What Is Holistic Healing?

Many alternative medicine practitioners take a holistic approach to healing that recognizes factors often overlooked or ignored by conventional doctors. In this video, Dr. Chopra discusses the main elements of holistic healing.

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The way I am looking at it with other people is, the limits of holistic healing, start with everything external. Okay? Career, well-being.

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If you hate your job, 36% of people die on Monday morning, at 9 o'clock, because they hate their jobs. Unhappiness with

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career is a big cause of illness. So I work with Gallup. I'm a senior scientist with Gallup. We ask people one question, do you

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enjoy what you're doing every day? Only 20% can say I do, okay. Are you using your strength everyday? Only 20% can say I do. If

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you duly enjoy the person you work with, if your supervisor ignores you, your rate of disengagement goes up by 45%, and you get sick

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sooner or later. If he doesn't, or she doesn't ignore you, but actually criticizes you, you get better. It falls to 20%, because you'd rather

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be criticized, than ignored. Now you'll exist. Humans have a deep

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need for attention. On the other hand, if he notices your strengths, and we have a way of actually figuring out what your strengths

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are, putting you in the right seat at the right place in the bus, your disengagement goes up to less than 1%. Your health improves.

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And your immune system takes a boost. Social well being. How many people do you engage with, that you

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trust everyday? Do you have friends that you can rely on? In fact, if you want to loose weight, if you want to go on a specific diet,

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if you want to support somebody else who has breast cancer and you hangout with them, your survival doubles. We are not looking,

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in standard medicine. So career well being, social well being, financial well being, community

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well being, physical well being, a lot more included. But then we look at physical well being, we look at things like sleep,

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which has been ignored, but in fact is the time when the body goes into self repair mechanism, better than any other time. Look

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at stress management. Look at phytochemicals, and phytonutrients, which are the healthiest foods on the planet. And look at personal

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relationships, and social interactions. In fact, everyday on Twitter,

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we have almost 700,000 people. I score my well being. I say, my

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well being is 94 today. I do it everyday. There are a few questions you answer. And anything over 70 is thriving. 40 to 70 we say is

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struggling. Less than 40 is suffering. And we score individuals,

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communities, businesses and even nations. And then we look at the scores then you see, why is Sweden and Denmark up there?

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And why is Togo out there? And you look at everything, from hospital admissions, to crime rate, to unrest. We were watching

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the well being only in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya, and we knew beforehand what was gonna happen, because everything correlates

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with well being Whether it's jobs, or satisfaction with the leader, or unrest in society, or hospital admissions, or crime rate, it all

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relates to well being. This is holistic wellbeing. If you scored more than 70 in your well being assessment.

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is I say, this is my score. Is 94 if I lost 10 pounds it would be 98,okay? So that's the only thing that's missing right now.

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And I'm pretty close to it. But then I said to my Twitter followers, which goes up by 1000 everyday. I say, so what's yours? And I send

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them to the site. And we're now creating global communities of well-being, through a non-profit

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foundation, by just giving then the right information. And then I give them a daily challenge. Did you get your teeth cleaned? When's

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the last time you had that done because of the following reasons? Okay? Are you on a good diet? What're you going to do today? And

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we engage people. There's nothing like people wanting to be engaged. And now, because of the social networks, I think we're seeing the

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extension of our new planetary mind. I think we have it with information is the most useful thing you can give to a person right now. You

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can have more information about what you're struggling with, whether it's parkinson's or alzheimer's, or heart disease, or cancer, then

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you're a doctor. And you better because it's your life, it's not your doctor's