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What Is Holistic Wellness?
The word holistic describes a perception of life. It means to see ourselves as whole beings who function best when all of our "parts" are connected. In the area of health and well-being, this includes three main branches of ourselves:
1 Mind-body wellness. This is where you experience life most intimately, inside your physical body, your personal thoughts, and feelings. It governs structures, institutions and frameworks. Methods of caring for the mind and body include diet and exercise for the body; education and training for your mind and the "structure" of your experience in life; and in general, activities that strengthen and balance us.
2. Social-emotional well-being. This is how you share yourself with the world, through socializing and exchanging resources with others. This level of being is more fluid and fluctuating, though we still can see it with our eyes, or we can see the effects of it (emotions) in ourselves and others.Methods of caring for this area include values clarification, learning to process emotions in healthy ways, self-awareness and self-esteem activities, and choosing work, leisure and social events that contribute to the health of ourselves and others.
3.Spiritual-energetic wellness. This is a level of experience that deals with what cannot be immediately seen by concrete, tangible sources. It is the realm of intuition, God, our attitudes and beliefs. Here, we make choices regarding what to believe, which then affects us in all areas. This level of being can be sensed by others, and is where we get "gut feelings" about ourselves and others. This level of being is strengthened by energy activities (such as visualization, prayer, and sacred rituals), listening to our hearts, and making healthy choices regarding faith. It is not so important which religion or philosophy that we choose, but rather how we choose to use it. Most of the major religions teach paths to love and harmony. These same religions are misused when people twist their principles into excuses for harming others.
All of our branches contribute to our core sense of meaning, purpose, joy and creativity, which are essential elements of health and well-being.
Maintaining or restoring wellness and good health consists of three steps.
1. The first and most important step is to be aware that we are already whole in spite of any surface symptoms. In the illustrations at right, the tree seems to have a bad rash on it's arm. Before we treat the tree, we will imagine it whole, as shown in the second picture.
Having this attitude still requires that we make changes needed for happiness and health, but it gives also us a power, an edge, and a motivational strength. Such strength is called unconditional love, but until we give it to ourselves, we will not be able to receive it from anyone else.
The second and third steps of holistic wellness are:
2. Treating acute symptoms by minimizing or eliminating outward signs of pain and discomfort. For our tree, this might mean using creams to heal the rash on the limb. An energy healer might "drain" the sick energy out of the fingers so that it did not go into the healthy parts of the body.
3. Treating the cause, by healing energy blockages that help to create our problem. Our tree in the illustrations has let go of the string that kept its branch in a state of stagnant, blocked energy. In a human body, this blockage might be caused by many things, including muscle soreness, skeletal misalignment, a cyst or scar. It might be caused by dietary deficiency that causes muscles spasms, bad posture, or many other things. An energy healing approach might be to help the client remember a state of wholeness, and to "rewire" the energy circuits so that the body corrected the underlying problem on its own.
Step One: Know that you
are already whole
A Stressful State
of "dis-ease"
Step Two:
Treat Symptoms
Step Three: Treat
Underlying Cause
