Faith and Negative Experiences

Jacob Waiswa
Situation Health Analyst
Dishma-Inc.
P.O. Box 8885,
Kampala-Uganda
Tel. +256392614655/+256752542504
dishma.imhs@gmail.com
www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com

Faith is the conviction that prayer or a given religious rite has a direct effect on the life of the person in question –and helping to transform him or her from previously bad experience to positive states (wellness).

Spirituality, indeed seals up components of the human being -including the thinking system, emotional system, and the body. Other writers, however, add the soul as integral part of the being sometimes used to refer to person’s ‘spirit’, or to refer to the ‘heart.’
On the other hand, it can be used to mean the Supreme Being, or to describe extraordinary strength of a person and extremes of behavior (spirited).

Part of defense mechanism is when people going through difficult experience begin to seek objects they can attach meaning and form explanations for their suffering. The earlier spiritual experiences will dictate whether to adopt new faith or to strengthen old one –depending on how best it has served them.

In Buddhism, spirituality is here and now with us. We assume spiritual levels during insight meditation.

It is, therefore, wise to connect to spirituality (beyond the intellect), whilst not replacing it with the being or logic (egocentricism) –for it to be effective in the people’s lives. Effectively transformational, yet rational outcomes of spiritual connections result from individuals’ ability to subject them to reasoning test, which if passed, the desired yet rightful behavior come forth. It can be experienced that, one’s past can be so strong that individuals easily drop newly held values –especially if they do not keep practicing the new ones.