Energy Enhancement GLOSSARY

TERM	MEANING
Holistic Health	Health and Understanding in every area of our life. Represented by the seven center system.
Egotism	A mentally deluded sense of separation from the Unity and Community of All Life. The collected influence on our personality of ignorance, selfishness, pride, arrogance, and vice.
Vice	Holistic disease and delinquency. Harmful behavior that stems from ignorance, inconsideration of others, and selfishness.
Virtue	Holistic health and strength. Good and benevolent holistic behavior.
Chakra/Center	An area of life activity.
Holistic Life Management	The conscious management and development of every area of our life.
Generic	Common to all.
Asana	A hatha yoga posture
Sadhana	Study, methods, procedures, techniques and practices that assist us to create and maintain holistic health.
Activity	Work, rest, play, learn, improve.
Paradigm	A definite system/idea/view/model of life.
Idolatry/Iconolatry	To give precedence to a system of symbolic structure rather than that which the structure actually stands for. The concept of giving worship to icons or images is called iconolatry. However, the term "idolatry" only rarely refers to the worshipping of physical idols.
Neurotic	Refers to any mental disorder or unsuccessful coping strategy that, although may cause distress, does not interfere with rational thought or the persons' general ability to function. The person with neurotic problems is usually aware that something is wrong and is usually happy to seek assistance, this is in contrast to psychosis which refers to more severe disorders.
Psychotic	A generic psychiatric term for mental states in which the components of rational thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychosis may experience hallucinations, hold delusional beliefs (e.g.paranoid delusions), demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is often accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of such behavior, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily living. A psychotic episode is often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". Psychosis can be a feature of several diseases, often when the brain or nervous system is directly affected. However, the fact that psychosis can occasionally arise in parallel with a number of ailments (including diseases such as flu or mumps for example) suggests that a variety of nervous system stressors can lead to a psychotic reaction. Psychosis arising from non-psychiatric conditions is sometimes known as 'secondary psychosis'. The mechanisms by which this happens is still not clear, but the non-specificity of psychosis has led Tsuang and colleagues to argue that "psychosis is the 'fever' of mental illness�a serious but nonspecific indicator."
Dogma	Belief or doctrine held by a religion or any kind of organization to be authoritative. Evidence, analysis, or established fact may or may not be adduced, depending upon usage.
Projection	Projecting our own issues and problems upon an outer source; people, places, or things. Attributing to others those aspects of ourselves that we wish to deny. This neurotic social technique often leads to inappropriate feelings of resentment and blame aimed at the object of our projection.
Transference	Transferring a problem or an issue from it's original source onto another person, place, or things.
Civilization	A standard of social behavior. "Civilized" behavior is contrasted with "barbaric" or crude behavior. In this sense, civilization implies maturity, consideration, responsibility, compassion, sophistication and refinement.
Psychosomatic	Physical symptoms or disease that has it's cause in mental or emotional disturbance/stress.
Grief	Emotional, mental, and physical response to the loss of a loved one via separation, divorce, or death.
Pride (self-righteousness)	An arrogant, egotistical, self-righteousness that unnaturally inflates a person's sense of self-importance.
Arrogance	Self-righteousness that makes us "feel right" even if our attitude and behavior is inconsiderate and uncivilized.
Ignorance	Not knowing. Removed by education - the process of learning.
Attitude	The manner in which we live our life.
Assumption	A conclusion not based on research or fact.
Nihilism	Rejection of moral principles. Uncaring, barbaric, inconsiderate of others, selfish, uncivilized. An attitude of "nothing matters so I can do what I like without responsibility or consideration of others."
God	That aspect of life which you treasure the most, which symbolizes your highest principles and ethics. A label for "The Totality of Existence."
The herd/the mob	The tendency for people to form self-righteous groups and to behave from the values and beliefs of these groups. The individual projects all responsibility for their actions upon the group in an attempt to escape the consequences of these actions.
Value judgement/prejudice/judgementalism	To attribute a value (a quality) to a person or thing that is only based upon opinion and is without substantiated fact.