What is Holistic Healing
Holistic healing means taking an holistic approach when seeking treatment for imbalances and choosing to live a more balanced lifestyle. What primarily distinguishes holistic healing apart from alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and integrative medicine is that physical health is not necessarily the main focus. Even so, it is often the experience of physical discomfort that will first prompt a person's pursuit of holistic healing.
It is true that our pains and other physical discomforts demand our attention. This is where the saying "sticking out like a sore thumb'" originated from. It is difficult to ignore the obvious when we are physically hurting. Common sense tells us that we should seek help to alleviate our discomforts. Holistic healing is not an "alternative" to conventional medical care. Sometimes going to a medical professional is the best solution to addressing a dis-ease.
Physical illnesses are the symptoms of a greater imbalance that may or may not have a root cause in the physical.
Holistic, or "wholistic", healing is distinguished by its consideration of all parts of the individual - not just the obvioius material and physical aspects of a person - when dealing with life challenges such as illness.
All aspects of a person (mind, body, spirit, emotion, environment, etc.) are considered when an holistic treatment is sought. The holistic healer looks at the "whole person" and does not generally work directly with symptoms in isolation like a medical doctor.
There are many different ways of approaching holistic healing, but all the different alternative medicine and complementary health modalities have certain things in common. For one, most holistic health techniques include a focus on lifestyle, particularly diet, sleep, and exercise habits.
There are many other terms for holistic healing that mean the same thing; a few of these include:
- Alternative Health
- Complementary Medicine
- Alternative Medicine
- Traditional Eastern Medicine
- Complementary Alternative Medicine
- Integrative Medicine
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Other examples of popular holistic healing, alternative medicine, and complementary medicine are:
