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CHAPTER
16
HEALTHY BEHAVIOR:
THE IMPLICATIONS OF A
HOLISTIC PARADIGM OF
THINKING THROUGH
BODYMIND RESEARCH
D ON R EAD
W ALT S TOLL
I t seems not so long ago (1985) that one of the authors of this article and Robert D.
Russell debated “ Is Behavior Change an Acceptable Objective for Health Educators? ”
The debate, if held today [1998], would most certainly be focused on a transcendent
step beyond into causation: “ Is Behavior Determined on a ‘ Physical ’ or ‘ Mental ’ Basis,
or a Combination of Both? ”
It is only now that global communication and technological process have begun to
bring East and West together, while substantiating the unexplained observations from
both East and West, that we are beginning to glimpse that “ undiscovered country ” and
“ the astonishing hypothesis ” so well stated by the wise men of our age.