Sprititual Wellness Connection

As human beings, we are composed of spirit, mind, and body, which are all interconnected.  Therefore, we must care for each aspect of our being in order to achieve or maintain complete wellness.  Unfortunately, contemporary medicine has moved away from both the spiritual and mental aspects of our health and has only focused on the physical, which is why physicians and surgeons focus so much on pushing pills and procedures as a cure to our ailments such as heart disease and diabetes. However, physicians are now realizing that the mental aspect of our being is also important and we are seeing a transition to including therapies such as counseling.  On the other hand, physicians have been slow in recognizing the importance of including the spiritual aspect in their treatments.

My spiritual connection is mostly manifested through prayer.  Most of the prayer that I have done over the last few years have been for my husband's health since has been on life-support three times during this time.  Each time, he was not given more than 48 hours to live; however, with my belief in prayer he proved the doctors wrong.

Having this belief in prayer has helped both my physical and mental wellness in that giving my worries to God has helped to relieve the stress that I would have felt.  In relieving my stress I was mentally at peace, which prevented my body from reacting to the stress that I would have experienced.  In other words, my body remained in the same state of wellness it was in prior to my husband's hospitalizations instead of breaking down due to stress since I was at peace with the outcome of my husband's situation.

Debra