- Title
- The four domains model: Connecting spirituality, health and well-being
- Creator
- Fisher, John
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57301
- Identifier
- vital:5038
- Identifier
- ISSN:2077-1444
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rel2010017
- Abstract
- At our core, or coeur, we humans are spiritual beings. Spirituality can be viewed in a variety of ways from a traditional understanding of spirituality as an expression of religiosity, in search of the sacred, through to a humanistic view of spirituality devoid of religion. Health is also multi-faceted, with increasing evidence reporting the relationship of spirituality with physical, mental, emotional, social and vocational well-being. This paper presents spiritual health as a, if not THE, fundamental dimension of people‟s overall health and well-being, permeating and integrating all the other dimensions of health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, reflected in the quality of relationships that people have in up to four domains of spiritual well-being: Personal domain where a person intra-relates with self; Communal domain, with in-depth inter-personal relationships; Environmental domain, connecting with nature; Transcendental domain, relating to some-thing or some-One beyond the human level. The Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being embraces all extant world-views from the ardently religious to the atheistic rationalist.
- Relation
- Religions Vol. 2, no. (2011), p. 17-28
- Rights
- Copyright authors; MDPI
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Spritual health; Sprititual well-being; World-view
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