PART II
How Can We Be Healthy?
In part I, we discussed the shift that leveraged Eastern philosophy and the study of other cultures and societies into a growing acceptance of a systemic worldview. We learned that social context and community are more important than the principle of “the supreme individual.” Western medicine, being influenced by dualism and mechanistic science, has made great strides in healing or preventing disorders that fit with assumptions of individualism and the separation of body and mind. But health concerns in the last century have stimulated a shift toward systems thinking and holism. Coaching has been shaped by a trend to reconnect body and mind in health practices and to rediscover health promotion, in addition to disease treatment and prevention.
Concerns about how to stay healthy sooner or later are reflected in questions about change: “How can I keep doing healthy activities or stop doing unhealthy ones, or in other ways change what I am doing?”
It is no surprise that change is hard. At one time, beliefs about the brain were not encouraging, as it was assumed that brain development reached a peak in youth and then declined over the rest of our lives. However, the discovery of adult neuroplasticity has changed what scientists and human change practitioners assume is possible. We hinted at some of the elements of neuroplasticity earlier and will take up the topic more fully in this part.
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