Health as an Experience

 

BY ADMIN ON NOVEMBER 30, 2013

What is health? What does it mean?Health means different things to different people. Foundational concepts of holistic practice define health on all levels of being. If your body is in “good shape”, your back is strong, you do yoga and your digestion works well but you’re chronically unsatisfied with your work and find yourself crying in bed at night, then your health is suffering. By the same token, if you feel happy and love what you do but you have diabetes and chronic stiffness in the joints of your fingers, then your health is suffering. This is because health exists on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. The holistic health model is as though a pie divided into 4 equal pieces, each quarter representing all these levels of being. Health is an experience. When I do Flower Essences interviews with people, I ask them how they experience themselves on all these levels of being. This helps me establish the full degree of their health. At the end of the interview, I blend anywhere from 1 to 5 flowers to help address their perceptions of imbalance, thereby changing their experience over time. Likewise, an acupuncturist could perceive imbalance in a particular body system and insert needles into the meridian associated with that system, allowing flow of energy to be opened up, thereby imparting more balance and changing the client’s overall experience. When you pursue regular infrared sauna sessions, detoxification happens. When you’re able to release toxins that may otherwise be causing excessive mucus in the system, joint pain, bloating and indigestion, it changes your experience.

 

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