I want to introduce you to a useful personal reality born from a concept I have been thinking about for sometime. I am calling it "Wholebeing".
I have often wondered why we look at individual aspects of ourselves rather than the whole. When I think of the whole I think of our physical, emotional and spiritual components. I do not experience them as being separate so why would I want to treat them separately. When I experience fear there is a tightening of my stomach and urgency in my brain. Both my emotion and my body are acting to work out a resolution. My body and my mind are deciding what to do.
All three feed each other. If you are physically fit you are more likely to be taking the action that helps your emotional health. If you listen with awareness to your true self at the spiritual level you will be more likely to feel content with your life. This will enable you to be emotionally happier and your physical wellbeing healthier.
There is something called Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; you may be familiar with it.
Notice that it talks about Physiological security at the bottom and works up to what Maslow calls Self-actualization at the top. I see the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of being human all represented in the above diagram so you can usefully see it as a diagram of "Wholebeing"
In a nutshell then "Wholebeing" is a unifying theory to have a healthy, happy and meaningful life.
I will be relating my ideas about "Wholebeing" as time goes by.
We are extraordinary beings. The world of celebrity, reaching us through the various portals of the media, put us in our place making us feel inadequate, unattractive, stuck where we are and thinking that we can never reach their dizzy heights.
Who really are these super humans? How is it we are told that they have everything and we can only just look on weakly? Well, as if you didn't already know, they are just the same as you and me. They have good and bad days, emotional highs and lows and are here experiencing the same things as we do. There is no real separation between us and them. Everyone of us is unique.
So why look on with such longing. Why read about their glamorous life’s when yours is just as fascinating.
Some well known people have done extraordinary things and I know plenty of 'ordinary' people (I don't think anyone is ordinary) who are doing extraordinary things. In fact I suggest that if you did not have help getting to the top with money or connections then your achievements are greater than those we watch from afar who did start from a better place than yourself.
We are not broken but we might think we are if we keep comparing ourselves to the stars of the media circus. Rejoice in yourself not cower in someone else's shadow.
