By enlarge in medical science health is limited to just physical dimension of health and a bit of mental and social health. Many of the research studies were conducted on physical health, a very few rather countable studies were done on issues related to spiritual health.
Most of the authors agree with the fact that spiritual health is philosophy of the health as other dimensions of health can be enjoyed with sound spirit only. So first of all one should care for one’s spiritual health.
There are many changes in the environment due to development of civilization but if our body is not able to cope with these changes then there will be disturbance in equilibrium between inside and outside environment of physical body. So there is need to make changes in inside environment of body as per the changes occurring outside environment of body.
As inside body environment depend upon status of various hormones secreted which intern depends upon functions of brain. So, along with physical body, brain functions is to be understood. Then and when only the needed changes can be made to capable of withholding environmental changes due to development. So nowadays it becomes much more important.
Have you thought about the life style diseases? Why these diseases occur in human being not in our pet animals or any other animal kingdom? They do not have these diseases as they do not have life style stresses in their life. But more developed brain of human being can act in both directions.
Nowadays it becomes much more important as we are going towards wordy development. This development has two way actions. In one way it’s making our life comfortable with invention of technology in other hand it is creating complex situations to understand.
So complexity of situation is a side effect of development. So, nowadays one needs more logical analytic mind with proper perception of situations. That’s why, there is more need to strengthen spiritual health to deal with this complexity and enjoy health in true sense.
Difficulty and Solutions:
Difficulty in entering this era of spiritual health is that one cannot see one’s spirit as one can see one’s physical body. Almost same can be narrated for mind, but it is fact that mind control over body. So this is the law of nature that more the subtle more is powerful. So in this sense spirit is more powerful than mind also.
But to improve the status one needs to measure the present status and it becomes very difficult to assess the domain which cannot be seen by observation. There are the other ways to assess such domains.
For example to assess mind one cannot see mind but status of mind can be seen by its functions in the form of various types of behaviors. So in order to assess mental health of an individual various types of tools were developed based on various type of one’s behavior.
Likewise, various attempts were made by many authors to develop tools to assess spiritual health and these tools are well documents. So they can be used to assess and/or to compare the spiritual health of individuals. These tools can be used to find out the effect of any intervention on spiritual health.
Future Aspect:
Nowadays with the development of mankind one should be much more careful about their spiritual health because:-
i. It is the base of other dimensions of health
ii. It is required to enjoy health in true sense
iii. It is required to deal with complexity of situations in changing developing world.
iv. It is required for proper logical analysis and perception from these analyses to better manage the day to day situations, so civilization can withstand the change and can remain stable.
A recent trend in health care is the self-care i.e. health generating activities undertaken by the person themselves. And improving spiritual health is a very good example of taking health care by themselves. So now there is urgent need to encourage researches in the field of spiritual health and its better management.
CONCLUSIONS
According to International Multispecialty Journal of Health (IMJH), spiritual health care should be given proper weightage along with physical, mental, social etc dimensions of health as it is the base of every dimension of health. Today in the era of complexity of day to day situation of fast growing world it becomes much more important to deal with complexity of changing world. There are very few studies regarding issues of spiritual health, so these studies should be encouraged.