Your health

An increasing number of people and patients want to know more about their illness and therapy and with the availability of Internet and publications in various forms of media, including newspapers, magazines and television, they are becoming more knowledgeable about their illness and various forms of therapies available to them.

As a patient, do you have a definition for ‘health’? I would welcome your brief description, comment and criteria you have of “good health”.

My own definition of ‘ health’ is as follows;

Health is:

• Freedom from pain with feeling of well being
• Freedom of emotion from Passion and negative thoughts with a feeling of calmness
• Freedom from egotism and erroneous ideas with a feeling of euphoria
• Measure of health is creative activity of the individual creativity with harmonious living acknowledging and living within the ‘Laws of Nature’.
• A healthy state is only achieved when the individual attains a state of HOMOEOSTASIS (a state of balance) at all the following levels
• Mental level
• Psychological level
• Physiological level
• Physical level

in other words a perfect state of Homoeostasis at the holistic state of the individual.

There is a continuous quest by science, medical research and pharmaceutical companies to find remedies to achieve this state of health. More therapists are also researching into holistic ways to help patients to achieve this state of health.

Disease is a resulting state of an individual in the form of a symptom or collection of symptoms (classified as a name given to it), that result from the body’s auto regulatorysystem trying to achieve a state of balance after exposure to stimuli at mental,psychological, physiological or physical levels. These stimuli may be in the form of psychological trauma (e.g. grief), physiological trauma resulting in changes in biochemistry of the body (e.g. organ malfunction due to toxins and infections) or physical trauma due to injury.

Disease and symptoms will only occur when both of the following criteria are fulfilled

a. Patient’s pre-disposition to a particular disease and susceptibility at dynamic plane due to inherited weakness and genetic makeup.

The presence of causative factor or morbific agents. This may be in the form of toxins, bacteria, viruses, fungi and other infective agents.

Mere exposure to causative factors or morbific agents does not necessarily result in disease e.g. protection by body’s own antibodies and a sound and healthy autoimmune system. This explains why only some individuals end up having the symptoms of a particular illness while others, although exposed to similar factors, remain symptom free.