When it comes to wellbeing (mental and physical) and prevention of illness too many people will do anything they can to avoid the truth.
EVERYTHING matters. The body you were born with. The body you have today. Your relationships with others and the planet, the food you eat, and the air you breath…. how often you move your body and the thoughts you nurture in your mind and soul.
That is what understanding ourselves as holistic beings entails. Understanding our relationship and interconnectedness to EVERYTHING in our environment, what we’re born with and how it’s all intertwined and that we cannot be separated from it.
We are kaleidoscopic beings — endlessly variant. Social, political, psychological, ecological, cultural, biological aspects of life all have impact. The micro-biome, too matters. All those millions of little bugs all over us and in us too.
We cannot begin to understand our nature if we don’t engage our kaleidoscopic reality in a very active way . Everything Matters — it’s the meme I use as a title for my work because it encapsulates our essence…
See these too:
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Nature vs nurture, biological vs. psychological: how about both/and rather than either/or (Everything Matters)
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As holistic beings medical & psychological/spiritual issues are almost always intertwined
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Healing isn’t a choice for me — it’s an imperative; my body is in charge
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That which gets labeled psychiatric illness is not only one thing…we are holistic beings
More info — none of which is mutually exclusive…just different possible windows on the same issues. And it’s certainly not an exhaustive list either:
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Links to articles that look at the Shamanic-like nature of consciousness
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Spiritual emergency: one way of interpreting activity of the psyche that is often labeled psychotic
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Nutrition and gut health, Mental health and diet
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Trauma and PTSD info: yet another important window when dealing with anyone in mental distress
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there is no such thing as a monolithic state called depression
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