Become a Smarter Health Seeker:
From Evidence Based Medicine to Spirit Guided Health

by Daniel Friedland | Mar 28, 2009 02:25:00 PM

At SuperSmartHealth our mission is to empower you to become a smarter health seeker (or if you care for patients or support those who do, smarter healthcare providers and allied professionals).

We offer a Vision of SuperSmartHealth to support this mission. It rests on four principles:

1. You are the CEO of your health.
2. You define your vision for optimal health.
3. You recognize resources to support your vision.
4. You are empowered to harness resources to experience optimal health.

The fourth principle leads you to the following 3 gateways that provide knowledge, support and inspiration to empower you achieve your vision of optimal health.

In acknowledgement of “Wholeness” being the root of the word “Health,” these gateways provide a framework and resources that represent the mind, body of spirit of a system of healthcare that ideally supports the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of individual health seekers.

The gateway to Navigating the Healthcare Literature (the “mind” of health) enables you to navigate scientific uncertainty using the framework of evidence based medicine. This powerful system, which has become the standard by which health care providers make medical decisions, enables one to:

1. Frame better questions relating to one’s health concerns.
2. Find the best available scientific evidence on the Internet.
3. Evaluate scientific information to ensure it’s believable.
4. Apply this information to healthcare decisions.

While Evidence Based Medicine is immensely helpful in providing scientific answers to our health concerns, science alone is insufficient to facilitate an experience of individual or societal health and well-being. Science informs us what is likely to work, but does not convey direction, motivation, purpose or inspiration that infuse our lives with inner meaning or provider inner guidance to take wise action on what is likely to be good for us and others.

Therefore, to find a sense of balance in health (“wholeness”) both science and spirituality are vitally important. The gateway to Navigating Stress and Uncertainty – Spirit Guided Health – provides a framework for tapping into inspiration.

What has most excited me in putting this website together, and finding my own sense of wholeness, is discovering that the evidence based medicine framework used to navigate uncertainty to find external guidance in science – Frame, Find, Evaluate and Apply – can also be used to navigate personal uncertainty to find inner guidance and inspiration. As such this framework serves as a unified approach to finding scientific and spiritual answers on one’s journey to health and well-being. May we help you become a smarter health seeker and travel well!

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