Healing with Heart from Moss Communications

Spirituality and Work

Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care Professionals, the latest book published by Moss Communications, tackles some of the more difficult topics that often go underground in the work place. Spirituality and work is one of those topics. Using everyday stories that take place in hospital settings, Healing with Heart raises ideas and stimulates thoughts that release a renewed enthusiasm and allow health care professionals to bring more of themselves to their work.

Healing with Heart manages to balance the etheric with the practical. This reflection on Spirituality and Work is a good example of that. It also makes a clear distinction between religious beliefs and spirituality. Healing with Heart gently respects all religious beliefs, including those who do not embrace a religious belief. Here is an excerpt of the reflection, Spirituality and Work from the book:

Working in health care influences how we live. Every job shapes how we use time, understand the world and even what we believe. Doctors tend to live and think as doctors, nurses as nurses, and carpenters as carpenters. Each develops a particular way of living that fits with the needs of their jobs. This expression of their lives becomes their spirituality. In fact, spirituality is most often described as a way of life.

Many people confuse spirituality with something otherworldly or an activity or system of thought that is confined to churches, synagogues, temples or mosques. Systems of thought that shape how we think of God is theology, not spirituality. Spirituality has to do with the down-to-earth, daily ways that we live our lives. We might use theology to describe how we think about God, and spirituality as the way we live. For a moment, think about spirituality in this way…