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1、.word可编辑.Lesson 27Interviewer: I understand youre interested in holistic medicine. Can you explain what holistic medicine is? Vivienne: OK. Holistic medicine, um, takes into consideration the whole of the person. Now what this means in, in most holistic systems is regarding the person as a physical
2、entity, a mental or emotional person, and also even their spiritual side of them. Um, it also includes looking at the body as a whole rather than looking at individual parts of the body, and as a way of explaining this, we could look at conventional medicine as producing people who are like a cardio
3、logist, who looks at a heart, um, a brain specialist, a person who deals with bones, er, etc. So what weve tended to do in conventional medicine is break things down to a point where were actually only looking at one part of the person and were not actually relating terribly well that part to the re
4、st of the body, whereas holistic medicine insists that if there is a problem, er, with your right foot, that is going to somehow, um, affect your entire body. Interiewer: Um, your speciality is acupuncture. Er, is that a part of holistic medicine? Vivienne: Acupuncture is very much a holistic system
5、. Um, traditionally the Chinese regarded the person very much as a whole entity and acupuncture itself works on an energy system basically, and in a very simplified way, its saying that, er, you have an energy system within your body and when that energy becomes blocked or tainted in some way, then
6、you will manifest certain symptoms and the things that we look at in conventional medicine as things like arthritis or rheumatism are, to the Chinese, merely an imbalance of the energy. So, in this way, they may say to you, well, yes, you have rheumatoid arthritis but were going to actually look at
7、your energy balance and rebalance you, and, as a result, your symptoms should disappear. Interviewer: Um, is acupuncture essentially a form of preventative medicine? Vivienne: Traditionally, it was, very much. Um, in fact, traditionally, in China, people only used to pay the doctor while they were w
8、ell and they used to go to their doctor fairly regularly on, you know, maybe four or five times a year, and they would only pay the doctor when they were kept well. And if they got sick, they didnt pay the doctor. And the doctor had various methods of which acupuncture was one, diet was another, exe
9、rcise was another, er, of ensuring that the person lived a right life style and their emphasis was on if youre living a right life style, if youre living in tune with the laws of the universe, going to sleep when its dark, waking up when its light, working, resting, doing all these things properly,
10、then you wont get sick. Unfortunately, our way of looking at life in the West is very different in that we tend to struggle on in spite of our headache and not take terribly much notice of our body when things are not quite right and we tend to struggle on until we fall over and we get carted off to
11、 hospital in an ambulance. And so, acupuncture in the West, unfortunately, in a way, has come to be not the preventative medicine that it could be because were not taking responsibility enough for ourselves in going along and making sure that we stay well.Janice: So you really believe that clothes c
12、arry a kind of message for other people and that what we put on is in some way a reflection of what we feel? Pauline: Oh yes, very much so. People are beginning now to take seriously the idea of a kind of psychology of clothing, to believe that there is not just individual taste in our clothes but a
13、lso a thinking behind what we wear which is trying to express something we may not even be aware of ourselves. Janice: But surely this has always been the case. We all dress up when we want to impress someone, such as for a job interview with a prospective employer; we tend to make an effort and put
14、 on something smart. Pauline: True, but thats a conscious act. What Im talking about is more of a subconscious thing. Take for example the student who is away from home at college or university: if he tends to wrap himself up more than the others, this is because he is probably feeling homesick. Sim
15、ilarly, a general feeling of insecurity can sometimes take the form of over-dressing in warmer clothes than are necessary. Janice: Can you give any other examples of this kind? Pauline: Yes. I think people who are sociable and outgoing tend to dress in an extrovert way, preferring brighter or more d
16、azzling coloursyellows, bright reds, and so on. In the same way, what might be seen as a parallel with the animal kingdom, aggressive clothes might indicate an aggressive personality or attitude to life. Think about the threat displays used by animals when they want to warn off opponents. Janice: Do you think the careor lack of itover the way we actually wear our clothes has anything to tell us? Pauline: Yes, indeed. The l
