Health

Health as a concept was not initially a part of any human’s language.  There were ideas like “Pono”  a Hawaiian word for living in balance or Harmony, but the concept of health was really an implicit part of daily life.  There was no extraordinary means to a healthier future than the one that was already there.

With the development of the World Health Organization in 1948, the term Health took on the explicit meaning “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”  This, of course, led many to question the word “complete.”  What is complete health?

This concept of health and its implied darker half, disease, has completely revolutionized everyday life in the world.  From doctors to school nurses to science classes, everyone seems convinced that health is this sort of mythical state of being that is mostly unattainable.  Similarly, this perfect Fibonacci Spiral illustrated by this shell could be considered a very difficult and perfectly balanced mathematical state to attain.  And, in this case, the shell does it without effort or pre-determination.  For us humans in the modern world, asking a doctor for true health is like this shell asking Fibonacci for a mathematical equation to design itself by.  We already have all the information for true, long-lasting, optimum health inside each and every one of us.  Why then, are we so unhealthy?