LESSON 9 - SPIRITUAL SELF

• WHY SPIRITUALITY IS IMPORTANT?

  • Meaninglessness in life is a significant factor in causing anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns. 
  • Spiritual practices are associated with optimal health and well-being.
• CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES

  • Can be understood as a method of deep concentration, deepen understanding and insight, cultivate awareness and compassion. 
  • Mindfulness
  • Prayer
  • Journaling
• THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION

  • RELIGION is defined as belief and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a God or Gods.  
  • A particular system of faith and worship.
• FOUR DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION

  Beliefs

  • Generalized system of ideas and values.
  • Rituals
  • Repeated gestures or activities such as prayers and mantras.
  • Spiritual Experience
  • Feeling of immediate connection with a higher being.
  • Unique Social Forms of Community 
  • Unite in one single community called Church.  
• POLYTHEISM

  • Multiple Gods
  • Hinduism, Ancient, Greeks, Ancient Romans
• MONOTHEISM

  • Single God
  • Judaism, Islam, Christianity
• ATHEISM

  • No deities
  • Atheism, Buddhism, Taoism
• ANIMISM

  • Nonhuman beings (animals, plants, natural world)
  • Indigenous nature worship, Shinto
• THE BABAYLANS

  • Considered as the first psychologists in the Philippines; a spiritual leader and a medium. 
  • Our ancestor believed that souls can exist outside the body and that they continue to exist even after death and become multo.
• • Spiritual is defined as relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. 
• • Religiosity is about believing in a God or group of Gods and consciously adheres to the beliefs of his/her religion. 
• DUNGAN 

  • Is a life force, an energy, an ethereal entity with a will of its own that resides in the human body and provides essence to life; can temporarily leave the body. 
• GINHAWA (Visayan word for breathe or breath)

  • Is responsible for the hearts ability to beat; may be affected by foreign elements.
• KALULUWA (KALAG)

  • Is associated with wisdom and is believed to be in the head. Kakambal is the soul of the living.
• RITUALS

  • IMITATIVE RITUALS - are patterned after a myth and the ritual repeat the myth. 
  • NEGATIVE RITUALS - focuses on the rules of prohibition. 
  • SACRIFICIAL RITUALS - are seen as the earliest form of religion. 
  • LIFE CRISIS RITUAL - are traditional of one mode or stage of life into another. 
• BARANG

  • Is a malignant sorcery that usually targets a person. 
• KULAM

  • Is voodoo or witchcraft which uses black magic or spells on a victim. 
• ALBOLARIO/MANANAMBAL 

  • Is a traditional healer.