Health's Benefits Of Physical Health And Spiritual Health

In the medical field, particularly nursing, our main goal/focus is to get the patient to a well or functional state of being. This is popularly believed as the absence of physical disease when in reality it is the wellness of the physical body, mind, and spirit all together. Some health care workers tend to negate the utter importance of a healthy mind as well as a healthy body for the patient and the nurse to achieve healthcare goals. Since the nurse in particular is the person that spends the most time with the patient and has the most patient interaction, this should be predominately implemented by the nurse. There are many different ways the nurse may aid in tending to a patient’s psychological and emotional needs in addition to physical.

Only in the recent years, our culture is starting to recognize it as a great benefit to our health. Not only does yoga benefit our emotional health, it has great physical health benefits on the body. Yoga is a natural way to reduce emotional stress and cause beneficial effects on the body. Diamond 2011 stated in her article about yoga’s benefits of health that patient’s that are in chronic states of stress have a decrease in natural killer cells in addition to a decrease in their cytotoxicity. In another words, because of the emotional stress a patient is under, their immune system will decrease, giving them less chance or prolonged chance of recovery. This simple piece of evidence highlights the great impact of stress affecting a person health. Adding on to this, Diamond 2011 also reports that there is an increase of natural killer cells after a patient does such exercises. This increases the immune system’s functioning, benefiting and promoting wellness in the patient. Yoga can be prescribed to any patient, even if it is just simple breathing exercises where the patient relaxes the mind by focusing on their breathing. Yoga is a natural exercise that does not interact with medications and has endless benefits for mind and body, therefore it should be of greater focus in the hospital setting for ill