Integrated Health: a conversation with Ben Calder

Ben is the founder and primary practitioner at the Centre for Integral Health in the town of Shrewsbury in England where he helps clients with Kinesiology, Bowen technique, Access bars, Nutrition advice, NLP, qigong, Allergy testing, meditation and Mcloughlin scar tissue release.  We talk about how to approach integrating the health of our body, heart, mind and spirit. Ben has been practicing Qigong for 30 years, is a long time meditator and has been a professional kinesiologist for 18 years. In this conversation we focus in particular on nutrition, epigenetics, the relationship between the practitioner and client, the importance of flow, how spiritual bypassing can ignore health, and how to stay sane and healthy during coronavirus lockdowns. For more information about Ben’s work please visit https://bencalder.co.uk For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

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Spiritual practice, like everything else in life, is evolving. What does this mean? By ‘Spiritual Practice’ I mean any activity that expands your sense of identity, for example meditation, contemplative philosophy, prayer, yoga, martial arts, psychedelics, transpersonal psychotherapy, fasting, visualisation, lucid dreaming, conscious parenting, forgiveness and much more. By ‘Evolving’ I mean that everything develops and adapts over time. Most of the spiritual traditions that have spawned these transformational practices emerged hundreds and often thousands of years ago in the pre-modern era. Modernity (rationality and science) and post-modernity (cultural diversity and the information age) are hugely influential historical periods that have happened since then, and I believe that contemporary spiritual practice needs to integrate the insights of these two worldviews as well as the premodern in order to keep being relevant and adaptive in a changing world.