Is spirituality linked to health?

Yes spirituality is linked to your health. Spiritual health deals with mind, soul, spirit and body.

Dimensions of health and well being:

Spiritual health is all about positive emotions. Having compassion, faith, love and ability to forgive are basic builders of spiritual health. Spiritual health leads to peace, enjoyment, relaxation. Religious faith, principles, morals, ethics and values make your spiritual life successful. Reading good books, thoughts, following spiritual masters, meditation, enjoying nature, yoga, music and chanting mantras are ways of attaining spiritual health. Appreciate the works and creations of almighty, accept your life as a blessing. This will change your attitude towards life. Also don't forget to listen to your inner voice, talk to yourself daily once, as you might miss world's most beautiful person. Do something for people around you. Try to dedicate your life for god. Finding meaning of your life, enlightenment, knowing yourself, realizing your soul, your purpose of life are all aspects of spiritual health.

Positive dimensions of health include happiness, satisfaction, positive attitude, improvement, physical fitness, contentment, bliss and activity. Whereas the negative dimensions include unhappiness, dissatisfaction, negativity, deterioration of physical health, ignorance, loneliness, anger, laziness etc. Positive dimensions arise from three main points: Work, Food/ nutrition, surrounding environment including people, place, hygiene, etc. Negative dimensions arise from lack of fulfilling the above points.

Spiritual Health linked to emotional health:

Spiritual health gives you positive dimensions. Your emotions are balanced when you feel happy and positive. Listening to devotional music boosts your emotional health. Music gives you refreshment. And when you listen to a devotional song or a devotional music, you improve your emotional health.

Reactions occurring in your body are divine:

Sometimes a patient who is suffering from mental illness might ask questions like does god really exist? Sometimes, for such patients it becomes necessary to believe in life and god. It becomes necessary to convince them the truth that lies herein. Thousands of reactions occurring in our body are controlled by molecules which the genetic machinery produces per day. For example, DNA (deoxy ribonucleic acid) is the blueprint of life. DNA replication occurs, from DNA there arises RNA (ribonucleic acid), and from RNA, there arise different types of proteins, which ultimately function and help as building blocks of our body. During this process, hundreds of molecules are required. Who is providing those molecules? I will give you another example. We all know that our body is made up of organs. Various biochemical reactions are occurring in our body such as glycolysis (breakdown of glucose to give energy), Krebs cycle, Electron transport system, etc. And various enzymes, cofactors are being synthesized and destroyed in our body. And lot of energy is spent as well as recovered. Do we even think of all these processes every moment? No. But have you ever thought how these processes might be working? Who is looking after these reactions occurring in our body? Who is watching all these reactions? Now, you guess the right answer. It’s purely, a divine source, which is ruling everything on this earth. It is here, that spirituality creates its importance. These reactions going on in your body are purely divine.

Spiritual health is thus important for overall balanced health. Knowledge of our body’s divine mechanisms linked to scientific evidences boosts our spiritual belief and health.