Introduction

Today was our first session about holistic healing. We spent a lot of time discussing health, and what exactly it means to be healthy. This was an interesting topic, as I had previously thought myself to be quite unhealthy. However after listing ideas about what health was, I realise in retrospect that I fulfill many of the "specification" that one should meet to be considered health (such as physic, mental, and social well being). We had to place ourselves on a continuum of health, from 1 to 10 (10 being healthy, 1 being unhealthy) to demonstrate how we felt about ourselves. Had I have had to complete this task at the beginning of the session, I would have placed myself at the lower end of the scale. However, after discussion I decided that in the grand scheme of things, I was around a 7. This session made me realise that I may not be so unhealthy after all.