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In literature, a drama is a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance. Therefore, a drama performance implies at minimum a stage, an audience, a script, actors (male and/or female), and characters (roles and parts). There are different types of drama, including a comedy, tragedy, farce, melodrama, and musical drama. Drama is one of the best literary forms through which dramatists can directly speak to their readers, or the audience, and they can receive instant feedback from audiences. A few dramatists use their characters as a vehicle to convey their thoughts and values. Since drama uses spoken words and dialogues, thus language of characters plays a vital role, as it may give clues to their feelings, personalities, backgrounds, and change in feelings. (Sources: Merriam Webster and Literary Devices) After reading thi...

"Nobody heals being the same person. Healing is a journey of self-transformation!" - Mao Conclusion In part 1, the introduction, I defined what health and disease were, categorized diseases, and showed through statistics that although contagious or communicable diseases were, and still are, prevalent in low-income countries, non-contagious or non-communicable diseases are now prevalent in high income countries, including mental health disorders, which have been growing rapidly in recent decades. In part 2, the causes, I categorized and described the causes one by one. The well-known causes, including genetics, the environment, and life’s choices, are the most common used causes to explain and treat diseases and disorders by mainstream medicine while complementary and alternative medicine use the lesser-known causes, including the brain/mind, past experiences, emotions, biology, energy, and education and beliefs, in addition to the well-known causes. In part 3, I am goi...

Causes While infectious or communicable diseases are originated by some type of pathogens, or outside natural causes like bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, etc., as explained in part 1; non-infectious or non-communicable diseases are originated by one or more causes. Although Western medicine does not really have a classification for these causes, in Chinese medicine, they are classified as internal, external, and other causes that are neither internal nor external. For the purpose of this document, I will divide them into well-known and lesser-known causes. Well-known causes are the causes most used to explain and treat disease or disorders by Western mainstream medicine. Lesser-known causes are causes that are less-known, less-used or ignored by Western mainstream medicine, that are more frequently used to explain and treat disease or disorders by complementary and alternative medicine (non-mainstream doctors, alternative medicine, and holistic practitioners); and t...

Introduction Can we heal ourselves or do we need the aid of doctors, holistic practitioners, and drugs to be able to do it? Is it genetics, the environment, our way of life, and what we eat making us sick or is it us the ones that are making ourselves sick? Are we able to manifest wellness in our own body or do we need a doctor and drugs to do it? Do we have the power to make ourselves sick? If so, do we also have the power to make ourselves well? These and many other questions that we hear, and have been coming up, more and more lately all around us on TV, magazines, social media, etc.; are being asked today and are very relevant to the current evolution of the times, ourselves, medicine, and knowledge. In this article, which will be published in three parts, I will try briefly to answer many of these questions. Let’s start with the basics by defining health, disease, and the types or categories of diseases. In English, the word “disease” comes from old French, then to Middle E...