What is Holistic health?

Taking into account the entire Mind, Body and Spiritual life, HOLISTIC comes from the word meaning 'whole'-'complete' and is used to discribe a more natural approach to health and encourage you to explore your life and experience Holistic Healing as part of your health promoting goals.

Alternative and holistic medicine is to facilitate the natural healing therapy's to help your body's natural healing process.

It can be a combination of eating good healthy food, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, regular moderate exercise, relaxation, meditation, and breathing exercises.

There are so many techniques being taught in a variety of contexts, by holistic practioners, not only for physical health, but also for psychological inquiry towards mental health and well being.

Sress management is very often used in spas in Mind/Body treatments, and in teaching clients how to impliment these techniques into their everyday life as preventative self- treatments. Sometimes even for their own spiritual purposes as well. All part of a plan to re-unite Mind, Body and Spirit.
   

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 Focused attention on applying RELAXATION METHODS, as a natural approach to inner beauty can also aid in the effects of not only FEELING more beautiful but also LOOKING more beautiful! We call this a 'holistic approach' to BEAUTY. Which we also call Holistic Health.

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The connection between Health and Spirituality-

Spirituality: A Clinical Definition

In 1999, the Association of American Medical Colleges Medical School Objectives Report III (pdf) defined Spirituality as follows:

Spirituality is recognized as a factor that contributes to health in many persons. The concept of spirituality is found in all cultures and societies. It is expressed in an individual’s search for ultimate meaning through participation in religion and/or belief in God, family, naturalism, rationalism, humanism and the arts. All these factors can influence how patients and health care professionals perceive health and illness and how they interact with one another.

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I found the following on the Holistic Health Phreak's Site. It all makes so much sense to me. What would a health system be like that followed these precepts?

1. Holistic physicians embrace a variety of safe, effective options in the diagnosis and treatment, including a) education for lifestyle changes and self-care, b) complementary alternatives and c) conventional drugs and surgery.

2. Searching for the underlying causes of disease is preferable to treating symptoms alone.

3. Holistic physicians expend as much effort in establishing what kind of patient has a disease as they do in establishing what kind of disease a patient has.

4. Prevention is preferable to treatment and is usually more cost-effective. The most cost-effective approach evokes the patient's own innate healing capabilities.

5. Illness is viewed as a manifestation of a dysfunction of the whole person, not as an isolated event.

6. A major determinant of healing outcomes is the quality of the relationship established between physician and patient, in which patient autonomy is encouraged.

7. The ideal physician-patient relationship considers the needs, desires, awareness and insight of the patient as well as those of the physician.

8. Physicians significantly influence patients by their example.

9. Illness, pain and the dying process can be learning opportunities for patients and physicians.

10. Holistic physicians encourage patients to evoke the healing power of love, hope humor and enthusiasm, and to release the toxic consequences of hostility, shame, greed, depression and prolonged fear, anger and grief.

11. Unconditional love is life's most powerful medicine. Physicians strive to adopt an attitude of unconditional love for patients, themselves and other practitioners.

12. Optimal health is much more than the absence of sickness. It is the conscious pursuit of the highest qualities of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of the human experience.