gates of healing

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INTRODUCTION

Health is not just the absence of physical symptoms; it is a complete state of well-being or feeling well. The physical signals that a body processes built a complex chain of stimuli in the structure of the organism which leads to a functional hierarchy of behavioral responses and consequences. The pathological statistics of chronic diseases and acute illnesses documents a causal mechanism between the means of living and life styles; thus the nature of pathology stems from an unhealthy interplay of physical and psychological factors that compose the working physiology of bodies as a whole. Therefore, health is not only an ethical, economic and ecological problem which can be reduced to mindbody-mechanics or to spiritual medicine; in addition, the signal chain of inter-actions is always a product of a social fabric, i.e. what we call medically physiology is the outcome of human action or psychology. We know today a lot about the strong background programs of genetics and the environment, but the liberating role of human consciousness and free thought is dramatically underestimated; the true human faculties of formal (rationality) and ethical (morality) reasoning must be more intensely applied to the health problem. Economic serfdom and mental enslavement form actually social prison machinery where all kinds of human pathologies are nurtured; the emotional plague of unhealthy behavior is transferred and projected over generations which often closes the mental cycle of frustration, aggression and depression for no rational or ethical reason.


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