The following comments by Paul Chek on the Weights-2 list raised a topic
which is very commonly misunderstood by many working in the alternative
health professions and warrants some further comment:
<The principles of holistic health are about achieving and maintaining
homeostasis in the body. I believe that the point of homeostasis is the
optimal place for physiological systems to function from. Anything else is
compensation, which eventually leads to decompensation, which commonly
presents itself as injury and ill health....>
***Plenty of research and clinical findings have been showing that a perfect
state of precise homeostasis is a myth achieved nowhere in the universe, and
when physiological systems approach anything close to that level of
'harmony', the likelihood of breakdown, such as sudden heart attacks,
increases markedly. Many books and scientific journals (such as 'Scientific
American', 'Natur'e and 'Science') comment on the role of 'chaos', fuzzy
logic, non-linear processes, non-equilibrium systems and so on in the
maintenance, growth and failure of biological systems, as well as in mental
stability. The renowned Belgian scientist, Dr Ilya Prigogine, ("Order Out Of
Chaos") won a Nobel Prize for work in this fascinating field of endeavour.
A so-called "point of homeostasis", according to information theory and
thermodynamics is a 'point' of little or no information, which is associated
with drastically impaired or non-existent feedback and control. In other
words, it is hardly a desirable state to encourage in living systems. All
life is about correction, adaptation and compensation. These ideas on
homeostasis are dinosaurs from outdated science of the past and need to be
revised.
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
