Post by KG on Dec 2, 2008 13:03:55 GMT -5
OOPS I misspelled the title to this forum. I have no idea why it is spelled hol... as in hole, as apposed to Whole which relates to the definition... but anyway sorry... I wanted to talk about it anyway.
holistic - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts <holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body> <holistic ecology views humans and the environment as a single system>
When we look at it this way holistic approaches seem to be the best way to deal with anything, because everything is related to everything else. Our minds are connected to our bodies, and our souls. Our souls are connected to other people's souls, and to nature, and the universe, including the divine universe. It is all one thing, so if we try to treat a problem in isolation we reduce simplify and purify the situation to a single detail in our minds, but in fact the problem is far reaching.
For example, This summer I sprained my elbow, and that seems like a simple enough problem. I went to the chiropractor, and for once he just worked on my elbow... well he did mess with my back in the usual way, and used accupressure on my ear to reduce the pain... but he skipped the speach on how my body was a whole system for once. I could tell he was focused on the elbow, and he did help it... but it still took a long time to heal. In the mean time, I had pain when I moved even a little so after a few weeks of trying to go on anyway, and not being very effective, I just sat down. It still hurt, every time I reached for my soda, or even breathed. I've never seen such a sprain before, and my mother started telling me I had aurthritis, like her. I tried to reject this idea, but it did hurt, and so I kind of got to thinking about that... soon I started having menopause symptoms, and as I became inactive, I started having an array of health problems, in a matter of weeks. I have had 8 colds this year, and bronchitis. I got really sick, and also out of shape. Even now I tire easily, and my elbow still hurts some even after almost six months. I am starting to pull out of this mentally though, and cheering up quite a bit.
Apparently I had other issues to start with, but the elbow, and perhaps some spiritual issues, and undealt with emotions, snowballed on me during my period of inactivity, and really threw me for a loop. I became fearful... and I know that is the worst thing to do.
I guess this is sort of a confession because I know better. I know that fear is the mind killer, and an out and out sin for someone like me. I know that it is dangerous to the point that fear alone could undo me completely if I let it. Yet I realize it had been creeping in like the proverbial cammel for quite a while. I just didn't see it. I've had periods of parinoia for years... and didn't recognize it for what it was. I thought for instance that political fear was too far removed from my control, to impact me as real fear. I excused economic fear as just the normal irritation of having to deal with the budget. I tried to call my emotion anything but fear, but now I have to own it. I was afraid...
Now I see the problem clearly. I have become weak and easily frightened off of things I should really tackle head on. I don't feel like it, but I can't let that stop me.
So what i am saying is that everything is connected, and fear has used those connections to impact my life on all levels. I need to find self confidence again, in all areas. I had begun to doubt myself and my abilities in all areas. Now I have to rebuild my confidence, and faith.
I need to apply a holistic approach to the situation, that has become a holistic problem in that it has impacted my whole being. The mind does impact the body and I know that. Eventually the mind can impact the soul, and I know that. It is one thing to know something, and another to act on our knowledge in a positive way, every single time we need to. It bothers me to think that I was completely blindsided by FEAR. That is something I thought I had conquored when I was in my 20's now I see that it has crept back in on various levels over the years. It was small for so long, that I didn't notice it, but now it is obvious. I have no idea how long it has been working on me, but I do know it crept in due to circumstances that caused me to question.
Fear is not ignoring a problem or danger. We have to be aware that what we do is dangerous if it is. We have to take reasonable precautions to avoid taking needless risks, but when it all comes down we have to trust in our abilities, and in who we are on a spiritual level, and also trust those around us. I hope that I expressed that right, but we have to have faith, unquestioning faith, even in the face of danger when it is unavoidable. WE have to be willing and even eager to solve problems no matter how unpleasant, without recrimination, and second guessing, and dread. In general if we know that something we are doing, or not doing is snowballing into a hazzard, fear is ignoring that hazzard, instead of facing it, and merely worrying about it. Facing the source of fear and eliminating it, even if that too is a temporary but greater risk, is courage.
I appologize to anyone I have expressed fear to, because fear spreads. I KNOW that fear is something we should not entertain, much less spead to others. I hope that I can become a more corageous friend to you, and inspire rather than being so needy and small as I have been lately. I hope that as I rebuild my faith in the universe I can again help others to face their fears as I once practiced.
Fear is an emotion. It can cause us to behave in ways that are less than Loving, and it can be a paralizing emotion which leads us to inaction or wrong action based in cowardace instead of looking for the right solution.
Please if I express fear to anyone in any form, I beg you to point it out.
Kim
holistic - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts <holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body> <holistic ecology views humans and the environment as a single system>
When we look at it this way holistic approaches seem to be the best way to deal with anything, because everything is related to everything else. Our minds are connected to our bodies, and our souls. Our souls are connected to other people's souls, and to nature, and the universe, including the divine universe. It is all one thing, so if we try to treat a problem in isolation we reduce simplify and purify the situation to a single detail in our minds, but in fact the problem is far reaching.
For example, This summer I sprained my elbow, and that seems like a simple enough problem. I went to the chiropractor, and for once he just worked on my elbow... well he did mess with my back in the usual way, and used accupressure on my ear to reduce the pain... but he skipped the speach on how my body was a whole system for once. I could tell he was focused on the elbow, and he did help it... but it still took a long time to heal. In the mean time, I had pain when I moved even a little so after a few weeks of trying to go on anyway, and not being very effective, I just sat down. It still hurt, every time I reached for my soda, or even breathed. I've never seen such a sprain before, and my mother started telling me I had aurthritis, like her. I tried to reject this idea, but it did hurt, and so I kind of got to thinking about that... soon I started having menopause symptoms, and as I became inactive, I started having an array of health problems, in a matter of weeks. I have had 8 colds this year, and bronchitis. I got really sick, and also out of shape. Even now I tire easily, and my elbow still hurts some even after almost six months. I am starting to pull out of this mentally though, and cheering up quite a bit.
Apparently I had other issues to start with, but the elbow, and perhaps some spiritual issues, and undealt with emotions, snowballed on me during my period of inactivity, and really threw me for a loop. I became fearful... and I know that is the worst thing to do.
I guess this is sort of a confession because I know better. I know that fear is the mind killer, and an out and out sin for someone like me. I know that it is dangerous to the point that fear alone could undo me completely if I let it. Yet I realize it had been creeping in like the proverbial cammel for quite a while. I just didn't see it. I've had periods of parinoia for years... and didn't recognize it for what it was. I thought for instance that political fear was too far removed from my control, to impact me as real fear. I excused economic fear as just the normal irritation of having to deal with the budget. I tried to call my emotion anything but fear, but now I have to own it. I was afraid...
Now I see the problem clearly. I have become weak and easily frightened off of things I should really tackle head on. I don't feel like it, but I can't let that stop me.
So what i am saying is that everything is connected, and fear has used those connections to impact my life on all levels. I need to find self confidence again, in all areas. I had begun to doubt myself and my abilities in all areas. Now I have to rebuild my confidence, and faith.
I need to apply a holistic approach to the situation, that has become a holistic problem in that it has impacted my whole being. The mind does impact the body and I know that. Eventually the mind can impact the soul, and I know that. It is one thing to know something, and another to act on our knowledge in a positive way, every single time we need to. It bothers me to think that I was completely blindsided by FEAR. That is something I thought I had conquored when I was in my 20's now I see that it has crept back in on various levels over the years. It was small for so long, that I didn't notice it, but now it is obvious. I have no idea how long it has been working on me, but I do know it crept in due to circumstances that caused me to question.
Fear is not ignoring a problem or danger. We have to be aware that what we do is dangerous if it is. We have to take reasonable precautions to avoid taking needless risks, but when it all comes down we have to trust in our abilities, and in who we are on a spiritual level, and also trust those around us. I hope that I expressed that right, but we have to have faith, unquestioning faith, even in the face of danger when it is unavoidable. WE have to be willing and even eager to solve problems no matter how unpleasant, without recrimination, and second guessing, and dread. In general if we know that something we are doing, or not doing is snowballing into a hazzard, fear is ignoring that hazzard, instead of facing it, and merely worrying about it. Facing the source of fear and eliminating it, even if that too is a temporary but greater risk, is courage.
I appologize to anyone I have expressed fear to, because fear spreads. I KNOW that fear is something we should not entertain, much less spead to others. I hope that I can become a more corageous friend to you, and inspire rather than being so needy and small as I have been lately. I hope that as I rebuild my faith in the universe I can again help others to face their fears as I once practiced.
Fear is an emotion. It can cause us to behave in ways that are less than Loving, and it can be a paralizing emotion which leads us to inaction or wrong action based in cowardace instead of looking for the right solution.
Please if I express fear to anyone in any form, I beg you to point it out.
Kim