This is an interesting ppt on spiritual intelligence. This helps students who are interested in Psychology. B.Ed students have the topic spiritual intelligence in their curriculum. I think this ppt is very helpful for them.
3. WHAT IS SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE ?
Spiritualintelligenceisatermusedbysome
philosophers,psychologists,anddevelopmental
theoriststoindicatespiritualparallelswithIQ
(intellectualquotient)andEQ(emotionalquotient).
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4. DEFINITION
Spiritual intelligence is a higher dimension of
intelligence that activates the qualities and
capabilities of soul, in the form of wisdom,
compassion, integrity, joy, love, creativity, and
peace.
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6. Characteristics Of Developed Spiritual
Intelligence
◎ Getting inspire of the imaginations and values.
◎ Having the capacity of dealing with pains and its
development.
◎ Having the capacity of flexibility (active and
spontaneous adaptation).
◎ A high degree of self-awareness.
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7. Spiritual intelligence is composed of seven
factors
◎ Caring: Paying attention to physical processes
such as eating, regular meditation, and
exercises such as yoga.
◎ Enlightenment: Involving of mind in reading
spiritual issue, sacred texts and analyzing
them.
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8. Divinity: The sense of connection with God,
a higher power, and with a source of divine
power.
Spirituality in childhood: The intellectual
interests and activities in childhood such as
attending religious ceremony and reading
sacred texts by parents.
Ultra-sensory perception: The experiences that
are referred to supernatural or sixth sense.
9. Psychological trauma: Spiritual awareness which
are reached by having painful experiences.
Paying attention to community: Performing
spiritual activities such as donation, or
volunteering activities which will be beneficial to
the community
10. Some examples of using spiritual intelligence in practical,dayto day life.
◎ Personal life : Spiritual Intelligence frees you from
neediness and clinginess in your personal
relationships.When you realize you already have within
you what you seek from others(love,happiness,peace)you
are then free to act and interact without any ‘agenda’.
◎ Family life : The culture of family life can easily
resolve around too much familiarity. This results in
behavior which can scruing from rejection, resistance and
avoidance one moment, to attachment, dependency and
clingness the next nothing to another, but serves only to
give.
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11. ◎ Working life : When Spiritual intelligence is brought into the
Workplace work ceases to become a daily chore in order to earn
money and become a creative process of service and contribution.
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12. KEY METHODS TO LEARN
AND DEVELOP SPIRITUAL
INTELLIGENCE.
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13. ◎ Meditation: Meditation is the cultivation of self-
awareness. In the meditative process, we learn
about our self.
◎ Detached observation: This is the ability to
disengage from the world of action and interaction
outside our self, and to disengage from the world of
thoughts and feelings within our consciousness.
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14. ◎ Connecting: There is higher source of
spiritual power and it is possible to connect
with that source and empower oneself.
◎ Reflection: This involves taking time out on
a daily basis to review and reassess past
experiences of the interaction with others.
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15. ◎ Practice: New learning, new insights, new
realizations are only theories and have no
power to change your life unless they are
brought into action, allowed to shape new
behaviors, and then perfected in the
process of expression.
◎ Seeing: Spiritual vision is learning to see
only the best in others and by doing so
empowering others to develop the best in
themselves.
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