Use of spirituality in therapy and counseling attempts to treat a person's soul or inner psyche by accessing non-dogmatic or non-ritualistic aspects individual's belief systems to remove evils and slavery of mind. If done with proper diagnosis and designed intervention, it can be helpful to reconnect an individual to his or her purpose in life and restore his psycho-spiritual well being.
A certified therapist with insights in philosophy and spiritual aspects of religion is able to integrate spirituality in his or her counseling practice. It requires exploring human values' integrated with other therapeutic tools to enhance and vitalize the therapeutic protocol of the intervention and rehabilitation of disillusioned with life and disturbed client.
One of the ways can be spiritual symbolism as simple art work like ragoli to explore deeper aspects of life and purpose of existence and get out of mundane life (watch the inset video)
Spiritual therapy should enhance spiritual intelligence of person which has been described in the following ABC poem a little modified from an earlier post at Speaking Tree Blog.
ABC POEM ON SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE
A: Awareness of one’s existence as non-physical entity such as soul or spirit that is eternally blissful
B: Believing that identification with body, senses and mind results in ego, transgressions and evils that cause sorrow
C: Conducting oneself with equanimity and ethically without expecting any returns
D: Doing actions with integrity, empathy, proactively or selflessly
E: Evolving oneself towards self-realization
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