Treat the Person, Not the Body!

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Have we Been Missing the Betoken?

For all our inquiry, resources, technology and collective intelligence there's still way more that we don't know about managing the human body, than we practice. We like to think we're more than aware than always but in many ways nosotros're still failing miserably when information technology comes to creating optimal wellness; just take a look effectually at our fat, stressed, addicted, depressed, unhealthy guild. Could it exist that nosotros've been looking in the wrong place, using the incorrect approach or maybe missing the signal altogether?

Stumbling in the Dark

In the big wide world of health science (medicine, do, nutrition, affliction prevention, immunology) we're still in the night most many things. While plenty of experts talk as though they have the final word on the human body and how to manage information technology (feed it, exercise information technology, treat it, heal it), the truth is we're all still learning on the chore; we're students. Or at least, we should be. As an practice scientist with vast practical experience, a reasonable bookish background and a skillful aptitude for this stuff, my knowledge, agreement and skill level are constantly improving (because I work at information technology) and at the same time, my beliefs and thinking are always evolving because I'm learning (and un-learning) things daily. My thinking about what I do and how I do it, and my practical approach to my piece of work have changed over the years considering I accept grown, adjusted, learned by doing and made numerous mistakes. My "what I don't know" list is still manner bigger than my "what I practice know" list. And ever volition be. I don't aspire to know it all, just more.

Knowing what we don't Know

Aside from what nosotros know we don't know about the human body (with me, hither?), there'southward also what nosotros call back nosotros know simply actually don't. Then there's the mountain of conflicting (research-based) information available to you and me, and last but not least, there's the widespread professional and philosophical disagreement between non only the individual experts in each field, only also between the various professions. Inquire the same question to ten experts and you'll probably get ten different answers. And a headache.

Scientific Embarrassment

Some experts don't want you to know that much of what was scientific 'fact' only decades ago is now scientific embarrassment. In the next few years we will discover that a percentage of what we currently consider to exist 'absolute' is either partial truth or completely incorrect. On many levels we assume, hypothesize and estimate but we don't know for certain. There is still much sickness and disease, and at the other end of the scale, health and healing, that doesn't actually make 'sense' co-ordinate to our current scientific noesis. We all know stories of people (friends and family unit perhaps) who have recovered from an illness that they shouldn't accept. Or people with medical conditions that but don't seem to make sense (within the confines of our walls of current understanding). Or the person given three months to alive five years ago who is withal living a functional, happy, healthy and productive life today.

Choosing Wellness

For the last few years I've worked with a lady who isn't meant to exist here – according to the doctors. All the 'medical intelligence' says she should have been expressionless years ago. Someone was incorrect. And the science was wrong. Perhaps she determined her own destiny rather than having it forecast by a stranger or a set of mandatory rules that predicted her imminent expiry. Perhaps she chose to live and past making that choice something happened on a physiological level. Perhaps her psychology changed her physiology. And maybe her thinking produced biochemical changes which lead to changes in her allowed system, improved health and ultimately, life not death.

The expanse of Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is a relatively new subject (built-in in the mid-seventies) which looks at how our thinking affects our allowed system, how our mind affects our health. We now know that our mental and emotional states have a significant (and oftentimes under-estimated) bear upon on our physical health. Although other cultures take known and benefited from this understanding for centuries. People who dwell on the negative volition have a suppressed immune organisation and will be more predisposed to illness, while their more positive counterparts will exist less likely to fall sick. We know that prolonged mental and emotional stress (a grade of affliction) volition invariably lead to physical disease just as we know that, happy people volition typically outlive their stressed neighbours and accept a amend level of health doing it.

"For this is the corking error of our day, that the physicians carve up the soul from the body" – Hippocrates

Yep, an old Greek bloke figured this stuff out 2,500 years ago… Some of usa are a little tedious to catch on.

Miracles

The cool thing is that when we look beyond that 'office' of the person (in this case, the body) and start to care for the 'whole' of the person (torso, listen, spirit) we begin to move beyond logic, science and our own agreement. That's often where freedom is and where the miracles happen; a miracle being something that we tin't explain with our humanistic, Western, self-limiting mindset. Sometimes the very things which stand up in the manner of our health, healing and happiness are in fact science, logic and our erroneous beliefs and understanding of what'south possible for us. Sometimes what works for you won't make sense in many people'south eyes and won't be especially scientific. And that's okay. Your mind, body and spirit are in abiding communication merely the question is, are you paying attention?. When we step out of the "I am a body" mindset and into the "my body is not who I am, it's where I alive" prototype, then the term complete health takes on a totally new meaning.

Treating the Person, not the Trunk.

By and large (whatever that ways) Western medicine is the only medical arrangement in the world which treats the body in isolation rather than treating the entire person as an integrated unit. In most non-Western medicines (for want of a better term) the person is treated every bit the multi-dimensional, amazing fauna that they are, whereas in our culture we have traditionally treated the body, not the person. In many cultures (some would say, more evolved cultures), the heed, emotions, torso and spirit are treated in unison considering it is understood that when a part of the private is unwell, the whole of the individual volition be unwell. If not right now, before long.

The Black Sheep of the Scientific Family

I've merely read what I've written so far and I judge this message could sound somewhat contradictory coming from a scientist (of sorts) and I tin sympathise why many people would think that. On many levels I'thou not very skillful at the 'science thing' because I find some of it to be limiting, wishy-washy and conflicting. Having said that, I withal believe it should play (and continue to play) a part in the overall wellness direction process, keeping in mind that information technology is constantly evolving and flawed; just like the people who create it and teach it. Including me. When we take abroad the scientific arrogance and the demand to exist correct (we love existence right in our civilisation because nosotros take our ego fastened to our triumphs), and so we open up our mind, body and spirit to a globe of possibilities; a world of healing, happiness, harmony and health that lays beyond our agreement, logic and often beyond anything nosotros've ever known or experienced.

When we (you and I) finish treating the body (in isolation) and outset treating the person, we begin the move towards enlightenment, a shift in consciousness and consummate health. Health like nosotros've never known.

And then my friend, wait after not only your torso, but your head, your heart and your spirit besides.

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Source: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/treat-the-person-not-the-body.html

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