大象传媒

Good Morning.

A relationship to the mystical wasn鈥檛 encouraged in my family home.

My Dad, a huge influence in my life, loved the sciences and was always readily available to help me with these topics. However he couldn鈥檛 relate to my longing and deeper questions about the nature of our existence, a sense of being more than this earthly body, and a dimension I wanted to understand. This manifested itself in my 30s as a kind of existential crisis, feeling lost and becoming depressed.

Then I joined a local yoga class, focusing on the breath and chanting sacred mantras, which led me to a Sikh prayer called Anand Sahib. 鈥淎nand鈥� means 鈥渟piritual bliss鈥� and "joyfulness鈥�.

This one line brought a profound understanding I鈥檇 previously searched for:

鈥淕od placed the soul into the cave of the body and blew the breath of life into the musical instrument of the body.鈥�

A few days ago, I was reminded of a wellbeing conference I鈥檇 forgotten I attended. The speakers were a mix of medical professionals and spiritual leaders. One GP shared an epiphany moment he鈥檇 had, while reflecting on patients continually returning to the surgery for help. He realised there was a missing ingredient in consultations, and while it wasn鈥檛 appropriate to use words like soul and God, he began asking patients about joy, what opened their heart and enriched their inner connection. In this way, he opened the door to the spiritual dimension. This changed the nature of his practice and the health of his patients.

Dear God, I pray that I can continue to remember that science and spirituality working together, rather than separately, means we may live in optimum health and wellbeing, and in the wholeness of a meaningful sense of existence.

Sat Naam.

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