title: [Huan-Ting: the core of holistic health].
abstract: The holistic person encompasses the body, mind and spirit. The core of holistic health is Huan-Ting, the "inner source of the heart" - a term used to describe the mind and spirit. The heart is the repository of feelings in the human body, the source of feelings of joy, pain, excitement, desire, anxiety, and soon. These feelings are the essence of life. Many people want to take a closer look at these feelings in order to better understand or to cleanse them. But where in our heart should we look? Modern science anticipates that all phenomena in our bodies must have an exact location. A dentist, for example, must find the location of a toothache. Otherwise, how can he or she treat it? Likewise, when we have pain or anxiety in our heart, it should also be associated with a precise position. One Buddhist saying claims that "Buddhism points to one's heart" while another states that, "the heart is everywhere." They seem to contradict each other. Are they talking about the same thing? On the road to find the inner source of the heart, are we overlooking something that makes finding it even more difficult? The purpose of the paper is to reveal and better understand "Huan-Ting", the core of health of body-mind-spirit health.
authors.affiliation: Chunglingshan Chan Centre, ROC. a2178840@ms71.hinet.net
authors.forename: Ching-Hisang
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical