Wordview & Behavior

"If [one] thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, 
then that is how [one's] mind will tend to operate, 
but if [one] can include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole 
that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border 
then [one's] mind will tend to move in a similar way, 
and from this will flow an orderly action within the whole."

David Bohm, in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. xi

"The true state of affairs in the material world is wholeness.
If we are fragmented, we must blame ourselves."

David Bohm, physicist

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Conscious, Intentional, Healthy Maturation

     We've had, and continue to have, amazingly inspiring individuals among us: Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Deepa Ma, Viktor Frankl, Terry Fox, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, etc.
     And we have individuals among us who, at best, elicit our mercy & forgiveness. 

     "the measure of a civilization's growth is in its ability to transfer increasing amounts of energy & attention from the material side of life to the psychological, cultural, aesthetic, & spiritual side of life."                                        Arnold Toynbee's Law of Progressive Simplification
       Joel & Michelle Levey. Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World. Divine Arts; Revised ed'n (Aug 12, 2014)

     OUR individual responsibility is to lead civilization, by being the best human being we can be. See: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2014/07/552-greatest-risk-of-all.html

Developing Personal Skills - Healers First Please

     "Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments, and to make choices conducive to health.

     Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential. This has to be facilitated in school, home, work and community settings. Action is required through educational, professional, commercial and voluntary bodies, and within the institutions themselves."

http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/index4.html

     We health-care professionals must lead by example in developing such personal skills. "Do as I say, not as I do" fails everyone: ourselves, our families, our loved ones, & our patients. 
     See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/capacity.html

 

Logo created for the First International Conference on Health Promotion held in Ottawa, Canada, 1986.