Amit Goswami - Quantum physicist suggests his definition of 'positive health'

He begins: "What is positive health? In the 1960s, Abraham Maslow, a famous psychologist, defined three levels of health: psychopathology, normal mental health, and a category called positive mental health. Mind you, in the mental domain, this positive mental health is pretty obvious.

Positive mental health are those people who have positive signatures of their mental health like they're creative, capable of more living, and we notice those things much more easily. But I suggest that in the physical domain, too, we can classify health in those same three different ways. There's pathology, that's obvious. We have illness, so we can tell this from wellness. Then there's normal. We don't have any real illness, although we can contract them sometimes and they go away. We don't have chronic illness, or even if we have a little chronic illness we are maintaining health pretty much, and our self image is that I have normal health, nothing beyond what people normally suffer from (a little thing here, a little pain there, that we accept), so that's normal health. And then there is, I submit, positive health. What's the difference?

 

Now, in allopathic medicine we obviously cannot pick any difference except between wellness and illness, in fact disease is absence of health. That's how disease is to be defined. So we don't get very much about positive health should be defined or is there such a thing, from allopathic medicine. But in the alternative medicine, which with the help of quantum physics we now can integrate alternative and conventional, materialist medicine with the subtle body medicine which talks about medicine from the vital as well as the mental level and even higher levels of our consciousness, so we can talk about health in a much more general way. So in this way of thinking we can actually define normal health, positive health, and pathological illness situations." ... watch the short presentation for the rest