The concept known as "Health has some rather strange travels. From early recognition as the motivating factor to efective living to the 1986 World Health Organization's "resourse for everyday life". It has been used to describe the chief ingrediant to beneficial life.
It has not, however, included the use of 1/3 of mans ability to exist. In the january 2006 issue of The American Journal of Public Health, an article by Lester Breslow MD of UCLA medical school ask for definitions of what "health" is that takes in our present understanding of mans nature and the scientific understanding of the nature of life.
He briefly mentions that all prior scientific study has concentrated on the characteristics of disease and has taken the view that disease is to be measured by its effects on the body and mind wwhile giving only passing mention to the character of a portion of man delineated as the spirit or soul.
Though composing one of three parts of what most consider to be the totality of humanity, (body, mind, and spirit), it is only tangiently viewed as it relates to his 'health". Dr. Breslow argues rightly that todays medicine is concerned with and measures only chemicals and markers of disease states. It has no measures to evaluate "health" only illness. Is there anyone in all of creation who believes a human being can be healthy without a healthy spirit?
I am not refering to the religious definitions that speak of a eternal piece of humanity that will eventually leave his body and mind behind but the envisioning, creative portion of mankind that is responsible for communicating with worlds of possibilities that can find their expression in the here and now. All inventions of man first saw their birth in an image of possibilities in the spirit that was transfered to the mind for cretion in this reality.
Without exploring and utilizing the faculties of this vital portion of humanity how can "health" be defined let alone realized. I have written to Congressman Conway (D-Michigan) in detail, at his request, regarding these subjects and The Trivalent Understanding pioneered by Prometheus of Ohio Inc. (a Health education Company).
I only hope that the next century of America's growth will include not only a meaninful definition but a sicere search for "Health", thank you.
O. K. I'm ready....I am V.P. of my medical education company(Prometheus of Ohio-"creating more effective humanity") and we do a fair job of that. I'm also V.P. for Edutainment at Global Records specializing in doing Afripean Music, (a fusion of African drums and european strings), Hip/Hope, (positive rap) and edutainment, (psycho-drama and music that teaches and heals). I have been doing both since I was initiated in the Akan Rites of Passages and teamed up with my friend and partner fondly known musically as Mic Beats one of the most gifted producers of an age.
But we had just been kind of sitting... well performing and getting our sound right... going to Prometheus of Ohio classes in the Trivalent Understanding,(google Larry C. Woods RN MD MetD1) and getting a crew of performers, singers, dancers, performance artist, production people together.
And then I met Barrack Obama,.. almost immediately things started to fall into place. He provided both the focus and the hope that things could be as they were supposed to be? Government could be approachable and responsible, unity could be achieved, racism, fear, aggressive militaries and the whole military industrial complex could be challenged and refused. Unafraid, we could put education and health care on the front burners, challenge our schools with new goals for actually educating students not just training them for some multinational corporate "job".
I have been singing, playing, acting and writing on issues of multiculturalism, justice, education and health for many years, now I do it with a focuse and a challenge, "can you honestly not vote for Barack Obama and wish America to be all it can be".
