Notes from Whole Health Warrior book
Each person creates and travels along their individual
pathway, and no two are exactly the same. The major elements employed by the
Whole Health Warrior consist of the seven sacred practices, the seven building
blocks and the seven evolutionary behaviors. These are utilized as we create
and follow our own pathway. You may have heard the “saying we each make our own
way through life”, I may add to this: that we do so by creating and following
our own “pathway”. Howard S. Friedman wrote a book called The Longevity Project
which was a study in longevity over an eight decade span of time. The object
was to follow a select group of children through eight decades of life and to
see what factors were involved in early death or living a long life. Some
people refer to this as the Terman study since the originator of the study was Dr.
Terman.
In his book Dr. Friedman says, “There is no doubt that an
unfortunate individual can be suddenly struck by a bus or by a virulent infection.
There is no point in blaming the victim, and there is no way to have near
perfect control over your health. Many times awful things happen for no
rational reason, but as we have discovered over and over in our studies, some
pathways are much healthier than others, and many people have made their own
luck by following them”, (p. 203). He goes on to report that, “Hard work and
accomplishment are strong predictors of a long life, (p.207), and “The deeper
we dig into the lives of these people, the more we understand about the
pathways to longevity”, (p 3). Becoming a Whole Health Warrior will lead you to
the healthiest of all pathways as you will resonate with Divine Nature.
.The conclusion to be drawn is that whole person health is
not limited to one factor nor even several factors, but rather the trajectory
and pathway that a person chooses to follow during his or her life. The essence
of the Whole Health Warrior is to provide you with some wonderfully healthy and
uplifting companions to be brought along with you as you travel along your own
personal pathway of life. When you are in the state of radiant health your body
resonates with nature, you will feel this because you will have limitless and
unbounded energy and grace in your life. Enjoy the journey.
