Holism & Health
Many years ago, the Immigration Department required me to provide a routine chest X-ray. I went to the X-ray department at the prestigious hospital where I was employed and had the X-ray taken. The next day as I walked into my office, I saw the X-ray in an envelope on my desk. Pinned to the
I believe if a person could spend his whole waking time being aware of his hara – as is taught in some Eastern religions – his life would be so different. He’d always have his own identity. No-one could push him off course. Nothing would really affect him, and all his negativities would be superficial.
And
Just what do we mean by “holistic”? So many holistic health centers offer professional work in many different areas – yoga, meditation, biofeedback, reflexology, nutritional counseling, patterned exercises, relaxation therapy, massage, acupressure and so on. But simply offering all these forms of therapy does not necessarily make a clinic holistic.
“Holistic” in our framework encompasses the
A vow is the most sincere, solemn promise.
The dedicated student makes a vow to learn all he can to actuate his Life Energy. And his therapist makes a complementary vow to teach him.
This mutual vow is at the very heart’s core of all True Therapy. Without this bilateral, equal, and total commitment there can never
When a doctor approaches a patient he must think not only of the mechanics of the physical cure, but also of aiding the person in healing his spirit. This cannot be learned in medical school, it is not in the medical textbooks, nor does it qualify as a diagnosis for insurance companies. But it is what really matters.
What is Beethoven to medicine? And the Buddha, and Shankara, and Raphael, and Blake, and Monteux, and Euripides.
“Modern psychological science dispenses altogether with the soul. … The new psychologists have ceased to think nobly of the soul, and even speak of it as a complete superfluity.”
The true physician's role is to ensure that the patient has a fervent desire for Life Energy, that is, they truly want to be healthy.
“…he himself is subject to his birth” –Hamlet, I.iii.78 Especially if we enlarge “birth” to include the nine months before and the year after – the period Michel Odent calls that of Primal Health.
There are two approaches to holism: the synthetic - the building up into the whole; and its opposite, the analytic - the breaking down of the whole into its components. Most people, and society generally, tend to analysis at the expense of synthesis, a problem with ultimate roots in the mother-child relationship.