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Holistic HealthTwo Pronged Approach Of SynergyHolistic Health - Before attempting to understand what the the word this word renders to the medicine and wellbeing, it is better to think about its meaning. This word is so much popular in theory and in practice that labeling anything with it promotes the value of any theory or product. Now This Word 'Holistic' Is In Use For Indicating:
I want to take some different approach toward understanding 'holistic'. This approach is based on Yoga, Ayurveda, Spirituality. The concept of holistic health can be validated by our personal experience through the scientific and other means.
The Comprehensive & Wholistic Implications Of The Word 'Holistic' Holistic Health Idea No. 1 - Are We Just The Physical Bodies?Of course all of us have a tangible physical body and that is the base of 'all-that-related-to-I-and-me'. Besides the body there are energy based, psychological, social and spiritual basis of ourselves. All of this is doesn't need any evidence. The sole evidence should be our own validation of these natures associated with us. The best and worst part of it is that God made them all as interrelated, interdependent. When we follow and live in accordance with the principles of holistic health, our lives become synergistic, balanced and harmonious and this is the good part of holistic health. When we live without their observance, either intentionally or without knowing, our lives are thrown out of balance in more ways that we can understand and this is the undesirable part. You can see it in all the books of Medicine and Pathology. All the latest topics have in the end - there are this and that theory, there is this benefit with this and that benefit with that theory, more work is going on..... the final implication is that research is good but it should have some definitive part attached to it. Holistic Health Idea No. 2 - Is There Anywhere Anything Through Which We Can Know And Feel And Experience Them Fully And Live In Accordance?Yes, Surely there is! Jesus Christ - The Krishna of West - has pointed to it so clearly. 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all things will be added unto thee.' (The Holy Bible) Krishna gave this advice to his disciple through Gita. 'The senses are said to be superior to the physical body; the mind is superior to the sense faculties; the intelligence is superior to the mind; but the self or the soul is superior to the intelligence.' (The Bhagavad Gita - Ch. 3:42) Without the enlivening ten sensory powers, the body is inert matter. The effects produced by the sensory powers are relative to their perception by the mind. Perception is meaningful only in subservience to the cognition and determination of the intelligence. Intelligence borrows its power from intuition, the pure wisdom of the all-supreme blissful Consciousness. The above two references point toward one of the way to know and realize our holistic nature. They clearly indicate to follow the inner path and that takes us to the inner journey from the gross to the subtle, from the all conditioned to the freedom. The outer Or Analytical Way Of The Holistic Health:This is the modern scientific approach based on PHEOC - problem, hypothesis, experimentation, observation and conclusion. There is nothing wrong in this approach. It is the objective approach. Here we consider the nonliving, inert matters as objects. The problem is that this approach is very limited to being objectivity governed. It almost fails when we consider it for the matters that are experiential or that can be known and realized.
In Physics and Chemistry, we have covered a great distance in less than one hundred years. From Chemical bombs to Nuclear bombs. Definitely a great leap! We have added the comforts of our surroundings in superb ways. Is it giving us the control or taking away the control? Some day, some Osama bin laden might capture them and we are finished. We are getting diseases in greater numbers as a result of manipulating and exploiting the holistic nature - pesticides and poisons in our food; pollution in the air we inhale in each breath, increasing crime despite being civilized. Definitely, this is not the result of the Modern Analytical Scientific approach. We are responsible for it - our mind, our aims, our motives and our priority. Science is just the servant but the hands of the master could have used it for much better. So use the science and its tools for holistic health.
The Synergy & Balance Of Two Basic Approaches of Holistic Life, Holistic Health and Holistic Medicine The Inner Or Experiential Or Realization Born Or Synthetic Approach For Holistic Health:In this approach of holistic nature, we adopt the inner path that is advocated by the spiritual masters of all land. And yes this one is also scientific in the sense that it can be verified and validated both in theory and in practice. There are no external tools required as Christ has advised. It is already assumed that we are whole and holistic. That is why we are able to tread this path and find our holistic nature and can live in accordance with holistic health. It is not essential for all of us to rise to the status of Christ or Krishna to live the holistic life. All of us have the latent potential to raise our consciousness to that level. Simply starting in practical and commonsense manner a little of it can lead us on the path of holistic health. The fruits of this path of holistic health can be what everyone desires - greater peace, happiness, satisfaction, balance, integrity, health, relationships, wisdom and much more that we can measure. Our cup of heart will be overflowing. The only thing needed is the right paradigm, patience, perseverance. In 'Upanishads' of Vedic literature - the two paths of lifestyle are describes accurately. The path of Shreyas and Preyas. Shreyas implies the path of benefit and importance. Preyas is the path of sensual pleasures. Aren't most of the inventions are really for sensual pleasures. The ideal path can be the balance and synergy of the both path - adoption of the beneficial lifestyle in the pleasant way and the adopting the pleasing lifestyle in the beneficial way.
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