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spiritual concept

Posted on January 9th, 2010 by vie  |  No Comments »

In healthcare, spirituality is identified with experiencing a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life, together with a sense of belonging. It is about acceptance, integration and wholeness.

According to one definition, “The spiritual dimension tries to be in harmony with the universe, strives for answers about the infinite, and comes especially into focus in times of emotional stress, physical and mental illness, loss, bereavement and death.” This desire for wholeness of being is not an intellectual attainment, for it is no less present in people with learning disability, but lies in the essence of what it means to be human.

From the spiritual perspective, a distinction can be made between cure, or relief of symptoms, and healing of the whole person. Life is a perpetual journey of discovery and development, during which maturity is often gained through adversity. The relief of suffering remains a primary aim of health care, but it is by no means the whole story.

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Ask the experts

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by vie  |  No Comments »

Walk 10 Minutes a Day and Increase Your Fitness Level Old thinking was to work out in a sweat-filled gym for hours a day. No pain, no gain. New studies show that even short bouts of activity can increase your fitness level, especially if you’re new at working out.

Park and Walk
Whenever you have an errand, park your car as far away as you can handle and walk to the store. At the mall, park at the farthest end and walk the length of the mall. Use every opportunity to walk. At the end of the day, it all adds up to better fitness.

Crunch in Bed
Before you even get out of bed in the morning, do 10 stomach crunches while lying flat on your mattress. Increase daily by one until you get up to 100. Think you’ll never get there? Try it. You may eventually have to set your clock to wake up 15 minutes earlier, a small price to pay for a flatter stomach.

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hospital chaplaincy

Posted on June 8th, 2008 by vie  |  No Comments »

Times have changed since hospital chaplaincy was thought of as mainly Anglican. It now involves clergy and other appropriate personnel from many faiths and humanist organisations, as well as from several Christian denominations. Chaplains, or spiritual advisors as they are sometimes called, are increasingly valued as contributors to the work of multi-disciplinary in-patient and community mental health services.

A properly resourced, modern mental health chaplaincy or pastoral care department should have access to sacred space. The chaplains will have made a point of establishing good relations with local clergy and faith communities, and will provide information about local religious groups and their traditions and practices. They will be aware of situations in which an individual’s understanding of religious beliefs and activities seem to be unhelpful to them.

Advice should be available on controversial issues, such as spirit possession and the ministry of deliverance. Close liaison with the mental health team supports a holistic approach in which the ‘whole-person’ needs of the individual can be best understood and met.

Psychiatrists, patients and carers should all be fully informed of local chaplaincy services.

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The effect of stress

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by vie  |  No Comments »

Yes, stress can definitely cause a person to lose his hair! However, it is important to note that the type of stress we refer in this article is not the stress of everyday experience that most of us pass. In terms of hair loss, the kind of stress that causes this disease is caused by a sudden emotional shock or a catastrophic accident physics.

This type of hair loss, as is known, “telogen effluvium”. When an incident is highly stressful, what happens is that the active hair follicles to grow suddenly moved forward, “regression phase”. Shortly after the follicles begin, “resting phase”, where the growth cycle of a hair follicle reaches the place of rest, is not easy.

How soon after a stressful event an individual has to start to fall?

When a person goes through a physiological or emotional event, it does not begin to fall anywhere from several weeks to several months after the event. But once it started, the hair loss continues at a rapid pace.

And because it takes some time to get to shed their hair after the stressful event, the person is usually unaware that it is related to that past. Never occurs to them that the hair loss because the experience is not a new Äúsickness, AU or anything, just wake the product of the stress we went through a few weeks or months ago.

What are examples of high levels of stress that can lead to hair loss?

As we said before, Austress, AU, in the form of hair loss does not mean that the stress pattern experience more people in work, finances, relationships, etc. Instead, go through events like the sudden death of a loved one example would be of a stressful situation that can lead to hair loss. Getting a divorce would be an example. To ensure that someone close to you with a terminal illness may also fall into this category.

And of course, the physical experiences that can cause extensive damage to a person’s body will also produce at a high level of stress that hair loss is a possible side effect. For example, a heart attack or a major surgery causes hair to fall out of a person. The disease is a person in a long decline, such as influenza or malaria, can hair loss. And also, can accidents like car accidents or similar situation, where the body suffers injury, sudden cause hair loss.

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Priority of your health

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by vie  |  No Comments »

The importance of health and welfare, certainly come to the forefront of the industry over the last ten years. With the baby boomers, or just before going into his last years, the overburdened health and medical services and performing a large number of people, the limits of medical science, the company’s position is increasingly important responsibility for their own health and welfare development.

It is no longer the only people relying on doctors and hospitals to better if they get sick. Instead, the approach has been one of disease prevention, maintaining or improving the health status of the existing one. The incredible boom in the health industry has overall responsibility to witness this trend.

The importance of health and well-being is the fact that a diet, weight loss programs, training programs and equipment, fitness facilities, spas, food supplements, and activities / recreation groups of all kinds now common in our daily lives reflected. Some of these changes are driven by extreme demand and long waiting times for treatment in the health system but also the desire of creating jobs to an active life in retirement, with the hope that you fit and well enough to participate in activities of your choice. To manifest these goals, in fact, built the foundation for good health throughout life, not only to try the damage having been done to repair.

It became clear that the health industry turned in its current direction. Just because it is the importance of health and welfare as a priority now is the best in your future.

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