Spirituality in Health Care and Wellness
Name
Grand Canyon University: HLT-302
Professor
Spirituality in Health Care and Wellness
Introduction
Spirituality is all around us whether we realize it or not. It is what brings us closer to
everyone and everything around us no matter what. And through these spiritual relationships
comes the ideas of other theories in which we chose to believe or not it all just depends on what
your viewpoint of the universe is around you. Through life experience, decisions on what you
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want to believe in life will be faced and it really all matters on faith. Through the creation of the
earth, knowing what the true meaning of life is, what happens after death, etc., it all matter what
the specific worldview that is chosen to be followed. In the end though, God has given us
everything we need in order to know that He specifically gave us the lives that we all live now
and depending on what is believed is what will determine your fate.
Cultural, Sociological, Philosophical, Religious, and Relevance of Spirituality.
Spirituality is a very powerful word when thought thoroughly through on what it means
to someone. In a cultural stance, spirituality is the loving connection to parents, siblings, close
family members, etc. These are the people that someone has been gifted to through family and
are loved unconditionally no matter what. In a cultural relationship, these should be there for one
another through everything as they are closer to each other than any other person. Next to
cultural relationships are sociological relationships.
Sociological relationships consist of friendships of people that are throughout life. These
are the people who should still be loved but in a different way than cultural relationships. In a
sociological spiritual relationship, these people should also be there for each no matter what
troubles are faced in life. A significant difference between sociological and a cultural spiritual
relationship is that deeper secrets that someone would not want to be shared to closer family
members can be shared to these people that are a part of a sociological relationship. These
relationships can be very helpful because people in sociological relationships are chosen by the
person unlike in a cultural relationship and because of this someone might not want to tell
someone in a cultural relationship due to judgement. In sociological relationship, someone
should not have to worry because they chose this friendship. Although both of these relationships