Margaret Newman

• health as expanding consciousness

  margaret newman
• • is the "pattern of the whole" of a person and includes disease as a manifestation of the pattern of the whole, based on the premise that life is an ongoing process of expanding consciousness (Newman, 1986).

  health
• • is both the informational capacity of the system and the ability of the system to interact ​​with its environment (Newman, 1994).

  consciousness
• • is information that depicts the whole and understanding of the meaning of all of the relationships at once (M. Newman, personal communication, 2004).
  • Characterized by movement, diversity, and rhythm and is described as a “design, or framework as seen in person-environment interactions”

  pattern
• • the “insight or recognition of a principle, realization of a truth, or reconciliation of a duality” and is “key to the process evolving to a higher level of consciousness”

  pattern recognition
• Three correlates of consciousness

  movement space time