Emotional Intelligence Personality Traits And Wellbeing A Study on Socio-Emotional Reconciliation by Traditional Healers Keeping Local Deities

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One of the most enduring pursuits throughout the entire history of humanity has been the search for well-being, happiness, and good life. It takes only a minor excursion into human history to realize that the answers to this question have been extraordinarily diverse. Some people have pursued towards sensual pleasure, others have sought love, the joys of intimate relationships and still others have worked toward the actualization of their potentials, while some significant others have searched for the peace of contemplative spirituality (Compton, 2005, Khan, 2012, Sethi, 2012, Srivastava, 2012). The debate about the relevance of religion is an ongoing one in the modern world. One important view is that the religion is not required, however, if used with a sense of balanceand proportion, it could be beneficial in many ways for everyone, including agnostics and atheists (Luthra, 2019). Spirituality and faith in God has done miracles for people and their faith cannot be judged by anything. Similarly their faith in deities and institution of deity possession play a catalytic role in people's life. According to Smith (2010), the Deity and Spirit Possession in Asian Literature provides a number of ground breaking insights with respect to conceptualizations and methodological approaches to the phenomenon of possession (¿ve¿a, Prave¿a, and Sam¿ve¿a) in the Indian traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and more broadly in South Asian religion. It involves adorcism (encouragement of positive possession states) and exorcism (removal of negative possession states). In rural areas of Himachal Pradesh, the people have immutable beliefs in their local deities those according to them fetch prosperity, promote wellbeing and quality of life by resolving their social and emotional issues (Kaur, 2017, Kataik, 2017, Kaur & Zinta, 2017, Thakur & Pirta, 2009, Thakur & Zinta, 2017, Thakur, 2018). Institution of Devi/Devta and their agents like Gur or Mali are playing important role in understanding, predicting and controlling the overt and covert behavior and playing important role in resolving social and emotional conflicts. Therefore, the immutable beliefs in supernatural elements, their institutions and their agents have even plundered the Medical Professional or the social scientists. Sometime, reconciliation of the traditional healers matters a lot and is much influential and effective than to doctors in rural areas. People get relief and benefits from their local deities. They are more influenced by their Gur or Mali who witnesses a possession of local deities and provide people the physical, social, psychologica