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Holistic Health With Preventative Healing

By Veronica Tripplethorn

The practice of holistic health care is a system of health care that gets away from the ideas of the natural sciences and focuses more on healing the body, mind and spirit or, in other words, the person as a whole.

This is an all natural and alternative approach to staying healthy. It examines the environment around a person and whether it is in balance with that person’s body. Diagnosis and treatment are done through both conventional and non-conventional methods.

Biofeedback involves learning to increase one’s ability to control their biological responses. These can include blood pressure, muscle tension and heart rate. Traditional methods of indication are used to measure these responses and to make the needed changes apparent to the patient.

Strict Eating And Drinking Requirements

While surgery and prescription drugs are generally avoided, patients interested in holistic health are encouraged to practice self healing techniques. These techniques include strict eating and drinking regiments and regulations (ex. organic foods and mega vitamins), as well as addressing habits that affect one’s health, such as a poor diet, smoking, alcohol intake and stress.

Guided imagery is the use of the mind/body connection. Thinking or imagining positive images and conditions helps to bring about positive and desired changes. Homeopathy is the use of hypnosis to affect positive changes in a person’s behavior and well-being.

Study Of Muscle Movement

Applied Kinesiology is the study of muscle movement and the use of muscles as a feedback instrument to indicate the internal state of the body’s energy system. Pressure or stimulation is applied to known energy points on the body to help balance energy flow and bring the body itself into better balance.

Traditional holistic health techniques, such as chiropractic care, massage therapy, aromatherapy and reflexology all promote healing from within the body. Correcting misalignments of the spine can help the brain to, once again, accurately send signals to the body and promote healthy functioning of the nervous system, both of which assist the body in fighting disease.

Aromatherapy Combined With Massage Therapy

Along with producing a sense of calm and relaxation, massage therapy can stimulate the body’s natural impulse to heal itself. When used in combination with aromatherapy, it can produce both physical and emotional responses. Applying pressure to specific areas of the hands and feet result in increased circulation, deeper relaxation and produces a deep sense of contentment.

This list is not all-inclusive. It should be noted this is not occasional intervention, as is most conventional medicine. Holistic health is a natural lifestyle that focuses on sustained maintenance.

Preventative Healing

The emphasis, for those practicing the holistic approach, is to review your options with preventative healing, not curing. This approach to healthcare is not recommended for infectious diseases, trauma, structural damage, organ failure or acute conditions.

It is best relied on for degenerative, chronic stress and lifestyle disorders, toxemia, glandular weakness, systemic imbalances and immunity.

Please Note: All information given on this site is for general information purposes and is not to replace any medical opinion or medical diagnosis given by a qualified medical doctor, a dietitian/nutritional expert or any other medical expert, as individual circumstances may vary. Please see your medical doctor, before any action is taken to alleviate symptoms.

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About the Author:
Veronica Tripplethorn is an author of health, nutrition, dieting and weight loss articles including Massage Therapy, Massages, Aromatherapy Massage, Hollywood 48-Hour Miracle Diet.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles coming soon.

More Facts About Holistic Therapies

What is holistic?
Holistic means something as a whole. It could be holism in theology or even holism in economics. It simply means that some things cannot be explained by its parts and must be understood by its whole.

Most people associate the term ‘holistic’ through its use in alternative medicine practices. But you should know that it does apply to more than just medicine and your body.