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The role of the Mind in Body Health
Health – is a term we use daily with the notion that it evokes the same meaning in everyone, according to its context. But it might actually be hugely beneficial to the intense Health-care debates, to ponder what conditions amount to a healthy person. In colloquial usage of Health we tacitly understand Health to mean Physical Health, because only Physical Health is measured and expressed by normative numericals in the realm of scientific consensus.
This makes us to all but ignore the fact well documented, that Physical Health, which is defined as the absence of detectable illness, is only that part of Health which can be easily articulated But the symptoms of the evident loss of Physical Health is just the final stage of a disorder in one of the 5 non-physical health constituents, which in balanced combination comprise the so-called Holistic (Wholistic) Health. However, the term “Holistic Health” lacks a universally acceptable definition, because no one really knows how to weigh and quantify each of the five non-physical Health elements: Mental Health, Emotional Health, Spiritual Health, Social Health and Intellectual Health. While the role of each one of these constituents is being analyzed in separate articles, here we’ll search for common grounds in understanding the function of the Mind.
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Holistic Healing: Fact or Fiction
There are many people who think of those interested in holistic healing as out of touch “hippie types” who have abandoned common sense in support of unproven theories inconsistent with mainstream scientific research. The fact that people feel that way is not an accident. Holistic health is under attack from a variety of outside forces with an agenda that may not have much to do with encouraging the well-being of others.
At first glance, the idea of intentionally marginalizing those who are committed to finding better ways to live seems counterintuitive, if not masochistic. If one looks deeper, however, the attack on holistic healing is predictable.
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