![]() ![]() Likewise in Japan, tea rituals were often used to mend society during the brutal civil wars of the Kamakura Period. This healing city incorporated both the Asclepion (spiritual) and Hippocratic (scientific) healing modalities. In the 5th Century BCE, for example, the Archaic Greeks created a healing city at Epidaurus (Greece). Sacred healing spaces were the primary healing environments for societies of the ancient world, curing individual and collective maladies. By engaging patient’s in spirituality, culture and community before and after a medical appointment, medical providers can more quickly and positively affect their therapy’s outcome. And palliative care patients’ feelings, state of mind and spirit profoundly affect their body and course of getting well. Medical facility healing environments are the manifestation of aesthetics-they are the physical form of human feeling. From the root word aisthanesthai, or “ to perceive (by the senses of the mind)” ( 1), modern aesthetics is essentially the study of human feeling. Introduction-sacred space and the healing journeyĪesthetics: the word’s origin is derived from the Greek aisthetikos, which means sensitive and perceptive. ![]() Keywords: Ceremonial behavior environment design mental health spirituality healing environment sacred space ![]()
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