Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity
Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft
As health care practioners we should be aware of our own personal attitudes, beliefs, biases, and behaviors, besides our morals as health care practioners. Health care providers should include patients’ spiritual practice in their care as this brings positive outcomes such as decreased feeling of anxiety and depression, improves their coping skills, promote healthy behavior, and believe in hope. In times of critical illness we turn towards God in prayer and this faith helps an individual find peace in them and healing of body, mind and spirit takes place (Ehrlich, S. 2011).
Author’s Spiritual Perspective on Healing
The author believes in the Blessed Trinity which means one God in three Godlike persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The author has a strong faith in prayer and believes that our father in heaven gives us all things that we ask for through prayer. As said in Matt 21:22: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (ASV). The author believes in the word of the lord, because it talks about healing which is physical, mental, and spiritual. Jesus cured people, and told them that their own faith had healed them. The Bible says that faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17), and that would mean hearing the Word of God in the Bible (Catholic Bible 101, 2012).
Comparing Buddhist Approach to Healing with Christian Perspective
Buddhism doctrine is based on Four Noble Truths. They believe that their body is a temple of the spirit and it is each ones responsibility to respect their body. An individual who respect their body and disciplines their life through meditation, practicing good hygiene, eating healthy food, and balancing physical activity with rest does not fall sick. Buddhist value happiness and agony because joy allows them to enjoy and value life; whereas sorrow and suffering help them to grow and become stronger. They also believe that healthy sex
As health care practioners we should be aware of our own personal attitudes, beliefs, biases, and behaviors, besides our morals as health care practioners. Health care providers should include patients’ spiritual practice in their care as this brings positive outcomes such as decreased feeling of anxiety and depression, improves their coping skills, promote healthy behavior, and believe in hope. In times of critical illness we turn towards God in prayer and this faith helps an individual find peace in them and healing of body, mind and spirit takes place (Ehrlich, S. 2011).
Author’s Spiritual Perspective on Healing
The author believes in the Blessed Trinity which means one God in three Godlike persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The author has a strong faith in prayer and believes that our father in heaven gives us all things that we ask for through prayer. As said in Matt 21:22: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (ASV). The author believes in the word of the lord, because it talks about healing which is physical, mental, and spiritual. Jesus cured people, and told them that their own faith had healed them. The Bible says that faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17), and that would mean hearing the Word of God in the Bible (Catholic Bible 101, 2012).
Comparing Buddhist Approach to Healing with Christian Perspective
Buddhism doctrine is based on Four Noble Truths. They believe that their body is a temple of the spirit and it is each ones responsibility to respect their body. An individual who respect their body and disciplines their life through meditation, practicing good hygiene, eating healthy food, and balancing physical activity with rest does not fall sick. Buddhist value happiness and agony because joy allows them to enjoy and value life; whereas sorrow and suffering help them to grow and become stronger. They also believe that healthy sex