Spiritual quotient is described as a measure that looks at a person’s spiritual intelligence in the same way as intelligence quotient looks at cognitive intelligence. Spiritual quotient is all about holistic approach to life: the wholesomeness, self -awareness, …show more content…
Recent research have shown the opposite however so that there are different and completely independent types of intelligences. Among the pioneers of studies on different types of intelligence, Howard Gardner (1993) defined intelligence as “capacity to solve problems or match structures relative to cultural set.” His researches indicated that there are different types of intelligence that develop relatively independently so that any skills have specific area of brain that is responsible for …show more content…
Each area of life contains a set of relationships. Both success in life and levels of satisfaction in each area of life depends on how well one is able to interact within those relationships.
Spiritual intelligence expands the capacity to understand others at the deepest level. Spiritual understanding also allows discerning both the “true cause‟ of behaviour without judgement, and serving the “true needs‟ of others until people themselves learn to meet their own needs. This capacity is developed by first learning to free oneself from attachment and neediness and being able to meet our own inner needs. Attachment and neediness are the opposite of being spiritually intelligent.
Spiritual Quotient (SQ) offers a viable tertiary brain process for synchronous neural oscillations that unify data across the whole brain, which unifies, integrates and has the potential to transform material arising from the two other processes: reason and emotion. Spiritual intelligence facilitates dialog between mind and body, between reason and emotion. “If it is known how to rely on SQ one shall become less fearful, more accustomed to relying on oneself, more willing to face the difficult and the uncomfortable, and more ready to live at the edge . That is, at the boundary of chaos and order [“chaorder”], between the known and the unknown, between creativity and self-organization---the frontier for information creation (Zohar and