Getting our shift together: how global is our paradigm?
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The American holistic community has proposed that its scope be widened to include global awareness and consciousness. One cannot overlook the basic health problems of underdeveloped countries. However, some holistic practices and beliefs do not translate well in other places. While we discuss and debate intellectual and emotional issues that affect health, these people die from malnutrition or easily preventable diseases. The concerns of the American holistic community are still important, but they must be encouraged to recognize that expansion worldwide requires a sensitivity and awareness of problems faced elsewhere. For holistic beliefs to be accepted and incorporated elsewhere, basic health needs will need to be addressed and met. Many holistic concerns are directly related to the needs of these countries. Vitamin therapies, nutrition, and exercise are all areas that holistic medicine can focus on to help the world community. Also, respect for and communication with traditional healers in various cultures would be positive for the holistic movement. Much can be done to incorporate the world into the holistic community. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Holistic Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0884-3988
Year: 1991
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Development of the holistic heart
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A physician gives his or her patients the best medical care by not only using the most appropriate treatments for the physiological problem encountered, but also by using the inner powers that physicians should try to connect with. This inner power has many names, but here it will be called the holistic heart. When it is present, a decision feels more than technically correct, it feels like the absolute right choice and it brings about a feeling of inner peace and harmony. The holistic heart is a state of being that is not often attained, even less so when we try to attain it through pure intellect. One should not try to grasp onto the moments when it is attained, but should instead relax and observe the experience. This is the most likely route to more such experiences. Development of the holistic heart usually begins accidentally. A seed is planted that soon grows into a desire. A person then begins to seek for the holistic heart, which soon becomes a form of practice. A journey always begins with a first step. The tools for obtaining the holistic heart are within everyone's grasp, waiting to be used. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Holistic Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0884-3988
Year: 1991
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The Japan Holistic Medical Society
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The Japan Holistic Medical Society (JHMS) held a symposium in August 1989, titled "Natural Healing Power and Holistic Medicine." The principal guest speaker, famed author and physicist, Dr. Fritjof Capra, spoke about the interconnectedness of the problems in the world today, and the global communication necessary to promote holistic health care. Dr. Issac Mathai spoke about the First International Conference on Holistic Medicine being held in Banagalore in November, 1989, and the need for global cooperation within the holistic health framework. Approximately 800 people attended the symposium sponsored by the JHMS, which is only about five years old. The current president is Professor Joji Fujinami, who teaches public health at Tokyo Medical College.
Publication Name: Holistic Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0884-3988
Year: 1989
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