Health and Wholeness

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Our ‘health and wholeness’ often implies a sense of well-being. When we are healthy, we are well. When we are healthy, we have that wholesome look about us. When we are healthy, the vital energy is radiating from us for all the world to see...

Yet I often wonder ~ are our health and our wholeness really that tightly interconnected?

There is no question in my mind that when you are healthy ~ when you feel healthy ~ there is a sense of wholeness that can surpass the actual level of heath. For instance, you can have a sense of being healthy and whole and still feel that you are on the verge of being stressed out.
From a medical perspective, you can be absolutely healthy at that point. But are you truly ‘whole’ when you feel that stress is about to take over?

Looking at that, it seems to me that ‘wholeness’ implies a greater sense of health and well-being than can be measured from a medical perspective... And is this is true, There are immediately a couple of questions popping up in my mind:

• Could it be that medically a person can be brought back to health, but not necessarily being brought back to wholeness?
• If this is the case, then what does one have to do to not only be healthy, but to also be whole?

The first question brings to mind the fact that health ~ or illness, as the case may be ~ is often looked at as something that is affecting only part of us. As such, only that specific part of us is being treated when we are sick. And while this works great in most cases ~ there are also instances when a person regains their health from a medical perspective, yet still doesn’t feel healthy; doesn’t feel whole...

Apparently then, both health and wholeness are needed to really have a sense of well-being.

The implication is that in order to be and feel healthy, a person would need to be observed as the complicated being he or she is ~ rather than as the sum of the parts that make up the body... In other words, in order to create that sense of well-being for ourselves ~ that feeling of health and wholeness; not only do we need the parts of us to be healthy ~ we need the interaction between the parts of us; the working together of the parts of us to be optimal and fluent.

This then means that to gain an ever greater sense of well-being ~ we need to look at ourselves from a holistic perspective. To see ourselves as the whole being we are meant to be...
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