The basic orientation of life of the traditional Indian cultures is primarily religious in that they look to the supernatural to solve their problems and tend to see their own lives as requiring continuous service to the deities.
The main differences are in the opposite orientation of life, in which up becomes down and right becomes left, and in the diminution of all things possessed by the elflike creatures.
We also miss sensitivity for stage specific developmental tasks in Antonovsky's original Orientation of Life questionnaire.
Variables excluded by stepwise backward procedure from both models: political orientation, end-of-life care experiences, and self-rated health.
The mechanism for this change is probably not down to food intake (which didn't change much), but is "probably associated with the sudden lifting of reproductive suppression and a re-orientation of life-history strategy".
Experiences like this are not easily dismissed by those who have been through them, and they may sometimes lead to a conversion or metanoia, a change of mind, that alters the direction and orientation of a life.
For these purposes, ancient kingdoms or republics still looked to tradition and command, utilizing slavery as a basic source of labour (including captives taken in war) and viewing with disdain the profit orientation of market life.
We developed a 6-item Spirituality Self-Rating Scale designed to reflect a global measure of spiritual orientation to life, and we demonstrated here its internal consistency reliability in substance abusers on treatment and in nonsubstance abusers.
Much like previous studies, we were able to confirm the finding that the level of liberalism acts as an important socio-cultural orientation regarding end-of-life interventions [ 21, 24– 26].
23 The SOC scale was developed by Antonovsky 24, 27 to reflect the construct of a fundamental attitude in the sense of a dispositional orientation to life and includes three basic components, ie, comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness.
Faith demanded a new worldview, a new orientation to life, a letting go of baggage and an unclenching of our hands for a future of possibility.
