Whole Health

This video examines the Well-Being Programs aspect of the Whole Health System model. Well-Being programs rely on self-care (the components of personalized, proactive care) and may be complemented by community classes and integrative health clinics at VA facilities.

Veterans explore their mission, aspiration, and purpose, and begin developing their overarching personal health plan to help their take charge of their health and well-being and to live their life to the fullest.

In this video, Veterans talk about the rewarding role as a Whole Health Peer Facilitator. In this win-win situation, giving back to other Veterans helps empower and inspire Veterans to discover what matters most.

Describes empowering partnerships between patient and provider, which allows the patient to discover what matters to them.

Veterans and VA providers talk about the process of using the whole health system approach in a clinical setting. Both perspectives address the need to achieve good health outcomes as well as prioritizing what matters most to patients.

Veterans talk about the Whole Health approach and why discovering what matters most improves their health and well-being.

Veterans who are serving as Whole Health Peer Facilitators, supporting their fellow Veterans in achieving their goals as they explore what matters most to them. See how the VA's Whole Health System is empowering, equipping, and treating Veterans based on the priorities.

Whole health, also known as "Personalized, Proactive, Patient-driven Care," is an approach to health care that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and to live their life to the fullest. The Whole Health System includes conventional treatment, but also focuses on self-empowerment, self-healing, and self-care.

This videos discusses personal health planning in relation to a whole health journey.

Describes the notion of whole health and how it can be beneficial to and individual.

Discusses how to incorporate whole health into personal health care management.

Motivates an individual to invest in whole health circle.

Discusses being fully aware and in tune with ones environment.

This narrated video demonstrates meditation, a practice that relaxes the body and calms the mind.

How do we learn to be present? One way is to create a regular routine that includes breathing and meditation. This #livewholehealth session is a 22-minute breathing practice led by Reverend Tim Burnett. Using the breath as our steady companion, we can practice becoming aware of what is happening in the now - getting in touch with the mind and the body.

Progressive Muscle Relaxations is an excellent way to bring peacefulness into your body and mind, regardless of your physical limitations or experience. Both our bodies and our minds can benefit from PMR because it gives your mind something to focus on as you treat your body to a tension-releasing practice.

Goes over the importance of moving even when disabled (e.g. chair yoga).

This narrated video demonstrates the practice of qi gong, a type of mind-body medicine that combines movement, meditation and regulation of breathing.

This video provides footage of an instructor leading a tai chi class and demonstrating tai chi movements.

The following video is intended to be an educational tool that features tai chi and qi gong.

The video features information on what changes occur in the body during yoga, the safety of the practice of yoga, and what the research says about whether it can help treat certain health problems. This is the second installment in NCCAM's The Science of Mind and Body Therapies video series.

Discusses personal environments and how to adjust them to be better for physical and emotional health.

Goes over how to reevaluate your values and provides examples on how to better yourself through creating stronger values.

Discusses maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet.

The importance of sleep-quantity and quality-and how it affects everyday life.

The importance of creating healthy relationships in different dynamics of life.

Spirituality in terms of providing sense, meaning, and purpose.

Discusses mindfulness in regards to how we approach different aspects of life. Quality is not determined by circumstances, but by outlook.

Encourages people to reach out. It is difficult to acknowledge one's own conflicts.