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The Five Modalities of Optimum Health: Body, Mind, Spirit,Emotions, & the Overarch.Optimum health, wealth, and success, require peak performance, orfunctioning, in each of the five major layers of the Self whatI have come to define in my Coaching practice as the FiveModalities. There are the basic three: Mind, Body, and Spirit,that many progressive thinkers in the current medical paradigmare beginning to acknowledge and embrace. The fourth layer is the Modality of the Emotions which is asimportant as the above-mentioned three; and I coach through afifth Modality that has yet to become part of the ongoingconversation about Optimum health and success: what I refer to asthe Overarch, or Social Ecosystem.Each of us is born into a Social, or Economic Ecosystem. Thedictionary definition of an Ecosystem is: a localized groupof interdependent organisms together with the environment thatthey inhabit and depend on. So, we all enter into this worldecosystem in a particular social or economic status. And, weenter into this world as interdependent creatures. Socially,and economically, we depend on one another for survival, justas much as we depend on the earth for our food and water andother essentials.Although our social or economic status can change throughout ourlives, based on a variety of factors; the structure of theOverarch, itself, remains intact, and will continue to remainthus. It has been this way for thousands and thousands of yearsin all parts of the world.This structure is hierarchical in nature, resembling a pyramid.Those near the apex, have more control, access to resources, anddecision-making capabilities than the ones near the base. Yet,those toward the apex are only able to exist at that spot withthe support of all those that are holding them there from thebase on up. So, we all fall into position somewhere in thishierarchical pyramid structure. And, as the physical structureof a pyramid would suggest, the vast majority of the worldspopulation is closer to the base of the pyramid than the apex.Why would this be important in Optimum Health? Three reasons;the first is that the level of control over ones basicphysical survival, (in our current paradigm, this takes theform of finances and access to resources) increases as theymove toward the apex fewer people have direct influenceover major areas of a persons life the closer s/he gets tothe pinnacle.Factors such as whether a person has an income and how muchthey earn, are examples of specific areas that a person gainsincreased command over as he or she nears the top of the SocialEcosystemic pyramid. In other words, there are less peoplethat have the capacity to fire or hire you; less people whodecide how much or how little money you make; less to decidewhen you work and the terms of that work; less who decidewhether or when there is time off for family or leisure.The closer a person gets to the top of the Social Ecosystempyramid, the more control they have over their time andresources, and decision-making capacity increases dramatically.For example, heads of state have the ultimate decision-makingcapacity; the decisions they make affect the entire social andeconomic ecosystem of our pyramid. They have ultimate controlover their own finances, when and under what terms they work;access to more resources than anyone else in the Overarch; andultimate control over how much income they are able to generate(not all of it necessarily being through earned income fromtheir "job"). The same is true for others who are not headsof state, but are on par with that positioning on the pyramind.The second major reason that this Modality should be asignificant consideration in evaluating anyones capacity toachieve Optimum health and success in life is that the furtherup the pyramid they are situated, the lower their levels ofchronic stress. An overwhelming number of studies have shownthat predictability and control over ones life, ones body,ones destiny, ones finances, etc., is directly linked tostress levels; the less the amount of control, the higher thestress levels. And, levels of stress, especially chronic stresswhich is the type most common to this particular Modality, aredirectly linked to how healthy a person is in each of the otherModalities.So, our aforementioned heads of state may consider themselves tobe Optimally healthy in this Modality because of the level ofcontrol that being in their position affords them. Yet, whetheror not they are Optimally healthy in the other Four Modalities,is debatable. Depending on what ones definition of successis, having a position that affords ultimate financial controland access to resources, while having chronic ailments relatedto suppression of emotions does not make for optimum quality oflife.The third reason is that this Modality affects each of the otherfour. It has a direct relationship with the Mind, Body,Spirit, and Emotions. Some of the factors that have directbearing on where we fall in the Overarch are the social dynamicsof a particular region; economic strata; ones relationship tohis/her surroundings; and the accepted wider cultural perceptionof a person or group. Whether you are male or female, whetheryou are Asian, Latino, European, or American; whether you areconsidered Wealthy, middle class, or working class; whetheryou never finished high school, or have several post-graduatedegrees under your belt. All of these factors contribute towhere you are positioned in the Overarch. And, thatpositioning absolutely lends itself to how you are perceivedby your environment, how your enironment relates to you, andby extension, has the capacity to shape your thoughts andperceptions about yourself, your abilities, and what you areentitled to in this world. This all has a profound effect oneach of the Five Modalities.In order for Optimum success and health, one must strive to behealthy in all Five Modalities: Mind, Body, Emotions, Spirit,and the Overarch, or Social Ecosystem; creating balance, andthus, actualizing maximum potential, through placing equal weightin each Modality.

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Copyright Neesha D. Meminger, 2005. All rights reserved.About the Author:Neesha Dosanjh Meminger is an Optimum Health, Wealth, & SuccessCoach who works with people to actualize their full potentialusing the Five Modalities of Optimum Success program that shedeveloped over years of consulting and coaching. Contact her at Neesha@seeitbeit.com for a free collaborative interview.