Optimal Health

Why did I write a book?

What could I say that hasn't already been said?

Briefly I wanted to say that our society has chosen a method of analysis that causes us to polarize and fragment all aspects of our reality. When applied to medicine we have polarized into body and soul. Each of these is polarized once again which results in four fragments of each individual that must be restored to a holistic balance before we can return to health. The four fragments are the physical body; the mental body; the emotional body and the spiritual body.

We must solve this puzzle twice; once for ourselves and once again for society. This approach leaves us with 8 areas that need attention. When we balance all eight then and only then can we achieve enduring peace. Please click on this link which illustrates this step in a table. I have constructed a table depicting a foundation for Optimal Holistic Health.

I am striving for simplicity, so I will offer a very direct analysis of the situation. We have mastered treatment of the physical body however we have neglected disease prevention; which is much more practical. The mind cannot be healthy unless we tell the truth and hear the truth. The emotional body cannot be healthy unless we are fair in our personal relationships and our soul cannot be healthy unless we strive to understand and implement our personal spiritual agendas. Basically this requires individual liberty for spiritual health. At this point we are half way done.

At the social level the physical body needs a public health plan that protects individual health over the economic interests of industry. The mind needs input, not only of truthful information but also must have access to the whole story so that it can formulate opinions. The emotional body needs our representatives in government to act justly in all matters, domestic and international, in order not to damage the emotional bodies of each citizen. The individual souls are dependent on government to secure our individual liberty so that we can freely adventure into our spiritual missions. You might have noticed that the four areas that have to do with our social obligations are very much dependent on our governments. In a representative government, then there is no room for secrecy nor injustice. In a representative government, we are responsible for the actions of our representatives. This is the crux of my argument and is the reason why we need Representative Government to protect out liberty.

In Summary:

Prevention is essential for physical health.

Truth is essential for mental health.

Justice is essential for emotional health.

Individual Liberty is essential for spiritual health.

Individual Liberty is our most fundamental Human Right.

Human Rights can only be protected in a Representative Government.

Not too long ago there was hope that this new millennium would usher in a new era of peace and joy. This dream seems to have deteriorated into a time of fear and terror with no sign of light at the end of the tunnel. I offer the ideas in my book to propose a foundation that would renew hope in our dreams for optimal health, prosperity, and peace in a world that we can all enjoy together without fear or security forces.

In yet another approach to divide and conquer in health care:

There is really only one person but we approach everything by dividing it.

This Divide and Conquer approach permeates everything we do.

In Western Medicine we divide our study of disease into body systems.

There are seven major categories but dozens of subspecialties.

Circulation, breathing, intestinal, urinary, endocrine, nervous and skin are separate fields.

This creates a Tower of Babel - of sorts - where specialists don't even speak the same language.