Any discussion on healing must first start with a definition of health.

What is health?

Health is the state where a person’s internal environment is in such sync with his external environment so that the continuation of the person’s life is assured, at least from the perspective of health. This is a departure from the notion of an individualized self in a homeostasis that is maintained internally.

Health is therefore a state of being. It is a state of being where the internal and external are in sync. This synchronous harmony implies balance.

From this perspective then: Is “health” care possible?

 Is it possible to take care of a “state of being”? Is it possible to take care of joy or happiness?  Or sadness?

It is highly unlikely.

To heal, then, is to change “the state of being” of health.

In terms of quantum mechanics what is “the state of being of health”?

“The state of being” of a person, object or any other being is a summation of the cumulative states of the subatomic particles that constitute that state in that moment. This state necessarily reflects the synchronous or asynchronous relationship the organism maintains to those around it.

 An organism with a synchronous relationship has an exchange process with the environment. Thus health is actually a two-way process involving exchange. The environment here may include other organisms. The organism maintains the relationship by choice and interaction. The state of health is in the relationship.

The responsibility of the relationship lies with the organism. Although other organisms can modify the environment, the state of health can only be the responsibility of the original organism. This is because only the organism itself can change its state, i.e. its internal environment. Thus it is possible to help an organism to change its state but not to actually make the change of state for the organism.

This is so because each experience is a choice within consciousness. Thus choice is a choice primarily of outcome. The issue here is that outcomes frequently have other hidden conjoint outcomes not readily discernible at the time of choice. Consequently a choice that seems to point to one outcome frequently ends up at another through this conjoint effect. 

Choices in health then have to be made intentionally to be outcome driven, i.e. the ultimate outcome versus the processes. These processes are serial intermediate outcomes that don’t have a clear path to the ultimate outcome. For example, a person, instead of being concerned about whether or not steak without exercise will cause weight gain, really should be more concerned with the ultimate outcome: heart disease.

When choices are made in this fashion with regards to ultimate outcome then one will be able to actually have an experience commensurate with the ultimate outcome rather than experience the process of trying to attain the ultimate outcome.