SPIRITUALITY AND HOLISTIC APPROACH IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A UNIVERSAL PANACEA

Human development in an all-inclusive approach needs responsiveness to all facets of growth comprising Religious development & Spirituality. The existing paper therefore aims to incorporate faith and Spirituality in human progress. It is worth to indicate that social psychologists believe that alienation from religion tends to generate “identity crisis”. A hypothesis of this kind was invoked by recent studies that explain the detrimental effects of abandoning faith. In past decades, researchers have designed a wealth of new studies documenting prospective benefits of religious involvement for health and wellbeing. Being religious or having spiritual beliefs has been associated to improved psychological health in several pragmatic studies. Based on these findings, the current paper argues, the inclusion of religious experiences in trans-personal psychology is very important. Spirituality and faith thus is considered as being one of the associated elements to human development.