PART 1 - The Spiritual Perspective
Speaker: Shaykh Abdul Aziz Ahmed. A world renowned scholar and educationalist based in Glasgow. He was interviewed on this podcast episode #25 - Desert Island Gems.
Mental health and wellbeing is such an important and relevant issue affecting all of us, our friends and our families. This episode is a recording of an event held in Glasgow, Scotland in July 2018 called "Coping with Stress and Anxiety - a practical approach from a spiritual and psychological perspective".
TOPICS
- The relationship between culture and religion
- Muslim tendencies to focus on supernatural forces to explain mental illness
- Anxiety as a gateway to other mental health difficulties
- Shaykh Abu Zayd al-Balkhi - a 9th century polymath who wrote about mental and psychological disorders. The book in English is widely available "Abu Zayd al-Balkhi’s Sustenance of the Soul: the Cognitive Behavior Therapy of a Ninth Century Physician" (ISBN:1565645995)
- Dealing with Negative and positive thoughts
- Arabic terms and concepts of anxiety and sadness
- Prophetic traditions
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