Total & Whole Person Simplicity Insight... Part I, II & III

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verses and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

- Anna Quindlen Journalist, Novelist (born 1953)

An understanding of the
Total & Whole Person Reality... Part I

Ok, we need to talk a bit about what is meant by both terms “Total” and “Whole Person” Simplicity.

For the purpose of our site concept “Simplicity-Insight” we see “total” as the sum of something… you may be saying, now tell me something I do not know!

Yet, the word “total” like many other words in our cultures today can take on a little different definition depending on how we use them, for example some people use total to emphasize something such as totally awesome, total groovy, and I have even seen the term total simplicity.

Now, “whole” is a word that tends to emphasize something is complete or all the original elements are included… such as “whole grain, whole wheat, or whole milk” and also the word “total” is used to market products as well i.e. “Total cereal” etc... why do marketing people use these terms to brand and presell products—simple… it works?

You see, we all have this desire to experience “total”, “whole” and/or “complete” something’s in our life, or buy products which satisfies some need or want. This comes from the very root of our existence and we need to think deeply about this, because we are motivated by this basic principle.

Therefore, it is important for us to understand exactly what is meant by the term “Total Person” and “Whole Person”. So for our purposes here, total and whole are fundamentally the same… yes I know when you get into fractions they are not the same. But if you will, try to go along with me for the purposes of this concept and thanks for doing so!

Ok, enough about that! Now let’s talk about our “Total Person Concept”. Total as we said means it is the sum of something; therefore we want to discuss the sum of the whole. The sum of the whole means simply that we have totaled it and come up with the correct total number, right—or have we?

In our case and for the purposes of this Web Site the answer is NO! Why, because we are going to discover how total and/or whole… become greater then sum of its parts. What’s that you say—something is greater then it’s sum? Yes that is exactly correct… we know that 2 + 2 = 4, but we are going to show you how 2+2 = 5, 6, 7 etc. because when it comes to “natural laws and principle centered purpose”, things have the potential be greater then sum of its parts and this is called SYNERGY!

This brings us to our ultimate point; which is the core of our “natural laws” and the principle of which this entire Web Site concept and models are based… the core of our natural laws is the Body, Heart, Mind, Spirit. This is the Whole Person model we all are naturally born into, regardless of our inherited culture and early life conditioning; we all exist with these individual elements—this is a model of “Simplicity on the far side of Complexity.”

While we are influenced by others, we do have the power to live our life in a way were the “whole can become greater the sum of its parts”—hence we want to discover how our natural whole person parts Body, Heart, Mind, Spirit can total up to be greater then it’s whole and synergize!

For more on this click here or below... Click Part II & Part III

Part II Total & Whole Person Fulfillment... click here

Part III Total & Whole Person Self Actualization... click here

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