Healing hospitals follow a holistic approach in terms of providing healthcare services to patients. There is considerable evidence to indicate that healing hospital environments provide a wide range of benefits to patients by using spiritual healing processes that are aimed at providing comfort and peace to the patient. Spiritual healing is to guide anyone to align with their inner essence, in order to achieve a better quality of health and emotional, mental and physical balance in order to derive happiness (Chapman & Chapman, 2004). Healing hospitals have recorded impressive success rate in healing smaller diseases and can also help patients to cope up with major ailments. Patients are also more responsive to healing processes than they are to other painful treatments.
In itself, a disease is a sign that there is an imbalance, and this is a direct message that not only tells us how we are unbalanced, but shows also the steps we must take to return to align with our inner essence and health. Traditional medicines that are the invention of modern science only aid the healing process by fighting disease from the physical perspective without considering significance of the patient's mental harmony or his spiritual health. However, as humans we are only too aware of our mental state as well as our emotional body. Healing hospitals ensure that the concept of health is studied in a holistic and multi-dimensional manner so that ways can be devised by which the body can be healed more efficiently (TenBrook, 2000).
Healing hospitals can be used to cure several diseases more efficiently and painlessly than other contemporary treatments that require taking medicines, antibiotics and even treatments. This is especially true for diseases that are non-terminal or viral so that human beings tend to look upon them as being of less significance when compared with fatal and terminal diseases. Stress, distress, depression, fears, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive orders are leading examples of such modern diseases and are easily cured through healing therapies conducted in hospital environments.
However, apart from efficiently healing smaller diseases, hospital healing can also help patients to cope up with major ailments and even assist them in healing themselves through spiritual healing. The origin of all these modern diseases is closely related to the neglect that we are giving to our spiritual health. It is also the case of "physical" diseases, which are often seen in the emotional body weeks or even months before they manifest in the physical body. There is ample evidence to prove the myriad benefits of spiritual healing in hospital environments. Hospitals mainly use healing processes that focus on treatment which is aimed at reducing high levels of stress in patients in order to foster the overall healing process (Chapman & Chapman, 2004).
Today, death is completely obscured in our daily lives but in the media, as if it concerned other and elsewhere. Similarly, good health is considered normal, the disease is now perceived as an anomaly. These concepts, these ideas are from a collective unconscious, characteristic of European society ...