Spiritual Intelligence: A Tool to Empower Women

The reasons for the mushrooming family disputes in India can be varied. However, spiritually empowered women will be able to adjust to the situation and shape it in favour of them. Financial empowerment alone will not make a woman empowered. Only truly empowered women can create harmonious families which in turn will benefit the society as a whole. Thus spiritual empowerment of women is important. Spiritual empowerment will improve the cognitive, affective and behavioural empowerment of women, which will permit them to utilize their own unique potential to reach the excellence.

Empowerment means achieving higher levels of cognitive, affective and behavioural growth and development within the individual which will enhance the self-esteem of an individual, enabling to do more self-depending and self-sustaining activities. Based on the research done in the area of spiritual intelligence it is observed that enhancing spiritual intelligence brings positive changes in mankind. These positive changes are empowering in nature. However in this article, an attempt is made to analyze the concept of spiritual intelligence as a tool to empower women which is of great significance in the present scenario.

Spiritual Intelligence is the expression of innate spiritual qualities such as love, peace, purity and bliss through thoughts, attitudes and behaviours. Spiritual intelligence enhances the various skills and abilities that empower women to live in harmony and to move unwaveringly towards the life goals.

The article dwells on spiritual intelligence and its impact on the spiritual empowerment of women. This will help to boost the self-concept of women in a traditional and spiritual way. This kind of women self-empowerment may enhance performance on components like general health, academic performance, general mental status, social adjustments and personal adjustments.