According to Osho, holistic health is the harmony of body, mind, and soul—one integrated well-being spanning the physical, psychological, and spiritual. It is not mere bodily fitness or mental prowess, but wholeness: undivided, in tune, meditative and joyous. In the holistic person, Zorba and Buddha unite; hedonism and spirituality merge, creating a balanced, vibrant, and conscious life.
Keep your body, mind, and spirit healthy and working together so you feel whole and peaceful.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
What does holistic health mean?
Man can be divided, just for this explanation, into three parts: the body, the mind, the soul. If all the three are perfectly in tune and there is a well-being in all the three, it becomes one well-being of the total organism -- from the physical, psychological, to the spiritual. Then it is holistic health. The whole of your being has to be healthy. There are people with healthy bodies like Muhammad Ali, but these people don't have any sense of something beyond mind. They have trained their bodies; their bodies are perfect animals. Their minds are not so evolved. No Bertrand Russell will be ready for boxing; the whole idea is ugly, it is barbarous. Their bodies are in health, and strong, but just like animals. Their minds are very retarded; otherwise they would not be in such an ugly and violent profession. There is no question of their…
And remember that life is already there, manifested. There is nothing hidden in it. In Zen they say that nothing is hidden from the very beginning, but people are trying to find it -- and it is just in front of the eyes. The meaning is here in these trees, in the life of these insects, in this railway engine, in you and me. The meaning is here. [In speaking of T'ai Chi, Osho said... ] The idea is to concentrate on the chi energy in the hara. The effort is to conserve energy that is not available to anyone else, inside a citadel in your being. It is available when you need it and it makes you tremendously powerful. [Osho went on to say that once one had accumulated energy, it then has to be shared.
In truth, the notion of two — duality — has harmed humanity much. We always thought in the language of twoness, and trouble followed. We used to think: matter and energy. Now we do not. We no longer say matter is separate and energy is separate. Now we say, matter is energy. In fact even saying ‘matter is energy’ is not quite right — old language hinders. There is something, X, which at one pole appears as matter and at the other as energy. They are not two. They are two ends of one energy, one existence. Exactly so are man’s body and soul two ends of one existence. Disease can begin from either end. It may start at the bodily end and reach to the soul. Whatever happens to the body — its vibrations, its waves — are heard by the soul.
Osho, what is the relationship between meditation and patience?
If you sit to meditate to remove mental restlessness, you will keep looking back again and again: “Has it gone yet?” And the irony is that when you begin to meditate, restlessness will increase. Because what has been repressed will start surfacing; catharsis will begin. The rubbish you have kept hidden within and never allowed to express—meditation will break open those doors too. It will clean the house. Dust piled up for years, for births, will rise again; there will be gusts and storms. For a while even the little peace you had will be lost. Then you will panic: “I came for peace, and even what I had is gone.” Without patience, you could even become unhinged, because meditation brings such a great storm. The disease is not from a day or two; it’s from lifetimes. Meditation will break through all the layers to reach your innermost core. In…
A friend has asked: what is the relation between meditation and jati-smaran, past life remembering?
When one succeeds in recalling past lives and they begin to appear like dreams, immediately one's present life begins to look like a dream too. Those who have called this world maya have not done so just to propound a doctrine of philosophy. Jati-smaran -- recalling past lives -- is at the base of it. Whosoever has remembered his past lives, for him the whole affair has suddenly turned into a dream, an illusion. Where are his friends of past lives? Where are his relatives, his wife and children, the houses he lived in? Where is that world? Where is everything he took to be so real? Where are those worries that gave him sleepless nights? Where are those pains and sufferings that seemed so insurmountable, that he carried like a dead weight on his back? And what became of the happiness he longed for? What happened to everything he…