Although the idea of holistic health has sort of an alternative feel to it these days, it's really as modern and as scientific an approach as we could take to a thing. After all, in any scientific research, you have to consider as many factors as possible if you want to understand a thing. And the more we study quantum physics, the more we really see that everything in the world effects everything else to some degree.

That's how the holistic approach to health sees things. Everything we eat, do, think, say, and feel affects our health, as do the things that other people eat, do, think, say, and feel, as does our environment ... which is also affected by us. This isn't just New Age opinion, and the results really aren't that subtle. There is more scientific research all the time showing a definite impact of thought and emotions on the world around us, and of the effects other people's choices have on us as well.

Of course there are far too many factors to compute because, in the end, if everything about life affects everything else ... how can we possibly account for every detail?

So realistically, we need to speak in general terms at least in our day and age. For instance, while it's theoretically possible for city smog to give us some health benefit through a series of twists and turns of fate, practically speaking, we know that smog causes all sorts of poor health issues. So when we're truly talking about holistic health, we're talking about healthy maintenance of our entire planet and all the people on it. This is why modern issues like unclean water and deforestation impact all of our lives more directly than we realize.

For the sake of this article, though, we're going to talk about holistic health in terms of three primary categories affecting the individual human. Addressing these within ourselves will tend to give us more health and vitality, and thus a better ability to reach further out into the world and address global health as well.

These three topics are:

Physical Health

Quantum Health

Mental and Emotional Health

Coming soon: links above to learn more about those specific topics. The article on Physical Health is available by clicking on it above.