https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7XnusLTT8vdMzZhZmUzMTMtZTk2Yy00MDk4LTg4MTAtMGZiZDUwYzE0MmQ4&hl=en_USHealth Education: An Integral Path from Apathy to Service
By
Carol Roselle
MA Integrative Final Project
HHE5610.1
John F. Kennedy University
Spring 2011
Abstract
This paper presents a model that outlines an integral path to human flourishing derived from ancient Eastern mind body practices namely, Buddhism and Yoga Nidra. Addressing health educators, the author outlines a model called the Invitation, a series of mind body practices and mindful contemplations. These practices are aids to psychospiritual development as it pertains to integral health. The paper claims that psychospiritual flourishing is a form of activism. The author supports the claim by exploring the relationship between activism, health, spiritual development and psychoneuroimmunology. The paper does this by providing an overview of contemporary activists and their works, psychospiritual development and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). By providing various scientific studies the author investigates spiritual practices and how it impacts the interaction between psychological processes, the nervous and immune systems of the human body. The model is comprised of two limbs. The first includes contemplation of six spiritual qualities namely: generosity, goodness, patience, strength, concentration and wisdom adapted from the Bodhisattva Path from Mahayana Buddhism. The second part of the paper explores different aspects of Yoga Nidra specifically: sensorial, breath body, emotional, and cognition and their role in developing altruism.
