Well Being.. Wellbeing has its roots in a number of languages; among them, Latin (salus), Hebrew (shalom), Arabic (salaam), French (sante), Italian (salut) and Spanish (salud). Cognates: health, welfare, peace, wellbeing, integrity, whole(ness), salutary.
“Regardless of culture or creed and whether one is religious or not, humans share basic spiritual . . .needs for love, faith, hope, virtue and beauty. . .which when unfulfilled can lead to significant spiritual suffering.” Bartel, 2004. “People have a fundamental right to have their cultural, psychosocial, spiritual and personal values, beliefs and preferences respected.” JCAHO, 2006.
Therefore it is the role of individuals and institutions to protect those rights, it is the right thing to do if we care about health, as opposed to more disease which, without change, is coming. Spirituality is the way we find meaning, purpose, hope, connection, inner peace, relationship with ourselves and others and with the transcendent where the transcendent, is understood in different ways: God, the Sacred, the Divine, Higher Power, Mystery, or that which is of ultimate meaning or highest value. Spirituality provides the Well Being of the people helping them to know who they are, what their gift is to their family and the planet, the deeper meaning of life, why there is evil in this world, why there is suffering. In this view, spirituality is the ‘existential core of human well being.
Bottom Line: There is a very strong relationship between spirituality and well being. It is the window for personal transformation and growth so that all of us become responsible for the Wealth WholeHealth can offer this country. This means we have the rights to refuse treatment and request treatment of our choosing. If we are about creating Holy/Healthy Ground for our Beloved Communities I propose we examine, research and rethink:
· Social Justice: Empowering people to take a stand and find their own meaning, value and voice it.
· Politics: Helping people more with life’s deeper questions.
· Economics: Welcome paradox, ambiguity and trusting what emerges.
· Education: Crafting centers, circles, methodology groups of greater listening & conversation.
· Well Being: Awaken people to their true nature.
The second tenet of the Declaration of Independence states that all men14 are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . . . ." Therefore there is a spiritual quality to the fundamental nature of our civil government I want to respect here. Spirit means breath and breath is the essence of our life force. We are losing our health, we are losing our country and in order to course correct, we must recover a reverence for our life force, we must regain a sense of the sacredness about this planet, and each other in order to assure a sustainable society of well being.
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