This week, I want you to start merging the four quadrants of Integral Theory as they relate to you and your ideas about your health.

Write down one fact about your health from the perspective of each of the four quadrants. Make it personal to you or something that you are inclined to believe. Try to make it definitive. For instance, for quadrant one, you could say: “I have very high cholesterol levels and am therefore unhealthy.” Write something from each quadrant’s perspective.

Now, take some time to think about the way that each of these ideas stated from each quadrant has some truth (as its opposite has), but how it is insufficient on its own to explain health or the area of health that you are referring to. Consider the way that the amalgamation of your quadrant statements paints a far more well-rounded picture.

To learn the specifics of the quadrants in question and how you can best fashion these statements to try this exercise out and better understand Integral Theory, check out my second post in this three-part series.

Sara Armstrong is the owner of Zoi Wellness Consulting. In addition to wellness coaching, Sara specializes in health education seminars, diabetes prevention and management, Health for EVERY Body, and worksite wellness design. You can email Sara for a free wellness consultation at sara@zoiconsulting.com.