#48 How to manage Stress and Anxiety | The Spiritual Perspective | Part 1

<p>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".</p> <p> </p> <p>PART 1 - The Spiritual Perspective</p> <p>Speaker: Shaykh Abdul Aziz Ahmed. A world renowned scholar and educationalist based in Glasgow. I interviewed him on this podcast episode #25 - Desert Island Gems.</p> <p><a href='https://www.facebook.com/abdul.azizahmed.906'>https://www.facebook.com/abdul.azizahmed.906</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Shaykh Abdul Aziz focuses his discussion on</p> <ul><li>The relationship between culture and religion</li> <li>Muslim tendencies to focus on supernatural forces to explain mental illness</li> <li>Anxiety as a gateway to other mental health difficulties</li> <li>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)</li> <li>Dealing with Negative and positive thoughts</li> <li>Arabic terms and concepts of anxiety and sadness</li> <li>Prophetic traditions</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>VIDEO</p> <p>There is a video of the talk which i will put up on our Youtube channel in due course.</p> <p> </p> <p>SUPPORT US</p> <p>If you benefited from The MuslimCentric Podcast, please rate, review, like and share.</p> <p> </p> <p>KEEP IN TOUCH</p> <p>Website: <a href='https://www.muslimcentricpodcast.com/'>https://www.muslimcentricpodcast.com/</a></p> <p>Facebook: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/muslimcentric'>muslimcentric</a></p> <p>Instagram: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/muslimcentricpodcast/'>muslimcentricpodcast</a></p> <p>Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/muslimcentric'>@muslimcentric</a></p> <p>YouTube: <a href='https://www.youtube.co