What Health is and what it is not

Health has come to be defined as the absence of disease or injury. This is how the Consise Oxford Dictionary defines it, but provides a clue that it was once much more than that. It tells us that it is derived from an old English/German word, meaning whole.

Wholeness is a state of being completely integrated, with no foreign parts and functioning as you were created to do.

That is how those who follow Alternative Medicine define it. They insist on treating the whole person not the symptoms of the disease. That is how those who follow Alternative Medicine define it. They insist on treating the whole person not the symptoms of the disease.

That is how those who follow Alternative Medicine define it. They insist on treating the whole person not the symptoms of the disease.

Obviously the disease has to be fought, as it is foreign to us, but the best way to do so is to strengthen the bodies own resources.

So we work to make ourselves whole and then we can function to the highest level we are capable of.

But we must differentiate between what it means to be healthy and what we can do, as everyone has their limitations and physical drawbacks. Health can be defined as what you have or do not have, whilst activity is what you do and what you, not someone else, is capable of.

We are all individuals and what one person can do someone else cannot.

Whilst individuals differ the greatest difference is between men and women. Just as we do not expect the TV to wash our clothes we should acknowledge and celebrate the fact the human race is divided between male and female and that they are different and each has his or her own strengthens and weaknesses just as we celebrate the fact that there are so many different animals and plants which are useful to us and also beautify this world.