remedies, empathy and spirituality, acupuncture, and other wellness exercises, integrative practitioners seek to elicit homeostatic responses in their patients and eventually try to recover homeostasis entirely. But wholeness is more than the return to homeostasis and ‘mindful’ pursuit: it is a profound lifestyle that wellness proponents and integrative practitioners seek themselves. Driving wholeness and holistic therapy, practitioners and holistic aficionados often employ the term ‘mindfulness’. Mindfulness originates in Buddha’s Eightfold Path of relieving dukkha, or suffering; it is one of the eight elements. Mindfulness streamlines our intentions, and then aligns our behavior with ‘rightness’. But no one knows what ‘right’ is unless it is checked and balanced by its goal—wholeness. Without this goal, mindfulness has no direction unto the lighthouse which is wholeness. Wholeness has universal qualities, and thus differs from mindfulness moralistically, because it wholly depends on the individual’s symbiotic relationship to the environment. This sometimes means not submitting or competing with the dominating mood of ‘the crowd’ but regarding and emotionally connecting with the entire picture of nature, man, and history while we consciously make decisions. In a word, to be whole means to be yourself—not trying to be anything else—thus, the best you can be. Whereas mindfulness is said by professors Ron Purser and David Loy to be a ‘quality of attention’ with wholesome intentions and a constructive mentality that lead to a flourishing environment for one and all, wholeness is both the reason and hopeful result of those good intentions and propitious mentality. Wholeness is distinct from mindfulness in that it cannot claim historical or trendy roots like the latter does in Buddhism and consumerism today. Recent books promoting Mindful Parenting, Mindful Loving, Mindful Eating, Mindful Politics, Mindful Leadership, and the Mindful Child represent the booming popularity of mindfulness, but also reinforce its divisions. The trendiness of mindfulness meditation is linked to the commercialization of it. Apart from some ashrams, monasteries, and exceptional spiritual circles, mindfulness mediation has devolved into a self-interested approach which ‘atomizes’ individuals for marketable