It is indeed a great challenge to show how spirituality has a direct relationship to health. For this, a definition of health is also needed. Usually when we think of health we think of illness, disease, or its opposite, a healthy individual. Many times the client is told they are healthy, but they still feel something is wrong. Often times this is termed psychosomatic disease or neuroses, or imagination.
Some doctors refer patients to psychiatrists or psychologists.
Another example of health and disease is a doctor finding themselves having to give the troubling prognosis that he can do nothing for this type of disease, or that a patient has only so long to live. In some of these latter instances the client defies medical wisdom and lives for years, and sometimes a so called miraculous recovery occurs. There are stories of people who have been declared dead and then they come back to life. The question of spirituality or Divine grace can certainly enter into consideration in these situations. A second definition of health offers room for greater consideration.