Extract from Understanding Holistic Health
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By H P Desai in From Books Published: Wednesday, 16 January 08 - 04:05 PM (GMT +07:00) Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 January 08 - 04:19 PM (GMT +07:00) |
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Understanding Holistic Health
Presenting some extract from book by Frank Vilaasa, "Understanding Holistic Health".
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Traditionally, in our Western Society, we have recognised three different aspects or levels in ourselves - the body, the mind and the spirit. The body became the domain of the medical doctor, the mind has come under the care of the psychiatrist and psychologist, and the spirit was ministered to by the priests. Each of these three groups tended exclusively to their own area. There was very little overlap. The doctor saw the body and the mind as being quite separate and independent of each other. To the priest, the body was actually antagonistic to the requirements of the spirit. None looked at the person as a whole, or attempted to bring any integration among these three levels.
The result is that we in the West are often divided against ourselves. Internal balance and harmony between the different levels of our being is rarely cultivated, or even acknowledged as a desirable goal for health and wellbeing. All too often we find that our bodies, minds and spirits are in conflict with one another. It is these internal conflicts that create the turmoil, confusion and stress responsible for many of today's physical ailments. It is now generally accepted that 85% or more of all physical ailments have non-physical causes.1
This fragmentation has been with us for so long, and has become so much a part of us, that we more or less take it for granted. It is considered normal to be tense and confused and stressed in our society. We think that it's necessary to struggle to get through life, that we're doing well if we just manage to cope. Any joy in life is considered to be a bonus. We regard ourselves as healthy if we manage to remain symptom-free. We have no positive concept of health as a state of harmony and wellbeing, or any idea of how this state can be achieved.
In recent years, a new understanding of health as a state of wholeness has started to emerge, outside of the precincts of orthodox medicine. We are seeing an ever growing number of new healing modalities, psychotherapies, herbal remedies, vibrational medicines, healing methods from other cultures etc. proliferating in recent times. At first glance, the sheer number, range and diversity of these new methods seems to be overwhelming. This is a genuine concern to those wanting to find out what these alternative forms of healing have to offer. Where to start? Which ones to choose? Are they all different? Do they have anything in common?
Enough has been written about the various individual modalities themselves. What is not readily available, and has led to the writing of this book, is an overview of the whole field of holistic health and healing. In this book I want to examine what the different modalities have in common, and also to return to basic first principles, and develop an understanding of what holistic health is and how it can be achieved. Finally to enable you, the reader, to gain an understanding of your own health needs, and the modalities best suited to fulfilling those needs.
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