This video is a talk by Dr.Ashok Balsekar on 17 April 2018. Topic: Total Health. This is part of the HELP Talk series at HELP, Health Education Library for People, the worlds largest free patient education library. www.healthlibrary.com

1. Dr Ashok Balsekar
MBBS;FCGP;DPC

2. Current Scenario on
Google
 TOTAL HEALTH 2013 – Your Food is Best Medicine
a) Specific diet for Intestinal Health
b) Truth about Vaccines
c) Dental Decay – How to fight
d) Free food & medicine from local food plants
e) New research in genetically modified organisms
f) Everything you wanted to know about hormoness

3. Questionnaire for Survey
 Do you practice “Total Health” in your clinic?
 If yes, how?
 If not, why not?
 Do you think it is necessary?
35 family physicians were asked, 7 responded.
All agreed we need to practice Total Health
1 said he does practice by giving advice on Lifestyle
Management
1 said she practices it somewhat
Others did not say whether they practice or not

4. What is Total Health
Indefinable
Intangible
A Feeling
A State of Mind

5. TOTAL HEALTH
 Not only Absence of Disease or Deformity
 Feeling of Well Being - Physical
- Mental
- Social
- Sexual
- Economical
- Spiritual
TOTAL HEALTH IS HAPPINESS - QOL

6. 3 States of Being
Pleasure
Happiness
Pain

7. Rules
 Law of Diminishing Returns
 Law of Rebound Pain

8. Rules
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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4
Happiness
Pain
Pleasure

9. Ecstacy
Elation
Euphoria
PLEASURE
HAPPINESS
PAIN
Depression

10. Rules

11. How to Acquire Total Health
 Keep Chronic Manageable Diseases
under control
 Diet
 Sleep
 Physical Exercise
 Mental Exercise

12. How to Acquire Total Health
(Continued)
 Mental Health
 Social Health
 Sexual Health
 Economic Health
 Spiritual Health

15. How much money do you need?

16. How to Acquire Total Health
 Listen to Good Music
 Associate with Positive People
 Give something that cannot be Returned
 Recap Happy Events of the Day

17. How to Acquire Total Health
 Do what you enjoy
 Pay for Experience, not objects
 Be like a Swan
 Commitment for Truth

18. How to Acquire Total Health
Don’t
 Try to control things/People
 Try for Others’ Appreciation
 Try to change others’ opinion or behavior
 Get Attached to Titles

19. How to Acquire Total Health
Don’t
 Let your Happiness depend on others’ Happiness
 Right v/s Happy
 Follow wrong Dieting
 Compare yourselves with others

22. Take Home Message
 Are there any Medicines to acquire
Total Health ?
 Self Awareness
--- How am I Feeling ?
--- Why ?
--- Am I happy doing what I am doing ?

23. Thank You