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3. You Recognize Resources Available to
        Support Your Vision

If your definition of health is focused on eliminating disease, then you will likely focus on conventional medicine (“Western Medicine”), with an emphasis on using drugs and surgery. This provides immense value.

However, if your definition of health is aligned with “a state of being fully alive” or vitality, it’s also important to focus on health prevention and consider a broader range of resources as displayed in the figure below.

This includes a greater openness to the potential benefits of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Where providers use both conventional medicine and CAM based on thoughtful consideration of evidence to support what works, this combination of care is known as integrative medicine (the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, states that “Integrative medicine combines treatments from conventional medicine and CAM for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness”).

Within and beyond conventional medicine and CAM one also needs to pay attention to the core building blocks that support health and vitality: exercise, diet, sleep, social connection, sex and environmental health and safety (including good air and water, safe habits and shelter).

At the foundation of health and well-being we discover internal resources that infuse our life with meaning, purpose, motivation and a sense of essential wholeness: awareness, love, compassion, and spiritual connection.

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