Raymond Trinh - Week 6

‘You are here’: locating ‘spirituality’ on the map of the current medical world, by Parmeshwaran Ramarkrishnan, presents the chaplaincy process, strengthened by mindfulness-based mediation program that develops chaplains’ skills in self-awareness, which in turn builds their deep-listening skills for providing empathetic and embodied care to be the model that for training physicals in spiritual care. This paper states the medical education curriculum and programs that are based on these studies would actually lead to development of the field of spirituality and medicine. It is crucial to understand how and or whether the field of medicine is returning to the hold of religion or whether religion is moving in the direction of clinical care. However, there are implications and pitfalls of such an expansion of medicine into the realm of spirituality. Chaplain’s spiritual care process could help patients transcend their emotional disturbances to connect with their ‘self’ and reach an ataractic state of peace. Our understanding of ‘spirituality’ or ‘spiritual care’ may lie in the search which helps individuals find meaning and purpose in their struggles. 

Can we prevent the disturbances of ‘self’ of embodiment and intersubjective experiences?