HEALING CURE & SPIRITUALITY

Gul
Jabeen

Minhaj Hajira

Mehnaz Hasina

Huma
Kowsar Zia
 OBJECTIVES

At the end of the unit learners will be able to:

➢ Definition of Healing, Cure and Spirituality
➢ Describe spirituality and its relationship with
health and illness
➢ Differentiate between healing and Cure
➢ Identify different methods of spiritual healing
 DEFINITION

➢ HEALING
To restore health or soundness cure.
➢ CURE
Means of healing or restoring of health or a method of
remedial treatment for disease or successful remedial
treatment for restoration of health.
OR Eliminating all evidence of disease
➢ SPIRITUALITY
Spirituality is the way you find meaning, hope, comfort and
inner peace in your life. Many people find spirituality through
religion. Some people find it through music, art or a
connection with nature. Others find it in their values and
principle. OR
 SPIRITUALITY

➢ Spirituality is a specific therapy given by a spiritual export

to the person in need, using energy transfer or
transmission to allow them to get the ability to balance
their mind, body and spirit to recover soon.
➢ REMEDY
Something that cure or relive a disease or bodily disorder, a
healing medicine, application or treatment.
➢ SPIRITUAL WELLNESS
Is a personal matter involving values & beliefs that provides a
purpose in our lives. Spiritual health can also consist of more
board in our concept, such as hope, purpose and peace.
 SPIRITUALITY RELATED TO HEALTH

▪ No one really knows how spirituality is related to health.

However the concept is that body mind and spirit are
connected. The health of any one of these element seems
to affect the others.
▪ Some researches shows a connection between your beliefs
and your sense of well being.
▪ Positive beliefs comfort and strength gained from religion.
Meditation & prayer can contribute to well being. It may
even promote healing.
▪ Improving your spiritual health may not cure an illness,
but it may help you fell better. It also may prevent some
health problem & help you cope better with illness, stress
or death
 PATH TO IMPROVED HEALTH

• If you want to improve your spiritual health, you may want to try
the following ideas, however, remember that everyone is different.
What works for others may not work for you. Do what is
comfortable for you.
• Identify the things in your life that give you a sense of inner peace,
comfort & strength.
• Set time every day to do the things helps you spirituality. These
may include doing community service or volunteer work, praying,
meditating, singing devotional songs, reading inspirational books,
having quiet time for thinking, doing Yoga, playing a sport, or
attending religious services.
 REACHING SPIRITUAL WELLNESS

▪ It is important for everyone to explore what they believe is

their own sense of meaning & purpose.
▪ The path to spiritual wellness may involve meditation, prayer,
affirmation or specific spiritual practice that support your
connection to a higher power or belief system. Yoga &
meditation can also helps you develop spiritual wellness.
▪ Having compression, the capacity for love and forgiveness,
altruism. Joy and fulfillment help you enjoy your spiritual
health. You religion, faith, values, beliefs, principles and
morals define your spirituality.
 EVOLUTION OF YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL
WELLNESS

Evaluate your own spiritual wellness with this brief quiz:

➢ Do I make time for relaxation in my day?

➢ Do I make time for meditation and/or prayer?
➢ Do my values guide my decisions and actions?
➢ Am I accepting of the views of others?

If your answered “No” to any the questions, it may indicate an

area where you need to improve the sate of your spiritual
wellness.
 DIFFERENTIATE B/W HEALING & CURE

You can Cure without healing, and you can heal without
curing
Curing means “Eliminating all evidence of disease” while
Healing Means “becoming whole”.
The words “healing” and “curing” are used interchangeably.
Curing is a restoration of health, an absence of symptoms and
remedy of disease.
Healing, on the other hand, is a restoration of wholeness, healing
is not the removal or cessation of symptoms, but an integrative
process that exceed from physical to mental, emotional and
spiritual vitality and wellness.
 DIFFERENT METHODS OF SPIRITUAL
HEALING
❑ Meditation.
The beauty of practicing meditation is that it allows you to “let go” of
every day worries & literally “live in the moment”. People who
meditate regularly report improvement physically, mentally and
spiritually. Several ways to meditate like learning breathing or Mantra
techniques. Most experts recommend meditating for 20 to 30 minutes.
Practice mindfulness meditation, you’ll need.
I. A quiet environment “where you can relax”
II. A comfortable position “avoid lying down”
III. A point of focus (meditate with your eyes closed or opened so this
point can be internal---a feeling or imaginary scene---or external– a candle
flame or a meaningful word that you repeat throughout the meditation)
IV. An observant, noncritical attitude (Negative judgments)
❑ Counting
Count backwards from 100, restarting every time you lose track.
Don’t attach to forgetting your place; simply start over and keep
counting down. Remember, there Is no right or wrong it’s all
meditating.
❑ Visualization
Concentrate on a single face, color etc. allow your mind to clear
and focus on a single image e.g. A peaceful green field notice this
makes you feel.
❑ Yoga
Yoga combines meditations and physical exercise to achieves
improved health and sense of well-being. Yoga has been practice in
India for over 5000 years. Yoga involves repeating movements that
can help improve strength and flexibility as well as promoting
mental & physical health and greater self-understanding.
❑ Guided Imagery
A wonderful stress reduction tool which uses “visualization” &
“Mental imagery” techniques to improve health. It has been
used effectively for cancer patients who literally themselves
without the cancerous cells.
❑ Practicing visualization
Close your eyes and restful place or picture visualization works
best if you incorporate as many sensory details as possible
For example, if you are thinking about a quiet lake:
• See the sun setting over the water
• Hear the birds singing
• Smell the pine tress
• Fell the cool water on your hare feet
❑ Deep Breathing
Also known as diaphragmatic breathing in these exercises, you
are learning not a engage in the typical shallow breathing, but
breathing through your diaphragm.
• The key to deep breathing is to breathe deeply from the
abdomen, getting as much fresh air as possible in your lungs.
When you take deep breathe from the abdomen, rather than
shallow breaths from your upper chest, you inhale more
oxygen.
• Sit comfortably with your back straight. Put one hand on
your chest and the other on your stomach.
• Breathe in through your nose. The hand on your stomach
should rise. The hand on your chest should move very little.
▪ Exhale through your mouth, pushing out as much air as you
can. The hand on your stomach should move in as you
exhale, but your other hand should move very little.
▪ Continue to breathe in through your nose and out through
your mouth. Try to inhale enough s that lower abdomen
rises and falls. Count slowly as your exhale.
▪ If you find it difficult breathing from your abdomen while
sitting up, try lying down Put a small book on your stomach,
and breathe so that the book rises as you inhale and falls as
you exhale.