The Effect Of Spiritual Counseling On Happiness And Hope Among M.S Patients

INTERVENTION: Intervention 1: The content of spiritual counseling sessions is as follows:First Session:• Self‐knowledge and understanding of your strengths& weakness, fears, needs and desires• Realistically understand your limitations, shortcomings and disabilities as part of yourself• Accept mistakes and gain experience as a factor in increasing self‐esteem and empowerment Second Session:• Acceptance of the God's Divinity and the right of man to determine his own destiny• Consolidation of God's wise will based on the causal system• The wisdom of having human illness Third Session:• Repentance and confession of sins to God and acceptance of your weaknesses• Trying to relax and improve your health and life with hope and positive thoughts• The love of God for His servants and his promise to forgive and ignore human mistakes • The need to reform behaviors and the past to move towards the future Fourth Session:• Emotion control training, emotion regulation techniques, relaxation training, etc.• Understanding your feelings and ways to express your feelings• Expressing repressed and undesirable feelings• having a purpose as a key factor in enjoying life despite illness Fifth Session:• Deep knowledge of the self, in order to realize its enormous and hidden abilities• Recognize your weaknesses and try to fix them• Taking advantage of hope and not succumbing to hopelessness and Avoidance of self‐defeat• Avoid comparing yourself with others• Reliance on yourself and your abilities and avoiding unnecessary dependence on others.Sixth Session:• Thought control due to the extraordinary power of thought creation or destruction• Take advantage of the sad events in life instead of despair and worry, according to a bit of Saadi, “Where one door shuts another opensâ€?.• Modeling successful people Seve CONDITION: Multiple Sclerosis. ; Multiple sclerosis PRIMARY OUTCOME: Happiness Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention and immediately thereafter and one month later. Method of measurement: Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. Hope Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention and immediately thereafter and one month later. Method of measurement: Herth Hope Scale. INCLUSION CRITERIA: All patients with multiple sclerosis who have been diagnosed for three months Ability to commute and attend sessions Iranian Citizenship and Residence in Kashan