Spirituality in a Hospital Setting
Published June 25, 2011 | 
Often, people see a separation between spirituality and science. Hospitals fall into the science category as a place where people may get better thanks to the marvels in modern medicine. A patient might see someone walking down the hall in a nursing uniform and automatically assume, “here she is to draw more blood.” They see her for the science of drawing blood, and not necessarily for the spirituality behind the wellness that comes from treating our ailments.
My Angel in a Scrub
Health is a powerful force – health of body, mind and soul. When your body is healthy, you feel better, think more clearly and are energized overall. The same goes for a healthy spirit in the way that it carries over into other aspects of your being. I wanted to imagine myself in the place of a hospital patient, so I visited this link and imagined that these were real nurses tending to my needs: http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/Original-Scrubs/
Certainly a flat picture isn’t exactly the perfect scenario for putting oneself into a given context. It may have been just as easy to walk down the block to the local care center and pop my head in the door. But, I was feeling a surge of creativity and didn’t want to lose it by getting up out of my chair.
When I imagined myself in the hospital, the walls were white – the sheets, drapery, everything around me… was white. And suddenly it struck me – the color white is often associated with sanitary environments, and it is also associated with the spirit. And, it is a blank canvas upon which one might paint a mental picture of the state one will be in upon recovery. In this imaginary hospital within my head, when the nurse walked into the room, she was not there to draw blood. She was an angel.
