Have you ever wondered if there was a form of medical approach that treats your mind, body, soul, and spirit? Not just the regular what’s wrong with you, and here’s what you need to use. But a system that addresses why you feel the way you do, what led to it, and how to go about healing it. This is what a holistic health approach is all about.

This practice of working with the whole person focuses on your entire wellbeing by creating a balance in your life.

For instance, if a person suffers from an inability to sleep (insomnia), a holistic health practitioner would look at factors mitigating it. These factors include lifestyle habits such as diets, stress, personal problems, and a lot more. The treatment goal would not merely aim at giving medications, but also lifestyle modifications to avoid re-occurrence.

Principles of Holistic Health

One primary hypothesis states that: health is more than just not being sick. An individual is made up of physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual parts. To attain optimal health, each part has to work at its best, when one part isn’t, it impacts all other parts of the person.

Another example would be when an individual is anxious about a business proposal. The nervousness resulting from it could lead to a physical reaction, headache, etc.

All humans possess healing powers within, and so, a patient is viewed as a person, not a disease. In that, a symptom is a guide to the root cause that needs to be addressed. This process would involve the patient and the practitioner in a team approach.

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Treatment Approach

Treatment approach varies amidst practitioners; some complementary and alternative healthcare practices are:

• Nutritional therapy
• Chiropractic care
• Acupuncture
• Herbalism
• Yoga and meditation
• Physical therapy
• Massage therapy
• Naturopathy
• General western medicine
• Homoeopathy, and others.

The main goal is to help the patient achieve optimal wellness by being responsible for their health. By educating patients to embrace self-care and lifestyle changes, taking into account diet, exercise, talk therapy, counselling, and a lot more.

Have this at the back of your mind, it doesn’t matter the current state of your health.  You can start making healthier decisions as this is by far the most significant factor in determining wellness.

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