR Rao M.BB.S., FCIP, ACPP,
D.C.H PAEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR HYDERABAD
Mobile [phone]E-mail
drgangadar_at_gmail.com

• EDUCATION Joining Year
• B.Sc. (ZBC) 1982
• M.B.B.S. 1985 GMC, GUNTUR A.P. MCI RECOGNISED.
• USMLE - (USA) 1993 EXAM IN SINGAPORE.
• F.C.I.P 1994 Fellowship Certificate -IMA
  CHENNAI.
• D.C.H. 1995 MR Medical COLLEGE, MCI
  
  RECOGNISED.
• ACPP 2013 IAP INDIAN ACADEMY OF
  PEDIATRICS ACUTE CARE OF PRACTICING
  PEDIATRICIANS

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DR.G GANGADHAR Rao M.BB.S., FCIP, ACPP,
D.C.H PAEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR HYDERABAD
Mobile [phone]E-mail
drgangadar_at_gmail.com

• POST - D.C.H 1998 2004 he was an atheist with
  no belief or very rare belief in God. He
  established First Pediatric Nursing Home
  Chandamama Nursing Home, in Chandanagar BHEL
  Hyderabad to serve poor patients and saved lives
  of many emergency patients.
• Then in 2002 he met car Road accident with both
  lower limbs fracture and about to die, but
  luckily survived. He recovered from physical
  trauma , mental trauma, He closed his Nursing
  home and started to believe in Supreme power God.
  Worked in VARIOUS hospitals like INDO AMERICAN
  CANCER HOSPITAL CHILD DEPARTMENT, CARE HOSP.
  BHILLS, YASHODA HOSPITALS SEC., 2 MEDICAL
  COLLEGES, GOVT. OF INDIA CRPF HOSPITAL. Conducted
  many Free Health Camps. NOW WORKING IN HIMAGIRI
  HOSPITAL GACHIBOWLI.
• Best Treatment given to the patients with modern
  Medicine / herbal Ayurvedic Indian medicines /
  psychotherapy / emotional therapy / Spiritual
  healing

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DR.G GANGADHAR Rao M.BB.S., FCIP, ACPP,
D.C.H PAEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR HYDERABAD
Mobile [phone]
clinic bahadurpura - attapur E-mail
drgangadar_at_gmail.com

• ACHIEVEMENTS AWARDS / Memento / Certificates
  
• 1. Received many Awards Mementoes for many Free
  Health Camps social works from Local M.L.As
  other prominent persons.
• 4. Appreciation Award received from Composite
  Hospitals -IGP IG CRPF New Delhi Government of
  India. South India CH CRPF CME for Doctors
  Topic Cardiac Emergencies in Pediatric
  Patients.
• 5) From GOVT. OF INDIA, Ministry of Health and
  Family Welfare MOHFW NACO (HIV ), fhi360 USA, CDC
  USA, WHO India received memento certificate on
  22 April 2013 in New Delhi.
• 7) NACO National Aids Control Organization and
  APSACS Andhra Pradesh Aids Control Society given
  an appreciation certificate on 3rd Aug. 2013.
• 8) from IAP TCB Received many certificates on
  various aspects.

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I AS A PEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR -

• started practicing Pediatrics medicine from 1998
  in Hyderabad.
• I used to save many lives of Emergency children
  Patients as a Doctor. Patients used to come to me
  in emergencies i.e just before death condition -
  like severe Breathlessness, severe dehydration,
  meningitis, seizures, refusal of milk feeds by
  new born babies, neonatal jaundice with
  septicemia etc. many lives were saved by me. I
  became very famous Doctor near BHEL. People used
  to identify me where ever I go, I thought that I
  was more than a God. But I was an atheist.

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DR.G GANGADHAR Rao M.BB.S., FCIP, ACPP, D.C.H
PAEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR HYDERABAD Mobile 91
9493 86 49 12E-mail drgangadar_at_gmail.com

• BUT in 2002 I met an road accident and was on bed
  for 8 months with both lower limbs fracture, then
  I realized many aspects of healing about life
  more than Medicine.
• I suffered trauma pain due to fracture leg
  -physical trauma, social trauma, emotional
  trauma, psychological trauma, vocational trauma
  and spiritual.
• Many persons in this multi trauma may die not
  because of actual physical trauma but due to the
  stress of other traumas.

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Astrology bydr prema kumar sharma

• Before I met an road accident in 2002, I was an
  atheist but now I believe in God because of
  Astrology. His Astrology predictions helped me in
  many ways everyday issues of Health, children and
  Family, Career and Finance. Before investing
  money I followed Astro predictions and saved from
  losses. As Astrology found correct on myself
  every day and Astro science should be correct.
• Eg. Health special care for blood pressure
  patients. Remember that increase in blood
  pressure exerts more strain on the functioning of
  the heart. You should therefore strive to lower
  your blood pressure and keep the cholesterol
  under control. Meditation, a low salt intake and
  diet on your part could check the problem to a
  great extent.
• http//www.premastrologer.com/pages/aquariusdaily

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ASTROLOGY / GOD ?

• I am a strong believer of science. Without
  evidence I dont believe anything. Astrologist
  prediction about my accident was correct. Then I
  believed in Astrology after I met an accident /
  trauma. if I believe Astrology is correct, then
  Astrology science - about planets influence on
  our daily life should be correct. If I believe
  this, then super power controlling this universe
  The God existence should be correct. Then I
  became the Believer of God.
• I found that just physical healing is not enough
  but more to know- next let us to our topic

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Presentation Outcome GoalsParticipants will be
able to

• Define Definition of complete Health and
  Spiritual health and have awareness of the
  benefits of spirituality in the care of patients,
  especially patients at the end of life as based
  on the examination of research.
• Identify what spiritual needs are, and how to
  respond to spiritual and emotional needs.
• Recognize that ones own spirituality might
  affect how one might relate to, and provide care
  to patients. Develop awareness of personal issues
  that might hinder one from providing spiritual
  care.

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mind, body, spirit and the mystery of life and
death

• WHO defined health as a state of physical, mental
  and social wellbeing added to which are the
  emotional, vocational and spiritual components.
  Health doesnt mean absence of disability or
  infirmity.
• Physical health is because of proper nutrition,
  exercise, hygiene, awareness of various infective
  and chronic ailments etc.

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DR.G GANGADHAR Rao M.BB.S., FCIP, ACPP, D.C.H
PAEDIATRICIAN DOCTOR HYDERABAD Mobile 91
9493 86 49 12, Email drgangadar_at_gmail.com

• Psychological health is by way of having right
  thoughts and attitudes and by way of
  understanding ones own psychological patterns.
  Nurturing rewarding patterns and erasing the
  unrewarding patterns is a right way of
  maintaining ones mental health. 
• Emotional Health is developing emotional balance
  and harmony which is very much required in the
  present world containing a lot of stimuli to make
  one a reactive person. Letting-go ones emotional
  impressions lying in the form of anxiety, fears,
  insult and guilt etc makes one an emotionally
  intelligent

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• Social health is about having happy and
  harmonious relationships with the family members
  and professional colleagues. Respecting others
  choices makes one socially healthy. Having a
  right approach of inter-dependence makes one
  socially healthy. 
• Vocational Health is about the job satisfaction
  and financial abundance. Having money in the
  pocket makes one feel confident in this world of
  money needs. Choosing a right job which suits
  ones passions and needs makes one vocationally
  healthy.

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• Spiritual health is all about having a purpose of
  life and developing the understanding that one is
  going to vacate the physical body on one day and
  there is no guarantee of physical existence of
  the body. The values and an attitude of
  contentment make one spiritually healthy.
• As per the above definition, most of the people
  are not healthy - only a few are enjoying the
  complete dimensions of health and these are the
  ones who understood the meaning and value of
  health in all its aspects.  

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Definitions Spirituality

• Spirituality refers to a belief in a higher
  power, an awareness of life and its meaning, the
  centering of a person with purpose in life. It
  involves relationships with a higher being, with
  self, and with the world around the individual..
  Spirituality implies living with moral standards.
• The spirit of a human is his essence, that
  part of him or her that is not visible. The part
  that does not die but is immortal. Webster
  defines spirit as a life giving force and as
  the active presence of God in human life.

(National Center of Continuing Education, Inc.
Death and Dying, pg. 23)
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other Definitions of Spirituality

• Spirituality refers to a belief in a higher
  power, an awareness of life and its meaning, the
  centering of a person with purpose in life. It
  involves relationships with a higher being, with
  self, and with the world around the individual..
  Spirituality implies living with moral standards.
• The spirit of a human is his essence, that
  part of him or her that is not visible. The part
  that does not die but is immortal. Webster
  defines spirit as a life giving force and as
  the active presence of God in human life.

(National Center of Continuing Education, Inc.
Death and Dying, pg. 23)
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The SpiritualDefinitions

• The patient is not just body and mind, but a
  spiritual being. --P. Tournier
• Spirituality involves the personal quest for
  meaning purpose in life and relates to the
  inner essence of the self
• Spirituality the sense of harmonious
  inter-connectedness with self, others, nature and
  an Ultimate Other (the integrating factor)

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MSOP Report III regarding spirituality

• Spirituality is recognized as a factor that
  contributes to health in many persons. The
  concept of spirituality is found in all cultures
  and societies. It is expressed in an
  individuals search for ultimate meaning through
  participation in religion and / or belief in God,
  family, naturalism, rationalism, humanism and the
  arts. All these factors can influence how
  patients and health care professionals perceive
  health and illness and how they interact with one
  another.

MSOP Report III. Association of American
Medical Colleges, 1999
Christina Puchalski MD
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TOP 10 DISEASES with NO CUREFOR THE DISEASES IN
MODERN MEDICINE - ALLOPATHY

• 1) AIDS Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome is
  one of the most lethal yet incurable diseases. It
  affects the human immune system and is caused by
  the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
  Identified twenty-five years. According to the
  UNs report, 38 million people are living with
  HIV, 5 million are infected annually, and about 3
  million people die each year from AIDS.
• CD-4 COUNT levels are found high (cd4 more than
  400 healthy) in people living with Positive
  thinking, practicing yoga, God worship /
  spiritual are living LONG with out taking any ART
  medicines.

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TOP 10 DISEASES with NO CURE

• 2. Common Cold
• (Rhinoviruses being the most frequent cause), and
  can last from 2 to 14 days. Although billions of
  cases of common cold show up every year, we
  Doctors still know very little about it.
• 3) Cancer treatments like use of chemotherapeutic
  drugs, radiation therapy or surgery are currently
  available but even if they can lengthen the life
  of a patient, none of them are cures. Though if
  diagnosed in early stages, some forms of cancer
  can be cured.

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TOP 10 DISEASES with NO CURE

• 4. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• Also known as congophilic angiopathy, cerebral
  amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a neurological
  condition in which proteins called amyloid build
  up on the walls of the blood vessels of the
  central nervous system. (age after 60 years), the
  cause of CAA is unknown. People with this
  condition have deposits of amyloid protein in the
  walls of the brain arteries, and not any other
  part of the body. There is no known effective
  treatment for CAA.
• 5. Schizophrenia patient cannot logically
  distinguish between reality and fantasy. The
  symptoms prominently include delusions,
  hallucinations, non-coherence of thought and
  speech, ability to recognise the real world
  people.

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TOP 10 DISEASES with NO CURE

• 6. Ebola is responsible for a severe and often
  fatal viral hemorrhagic fever. It has been named
  after the Ebola river in Africa the disease is
  still incurable in 2013 with a fatality rate of
  90 for humans. 
• 7. Asthma affects people of all ages, but about
  half of all cases occur in persons younger than
  10 years of age.
• 8. Diabetes is not lethal, it is incurable.
  Diabetes is a chronic disorder of the
  carbohydrate metabolism that affects the role of
  hormone insulin in the body and consequently it
  is characterised by high levels of sugar in the
  body. Diabetes generally occurs in two forms
  Type1 and Type2.
•  9. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a rare,
  degenerative and fatal disease of the central
  nervous system. The disease usually is
  characterized by vague psychiatric or behavioural
  changes, followed by progressive dementia The
  disease commonly occurs in adults between the
  ages of 40 and 70, and is fatal within a year in
  almost 90 of the cases. There is no known cure
  for the disease till date.
• 10. Polio Poliomyelitis, Polio vaccination is one
  of the most important vaccinations given to
  children, but as far as cure is concerned, Polio
  is incurable. The widespread awareness about
  polio vaccines has eliminated the disease from
  many countries but it continues to paralyse a
  substantial number of children in the African and
  South Asian countries.

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medical science cannot cure or are very
challenging -

• Spiritual Healing is for all people who have
  ailments that, for what ever reasons, medical
  science cannot cure or are very challenging and
  resources are low or procedures are lengthy and
  life threatening... such as
• depression, kidney failure, asthma, mental
  disorder, disabilities, arthritis, phobia,
  cancer, insomnia, diabetes, nightmares,
  claustrophobia, domestic violence, other family
  issues, pregnancy problems, financial issues,
  unemployment, loss in business, internal health
  problems (men women), stones, piles, heart
  problems, etc. For such people there is the path
  of spiritual healing and by prayer.

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psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy

• Is there any relation to influence of mind on
  body ? yes.
• As many as 259 people died of shock after
  hearing the news of former CM Dr Raja Shekar
  Reddy's death shows Psycho somatic effect, that
  mind can influence our body organs health.
• Stress / negative thinking - in mind can lead to
  changes in the body somatisation, diseases
  which is proved by medical Science. There are
  some Drugs which can block this and relieve from
  disease like methyldopa for BP etc., but not for
  all diseases

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Ref Dr G Gangadhr Rao Pediatrician Hyderabad
email drgangadar_at_gmail.com
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Spiritual Healing

• The 17 Spiritually Healing Childrens Emotional
  Wounds is a therapeutic
• process sourced in the world of the Spirit
  that celebrates our childrens
• inherent knowing heals their emotional wounding
  brings life-changing
• transformation to their attitudes and behaviours,
  and affirms their soul-vision of a perfect world.
• There are 17 emotional wounds that Children can
  hold.
• These wounding have this-world names, but because
  these wounding are on the spiritual, energetic
  level, they are defined differently from the way
  they would be known on the rational, cognitive
  level.
• Each wounding is sourced in the separation from
  God, and the bewilderment and pain that results.

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healing your mind, body, and spirit

• All hypnosis is self hypnosis.Hypnotherapy taps
  into your subconscious mind where many years of
  internal self beliefs and images are stored.
  Hypnotherapy allows you to release emotional
  blockages and accept new ways of thinking. 
  Hypnotherapy heals the body and detoxes the
  mind. 
• Hypnosis is safe for healing your mind, body, and
  spirit

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Children Healing by

• Hypnotherapy helps in relaxing exercise to help
  your mind and body ease into hypnosis.  During
  hypnosis your subconscious mind receives
  beneficial healing suggestions.  session
  completes as you awaken with greater confidence,
  security, and renewal.Phobias/Fears/Anxiety
  Addictions/Compulsive Disorders / Bed wetting /
  Memory /Concentration / Confidence/Self Esteem /
  ADHD in childrenRelationships/ Teenage Sex /
  Releasing the Past/Traumas / Weight Loss /Healthy
  Eating / Appetite loss
• Career/Finances - adults / Spirituality/Psychic
  Development.
• Ref Dr G Gangadhr Rao Pediatrician Hyderabad
  email drgangadar_at_gmail.com

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Less Life threatening problems in children and
mother with no permanant allopathy therapy but
there can be ray of hope by spiritualism

• Loss of appetite usually I prescribe Ayurvedic
  medicines
• Cerebral palsy and mental Retardation
• Memory loss and low IQ, school dropouts
• ADHD IN CHILDREN (attention deficit hyperactivity
  disorder)
• Early Lactation failure to mother
• Psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia
• Constipation
• Ref Dr G Gangadhr Rao Pediatrician Hyderabad
  email drgangadar_at_gmail.com

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The human DNA is a biological internet and
superior in many aspects to the artificial one.
Russian scientific research directly or
indirectly explains phenomena such as
clairvoyance (Divya Drushti), intuition,
spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self
healing, affirmation techniques, unusual
light/auras around people namely spiritual
masters. ReadMore http//www.whydontyoutrythis.co
m/2013/06/scientists-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed
-by-words-and-frequencies.html 
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DO YOU KNOW THAT OUR SPIRIT, MIND AND BODY IS
COMMUNICATING WITH GOD LIKE INTERNET (BY UNKNOWN
WAY) BY THINKING

• One can simply use words and sentences of the
  human language! This, too, was experimentally
  proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue,
  not in vitro) will always react to
  language-modulated laser rays and even to radio
  waves, if the proper frequencies are being used.
• God and spiritual teachers have known for ages
  that our body is programmable by language, words
  and thought. This has now been scientifically
  proven  
• Read More http//www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/0
  6/scientists-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed-by-word
  s-and-frequencies.html 

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body, mind and soul influence each other

• Health  A healthy mind resides in a healthy
  body. This is not the simple phrase but the
  mantra, which you are going to follow. This would
  enable you to enhance mental toughness besides
  maintaining a sound physical health .
• Ref Yashendu Goswami, Swami Jiâs

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Remote healing, telepathy or remote sensing -
Animals also have

• We now know that just as on the internet our DNA
  can feed its proper data into the network, can
  call up data from the network and can establish
  contact with other participants in the network.
• Remote healing, telepathy or remote sensing
  about the state of relatives etc.. can thus be
  explained. Some animals know also from afar when
  their owners plan to return home / Birds BEFORE
  cyclone / Before tsunami an elephants behaviour
  as seen in Kerala. That can be freshly
  interpreted and explained via the concepts of
  group consciousness and hyper communication.
• ReadMore http//www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06
  /scientists-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed-by-words
  -and-frequencies.html

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DNA CAN BE INFLUENCED BY EXTERNAL STIMULI / LIGHT
AND IT CAN STORE DATA

• DNA It apparently is also an organic
  superconductor that can work at normal body
  temperature. Artificial superconductors require
  extremely low temperatures of between 200 and
  140C to function. As one recently learned, all
  superconductors are able to store light and thus
  information. This is a further explanation of how
  the DNA can store information.
• More http//www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/sci
  entists-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed-by-words-and
  -frequencies.html 

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Yoga - Unity

• The Sanskrit word 'Yoga' literally translates to
  'unity' and this is the essence and aim of this
  ancient science uniting your soul with the one
  big soul which is called God, the universe and
  has many more names. Yoga helps you to reach this
  goal of being one with this energy. You get to
  know your body, mind and soul and thus reach a
  new balance in your life which is then filled
  with happiness and joy. Yoga has changed many
  lives, let it change yours, too!
• Benefits of Yoga Physical Health and Fitness
  through Yoga Poses
• It is known as a fact that yoga strengthens the
  body and gives it much more flexibility. There is
  an enourmous variety of Asanas (different yoga
  positions) which stretch, bend and flex each
  muscle of your body and of course cover all
  levels of experience. It is wrong to think that
  you have to be flexible to do yoga - everybody
  can!
• REF http//www.jaisiyaram.com/yoga.htm

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Powers of meditationAccording to Brahmakumaris
From sound om shiva shakthi originated

• From shiva shakthi 3 Gods originated- era before
  all religions / castes / divisions.
• i) God Brahma
• ii) God vishnu
• Iii)God Shankara used to do meditation to
  please Shiva shakthi and attained many powers of
  universe like creation, destruction, to control
  solar system and galaxy.

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Doctors can cure some diseases but are not equal
to god
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Health

• Health  Take the help of Yoga to learn the art
  of living physically and mentally fit. It would
  give a new direction to life by making it much
  more interesting to enable yourself to enjoy the
  ecstasies of life.
• Tour cheerfulness would enable to enjoy the
  perfect health. You will be highly benefited by
  paying your attention to spirituality. It would
  help in enhancing mental toughness besides always
  keeping you in a cheerful state.
• Ref http//www.premastrologer.com/

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HOW TO HEAL YOUR BODY BY YOURSELF

• Yoga helps to ease pain in joints and muscles and
  to relief tension as well as it improves the
  respiratory system and support digestion and
  intestines. There are yoga postures for each part
  of the body whether it is the back, your neck,
  your joints, your belly or your feet. It is for
  the whole body. And of course you can practice
  yoga for weight loss with exercises concentrating
  especially on those areas where you feel you have
  extra fat. Practicing yoga is thus just wonderful
  for your health and fitness.
• Mental and Emotional Health and Well-Being
• Although Yoga is known mostly for its benefits on
  physical health, that is only a part of this
  science. Another part is the work and effect that
  it has on mind and emotions. The regular practice
  of yoga exercises, Prana yama (breathing
  techniques) and meditation has a very relaxing
  and calming effect on the mind and it balances
  the emotions in the body as there is a time in
  which everything can come to peace. Meditation is
  additionally proven to enhance concentration and
  focus which helps us think faster and in more
  flexible ways.
• Yoga as a whole is considered therapeutic as it
  doesn't only offer treatment through exercise to
  the body but can also heal mental disorders and
  improve conditions like depression or bipolar as
  it gives stability and balance.

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Learn to heal yourself

• you can get to know how everybody can apply these
  laws on his life.
• The Indian healer Swami Balendu Ji teaches the
  ways to self-healing. During a meditative retreat
  of more than three years isolated from the world,
  he adjusted his own energy to these new
  frequencies. This intensive retreat did not only
  help him to fully realize his connection to the
  universe but also induced him to spread this
  energy all over the world. Swami Ji's healing
  work is based on the interaction of body, mind
  and soul and to heal the entity of body, mind and
  soul.

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Children can heal you

• Children are more Spiritual. Child is a big soul
  in a small body and adult is a small soul in a
  big body. Spend valuable time with children when
  ever possible / depressed / fear / anxiety etc.
  It is the best form of healing for adults. They
  are the source of unlimited joy.
• Health  Dont forget to put a special thrust
  on the physical education along with the mental
  because only by that way you can fully develop
  yourself. Remember a healthy mind is possible in
  a healthy body.

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Health 

• Health  It is high time to get rid of the
  habit of always complaining and getting upset
  over trivial issues. Keep in mind that indulgence
  in these kinds of things badly affects health.
  You should rather cultivate a generous attitude
  towards life to make it easy as well as happy.
• Change lifestyle if you want to get immediate
  relief from your prolong tension and strains of
  life. In this exercise is must and leads to a
  healthy and disease-free life. It also helps in
  burning off those extra calories. Therefore make
  exercise a part of your daily routine while smile
  your biggest armour.
• Refhttp//www.premastrologer.com/pages/dailyluck.
  php?typedataAspectdaydatatm

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Health

• You can achieve a bloom in your health on It is
  time for you to continue a nutritious diet and
  enjoy recreational activities to reap full
  benefits. At the same time dont neglect your
  health otherwise it could allow the problem
  relapsing.

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Give up17 things in your life to attain
spirituality

• 1. ANGER
• the need to defend oneself, through attack,
  against
• the harshness of this-world experience.
• 2. GRIEF
• weeping at the separation, .3. FEAR
• the experience of being in danger because of
• being too small, too little.
• 4. DISTRUST
• not being able to count on any reality as
  certain.
• 5. DESPAIR
• giving up the connection to the breath of God.

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• 6. ANGUISH
• the belief in aloneness.
• 7. SHAME
• being embarrassed in front of the whole cosmos.
• 8. INSECURITY the experience of having no solid
  ground inside.
• 9. SELFISHNESS
• the fear of coming out to interact with
  this-world
• experience.

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• 10. LOSS
• not being able to find ones own heart. 11. PANIC
• the experience of being suspended in mid-air,
• with nothing to grasp or hold on to.
• 12. INFERIORITY
• the belief Ill never be as good as God.
• 13. HATRED
• the experience of feeling as though one does not
• deserve reunion.

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• 14. INDIGNATION
• holding righteousness in response to the lack of
• dignity expressed for Gods creatures.
• 15. RESENTMENT
• the wish that the world matches the inner vision.
• 16. JEALOUSY
• wanting what the angels have.
• 17. GUILT
• holding oneself responsible for the lack of
• perfection in the world.

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Spiritual healing

• one-line definition "It is only positive
  energy." Simple, but mystifying
  nonetheless.Spiritual healing is a no-touch
  therapy.
• It comprises of eight techniques, including
• crystal healing,
• pillar of light, and
• sound therapy.
• "Even the spell of negative entities can be
  broken by it," says Ratra. "We keep on
  invoking sanjeevani shakti (positive life forces)
  and flood the body with it. Slowly the negative
  entity is overpowered and withdraws." In crystal
  healing, for example, you put the crystal on the
  crown chakra (energy center), move it to capture
  the negative forces before making it touch the
  earth. Once the negative energy is thrown out,
  you invoke sanjeevani shakti and fill the
  resulting vacuum with positive energy. 

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spiritual healing

• Ratra first initiates his students
  to Shaktipat (transmission of energy from teacher
  to disciple to awaken the kundalini,
  the spiritual energy latent at the base of the
  human spine). Once this happens, one can tap 32
  types of sanjeevani shakti. "For each person and
  ailment, there is a particular sanjeevani
  shakti," says Ratra. And spiritual healing is not
  confined to people even places with negative
  forces can be turned positive. According
  to Ratra, spiritual healing helps resolve all
  kinds of problemsphysical, emotional and
  financial. He have found it extremely effective
  in cases of disturbed relationship".
• In tune with the growing trend of reviving
  ancient systems, Indian spiritual practitioner
  Rajendra Kumar Ratra introduces spiritual
  healing-a method that heals by eliminating
  negativity

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Yoga of Sound

• Satsang Initiation--- means how adopt satsang way
  of spiritual life This is popularly called
  deeksha--Initiation Anyone seeking to be
  initiated into Satsang way of life shown by Shri
  Shri Thakur Anukulchandra-The one who has purity
  of character,who practices diligently the Yoga
  of Sound,and who can explain clearly Sant
  Mat(the complete Path of the Masters with
  nothing missing), can be accepted and trusted as
  Satguru/Teacher.

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Science cannot answer -how to create life,
but we are living. -We cannot stop natural
calamities and we are suffering

•  Spiritual Healing is a very gentle way of
  giving your child the energy to cope with their
  anxiety, an ability to express themselves, and
  the means to heal themselves. How does this
  work? Who can say? And, what difference does it
  make? Many have dissected our spiritualness, and
  pieced the healing act back together in an
  attempt to understand it. Whatever conclusions
  they come to are no more than personal
  interpretation. I used to worry about it a lot,
  because I come from a scientific background, but
  I realise science cannot answer my questions, and
  so I stopped asking. I'm always amazed that
  healing works in the way that it does.

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Should Children Have  Spiritual Healing?

• Yes, of course they should! In fact, I'd go so
  far as to say, I think ALL children should have
  spiritual healing, perhaps even on a regular
  basis, both for their body, mind and soul. There
  is nothing more beautiful, and certainly nothing
  less harmful to a child than spiritual healing.
  It is the most natural form of healing in the
  world.- See more at http//www.distanthealer.co.
  uk/healingchildren.htmsthash.WWT1HzKM.dpuf

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Spiritual healing for special kids

• Here's a ray of hope for children suffering from
  developmental issues like autism, cerebral palsy,
  mental retardation, learning disability and
  down's syndrome.
• Ref Aashwasan, a spiritual science organization
  founded by Rashmi Aiyappa, offers its support
  through its unique diagnostic, assessment,
  treatment and counseling tools based on spiritual
  science. Contact - 9731301016/17

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• In tune with the growing trend of reviving
  ancient systems, Indian spiritual practitioner
  Rajendra Kumar Ratra introduces spiritual
  healing-a method that heals by eliminating
  negativity
• one-line definition "It is only positive
  energy. Spiritual healing is a no-touch
  therapy. It comprises of eight techniques,
  including crystal healing, pillar of light, and
  sound therapy. "Even the spell of negative
  entities can be broken by it," says Ratra. "We
  keep on invoking sanjeevani shakti (positive life
  forces) and flood the body with it. Slowly the
  negative entity is overpowered and withdraws." In
  crystal healing, for example, you put the crystal
  on the crown chakra (energy center), move it to
  capture the negative forces before making it
  touch the earth. Once the negative energy is
  thrown out, you invoke sanjeevani shakti and fill
  the resulting vacuum with positive energy. 

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2) Religion

• Religion is an organized and public belief system
  of worship and practices that generally has a
  focus on a god or supernatural power. It
  generally offers an arrangement of symbols and
  rituals that are meaningful and understood by
  its followers.
• Religion is primarily a set of beliefs, a
  collection of prayers, or rituals. Religion is
  first and foremost a way of seeing. It cant
  change the facts about the world we live in, but
  it can change the ways we see those facts, and
  that in itself can often make a difference.
  (Harold Kushner)

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Spirituality

• Thousands of alcoholic patients who found little
  help from traditional medicine were able to
  become sober and remain abstinent by relying on
  a power greater than themselves and through the
  support of a twelve step program.
• Many may not adhere to a religious institution,
  but have a spiritual practice.

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Spirituality

• Spirituality fulfills specific needs
• Meaning to life, illness, crises, and death
• Sense of security for present and future
• Guides daily habits
• Elicits acceptance or rejection of other people
• Provides psychosocial support in a group of
  like-minded people
• Strength when facing lifes crises
• Healing strength and support

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Spiritual Care

• Practice of compassionate presence
• Listening to patients fears, hopes, pain,
  dreams
• Obtaining a spiritual history
• Attentiveness to all dimensions of the patient
  and patients family body, mind and spirit
• Incorporation of spiritual practices as
  appropriate
• Involve chaplains as members of the
  interdisciplinary healthcare team

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In Every Culture We Find Evidence of the Search
for Meaning

• Why am I here?
• What should I do with my life?
• How do I order my priorities?
• Where can I find guidance about the good life
  or the life well lived?

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These Are Questions of Meaning

• Questions of meaning and purpose are often
  described as spiritual issues.
• These questions are part of being human, they
  transcend culture, religion, ethnicity, they are
  universal.

Boston Marathon
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A More Compassionate Model of Care

• Focus on The Whole Person
• Physical
• Emotional
• Social
• Spiritual

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Separation of Medicine from Religion

• As science began to discover the etiology of
  diseases, former religious explanations no longer
  held.
• Science and medicine began to distance themselves
  from religion God of the gaps (in knowledge).

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Spirituality

• Thousands of alcoholic patients who found little
  help from traditional medicine were able to
  become sober and remain abstinent by relying on
  a power greater than themselves and through the
  support of a twelve step program.
• Many may not adhere to a religious institution,
  but have a spiritual practice.

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Mans Search for MeaningVictor Frankl

• Sometimes external circumstances in our life
  situation are beyond our control.
• Frankl maintains that the attitude we choose to
  take toward our life situation is within our
  control.
• The spiritual journey relates to our inner
  struggle to shape our attitude toward illness and
  even death itself.

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Studies of 203 patients in Kentucky and North
Carolina. . .

• 77 wanted physicians to consider their spiritual
  needs
• 37 wanted physicians to discuss these needs more
  frequently
• 48 wanted their physicians to pray with them if
  they could
• 68 said their physicians never discussed
  religious beliefs with them at all.
• 74 felt spirituality to be important.

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Mind-body Medicine

• The scientific connection between spirituality
  and healing has been made.
• Spiritual belief systems have a role in healing
  body, mind, and soul.
• When we activate or intensify our spiritual
  belief systems, healing power expands.
• This gives health care professionals, patients,
  and everyone access to an expanded reservoir of
  healing power.
• This is very good news. However, this is not easy
  to do in medical practice.
• There are many barriers.

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Recent surveys by NIHR find (National Institute
for Health Research)

• 43 of physicians pray for their patients,
• 90 of doctors at the American Academy of Family
  Physicians 1996 meeting agreed that a patients
  spiritual beliefs can be helpful in his or her
  medical treatment
• 58 have actively pursued information on
  spirituality and healing.

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Mind-body Medicine

• The scientific connection between spirituality
  and healing has been made.
• Spiritual belief systems have a role in healing
  body, mind, and soul.
• When we activate or intensify our spiritual
  belief systems, healing power expands.
• This gives health care professionals, patients,
  and everyone access to an expanded reservoir of
  healing power.
• This is very good news. However, this is not easy
  to do in medical practice.
• There are many barriers.

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Problems Entering the Spiritual Domain

• We dont work with Spirit.
• We are not comfortable talking about religion.
• We have no language or map.
• We ignore or refer to spiritual counselors.
• Lack of training
• Belief systems are personal, intimate, complex.
• Many have a traumatic religious history.
• Fierce feelings and defensiveness
• Fear of unravel to the abyss (The Cheeseburger)
• Enormous variation and level of commitment
• There is no timebrief appointments, paper work
• How to enter without losing life, limb, or
  property.

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Integrative Medicine

• Four evidence based healing universes
• Biological
• Traditional medicine
• CAM Complimentary and alternative medicine
• Psychological
• Social
• Spiritual
• Mind-body medicine

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Spirituality and HealingEvidence-based the data

• It is now scientifically validated that people
  with an active faith or belief system have better
  outcomes in medicine, surgery, mental health, and
  addiction.
• Includes cancer, coronary artery disease,
  cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, asthma,
  COPD, infectious diseases, kidney disease, and
  more.
• Lower medication rates
• Lower length of stay
• Higher quality of life
• Much more

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Spirituality and HealingEvidence-based the data

• It is now scientifically validated that people
  with an active faith or belief system have better
  outcomes in medicine, surgery, mental health, and
  addiction.
• Includes cancer, coronary artery disease,
  cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, asthma,
  COPD, infectious diseases, kidney disease, and
  more.
• Lower medication rates
• Lower length of stay
• Higher quality of life
• Much more

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Spirituality and HealingThe Mechanism

• Community support from like-minded people
• Behavior good habits such as no smoking,
  drinking, or drugs healthy diet
• Thought the power of positive thought--faith,
  hope, belief, optimism, and much more
• Feeling the healing power of positive emotion
  such as peace, love, joy, compassion
• Spiritual practice expansion of the healing
  power from spiritual practices such as yoga,
  meditation, mindfulness, and prayer

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Mind-body Medicine

• Mind-body medicine teaches us how to apply the
  power of the mind to healing and pain management.
  
• Most medical schools now address mind-body
  principles in their general curricula.

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Mind-body Medicine Principles

• There is no separation between mind and body.
• The mind is connected to every cell in the body.
• In some yet to be determined way, thoughts have
  leverage in the inner workings of our cells
  having to do with
• disease and healing
• pain management

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Mind-body Medicine Principles

• We can harness the untapped power of the mind
  for
• expansion of healing power
• pain control

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Mind-body Medicine Principles

• Pain Management
• Often we cannot take disease away, but we can
  always help with pain management.
• Pain is both physical and psychological.
• All pain is experienced in the mind and can
  therefore be modulated by the mind.
• We can control pain so pain does not control our
  lives.

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Mind-body Medicine Principles

• We think of high-tech medicine as real and
  mind-body principles as touchy-feely. This is
  reductionistic and wrong.
• We are bio psycho social and spiritual beings. A
  disturbance in any one of these leads to
  disturbances in the others.
• Therefore, comprehensive treatment planning
  includes bio psycho social and spiritual
  interventions.
• There are many ways to do this. No one way works
  for all people

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Activating Healing PowerIn Four Domains

• There is an explosion of knowledge and models
  having to do with healing in each of the four
  domains biopsychosocial and spiritual
• However, there is no time to do it all Managed
  care, fifteen minute appointments, paper work,
  and so on
• How can we activate healing power in all four
  domains given the limitation of time and system
  problems?
• Good news it can be done through skills training
  and self-help

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Step 3 The Compromise

• However, suffering is unavoidable.
• Often we do not accept the inevitable suffering
  of life.
• Instead, we make a desperate attempt to eliminate
  all of our suffering through faulty mechanisms
  such as the cultivation of bad habits.

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Step 9 Spiritual PracticeExternal

• Temples, Synagogue, church, mosque
• Rituals
• Sermons, singing, chanting
• Organizational work, committees
• Social gatherings
• Community service

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Step 9 Spiritual PracticeInternal

1. Affirmations
2. Habits
3. Breathwork
4. Progressive muscle relaxation
5. Contemplation
6. Meditation

• Prayer
• Mindfulness
• Practicing the presence of God
• Service
• Yoga, Satsang
• The Transformation of Emotion

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TOUCH THERAPY

• And a touch is love, just like a touch by a
  loving mother when she holds her baby in her
  hands. Doesn't this stop all crying and make all
  pain forgotten?
• When mother sees or touches her baby she secrets
  her Breast milk (oxytocin Hormone released
  causes milk secretion)

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• Yoga and Ayurveda are neglected in India, but
  people in Western countries like USA are
  following Yoga as a daily routine. 20 are Using
  Ayurvedic Herbal Medicines in USA

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American Psychiatric Association

• Physicians should maintain respect for their
  patients beliefs. It is useful for physicians
  to obtain information on the religious or
  ideologic orientation and beliefs of their
  patients. . .
• Physicians should not impose their own religious,
  antireligious, or ideologic systems of belief on
  their patients. . .

Spirituality In Medicine and Health Care Dr.
Thomas R. McCormick Dept. of Medical History
Ethics
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Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual

• Schools of Medicine have been slow to recognize
  appropriate this model of whole person care.
• The Nursing profession has long recognized the
  spiritual aspects of patient care.
• Chaplains and clergy have often assisted patients
  with the spiritual aspects of illness and the
  search for meaning purpose.

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Spiritual care defined

• Spiritual care is recognizing and responding
  to the multifaceted expressions of spirituality
  we encounter in our patients and their families.
  The purpose is to determine the nature of a
  persons relationship to God and other people,
  and to give the person the opportunity to accept
  spiritual support. Themes such as the search for
  meaning, feelings of connection or isolation,
  hope or hopelessness, and fear of dying are all
  clues that a person is struggling with spiritual
  issues.

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Research in Spirituality and Health Medical
Compliance Study of Heart Transplant Patients at
University of Pittsburgh

• Those who participated in religious activities
  and said their beliefs were important showed
• - better compliance with follow-up treatment
• - improved physical functioning at the 12-month
• follow-up
• - higher levels of self-esteem
• - less anxiety and fewer health worries

Hams, RC et.al. Journal of Religion and Health.
1995 34(1) 17-32
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Research in Spirituality and Health Immune
System Functioning Study of 1,700 older adults

• Those attending church were half as likely to
  have elevated levels if IL-6
• Increased levels of IL-6 associated with
  increased incidence of disease
• Hypothesis religious commitment may improve
  stress control by
• - better coping mechanisms
• - richer social support
• - strength of personal values and world-view may
  be
• mechanism for increased mortality observed in
  other studies
• Koenig, HG et.al.
• International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine.
  1997 27(3) 233-250

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Research in Spirituality and HealthCoping Pain
questionnaire by American Pain Society to
hospitalized patients

• Personal Prayer is the most commonly used
  non-drug method for pain management
• - Pain Pills 82
• - Prayer 76
• - Pain IV med 66
• - Pain injections 62
• - Relaxation 33
• - Touch 19
• - Massage 9
• McNeil, JA et al.
• J of Pain and Symptom Management. 1998 16(1)
  29-40

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The divergence between medicine and spirituality

• Modern medicine has developed marvelous advances
  and interventions, relying more on diagnostic
  procedures and less on patients conversations.
• Managed care, by limiting the time spent with
  each patient, makes it more difficult to discover
  the patients spiritual concerns and most deeply
  held goals and values.

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Research in spirituality and healthCoping
Bereavement

• Study of 145 parents of children who died of
  cancer
• - 80 reported receiving comfort from their
• religious beliefs one year after their
  childs death
• - those parents had better physiologic and
  emotional
• adjustment
• - 40 of those parents reported strengthening of
  
• their own religions commitment over the
  course of
• the year prior to their childs death
• Cook. J Sci Sudy of Religion. 1983 22222-238.

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Research in spirituality and healthCoping Study
of 108 women undergoing treatment for GYN cancers

• When asked what helped them cope with their
  cancer, the patients answered
• - 93 their spiritual beliefs
• - 75 noted their religion had a significant
  place
• in their lives
• - 49 became more spiritual after their
  diagnosis
• Roberts, JA et.al. American Journal of Obstetrics
  and Gynecology.
• 1997. 176(1) 166-172

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Where do we find hope?

• Ultimately from our faith or understanding of our
  relationship to a higher power.
• The belief that a higher eternal power is in
  control provides meaning and purpose to any
  situation.

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Question Should nurses / DOCTOR talk about
religion or spirituality with patients?

• A. You may say no, because a nurse can not be
  expected to be conversant with all religions.
• B. You may say no, because the nurse may be an
  atheist or non-believer. (Though Ive met very
  few nurses who are.)
• C. You may say no, that would be an unethical
  intrusion into the privacy of the patient.
• D. But the answer is yes, particularly when there
  are indications of patient interest or need.

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Assess for spiritual crises

• Search for meaning or purpose in ones life.
• Loss of a sense of connection with people or God.
• Feelings of guilt or unworthiness
• No relationship with God
• Anger, denial, and bitterness expressed toward
  self, others, or God. Questioning of faith
• Desire for forgiveness
• Sense of abandonment by God

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• Nurses must be compassionate and empathic in
  caring for patients In all of their
  interactions with patients they must seek to
  understand the meaning of the patients stories
  in the context of the patients beliefs and
  family and cultural values. They must continue
  to care for dying patients even when
  disease-specific therapy is no longer available
  or desired.
• MSOP Report I,
• Association of American Medical colleges, 1998

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