Wellness is inextricably linked to ideas, which just do not correspond to the idea of wellness. You can't go and define an idea without saying, what she is not; for many ideas this is even the only possibility.
Wellness is based on a very human need, which can fulfill less and less today due to the scientific and rationalistic world: the need, to see a meaning in his life and to be able to take himself seriously as an individual.
The most important basis for most wellness ideas is of course the aforementioned dualism. Wellness as a holistic concept is not based on an image of man, which is characterized by bodily specific functions.
The modern, scientific perspective is increasingly assuming this, that man's consciousness is a certain, evolutionarily important human function.
In contrast to the animal, which requires no consciousness as humanly understood for its survival (which is shaped by reflection, situation assessments and mental processes) does man have other functions in his brain. According to science, the brain is an organ, which constructs human consciousness according to certain standards.
Let's look at this view for a moment and ponder it …
If you ask a person, what he is, so perhaps he will give the answer, he is a doctor, baker or housewife. one asks further, you will get the answer soon, that of course the job does not determine being, but only an important external necessity.
But then what is man?? Is he 1,84 big, 77 kilogram heavy, black-haired and German? Or is he Frank Müller, his parents' son?
Of course, the answer to the specificity of human existence cannot be answered by such external things. Many people will, if you keep asking them the question, get to the view, that they are not their profession, are neither her name nor her body - but what one can reduce these views to is the fact, that most people are still of the opinion, that they are the person, who thinks in her head. I am the, living in my body, this is how one can perhaps describe this view.
The need, being able to understand and define yourself is fundamentally human. You want to know, what makes you, what makes you different from other people and what makes you unique and special – the scientific image of man is increasingly unable to satisfy this need.
Let's recall the scientific view of human consciousness: consciousness is a function of the human brain. Because there is an evolutionary necessity, to perceive the world in a certain way and to process it with mental processes, this is how it happens inside the human brain - from which the conclusion follows, that that individuality, that we feel naturally in everyday life, based only on certain necessarily generated states of consciousness of the brain. The human need, to feel as an individual is dug up by this view of the ground - if that, what I perceive as my self, is just a function of my brain, what am I then? My brain?