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The word ‘health’ actually means wholeness, and ‘to heal’ is to re- store wholeness. Health, heal, and wholeare derived from the ...

One way of understanding integrationis in terms of the concept of wholeness: To integrate is to make something whole by bringing ...

Integration characterizes the state of health and well-working, while dys-appearance, the thematized appearance of an impaired p ...

UpaniÓsad[6:15.1] describes how the relatives of a dying person gather and ask “Do you know me?” For in the final phases of dyin ...

for responding appropriately to experiences and communications. In contrast, neurotic behavior is often impelled by interpretati ...

that societies have effective schools for the cultivation of human intelli- gence and its applications, especially for the young ...

based on values concerning relationality and aesthetics. For varied in- sights into relationality, we may turn to sources includ ...

Åyurveda illuminates the idea of relationality as a determinant of health. Gerald Larson identifies several possibilities for ex ...

consideration the most general conditions of life: climate, seasons, cus- toms, postures. Ecology was an integral part of this p ...

who wish to maximize their vitality, to create themselves as persons man- ifesting as much as possible their true human nature i ...

sixth volume, Cikitsa-sth ̄ ana: ̄ A person without children is compared to “a lamp in sketches” (not the actual lamp that emana ...

Enjoyment The Caraka-samhitÓ ̄a’srecapitulation of the nature of the happy life pro- moted by Åyurveda lists a number of forms o ...

The dangers of this dialectical process are, on the one hand, extending oneself in such a way that self-identity is reduced or d ...

the philosophers, who try to achieve final liberation from all cyclical oc- currences from rebirth and repeated existence (punar ...

health is exemplified by Jung’s conception of seeking greater wholeness through bringing to the light of consciousness and integ ...

... Indian medical epistemology is fundamentally opposed to brah- manic ideology, and that the classical medical treatises of Ca ...

hygiene, diet, and activities appropriate to one’s individual constitution, and nourishing to one’s vital energies. At the found ...

compare the sense of slowness and heaviness—kaphaqualities—that can result from waking later in the morning. The main meal of th ...

irresponsibility for maintaining their own health.^97 In this connection Åyurveda emphasizes prevention, and the individual’s re ...

Chapter Three CLASSICALYOGA AS A RELIGIOUSTHERAPEUTIC Among world religious traditions, classical or P ̄atañjala Yoga is outstan ...