Health and Wellness Above the Financial Crisis

Worldwide headlines streaming daily doses of ANXIETY ...FINANCIAL CRISIS ...COLLASPE ...PAIN... make it impossible for us to keep the cacophony of crisis at a safe distance, inducing in humanity feelings of disorientation, fear, loss, and despair. nnBehavior sciences say that the world financial crisis is producing a different of kind of anxiety because of the prolonged impact of the crisis. While the best therapy for crisis is often the passage of time, the current financial crisis is chronic and pervasive. In other words, the financial meltdown is affecting everyone and has no foreseeable time frame. Like the rest of humanity, behavioral scientists are searching for a healthy way to deal with ongoing crisis. nnBEYOND COPINGnnThe underlying reasons for behavioral sciences are because humanity wants in some way to change itself. Healthier coping strategies can help to minimize the serious health problems that often occur due to financial distress including depression, addiction, obesity and heart disease, but in order to effectively change ourselves we must do more than merely cope. We have already discovered within the crisis itself that we cannot escape the consequences of globalized financial connections that run through the world economy through the passage of time. From financial institutions to commodities producers to consumers and welfare states, the interconnected nature of humanity has become transparent. Our relationship, one to another and the influence between us, is enormous. nThe science of Kabbalah tells us that in fact we are all interrelated actually on every level of reality, but the awareness of this relationship is lost to each of the individual parts. And rather than feeling the interconnection of humanity, what we feel is that each person exists independent of others. But the truth is that our environment is one collective body and right now that body is putting tremendous pressure on us in the form of our financial society. nnWELL BEINGnnIn order to change ourselves, we must aim higher then simply coping with the crisis. The world financial crisis reveals to us that we are connected reciprocally in one system as different parts of a collective body of humanity. Just as in a human body that contains different parts, anything that is done in one of these parts is felt through this interconnection in every other part throughout the entire system. So nothing inside here actually functions as an isolated individual; if one part stops, it creates a lack of harmony and the whole body is affected. nnSimilarly the lack of harmony in humanity induces the current financial crisis. Our experience shows us that developing methods of solving the crisis as isolated parts will only worsen our situation. This pervasive crisis is upon us because we have lost sight of our interconnectedness and it is precisely through our connectedness that we discover a healthy way of dealing with the crisis. Just as all the parts in one body connect to work for the benefit of the body as whole, each and every person in this universal economic system must understand that the most profitable economic model for the individual is the one that brings health and wellness to the whole. nnn