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Psychology is the science of the mind and gives us answers as to why we think and behave in certain ways. It is the study of both the conscious and subconscious mind. On its own, psychology can help us to dig out what is wrong or what is causing the issues we face on a conscious level. Just like we go to our local GP if we have pain or physical sickness, we go to a psychiatrist when we are struggling with our mental or emotional health.
However, when we only pay attention to our own psychology, it can become overwhelming, as we will always be uncovering what’s wrong and not doing anything to treat those things, and we will end up with a huge pile of things that need fixing but no actionable ways to do just that.
We can take psychological findings and treat them with spirituality. Obviously, if things are very bad or serious mental illness rears its ugly head, then spirituality will only help to cope and find meaning in that situation.
For example, I take antidepressants to treat my anxiety disorder & clinical depression, which helps me keep my mood level feeling like a normal functioning human being. I then use spirituality to help me understand the root of my problems & what role they play in the bigger picture of my life. It helps me to see the lessons I can learn from these negative beliefs or thoughts and how I can look at the present from a different perspective
Spirituality on its own can encourage things such as repression, avoidance or naivety as we are thinking about the bigger picture and never about yourself personally. Instead of dealing with our issues head-on, we may find that we are always running away from our problems and chalking it up to living a more spiritual life.
For example, a meditation on its own doesn’t do anything other than relax us temporarily. In high stress or anxious situations, that’s great, but on a deeper level, it’s like putting a band-aid on an open wound and expecting everything to be fine.
However, meditation with intention, with the knowledge gained from looking at things from a psychological perspective, will be much more beneficial to our long-term mental health and wellbeing. Spirituality is the medicine, but psychology is the diagnosis and we can’t pick the right medicine if we don’t know what’s wrong to begin with.
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