Spirituality

Transcendence is “the experience we have in our religious environment to something objectively greater.” This is our constant desire for something more. Spirituality is “the gap between what we are, what we aspire to be, and what we think our potential is.” This is what ultimately creates the gap. When focusing on this gap, it goes all the way back to the Ancient Greek and the Egyptians. They would begin with a theory and move to praxis, and apply it to their everyday life. Today, the praxis is…

In this paper, I will be writing a final reflection from the class, Spirituality and the Practice of Human Services: An Integrative View. This will include my present religious personal journey. Additionally, my current understanding of spirituality and religion in human services. Lastly, I will incorporate my vision on how I will function ethically, responsibly, and competently as a human services professional. My present religious personal journey is a growing and developing path. I have…

In this paper, I will be summarizing the information from this week’s reading. Additionally, from this week’s reading I will provide examples of how the content applies to my personal spiritual journey. Lastly, I will provide my ideas of how this week’s reading will apply to my future human services career. This week’s reading included chapters nine and ten from the textbook, “Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Service Practice” written by James W. Ellor, F. Ellen Netting, and Jane M.…

Traces of the Spirit, by Robin Sylan, New York: New York University Press 2001. 221 pages. Reviewed by Taylor S. Towers. Traces of the Spirit was chosen for review due to how it’s study of religion in modern western cultural music relates to our classes study of other culture’s music and how religion strongly influences them. Throughout the course many of the articles we read discussed how music in other cultures, such as Balinese or African, differs from western music in the fact that in…

The Dreaming is a fundamental tenet of Aboriginal spirituality which refers to their spiritual beliefs about creation and existence. The Dreaming encapsulates all wisdom and perception of reality in Aboriginal societies hence is crucial to all thoughts and actions of Aboriginal spirituality.The Dreaming is inextricably intertwined to the land because it is the medium through which the Dreaming and ancestral spirits is communicated to on a metatemporal plane. The Dreaming also holds an the…

Based on transcendental method, Lonergan posits what he calls the “transcendental precepts,” merely that one must “be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, [and] be responsible.” To the extent that one does these things, the self-transcending subject is “authentic,” that is to say, he makes objective judgements of value, goodness. As one more and more consistently follows the transcendental precepts, he more consistently come to know and choose the good; he moves from inauthenticity toward…

Mark R. McMinn (2011), Psychology, theology, and spirituality in Christian counseling book, is an exceptional resource that provides counselors relevant core concepts related to the integration process of theology and spirituality into the counseling setting. However, the primary objective of the textbook is to focus on the difficulties encounter in the counseling office. In addition, McMinn provides relevant data that aids the Christian and secular counselor understand the process of…

& Narayanasamy, M., 2008). Further, prayer and spirituality have been shown to improve patient outcomes concerning issues of mortality, pain, coping and recovery (Puchalski, 2001). Studies where patient prayed on their own for healing and strength have also produced reported feelings of well-being and acceptance…

publications addressing clients’ expectations about spirituality in counseling—these spiritual issues in counseling subsequently are neglected. The key, the Team claim is that clients who seek counseling often have spiritual or religious issues, and they often to want and anticipate to talking about spiritual or religious focuses in mental health counseling. The article also found that clients highly rated on religious and supportive therapists. Client spirituality or religiousness is directly…

essay “Exegesis and Spirituality: Completing the Circle”, proposes that exegesis and spirituality are important tasks that should be done consciously and simultaneously when one reads his Bible. He identified the preconceived notion of Christian’s today about studying the true intent of the authors, the true meaning of the passages written by them, the historical and cultural context, and the people it is addressed to, have nothing to do with spirituality; when in fact it (spirituality) is or it…