HOLISTIC MEDICINE

There's no health without holistic medicine.

Holistic medicine is the theory and practice of healing the entire person. This a major departure from the simplistic conventional paradigm that assumes disease only resides in one part of the body or organ system. From this perspective, holistic medicine officially buries the drug-and-surgery paradigm and reserves surgery for extreme cases only. The old paradigm is now replaced with actual healing of the problem with natural means, while simultaneously creating change in the underlying dynamics that engendered the disease.

Today, the holistic paradigm is most often applied in the context of the physical body as described above (the Body aspect). But mental and emotional health can and should also be healed holistically. For example, proper cognitive function can be restored in the Mind by reactivating and fine-tuning the input-processing-output sequence. Proper emotional function can be restored in the Spirit by becoming aware of the flow of emotions and assessing the quality of feelings arising from life experiences—all without the use of psychotropic drugs or medicalization of symptoms.

Holistic medicine, if applied effectively, will change a person inside and out, including values and behaviors. Holistic transformation can be intimidating at first, but you have to trust the medicine. The phrase “returning to the source” illustrates this well. Holistic medicine will take you where you need to be, if you (or your ego) don’t interfere. Why? Because the body knows best. And this is the language that holistic medicine practitioners are trained to understand.