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The
idea that the whole person - body and spirit - needs to figure in any therapy
recurs throughout the video. This idea has become very popular and is perhaps
partly responsible for the increasing interest in 'alternative' medicines.
However, the potentially unhealthy aspect of this attitude is that sometimes
unwell people feel they should blame themselves for what are in fact unavoidable
illnesses.
The need for spiritual health could be talked about and reflected on by
asking the pupils to write a script for a school assembly. Base it on one
of the many TV hospital drama programmes - only in this case the patients
who are rushed in for emergency treatment are suffering from 'spiritual'
illnesses - anger, sloth, greed
suitable symptoms can be created for
each illness (e.g. red face, high pulse, sweating etc for anger) and great
play made of detecting such problems with high-tech wizardry. In the end,
though, the point is emphasized that these are intangible problems. What
medicine can the student suggest for each case?
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