Health Care

So what is health care? Most people would say that it is seeing your doctor when you are sick, but I would assert that this is sick care or crisis care. Health care is care that is required to keep your mind, body and spirit at its healthiest level - that you can not do for yourself. It must be performed by a health care specialist. Most well known types of health care include: dental cleanings, massage, chiropractic adjustments, counseling sessions. It is funny that these professional services are not included with what we would often call "necessary". That is because our usual way of managing "health care" is really rehabilitation from crisises. If we define being healthy as having optimal physical, mental and spiritual health, then the rehabilitation form of health care simply doesn't work as the means of achieving health and keeping good health.

The most difficult part of participating or not participating with these forms of health care is that you typically don't notice immediate problems when you miss a visit. If you miss a dental cleaning, pain may not insue for several years, but often problems that arise are very difficult to reverse. The same is true for chiropractic care. Someone may be able to "heal" from a car accident and slowly feel better without care, but some years down the road, the effects are often still visible on x-ray. Even the effects of missed counseling sessions could be viewed by not seeing the change that was once desired. True health care is of the utmost importance to those that really want health and vitality.