Health & Wholeness

Health consists of our abilities, our attributes, our assets, our advantages
We draw on these things when we are stressed, when we are “dis-eased”
       We may be stressed by deficits (things hurtful by virtue of their absence
       We may be stressed by detriments (things hurtful by virtue of their presence)
Health and illness (deficits and detriments) exist simultaneously within & around us
Health is compensatory.  Health is resilient.  Resilience is born of the spirit

The spirit resilient is where our energy is, our breath of life, our will to live and to love
Feelings reside in the realm of the spirit.  We “feel” energized or drained
Feelings are not our thinkings.  They are born of what we think & what we value.
They are manifest in the body.  They are neither right or wrong.  They simply are.

Wholeness has to do with the sum of our parts, a state of harmony within ourselves,
       of harmony between those parts and God, and others.
In wholeness what we value (desire) and believe (think) is in harmony
In wholeness out spirits, our relationships, our bodies, beliefs and values are in sync
       The parts are aware of each other.  They function in unity.
In wholeness we are open to God and to others.  Our spirits are not walled off.
In hurt or in fear we may wall off our spirits in an act of self protection.
In the walling off is separation from self, or from God or from others.  In this separation we are broken.

~ L Rydholm

Graphic is an adaptation from the works of Chaplain David Carlson (1990)