The WHO Executive Board task force on the revision of the Constitution proposed that the preamble be amended to read (World Health Organization (1997) Constitution Revision…, EB 10 1/7, p.2 )

“Health is a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

In January 1998, the Executive Board endorsed this proposal by the Task Force and adopted resolution EB 10 1.R2 recommending to the World Health Assembly that it amend the preamble of the Constitution accordingly (World Health Organization (1998) Board Executive 101st Session, Resolutions and Decisions, EB101.1998/REC/l, p.52-53)

In 2005, the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World endorses a “positive and inclusive concept of health as a determinant of quality of life and encompassing mental and spiritual well-being.”

Since the first definition of the WHO – “Health is the absence of disease”, we have come a long way. And this certainly comes on time because after a long journey of science and discovery, the world is rapidly entering a new era that feels lost due to the lack of sane answers to many of its questions in its materialistic domain.

Especially when it comes to health and disease, we can only go so far and then we hit a blank. There are revolutionary drugs and super talented surgeons, and yet children die young, babies are born with deformities, organs stop working before their expiration dates, and otherwise healthy people lose their memories. This is in addition to the multitude of mental illnesses that baffle experts around the world as they use trial and error to “fix” things. And we are in the 21st century!!

Can man really claim to have understood the human body and its reproductive process? Some may use genetics to have acquired all the knowledge, but I always have a question: you know that certain genetic coding leads to certain characteristics and others decide the location of organs in the body and other details, however, who made this coding? super smart genetics in the first place? I mean, it’s way beyond the stretch of the word “Amazing”! The son of a man is born a man with all systems and microsystems in exactly the same place with exactly the same function for centuries together! The system that makes it happen or made it happen in the first place cannot be a random “Big Bang”!! No, it was not a random occurrence that not only humans, but thousands of creatures inhabit this earth with a perfect genetic code and a perfect place in the ecosystem and each one with perfect intelligence in the art of survival.

It had to be a superpower and Spirituality is the recognition of that superpower that built the smallest of its creatures with perfection and with a PURPOSE.

This purpose and connection to the superpower makes us all spiritual beings who have been given a human body to experience challenges and learn the very essence of life.
Many diseases are the form of these challenges that come to us with some lessons. There are currently many studies available in which energy healing and faith healing methods significantly cured or at least improved quality of life in patients with intractable and life-threatening diseases. Most of these methods work with emotional labor. Many illnesses have been healed with the release of trapped negative energy due to longstanding unresolved issues, sometimes even attributable to past lives.

Experts from various scientific fields around the world have experienced the positive effects of spiritual healing on their patients and that includes the American psychiatrist Dr. Brian Weiss who has done groundbreaking work in past life regression and regression therapy.

This is not a way to dispute the role of medicine, however it is necessary to understand that there are things beyond our physique that determine the quality of our health and when considering treatment one must look beyond what is popularize more.

Today, doctors everywhere are overworked, leaving little to no time to understand the needs of the patient as a person. Patients, especially with chronic and terminal illnesses, suffer much more than physical disability and pain. There is emotional pain from loss of health, family unrest, dependency pain, financial burden, and much more that must be addressed just as much as physical illness.

In this era of specialization, the patient is hardly considered as a person… he is a kidney, a heart, a lung… But the patient is not the kidney or the heart, he is a person who is also much more than the organs , is emotions, needs and feelings. In addition, since diseases are a call to awaken the self, spiritual needs are at their highest point. In the absence of someone to attend to these needs, diseases spread from the physical to the mental, emotional and spiritual.

Much has been achieved by man and much has been given to us by science, however, our truth goes further. The famous theory of the Hierarchy of Needs of the great philosopher Sir Abraham Maslow speaks of man’s greatest need to be a ‘transcendental self-realization’ While Albert Einstein, the man of science, said: that a spirit manifests itself in the laws of the Universe , a spirit far superior to that of man, and before which we, with our modest powers, must feel humble.”

“Unless we open ourselves to this holistic definition of humanity, our questions and efforts will always be half-rewarded. We all know what Einstein famously quoted: ‘Science without religion is pathetic.’ Religion without science is blind.” “