[ellopoppit]

I'm not sure what you're saying is pure "woo"?

>physical, emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual, and environmental

Are you saying you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health?

[JumpCrisscross]

> you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health?

I’d be curious to see it. Why those factors but not others? Why is spirituality segregated from cognitive or mental health, broadly? How are these terms experimentally defined?

[ellopoppit]

Good questions.

There is thorough scientific evidence showing that:

1) Mindset (positive or negative) has direct effects on physiology

2) Strong social bonds and a sense of community is beneficial to health, while the inverse is detrimental

3) Meditation and mindfulness can positively affect physiology

4) Chronic stress is detrimental to health (and having an existential terror of death is surely a source of conscious or unconscious chronic stress for many)

These are all things which religion and spirituality can help with.

Religion, a social determinant of mortality? A 10-year follow-up of the Health and Retirement Study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.125743...

Neurobiology of Spirituality

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/

[moonchrome]

Depends on what you're willing to accept as science.

[Nowado]

Science is pretty well defined, just (some!) STEM students have issue following the line from epistemology to statistics.