Detox Yourself

Description

In western cultures, sickness has traditionally been defined as physical, medical or mental. While western psychology and psychiatry have progressed quite a bit over the years, there’s still a long held impression in the medical community regarding the mind body connection.
Unfortunately, given what’s going on and the trends in general society both in the developed and developing world, traditional definitions of sickness are short sided and all too limited. It doesn’t do any good to define sickness in very narrow biochemical terms. As western medicine dug deeper and deeper into a biochemical germ based or pathogen centric definition of medicine, a lot is lost in translation. While it has made big strides in bridging the effect of psychology and overall stress on physical health, there’s still a lot to be desired. The bottom line is that we can learn quite a bit from Hindu traditions or eastern traditions that deal with the concept of sickness. In those traditions, sickness is defined holistically. They’re more likely to put a lot of stock on the concept of spiritual pollution, emotional stress, interpersonal sickness and other factors that have a strong impact on the human psyche and overall sense of well being.