Understanding the distinctions between the wellness paradigm and the treatment paradigm is the primary ingredient in any successful wellness program. Of particular importance is differentiating between wellness and the various forms of medical treatment, not only the conventional, but also "integrative," "complementary," or "alternative" medicine - terms that are often erroneously interchanged with wellness.

Once this distinction is made it can be expanded by looking at least three dimensions along which we can study this differing approaches to health: The Illness/Wellness Continuum, the Atomistic/Holistic Continuum, and the Practitioner-/Client-Oriented Continuum. Combining these three continua produce a three-dimensional model that displays the relationships among many activities/disciplines.

Wellness Education: A New Model for Health
The Treatment Paradigm
The New Paradigm
Atomistic/Holistic Continuum
Creating a 2-D Model
The Practitioner-/Client-Oriented Continuum
The Three Dimensional Model
Populating the 3-D Model
Uses of the Model
Our Health - Who's Responsible?
Germ Theory vs Psychoneuroimmunology
Personality Types and Cancer
Mind over Matter?
How Energy Affects Health
The Healing Power of Consciousness
Creating Our Own Reality
Inner and Outer Worlds
Multiple and Relative Realities
Power-Over, Power-With
Conscious Co-Creation
Where Now?
The Victim Viewpoint Doesn't Work
Planetary Considerations
AIDS - A Metaphor of Our Times
Stress and AIDS: Potential Connections
Reflections on Self-Healing

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