What "Wholy" Means

What's all this "wholy" business?

I saw an ad about a book the Dalai Lama had written.  He was referred to has "His Holiness, The Dalai Lama".  I made a joke about myself saying that I could be "Her Wholiness, The Cynthia Clinton."  It cracked me up, but it stuck with me too - rattling around in my brain because it resonated with my wholistic approach.  I don't mean it in any religious context and you can see I've spelled it "wholy" instead of "holy".  It grew on me as a cute way to express something important which so many people don't realize.

I've coined the phrase "wholy one" (a "whole" person) to define a person who is striving to become wholly one, which means they are learning to recognize the connection between their inner and outer self and see them as different aspects of the same thing.  You can't claim total health without addressing both sides.  Does "wholy one" have a religious connotation?  No... It's used as "wholy" with a w to signify "whole".

Mainstream society treats the inner and outer as two separate entities.  They promote weight loss products which rarely work long term because they do not acknowledge or work on the inner aspect that is blocking perfect health and fitness in the first place.  No diet pill will ever change the way we feel about ourselves.  We are trained to think that we will feel differently about ourselves once our outside looks better.  The truth is that our outside will look better when we feel differently about ourselves.  We must change the weather inside before the landscape will change outside and that's not just our bodies, but our relationships and life experiences too.

Another example is the medical field and Big Pharma.  They treat physical symptoms without addressing the emotional causes or contributors to a disease.  They don't even really treat diseases any more, but prescribe things to fend off symptoms so we can all go down hill as symptom-free as possible.

Personal story:  I once had an issue with my thyroid not making enough thyroid hormone.  I asked my endocrinologist what was wrong with my thyroid.  He said he didn't know and that it didn't matter because he was giving me replacement thyroid hormone.  I asked how long I'd have to take the medicine and he told me I'd have to take it for the rest of my life.  I asked why he didn't have any concern about why my thyroid wasn't working and he replied that it didn't matter because I didn't need my thyroid to stay alive because the drug would act in its place.  I told him I'd get off the medication.  He just laughed and told me that "nobody gets off".  I've been off the medication for about 3 years now and I currently have healthy thyroid numbers.  The "wholier" I get, the healthier I get - and it's the same for you!