Volume 2 Issue 2 - April 2007

by Lonny Jarrett

There is much talk of holistic and integral medicine these days. It seems to me that, at the very least, the focus of any medicine that is truly holistic or integral would have to be on assisting patients to evolve from a relatively divided state to ever increasing states of wholeness and integration. The starting point of this journey means helping patients live up to the highest that they know is true in their own experience already. I find that much of the initial work in my clinical practice, from a spiritual perspective, is to empower, encourage and persuade patients to take responsibility for their actual numerical age and the level of authentic insight they’ve had thus far in their lives.