The study is the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis to date of scientific literature on health and spirituality. Overlooking spirituality in health care leaves patients feeling disconnected from ...

How do you practice spirituality in your life? Poet Mary Oliver captures the essence of spirituality in just 12 words: "Listen — are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" In the line ...

There are many different types of spirituality. People who practice spirituality can be heart-centered, dogmatic, intellectual or a combination of these types of belief systems. Most spiritual ...

What to do when, in the words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “All that is solid melts into air?” Times of upheaval inspire a search for alternative understandings of reality. This was as true a ...

Mental health experts are increasingly exploring the connection between spirituality, mindfulness and emotional well-being in ...

"At least you got pregnant! What a blessing!" As I digested these words from a well-meaning acquaintance, I wanted to spit them out immediately. I had just suffered a miscarriage, and in the midst of ...

Last year, Michael Thomas and Dilip Jeste of the University of California, San Diego introduced a new scale (Thomas et al., 2019) for assessing people's wisdom based on six common and measurable ...

“I believe in reincarnation because it just makes sense!” exclaimed 10-year-old Jesse in the middle of a lesson that was on anything but reincarnation. This wasn’t the first time one of my students ...

A son reflects on how his mother's phrase, 'Why do they make things so complicated?' lives on through him, especially on ...

Spirituality has become a topic of much interest in recent times in the scientific community. This includes the convergence of advances related to the role of spirituality in self-help groups, health ...

Spirituality is a core human experience, albeit often ignored or not talked about. Spirituality is often mixed with religion or religious beliefs or practices. Nonetheless, newer definitions of ...

It lives outside religion, promising a feeling of connection to others, the planet and our long, shared history Some people put up their guard at the word “spiritual”, suspecting an evangelical ...