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- Your definition
- Exploring a societal shift
- Reflecting
- Integrating
- Emerging Definition
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- Imagine yourself in a patient/client situation where that person
suddenly asks you:
- “So what is spirituality anyway?”
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- Out of body experiences
- Yoga paths
- Channeling
- Angels
- The healing power of art
- The birth of white buffalo
- UFO sightings
- alternative medicine
- natural investing
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- Spirituality is “whatever is left over when the doctor, social worker,
psychologist, community education officer or psychiatrist have had a
go”.
- (C. Sherlock; The Doctrine of Humanity. Leicester: IVP, 1996; 222.)
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- “ Physicians can take a spiritual history - find out whether religious
or spiritual beliefs are used to cope, are evoking religious struggles,
are likely to influence medical decisions or are responsible for other
special needs that trained clergy may help with.”
- (Mayo Clin Proc. 2001; 76:1189)
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- The language of spirituality is found in all aspects of our society
- our professional association and our clinical settings are adopting the
language
- the developing of our discipline into a health care profession requires
it.
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- The hunt for the concept of spirit in our world
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- Urban mental health agency began a Healthy Heart group for mentally ill
inner city people because of wide-spread heart related problems.
- They discovered that significant spiritual concerns accompanied other
concerns raised by the group
- (New Dimensions in Mental Health Services, 1998)
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- A research study by Andrea Grabovac and Soma Ganesan, Dept. of
Psychiatry, UBC
- Quote from King and Bushwick study which showed that 94% of inpatients
believed spiritual health to be as important as physical health and 77%
wanted spiritual issues to be considered in their care.
- Also quoted Fitchett & Burton who found that 80% of psych patients
and 88% of medical patients expressed need for prayer
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- The American Psychiatric Association has changed its assessment and
treatment guidelines to include spirituality
- by 2001 16 psych residency programs in the US won awards for the
spiritual component of their programs ranging from 12-81 hours.
- In Canada only 4 programs require mandatory didactic teaching in
spirituality
- This is the first article in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry to call
for and outline a specific training module in spirituality (April 2003)
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- “I’m undergoing
- empowerment
- through
- spiritual awakening”
- (page113)
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- The post-Christian moral is a world of apathy which means non-suffering
- society has repressed pain, buried suffering, refusing to accept losses
or functional disabiliites with pills, denial, and desensing and
desensitizing behaviour through the media.
- We have lost a sense of vitality
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- “ In the equilibrium of a suffering-free state, the life curve flattens
out completely so that even joy and happiness can no longer be
experienced intensely.”
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- The greatest challenge facing the people of God today is complacency
- “most of us prefer conventional wisdom to the sharp edge of Scripture’s
call to carry crosses”
- “a livelier spiritual engagement with the hard questions about what it
means today to seek the kingdom first would serve Jesus well
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- Astroturf funerals
- “I just don’t want her to suffer”
- “It’s just too hard for him to move out on his own”
- Desensitization through the media graphically showing us suffering
without ever having to feel it.
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- “Not an illness of mood but of sensory deprivation……
- the tuning fork of your heart doesn’t resonate anymore”
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- Here, there’s much more than the Caribbean sun. Much more than a
thousand golden beaches, much more than the rhythm of merengue.
- Here you will get the feel of life and peace, feel the movement of
history, the joy of our people, and the sounds of nature.
- Here an entire country awaits you. A land of sensations. (Cdn Living; Oct 2002:89)
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- A 60% increase in the use of anti-depression medication in the last 5
years.
- There are 20 types of anti-depressants
- Only 60% of patients benefit from anti-depressants
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- There are 5,166,922 Web site references to Reality TV on Lycos
- “There is a fascination with seeing the average guy, the guy next door,
in extraordinary situations” (CBS President Les Moonves)
- (Judy Calheiros: Voyeurism Today)
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- “What is it about ‘real life’ that has the power to tantalize us? To
interest us to such a degree? On the one hand, it is simply that it is
‘real’”
- “In this book (of e-mails) the reader experiences the emotions the
couple go through in their quest for love.”
- (Judy Calheiros: Voyeurism Today)
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- Fans say that reality TV probes the existential questions of who we are
and whether we can escape our psyches
- critics call the shows weapons of mass distraction…causing us to become
dumber, fatter, and more disengaged from ourselves and society
- Conlin: substituting an obsession with a contrived reality for attention
to the all too- scary global one.
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- Reports on student fight clubs where teens pay admission to see two
people fight in someone’s home
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- What if it can make you feel alive!
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- Move forward with intention to live the life of their dreams
- supported, challenged, motivated and inspired as they create more
fulfilling and balanced lives
- claim their own power in living a life with meaning
- it’s about change and getting closer to what you really want from life
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- Nurses perceive spirituality to be a universal concept that is relevant
to all individuals
- because of nursing discomfort in incorporating the topic, suggests that
nursing curriculum add the spiritual dimension of care
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- Spirituality is that aspect of every human being , rooted in our unique
createdness which is on a sacred journey of completeness, sometimes
seeking to connect with and trust in the divine being and in pursuit of
such things as wisdom, faith, future, love, justice, hope, meaning,
forgiveness, peace and more
- in order to affirm who we are in
essence as human beings and with the goal of being alive and fruitful in
ways that are meaningful.
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- Spirituality is the affirmation of our essential humanness through our
search to be alive and fruitful in meaningful ways
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- A concept analysis study by Ruth Tanyi using a literature search of
spirituality spanning 30 years
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- Search for meaning
- wholeness
- peace
- individuality
- harmony
- a biological and integral part of being human
- way of being
- an energizing force for actualization
- meaningful and extensive way of knowing the world
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- A personal search for meaning and purpose in life, which may or may not
be related to religion. It entails connection to self-chosen or
religious beliefs, values and practices that give meaning to life,
thereby inspiring and motivating individuals to achieve their optimal
being. This connection brings faith, hope, peace and empowerment. The
results are joy, forgiveness of oneself and others, awareness and
acceptance of hardships and mortality, a heightened sense of physical
and emotional wellbeing, and the ability to transcend beyond the
infirmities of existence.
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- “In a culture where the fountain of youth is sought and death denied,
most people will learn less about living meaningful lives and more about
survival skills, which are important but not enough. People can survive
their whole life and never live it. “The unexamined life is not worth
living” could be rephrased to: ‘The unexamined life is not worth
surviving’. Living fully is what it is all about.”
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- Spirituality described as a life giving force
- involved developing faith, discovering meaning and purpose, and giving
the gift of self.
- Provided inner strength, comfort, peace, wellness, wholeness, and
enhanced coping
- (Journal of Holistic Nursing, Mar. 1999)
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- “I’ve never seen you like this,” she said bemused.
- “That’s because you’ve only seen me spinning my wheels. I’m basically a
problem solver, and now I have a problem to solve.” He muttered, “At
long last.”
- “And you love it, don’t you? It makes you come alive.”
- He shrugged. “At least it makes me feel alive”
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- Share the definitions that you wrote at the beginning
- 5 minutes
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- A sharing of ideas and aha! moments that help you clarify the concept of
spirituality
- everyone jots down each other’s ideas
- 15 minutes
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- Develop a group definition of spirituality
- write the definition on flip chart paper and tape it to wall
- 15 minutes
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- A reading of the group definitions: read while you wander
- 10 minutes
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Notes