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The Scale (Ladder)
of Health
By Dr. Dany
Lousky
The scale (ladder)
of health is the
main characteristic
of the format of
integrated medicine.
The scale of health
was derived from the
division into
dimensions of the 32
intelligences. The
scale of health is
built of four
dimensions and
describes the
person’s changing
needs, the abilities
that he can develop
in every dimension,
and the need to move
between the
dimensions for the
purpose of balance.
Whole health is
possible through the
balance between the
different needs in
each one of the four
dimensions.
According to the
vision of integrated
medicine, the number
of dimensions in the
scale, the content,
and the needs that
characterize every
dimension, as well
as the need to
transfer from
dimension to
dimension, are the
milestones for whole
medicine. The
dimensions of the
scale of health
express conflicting
and complementary
interests that
characterize the
changing needs and
challenges for a
full life. The
division into four
reflects the entire
range of life. The
importance of the
scale of health lies
in its ability to
assess and rank the
four dimensions
among the patients,
from the stronger
dimension to the
weaker dimension,
for the purpose of
practice, treatment,
or reinforcement of
the weak aspects.
Four
Dimensions of the
Scale of Health
The World
Health Organization
defines health in a
way that leaves no
doubt regarding the
importance of the
different dimensions
that comprise the
whole as a way of
achieving whole
medicine. “Health is
a state of complete
physical, mental,
emotional, social,
and spiritual well
being” (World Health
Organization, 1947).
The world, according
to the Book of
Creation, divides
into four dimensions
– the Scale of
Health. The four
dimensions express
contradictory and
complementary
desires that
characterize
changing needs and
challenges for a
whole and full life.
The division into
four reflects the
complete range of
life:
• The four elements:
air, fire, water,
and earth;
• The four
realities: silent,
growing, living, and
speaking;
• The four tasks of
life: love, career,
money, and health;
• The four
dimensions:
physical, emotional,
intellectual, and
spiritual;
• The four animals
of sanctity: bull,
man, lion, and
eagle;
• The four processes
of creation:
thought, words,
effort, reality;
• The four ranks of
being: body, mind,
spirit, soul;
• The four types of
healing: movement,
nutrition, energy,
awareness;
• The four types of
communication:
supportive,
analytical,
task-oriented,
expressive;
• The four types of
teachers: problem
solving,
appreciating,
directing,
challenging.
Each one of the four
dimensions divides
into a number of
parts, so that
altogether 32
intelligences are
created. In each one
of the 32
intelligences, there
is the desire to
receive and the
desire to give. The
balance between the
desire to receive
and the desire to
give creates free
will, which is the
force of life (the
chi). To create
whole medicine,
balance is needed
between the desire
to receive and the
desire to give in
every intelligence.
The lack of balance
between the two
desires over time
will cause pain,
mishaps, and
illnesses.
I chose the term
‘scale’ or ‘ladder’
to describe ‘whole
medicine’, through
the model of
integrated medicine.
The head of the
ladder of health is
found in the air
(the element of air
/ the spiritual
dimension), in the
middle of the ladder
are found the water
and fire (the
intellectual and
emotional
dimensions,
respectively), and
at the basis of the
ladder is the ground
(the element of
earth / the physical
dimension). I saw
this image in the
Biblical story of
Jacob’s dream, which
presents man’s
longing to live in
wholeness, in all
the dimensions, on
the Health Ladder.
In this perspective,
when the head of the
ladder reaches the
sky and its legs are
on the ground, the
‘dreamer’ can go up
and down the ladder
freely, as he sees
fit. “He had a
dream, and behold, a
ladder was set on
the earth with its
top reaching to
heaven ....”
(Genesis 28:12). The
painting of Marc
Chagall, Jacob’s
Ladder (see the
following picture),
describes in the
language of art the
whole creation.
Ascending the ladder
is similar to
swimming against the
current. Swimming
against the current
will lead to the
source of the water
(as well as the
source of the
problem). Descending
the ladder is
similar to swimming
with the current,
relaxation, change
of approach, change
of values and
beliefs (desire to
give). Descending
the ladder
necessitates
connection to the
joy of life, joy as
a compass to
successes and to
destiny (desire to
receive). In the
encounter between
the desire to
receive and the
desire to give, free
will was found – the
power of life for
change, training,
and healing (Lousky,
2005).
The
Relationship between
Body and Mind on the
Health Scale
The
relationship between
body and mind is the
basis of integrated
medicine, which is
the integration of
scientific medicine
(body) with lousky
medicine (mind).
This relationship is
essential to
observation,
assessment and
treatment, to the
rising and
descending on the
ladder of health,
which is, as
aforementioned, the
main characteristic
in integrated
medicine.
The body can be
described in the
following ways:
through pain,
through pleasure,
through posture,
through body
language. We also
describe the twists
and pains of the
soul through the
body. When we say
‘his legs froze’
perhaps we are
speaking of the legs
on the physical
level but refer to
fear (bodily and
emotional) found in
the legs. When we
say ‘green eyed
monster’, we do not
see eyes that are
physically green but
refer to jealousy
(intellectual
dimension).
Expressions such as
‘sharp tongued’,
‘grinding teeth’,
‘blood going to the
head’ and others
express a mental
situation
(spiritual,
intellectual, and
emotional
dimensions) and not
necessarily a
physical situation.
Lousky medicine
addresses these
expressions in their
dual meaning, ‘body
mind’. Sentences
that describe,
apparently, a
physical problem, do
not only remain in
the physical
meaning. According
to the holistic
approach, they also
are expressed in
other areas. When a
child is constipated
(physical
dimension), he is
brought to a
pediatrician. Why
should the mother,
kindergarten
teacher, or teacher
not treat
constipation that
originates from the
emotional blockage
of the intestines
(Reich, 1991) . The
body is not a
separate entity, it
is an expression of
the mind, just as
the mind expresses
itself through the
body. The body is
the home of the
soul, the temple of
the soul. The body
tells the story of
the soul, the body
talks endlessly,
sometimes it also
yells aloud and
sometimes the shout
is through the
deafening silence
(Reich, 1991).
The body expresses
itself in different
ways: through
beating,
concentration,
grounding, focusing,
breathing, holding,
moving, relations,
and connections. The
body expresses
contents and a
framework of the
contents – what and
how. Body language
is sharp, intuitive,
lacking in
comprises, without
masks. The body
expresses itself
through body
language, which is
the expression of
the social and
cultural conditions.
The body also
expresses itself
through body
positions posture,
and expression and
these express the
outlooks, beliefs,
and educational
influences. The body
writes everything,
every mental state
is recorded in the
body lines, in the
body postures, in
the body language,
and in the body
grasp. The body is
the soul’s home.
When a person does
not feel at home, in
many ways, he is not
balanced, he is not
at his best. This
unbalanced
situation, when it
continues over time,
invites mishaps and
illnesses.
Life is a type of
movement even when
there is no
movement. Life is
movement and change.
Movement in the body
is created through
beating (Reich,
1991) and there
needs to be fit
between the pace of
beating and the
environment.
Experiences
(emotional
dimension) create
muscle contractions
(physical dimension)
and become armor
(intellectual
dimension). The
armor of the body is
similar to defense
mechanisms in
psychology. The
armor, like the
defense mechanisms,
must be slowly and
carefully removed.
The removal of the
armor will provide
the result of the
qualities in the
body and body
posture. The armor
will appear between
the latitudinal and
longitudinal lines
of the body. There
are seven
latitudinal lines in
the body and they
are parallel to the
energy areas
according to
chakras. The armor
appears between the
latitudinal lines
(chakras) and the
longitudinal lines
(meridians). The
armor is like a dam
that on both sides
appears imbalance:
on the one side
there is a flood and
on the other side
there is a drought.
The blockage (dam)
must be slowly
released and the
flood must be
gradually dried out.
Every emotional
process leaves its
mark on the body.
Every emotional
imbalance begins its
path in the
spiritual body that
influenced the
intellective body –
which created
approaches and
beliefs, which
created feelings of
ear, which were
imprinted on the
body. Armor is
created as a result
of insults, the
armor is created as
a result of
developmental
traumas and a result
of the experience of
the word ‘no’. The
experience of insult
is an emotional
blow, ‘you do not
understand anything’
as a way to
emphasize the
inferiority of
another person and
emotional
exploitation to
provide narcissist
needs (desire to
receive). The insult
remains in the
physical memory and
creates the armor.
Flexibility,
melting, or
decomposition of the
armor is possible
through work with
the body – touch,
movement, breathing,
and sounds. These
are experiences that
the body remembers
and they will appear
in the form of
contractions and
pains in the body.
When a person
ignores his feelings
and experiences and
conceals them in the
storage room instead
of taking them,
through the heart,
they will appear in
the back part of the
body – they will
appear through pain
in the waist, back,
nape of the neck,
and the head (Reich,
1991).
We see that every
emotional process
leaves its mark on
the body. Every
emotional imbalance
begins in the
spiritual body and
influences the
intellectual body,
which created the
approaches and
beliefs, which
created feelings of
fear, which were
written in the body.
When the therapist
has training in
treatment methods
for the treatment of
each one of the four
dimensions, the
therapist can treat
the dimension that
is not balanced and
thus stop the
mishap, before it
appears in the body.
The necessity to
train therapists in
treatment methods to
treat the four
dimensions (health
ladder) is at the
basis of integrated
medicine.
The Health
Ladder and the Human
Pyramid of Needs
The
different dimensions
of the health leader
express all that is.
They create
contradictory and
complementary
desires that
characterize
changing needs and
challenges for a
full life. Every
person has different
needs, during his
life and during his
development,
according to the
division into levels
of the ladder of
health. The human
pyramid of needs
describes the
person’s factors of
motivation, arranged
hierarchically, when
the fulfillment of
the essential needs
precedes the
fulfillment of less
essential needs (Maslow,
1960) . The lack of
realization of some
of the human needs
creates imbalance in
the absent level.
The prolonged lack
of balance will
cause mishaps and
illnesses.
It is customary to
describe the
hierarchy of needs
as a pyramid, when
at the basis of the
pyramid are found
the fundamental
needs necessary to
ensure a person’s
physical existence.
As one rises in the
pyramid towards its
apex, the needs
become spiritual.
When needs from a
lower level are
realized, the needs
of the level above
become relevant.
Every type of needs
is accompanied by an
analysis of what
happens when these
needs are not
fulfilled.
1. The physiological
needs are found at
the basis of the
pyramid: breathing,
water, food,
maintenance of
temperature, and
sleep.
2. The need for
security: This need
is found above the
physiological needs.
When these are
provided, the person
is then troubled
over his need for
quiet, security,
stability, and
protection; lacking
the satisfaction of
this need,
anxieties, tension,
and a series of
behaviors deriving
from this lack then
develop.
3. The need for love
and belonging: The
need for relations
with other people,
for friends, for
love, for children,
for a sense of
community belonging.
The lack of
satisfaction of this
need induces
feelings of
loneliness, social
anxiety, etc.
4. The need for
appreciation: It is
necessary to
differentiate
between the need for
the appreciation of
other people –
social status,
degrees,
recognition,
publicity, and
political power and
the need for
self-appreciation –
self-confidence,
achievement
orientation,
independence, and
freedom. Lacking the
fulfillment of this
need, feelings of
lack of
self-confidence,
inferiority
complexes, and low
self-image appear,
and these awaken
mental problems and
psychological
disorders. The first
four layers of needs
are those that cause
the person a lack,
when they are not
fulfilled, and when
they are realized –
he does not feel a
thing. All these
needs are
existential needs,
which the person
needs to maintain
his physical and
mental health (Maslow,
1970). A severe lack
in the fulfillment
of these needs in
childhood may lead
to the development
of disorders in the
person’s behavior
and to the
impairment in his
functioning. The
person who suffered
from this severe
lack will be focused
all his life on his
frustration and
feelings that he has
missed out.
5. The fifth and
supreme need is the
need for
self-fulfillment.
This need is not
realized or
balanced. This is an
ongoing need for
self-expression, for
inner happiness, for
creativity, for the
full actualization
of the individual’s
abilities. The
fulfillment of this
need, which is not
existential like
that previous four
needs, is very rare.
The motives behind
this fulfillment are
the search for
truth, morality,
beauty, wholeness,
essentialness,
uniqueness, justice,
simplicity,
happiness,
independence, and
meaning. When people
fill their basic
needs (the first
four levels) but do
not succeed in
achieving
self-realization,
they suffer from
different
psychological
problems, such as
depression,
alienation, despair,
etc. (Maslow, 1970).
The fulfillment of
human needs at all
the levels of the
health scale create
the whole, the
holistic. They
express
contradictory and
complementary needs
that characterize
changing needs and
challenges for a
full life. The
fulfillment of the
human needs in all
levels, according to
integrated medicine,
is the key to
holistic health
Movement
between the Four
Levels of the Health
Scale
The movement
bottom up and top
down on the ladder
of health is what
allows the
integration of all
the needs into the
shaping of the
personality of a
whole person. When
the person’s needs
in one of the levels
are not fulfilled,
imbalance is
created. The pattern
of integrated
medicine proposes
certain tools for
balance between the
levels, through the
training of the weak
intelligences and
through lousky
medicines for
support and
reinforcement of the
weak levels.
The individual’s
personality is
divided into four
worlds (levels) –
the objective world,
the subjective
world, the symbolic
world, and the
holistic world. King
emphasizes and
enhances the need
for balance between
the levels through
movement on the
health scale (King,
1988) .
• In the objective
world (the physical
dimension), the
assumption is that
every thing has a
beginning and an
end. The color of
the trees, the smell
of the flowers, the
song of birds, the
feeling of cold, the
reality of plants,
animals, people.
Things that can be
seen, smelled, and
touched, things for
which we can collect
information and
process it in the
framework of empiric
experiments are a
format of objective
thinking. The
expression of the
objective world is
separation and is
external to the
observing person. In
the observer’s eyes,
it appears obvious
and acceptable as a
single possible
truth. In the
objective world,
everything is
measurable and there
is only one
(scientific) truth.
In this dimension,
the healing occurs
through medicines,
analyses, massage,
plants, movement,
and nutrition.
• In the subjective
world (emotional
dimension)
everything is
related, everything
is found in one
circle. The truth is
not one and
everything is
correct and true. A
person is aware of
the light and forces
that act around him,
he feels himself a
part of them, one
part, not separate.
The past and the
future occur in the
present, energy is
natural
communication,
thoughts and
feelings are
conveyed naturally
from person to
person. Hence, every
harm to one person
or to nature is harm
to every person. In
this dimension,
healing occurs
through an
integration of arts,
energetic balance,
energy transference,
healing, shiatsu,
stones, etc.
• The symbolic world
(intellectual
dimension) is a
world of symbols. A
person is a part of
everything. The
birds sing their
promise of happiness
and the sunrise is
the touch of the
Creator’s light. The
person writes or
draws to capture the
symbolism of the
moment. A dream,
too, is a symbol and
therefore reality is
a dream that can be
changed. Every
experience in the
symbolic world is
the person’s
reflection. To
change the
experiences, a
person can change
what the event
symbolizes for him
or change himself so
that his refection
will change and then
the event, too, will
change. This is an
excellent tool to
differentiate
between how beliefs
are reflected in the
body and experiences
and how conditions
and systems of
relations change
when the beliefs
change. In the
symbolic world, the
meaning that
everything has is
the meaning that the
person gives it. On
this dimension, the
healing occurs
through different
treatment methods
such as deciphering
dreams, guided
imagery, positive
thinking, mantras,
and in the types of
healing that
required the
patient’s belief in
himself.
• In the holistic
world (the spiritual
dimension), the
person is the light
and he feels how the
light of the sun
becomes power. The
person’s presence is
what allows the
light to be what we
were. Since
everything has one
identity,
‘everything is me’,
‘I am the thing
itself’. A person
can assumes roles
and experiences
successfully so that
the experiences
delineate him. On
this dimension, the
healing occurs
through finding
purpose and destiny,
through forgiveness
and prayer.
To Move
between the
Dimension for the
Purpose of Inner
Change
The
imbalance appears
when a person acts
only in one
dimension and does
not move between the
dimensions and does
not combine between
the different needs.
To move between the
worlds, a person
needs to effect an
inner change, to
change approach and
the direction
related to his
goals, to experience
the world and the
place where he is
found from love, to
hold onto love and
not let go. An inner
change occurs when a
person moves from
dimension to
dimension: “I am
separate, I am
within, I am a part,
and I am the thing
itself”. The
movement from
dimension to
dimension allows
change to occur for
the purpose of the
improvement of
abilities
(intelligences) and
the performance of
the life tasks
(love, career,
money, and health).
When a patient is
engaged solely in
the physical
dimension, meaning
‘I am separate’, he
can bring the
knowledge as it was
the ‘single truth’
and to treat without
involvement. When
the patient rises in
the ladder to the
emotional dimension,
he brings his
knowledge as a
relative truth and
examines it versus
the patient’s
feelings. This way
empowers the patient
and allows him to
assume
responsibility on
the treatment. When
the therapist works
in the intellectual
dimension, “I am a
part”, he adjusts
the treatment to the
patient’s beliefs
and in this way the
inner forces he
recruits inner
forces for healing,
which enable a
‘quantum leap’
(Chopra, 1997) . The
quantum leap is an
inner change, which
alters the genetic
code and effects
‘spontaneous
healing’ . When the
therapist works in
the spiritual
dimension, it is as
if he were the
patient, the
illness, and the
possibilities of
healing, all one
unit. Only the
therapist’s and the
patient’s free will
are what determines
what to choose. The
ability to move
between the
dimension is what
induces the desired
miracle and it
enables the ‘quantum
leap’ and whole
healing.
A person is an
entity constructed
of four dimensions
that express the
whole. The four
dimensions express
contradictory and
complementary
desires, which
characterize
changing needs and
challenges for a
full life. The
division into four
reflects the
complete range of
life: the four
elements – air,
fire, water, earth;
the four realities –
silent growing
living speaking, the
four tasks of life –
love, career, money,
health; and the four
dimensions –
physical, emotional,
intellectual, and
spiritual. The body
is an expression of
the world of
emotion. The
emotional dimension
is an expression of
the intellectual
world (attitudes and
beliefs). The
intellectual
dimension is an
expression of the
spiritual world,
which is the ability
to define the desire
to give or receive
and to determine the
direction freely.
Every mishap or
difficulty, and
happiness and
success, in one
dimension appears in
the other ones. The
different dimensions
indicate the same
phenomenon with a
change of form –
change of form from
air to fire, and
from fire to water,
and from water to
earth. This is the
same entity that
goes up and down on
the ladder. This is
the same entity that
speaks in different
languages. The four
dimensions are one
unity that expresses
different
frequencies on the
whole human ladder.
We saw that only an
integrated action
and movement in all
four of the
dimensions is what
ensures body and
mind balance (King,
1988).
At every moment over
the course of life,
a person is found
and acts in one of
the worlds
(dimensions).
Frequently a person
acts in both or in
three or in all four
worlds (dimensions)
at the same time.
Although there is a
world (dimension) in
which the person
lives naturally, the
way to integrated
medicine is balance
among the
dimensions. A person
needs to be aware of
his desire to
receive and desire
to give in every
dimension and to
balance between the
desires. When a
person does not act
over time in one of
the four dimensions,
imbalance is
created. To restore
the balance, it is
necessary to act
opposite to the
personal nature
(movement from
bottom up); it is
necessary to change
approach and then to
change habits. At
the end of the
process of ten
stages (the
therapists circle,
discussed in the
continuation) the
reality changes.
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