The document discusses the relationship between spirituality and wellness. It addresses how spiritual practices and beliefs in God can positively impact physical and emotional health. Regular spiritual activities are argued to provide benefits like hope, a coping mechanism, and stress relief. The document also notes that when people's spiritual needs are met, they tend to be healthier. It acknowledges there is debate on these issues in the medical community and that beliefs are personal, but encourages supporting the spiritual practices of others.

1. God is Good
(For You)
Margaret Floyd
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2. Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Issue
III. Plan

3. Introduction

4. What is
Wellness?
If health is an absence of disease
Wellness could be described as a
homeostasis of all aspects of one’s life:
Emotional
Occupational/Educational
Environmental
Physical
Social
Intellectual

5. Dimensions
of Wellness
Each of the 8 dimensions have a significant impact
on our lives.
Some are more obvious than others, like physical
Others don’t seem as important until they are badly
out of balance, like emotional
Or Financial
The Spiritual Dimension is often significantly
undervalued

6. Social Practices
and Force for
Social Change
There is a push to be healthier in this modern,
digital world
Pinterest Boards are full of healthy recipes and
tips and tricks for easy exercise methods
There is also a large amount of social pressure
to participate in unhealthy practices
In communities who have concrete spiritual
practices, less physically unhealthy habits are
popular

7. The Study of
Wellness
Studies have shown that the American
public may understand, intellectually, what
wellness is, but have little to no desire to
change their habits to achieve it.

8. Positive and
Negative
Aspects of
Wellness
Being in good health increases happiness of
ourselves and our families
Being without good health and in a state of
being unwell, that state becomes
contagious throughout our attitudes and
actions to all whom we come in contact
Wellness, or the lack thereof, affects every
single aspect of our daily lives

9. Emerging
Technologies
From our own DNA at our fingertips and
available to upload for various applications
to straps that monitor our oxygenation and
sleeping, the level of technology we wish
to employ in our quest for health is
endless.

10. Issue

11. Spirituality:
Where is God
in Wellness?
How important is a regular spiritual practice
to wellness?
Is belief enough?
What affect does regular spiritual practice
have on our physical health?
What effect does it have on our emotional
health?
What happens when we neglect this aspect
of our lives?

12. Doctors and
nurses have
reported for
years that
religious beliefs
seem to have an
effect on
terminally ill
patients
Recent research
supports this
notion.

13. How Does God
Help?
God figures into their
coping strategies
Their beliefs in God or
another higher
power, give them
hope

14. Against God? God has been rejected by the medical profession for
decades
Survey in Vermont showed 91% of patients believed in
God, only 64% of their physicians
Claims have been made that healthier people choose
to be religious, not the other way around

15. Accommodating God:
When people’s spiritual needs
are met, they are physically and
mentally healthier

16. Plan

17. God is Personal
Not even a parent can truly
change a person’s beliefs
It is important to encourage
PRACTICE of those beliefs
which exist in a person, by
parents and society alike

18. A key part of all
12-step addiction
recovery
practices is to
acknowledge a
higher power

19. During times of
weakness, such
as addiction
recovery, often a
person’s spiritual
beliefs are
awakened or re-
awakened

20. Stop Dissing God
As support people, friends of adults, we should
encourage each other in any spiritual practices
Go to church with a friend, take a friend to your
church or worship center
Encourage your children to practice within their
spiritual interest

21. Stop Being Offended
Everyone has beliefs that are different
Some are different by a little - some by a
lot
By learning about one another’s beliefs we
dispel fear and hate and spread love
When we share our own beliefs we learn
about ourselves and others

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