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The terms much in use at present are ‘health and fitness’ and ‘health and relaxation’. Both these terms tend to be misread as ‘health equals fitness’ and ‘health equal relaxation’ and many magazine and newpaper articles often lead people to this misunderstanding.
These two terms are at the opposite end of the spectrum from each other and at first glance seem to be contadictory.
A ‘couch potato’ is very relaxed but unlikely to be healthy and many fit people die of disease every day. So what is health?
The oriental concept of health has to do with a sense of well-being. Put simply, if you do not feel well then you are ill. This is quite different from in the west where health is most often defined as the absence of disease.
In oriental medicine problems are seen to arrive when one is out of balance, when something is moving to an extreme (like our ‘couch potato’). A balance of Yin and Yang, passive and active, relaxation and fitness is what leads to health.
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