Unit 5 - The Connection Between Spiritual Wellness and Mental and Physical Health

In my own life, the connection between spiritual wellness and mental and physical wellness is very clear. As I go on in life, I see more and more how I receive blessing upon blessing when I am living in a spiritual wakefulness to harmony with God and goodness. I experience this as a resourcefulness to meet the challenges of life and find healing and solutions to even the greatest obstacles. In contrast, when I slip into arrogance, insincerity and sin I find myself hopelessly tossed by circumstances in my relationships, my health and my own sense of connectedness. As an example of this, I point out to how I was the one who initiated my own fall into clinical depression for seven years when I became angry with God for the loss of my wife and knowingly walked away from Him and His teachings and embarked rudderless to drift in the sea of worldliness. I did not reach safe harbor until seven years later, when I was at the end of all my mental, emotional, and spiritual resources; and discovered a deeper relationship with God than that which I had before.