VAISHALI GILL
There is no relation between religiousness and spirituality, both are totally different however a religious person can be spiritual and vice versa. Danah Zohar coined the term "spiritual intelligence" and introduced the idea in 1997 in her book Rewiring the corporate brain. In the same year, 1997, Ken O'Donnell, an Australian author and consultant living in Brazil, also introduced the term "spiritual intelligence" in his book Endoquality - the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the human being in organizations.David B. King has undertaken research on spiritual intelligence and defines spiritual intelligence as a set of adaptive mental capacities based on non-material and transcendent aspects of reality. King further proposes four core abilities or capacities of spiritual intelligence.According to Stephen Covey, "Spiritual intelligence is the central and most fundamental of all the intelligence, because it becomes the source of guidance for the others. There are various types of meditation available, which are being practiced by sages, saints, seers and others. The difference in various versions lie in the fact that these practices involve concentration to meditate at different centres known as Chakra in Yoga System. These chakras are, in fact, energy centres which correspond to nerve centres distributed along the spinal column and in brain region. Among allthese types of meditation, practice at sixth chakra is considered to be the most ideal which brings about optimum results. Seventh Chakra is situated very close to hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is a portion of brain that contains a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions. One of the most important functions of the hypothalamus is to link nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary glands. Spirituality involves the recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself, something more to being human than sensory experience, and that the greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or divine in nature. Spirituality means knowing that our lives have significance in a context beyond a mundane everyday existence at the level of biological needs that drive selfishness and aggression.