Category Archives: Ways of Knowing

The Aesthetic of Health

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

In retaliation to the rapidly growing Quantified Self movement, which uses self-monitoring technology to data mine correlations between behavior and physiological or subjective parameters, I would like to confidently assert right here and now that health is not a quantitative … Continue reading →

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The Purpose of Running

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

The purpose of running is to slip between, right through the middle, into the openings and find the world.

Posted in animism, Ecological Embodiment, Ecology, Exercise, Health, Holos, Life, meaning, metamorphosis, Mind, Movement, Movement Exercise and Physical Activity, Ontology, perception, Philosophy, Physical Activity, Self-Realization or Self-Actualization, sentience, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom | Leave a comment

ecoHolos Book Preview: Authors Introduction to “ecoHolos: a cosmology of health”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Why Health? Throughout college, I learned about the human organism largely by reading descriptions and studying illustrations of its genetic, biochemical, and cellular features. This information, the scientific foundation to understanding life on earth, had been assembled piece by piece … Continue reading →

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Optimal Foraging at the Salad Bar: the perceptual language of food, rocks, sunsets, and skydiving

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Nathan Daley MD MPH Evan, one of my patients, recently experienced unintentional hypnosis as we discussed nutrition. I explained to him the physiological effects of high glycemic foods and related these effects to experiences (or symptoms) of fatigue, impaired focus, … Continue reading →

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A Unified General Theory of Health Part 2: The Origin of Health

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH The Origin of Health The short answer to “what is the origin of health?” is interaction.   Interaction here refers to the movement, exchange, or reciprocity of information.  Information here refers to patterns of material and energy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, Cybernetics, Ecological Embodiment, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Mind, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science, Uncategorized, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos ©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH There may be nothing more perplexing than how humankind has managed to make eating so dysfunctional. Over the course of human history, we’ve managed turn labor-free, resource-free, naturally … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, General, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Nutrition and Diet, salutogenesis, Science, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom

Being with Nature: a nature meditation

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

2009, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Find a patch of nature. Anything from vast wilderness to a small garden is in continuity with mother nature. This part of nature, like you, is part of the whole; a whole which is everything … Continue reading →

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Consulting Nature’s Wisdom

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

The wisdom seeker knows that wisdom is not given, it is found. Sometimes one is aware of asking a question and seeking an answer yet, often, an answer becomes apparent in the absence of inquisitive thought or intention. This is … Continue reading →

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The Way of EcoHolos: More than science and philosophy

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

The cause of anything, good or bad, when examined openly and deeply, becomes a tangle of interconnections, extending spherically across all scales, dissolving all boundaries, until it disappears into everything and nothing, out into the universe. This system has no … Continue reading →

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