You may be aware that the word ‘whole’ comes from the old English root word ‘hal’, which means ‘health’. To be whole, then, is to be healthy. As we move toward a whole science, health is viewed as an irreducible whole that comprises all aspects of our being. This has already begun to happen. We are becoming aware of the relationships between individual and environmental health, social health and individual health, environmental health and the well being of society.
This new view of health means that we recognise all levels of our health are interconnected and depend on each other. So health as a whole becomes the main goal or aim of science. Because when we are physically, mentally and emotionally healthy then we can be happy. And happiness is what we all desire, do we not?
Let’s look at the three main ‘levels’ of our health:
Individual:
A whole science view of individual health means that the individual takes responsibility for his or her own health. The reason being is as we live by the understanding of the mind-body connection, our mental and emotional health has a huge impact on our physical well being, much more than we had previously thought.
Therefore, as the individual would normally seek to strengthen their health from the ‘outside’, i.e. with drugs, medicines and the like, the individual now also places importance on strengthening their health from within. This is achieved through working through negative emotions and mindsets, to free them from the life-negating effect they have on the body. Extreme stress and depression are seen to be internal ‘toxins’ that the individual now takes responsibility to understand and break through.
What about the individual’s connection to the social environment? Clearly, this is also considered as health is becoming recognised as a unified whole. If you are living on a crime-ridden estate suffering verbal abuse and maybe physical abuse, then clearly this has a knock-on effect on your emotional, and thus physical, well being.
In the same sense, we are beginning to recognise how the health of the planet has an effect on us. Making distinctions between the health of the earth and our own health now seems to be the same as separating the health of an ocean with the fish who live in it! So as our intake of fresh, natural based foods and medicines continues to grow, we learn that actually, as we take care of the environment, we are taking care of ourselves at the same time.
Social:
In moving towards greater health, we again understand that the health of our communities and countries are a reflection of the health of the individuals. Social health is seen to be something beyond our control, something most merely ‘leave up to the government’, but what would happen if each and every person took responsibility for the health of the community?
If we look at the social health of the UK as a whole, do you think we would score particularly high in the optimum health charts? The disintegration of communities and fracturing of society is seen to be a political issue, but what if your thoughts alone had an effect on society? A well known study by John Hagelin has brought down crime rates in a US state by meditating alone. Of course, it’s not just as simple as wishful thinking, but it gives each person the responsibility to contribute to the health of the human race as a whole.
As the current evidence for this knowledge is inconclusive, more investigation is needed into the effects of group consciousness, particularly if it may contribute significantly to our social well being.
Environmental:
Our environmental health is now a matter of global concern, and we are beginning to explore the reciprocal relationships we humans have with the natural world and how our impact can enrich or destroy its well-being. Environmental health does not merely extend to the quality of our air, water and land; rather it also involves supporting the health of the interconnecting species that rely on earth for its survival.
Have you ever considered the source of where your clothes came from? The food you cook each night? Your daily cup of tea? These links have been severed by globalisation. Although globalisation is mainly a wonderful thing, unfortunately it means we often fail to remember how our very existence is fundamentally connected with the existence and well being of the earth.
As we move towards a more whole, holistic understanding of health, we can see that earth destruction and earth pollution, is on some level destroying the very conditions for which we depend upon for our health. Care of the environment, then, ultimately becomes caring for ourselves.
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it will make my Christmas day if this bill is not passed. they are like a bad Santa for goodness sake! they are trying to stuff our stockings with something worse than coal, especially to good people and they are getting themselves presents and everybody else junk, I'm revolted!
My legs got stronger everytime i played this game….i improved my times in track from playing ddr and from running.
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They are well under control!!! of nature!!!! ROTF-LMAO!!!!!
¡Ay, Jesucristo! ¡Miguel Españo fue negro!
¿Que la infierno?
Sure will be! A revolution of your fellow citizens finally being able to go to or take their children to a doctor when they are sick instead of having to sit in an emergency room for hours, of people who choose to keep their private insurance seeing reductions in their co-pays and deductibles, of the elderly no longer having to choose between eating and buying their medications, of people living longer because they will have access to medical care and receiving treatment even with preexisting conditions, a drop in infant mortality because of better prenatal care and better educated parents. Sounds like a wonderful revolution, don't you think?
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First of all; politicians and corporate powers are not keeping care from people. Reasearch any poll every given about the united states health care from any country in the world, and every time our health care system coomes out #1. The only thinkg keeping health care away from people is the people themselves. The problem today is that to many lazy as_es want to be dependant on the government, instead of taking responsibilities for yourself. Secondly… put some proof behind your statements that statss that "alot of citizens believe the current health-care system iss morally wrong". Every poll i have aver seen stats the complete opposite. 3rdly… i am a deomocrat…. only that think and does for myself, not rely on the government. The governemtn has a proven track record of failure… ever heard of Fannie and Freddie mac? = bankrupt… ever heard of the post office? = will lose 8billion dollars this year… Ever heard of Medicare? = Bankrupt… ever heard of social security? = verge of bankrupt… Do you get the drift here? anything the government touch it F_c_s up!! and you want them to run health care? Wake Up!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly? We live longer, generally healthier, eat more, people don't starve, we have a higher standard of living, the feudal system is abolished. Not that its perfect, far from it. But, it is the best man has ever been. Other than the mental stress of people trying to get MORE, life's pretty good.
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Disease was a constant threat during the Industrial Revolution. The changes in the way that people lived and the conditions in which they worked led to an increase in the spreading of disease,and new forms of disease emerged that were as deadly as any human serial killer.
Towns grew very quickly as factories led to migrations from the countryside and immigration from different parts of Europe and the empire. As the demand for housing increased so rapidly the quality of homes constructed was low. Housing for the worker was cramped in, built quickly and built with little regard for hygeine. In many cities the result was that large slums appeared.
These slums were areas where houses were small, roads narrow and services such as rubbish collection, sewage works and basic washing facilities non existant. In this type of climate bacterias grow quickly, the water supply is likely to become infected and weaker people are likely to fall ill much more rapidly.
Water was often the problem. Factories would dump waste into streams and rivers. The same streams and rivers were used to supply homes with water for washing and cooking. Soon peoples health was endangered. In many slums the same water supply was infected with human sewage as toilet facilities were often inadequate and sometimes consisted of a toilet block that was emptied irregularly: meaning that when it rained, the waste may overflow into the gutter and therefore into the rivers and streams.
The result of this was the spread of disease.
Has she ever heard of something called “A BRA”… geez…. those big titties gotta be tamed.
It would have been better if it wasn't MM doing it. While I don't agree with a government controlled care system, I can see the good intentions of it. But when a man like MM does a film for it , you just gotta wonder how much of it was edited and manipulated to fit his own personal views.
Really… I don't think the masses are quite ready to jump on board.
The democrats are winning the revolution by POWER and the right wing can do absolutely NOTHING about it,
Not Hannity
Not Rush
Not Palin
and certainly not Beck and his crazy tea party groups.
THEY ARE NUTS in my opinion.
GO BARACK.