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Wholeness has come to connote more than mere completeness or fullness. It implies a reality, system or truth in which all parts or aspects are present in right and healthy relationship with each other.
This right relationship—or synergy—is a major factor in the whole being "greater than the sum or its parts". For example, water is "more than" mere hydrogen and oxygen, and iron bars are "more strong" welded into a triangle than in any other form.
Wholeness is often conceived as embracing opposites, such as unity and diversity, subjectivity and objectivity, male and female, health and sickness.
This sometimes involves a seeming paradox. How can wholeness mean health on the one hand, and both health and illness on the other? This paradox can be resolved by realizing there are two types of wholeness: existential and preferential.
From the perspective of preferential wholeness, a healthy person is more whole than an ill or injured one, and curing or fixing them is central to their healing. In contrast, from the perspective of existential wholeness, illness and injuryInjury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical. Types of Injury Burns are injuries caused by excess heat or sometimes cold ( frostbite). Fractures are injurie are part of the larger wholeness of lifeAlternate uses: see Life (disambiguation) and Living (disambiguation Life is a multi-faceted concept with no simple definition; this article is confined to the primary meanings in biology; articles on life in other senses are included in the article life, and real healing would entail appreciation and positive engagement with illness and injury as well as wellness. In this view a cancer patient can be healed through deepening insight and engagement with life—even when cureCure can be: successful treatment of disease preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process The Cure refers to more than one thing: The Cure are an English rock bs fail and they dieDie can refer to: To die is to undergo death. die is the singular form of " dice" A die is any of several mechanical devices, such as tool for pressing sheet metal, a re-usable mold for casting materials, a nut-like device for making screws, or a block wi.
HolismHolism is the idea that the properties of a system cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its components alone. It is often regarded as opposite to reductionism, although proponents of scientific reductionism state that it is better regarded as t is the study and advocacy of wholeness in health, scienceFor the scientific journal named Science see Science (journal). Science is both a process of gaining knowledge, and the organized body of knowledge gained by this process. The scientific process is the systematic acquisition of new knowledge about a syste, politicsPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is, or any other area of life.Wholesome, healthy and holy are all derived from the same root as wholeness.