Holistic Means Whole. If You Claim to be Holistic Live Life That Way

Last week I went to a “Health Food and Nutritional Supplement” store and the person who greeted me was morbidly obese. I am not talking about someone being a little chubby or out of shape. I am talking morbidly obese. This incident was not my original inspiration for this article, which has been on the back burner for a couple of weeks, however the incident has given me a lot of fodder and fuel to complete it.

A few days later while at a mall with my family I dropped into a General Nutrition Center and the person working there was in very good shape. The kind of physical shape to you would expect and want to see in a store selling products for ones health. A person’s physical shape is just one aspect of what I am about to write about now. My concern is that of The Holistic Movement as a whole. This article is directed purely at people in this movement.

Some may call it The Holistic Movement, The New Age Movement, or Body, Mind, and Spirit Movement, it is all about to same thing which is becoming a complete person, becoming whole. People in this movement often peach Body, Mind, and Spirit, however many often focus only on one of these aspects leaving the others in a deficit. The two culprits that usually take center stage in individuals are usually the body or the spirit. If the mind has taken the center stage of an individual they are most likely not a member of The Holistic Movement or even trying to be. Such individuals are usually just plain old fashioned nerds. The leading culprit, however, would be the spirit aspect as many who focus on the body aspect are just into having a strong or healthy body. Therefore those who just focus on the spirit are the ones that most often give The Holistic Movement a bad name to the rest of the world.

You may ask “Why and how do these folks give The Holistic Movement a bad name?”. In holistic living many factors go into making ones life a productive, healthy, and happy one. These factors include exercise of the body, mind, and spirit, nutrition through food, drink, energies from various sources (Crystals, Magnets, etc), communing with nature, experiencing cultural events, nurturing your personal relationships, enhancing your romantic relationship with your partner and yourself (this was not a typo I meant yourself), continuing education throughout your life, and consciously appreciating the good things life brings you.