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Changing the Health Paradigm
A paradigm is the way in which we view the world. To change your paradigm may open new avenues of opportunity for you. You may think of a paradigm as the current model of reality that people use to shape their possibilities, choices and opinions. Our current health care paradigm focuses on sickness and pain. Health is measured as the "absence of disease". Treatment therefore is directed either chemically or structurally to focus not on the causes, but rather the symptoms only. Pain for instance is the body's way of alerting you to the fact that there is something wrong. The current system makes every effort to mask or eliminate the pain, as if the pain was the condition that needed treating. Why you have the pain is the most important factor, not the pain itself. We need to move the health care concept from sickness care to wellness care. This is the new paradigm - wellness care, the basis of which is prevention. This paradigm recognizes the principle of the body's innate healing ability and its intelligent and ordered function. The relationship between structural and functional integrity both within and to the whole being must be recognized.
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Contributor's Note
This information is adapted from the training manuals of the Healing Arts of Australia. More to follow.
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The Healing Arts of Australia
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A good article -- one thing that I've also seen is that variations get pathologized when they may be entirely natural to that person. Not everyone's body or body needs are exactly the same. I get sick on a "healthy" diet and starve, but what I eat to stay strong and active would make anyone else a fat diabetic.
Good article. Having worked in healthcare for years I am all for the wellness model.
I truly hope that what you call "a new health paradigm" becomes the norm. However after a couple of years in healthcare, I feel that patients still are reactive rather than proactive. For example, I've seen countless patients opt for total knee replacements rather than simply lose weight. Your approach is to be commended.
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