The SHIM Institute is committed to revitalizing the connection between spirituality and health. We offer healthcare professionals, clergy, patients, and all others concerned with healthcare, the opportunity to help bring compassionate care into medicine.

Faith, Hope, Social Connectedness, Purpose, Control, Forgiveness, and Gratitude.

Faith - “The height of human wisdom is... to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.”
Daniel Defoe

Hope - “An optimistic attitude is the key factor for success! If we want a beautiful garden, we must first have a blueprint in the imagination, a vision.”
Dalai Lama

Social Connectedness - “In order to survive, you need other companions; without other human beings, there is simply no possibility to survive; that is nature's law, that is nature.”
Dalai Lama

Purpose - “What allows us, as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.”
Barbara de Angelis

Control - “The secret to health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Buddha

Forgiveness - “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese

Gratitude - “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illness.”
Hippocrates