What is Health?
The million dollar question…and one of the most difficult to answer. Health means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Each interpretation is valid in its own way depending on the context and perspective of the person. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…so is health!
A concept developed by Dr. John Berardi, Deep Health is practice and acknowledgement that multiple factors influence our overall health and rarely is a single area completely responsible for our health issues as all are deeply entwined and strongly connected. Deep Health is a state of thriving in ALL areas of your life—not just the physical. Six areas or “dimensions” comprise the Deep Health concept: physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, and existential.
Deep Health isn’t just something you simply strive to achieve it’s a broad lens through which to view your health and to see where you’re at. We tend to only look at our health through a singular,narrow lens, like the physical. Viewing all six dimensions, we can assess our health in a much broader, “holistic” view. Each dimension is inimately related to the others.
Deep Health truly offers a deeper dive and more thorough understanding of health. It permits to us to more accurately determine root cause of issues and best courses of action toward acheiving postive impact and improve health across all dimensions. What may manifest as a symptom or sign in one area may prove to be caused by an ailment or dysfunction in another. Degradation in one has potential harmful impact on other areas. Likewise, improvement in one may have drastic positive outcomes in another. We cannot affect one area without considering the others.
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Herstel Health offers metabolic, fitness, mental, and life coaching to aid clients in acheiving a deeper health, improved sense of wellbeing, and happier life. If you are struggling in any of the dimensions of health reach out for a free consultation.