The Whole Human
Featured Author: Debbie Page
This was first presented July of 2018 at an Exceptional Connections event. I proudly read it aloud as I really do believe this topic is important for us as individuals as well as our business relationships.
Mereology is the theory of parthood relations: the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole. Its roots can be traced back to the early days of philosophy, beginning with the Presocratics and continuing throughout the writings of Plato and Aristotle.
Your emotional, spiritual, financial, mental, physical and relational health are all connected. If you are an emotional mess due to personal crises like divorce or death of someone important to you, what other areas are likely to be affected? Would you be distracted and miss work or business opportunities impacting your financial wellness? Might you close off and not take calls from concerned friends and colleagues affecting your relational health and well being? Mereology is the theory of parthood relations: the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole. Its roots can be traced back to the early days of philosophy, beginning with the Presocratics and continuing throughout the writings of Plato and Aristotle.
Your emotional, spiritual, financial, mental, physical and relational health are all connected. If you are an emotional mess due to personal crises like divorce or death of someone important to you, what other areas are likely to be affected? Would you be distracted and miss work or business opportunities impacting your financial wellness? Might you close off and not take calls from concerned friends and colleagues affecting your relational health and well being?
Most of us grew up to think in terms of pieces of ideas or concepts rather than integrated complete ideas and concepts.
We look at our businesses and our selves as if each is separate from the other rather than totally intertwined. We believe we can take things apart into small pieces and deal with these small pieces in isolation of the complete situation.
This fragmented approach has lead us to look at our personal and professional well being in a compartmentalized manner rather than as a whole.
Many believing business is business and personal is personal and never the two shall meet. Once upon a time that too was me. Isolating my emotional, spiritual, financial, mental, physical and relational wellness, viewing each as completely unrelated. Not understanding or appreciating the power that lied within the area where they all met.
By separating these aspects of ourselves into individual boxes and giving specific times to attend to each, occasionally or infrequently and rarely considering how each is connected and where we’ve tricked ourselves into believing we are tending to our whole self. When in fact we are simply looking at the Pieces.
Church on Sunday - spiritual health -
Therapist on Tuesday - emotional and mental health -
Meet with CPA Quarterly - financial health -
Exercise Daily - physical health -
Meet friend for dinner - relational health -
But what if you examined how each of these areas affects us personally and professionally, how they affect our behavior, success and fulfillment.
Our physical body, emotion, mind, energy body and soul together form the whole human. It is only by dealing with each part of the whole within the whole, that we can have personal and professional success.
All organs, systems, thoughts, emotions, have their own specific energy or vibration. Therefore what we feel, what we think, what we eat and drink, what we do and do not do, even what we daydream about, has a direct effect on our whole self.
Have you ever stopped to consider how the separateness you create actually undermines your progress, your performance and your ability to be fulfilled personally and professionally?
What if you applied mereology to the six elements in your life and nurtured them into a greater and more whole you?
How you attend to those parts in relation to your whole self impacts you in ways that are great and small.
If the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, why do we as humans keep separate the parts that make us whole?
A person divided against themself cannot succeed.
If the saying goes, we can do more together than separate - then why continue addressing these six elements individually rather than collectively?
What if your whole human came together. What if spiritual you came to play with financial you? What if mental you had some tips for physical you?
In order to feel truly alive and open to all opportunities and be able to receive the success we seek, we must look carefully at our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, financial and relational health. Identifying our shortcomings and making changes so that we are truly vibrating and performing at the highest level while savoring each precious success.
About the Author: Debbie Page
Debbie Page is an internationally recognized and award winning entrepreneur, business strategist, Fractional COO and advocate for women’s economic independence. She is recognized as the leading authority on cash flow for women in business.
For more than twenty-five years Debbie has worked with women and money and during that time has acquired, scaled and sold two businesses of her own. Her clients achieve stunning success because of her commitment to accountability, execution and the systems and processes that create sustainable and scalable businesses.
When not working with her clients, Debbie is an active volunteer in her community; is the Chair of LifeCenter Northwest's Advisory Board, Chair of Black Diamond Labor Days, President of the Friends of the Black Diamond Library, a current city council member in Black Diamond and was just named the 2023 Citizen of the Year by her community. Debbie is the proud pet parent to her enthusiastic and lovable Black Labs - she refers to as The Muppets.
