Did you know? Did you know that people have a strange attitude about those in the healing arts that they should all do their work for free and not have material success? There is a huge disconnect and irony in peoples understanding in my little opinion. It seems that only people that hurt others by selling garbage food, alcohol, drugs, toxic entertainment, and other destructive goods are allowed (in many people's minds) to get rich. True healers that actually help people deeply on any number of levels are somehow expected to work for free and live in poverty. It is unfortunate that this attitude is so pervasive. It should actually be the opposite! People that make the world a better and more peaceful and harmonious place should be the most successful on all levels... and those greedy ones that poison others or are party to it should be paupers. Of course material success is not true wealth anyway... health obviously is! But my point still stands!
Think about it, if doctors actually healed people instead of mostly attempting to relieve their symptoms, the drug and insurance companies would suffer huge losses. A holistic healing approach is focused on the wellness of the whole person and that is the #1 priority, symptoms are of least importance, for when optimal health is recovered the symptoms go away by themselves.
There are two basic opposing viewpoints concerning health and disease and they've been at odds since ancient times. The conventional view, called Allopathic (literally, “other disease”) sees problems coming from outside the body. More simply; the cause of disease comes from the outside, then invades and attacks the body and the person gets "sick." This is also referred to as the "Germ Theory". Allopathic philosophy declares that when the body has any symptoms, like pain, fever, nausea, etc. that means the person has caught some sort of bug, or disease and needs to have these symptoms “treated” (i.e., covered up). Usually drugs are prescribed to accomplish this. If the disease localizes itself in one certain part of the body and becomes chronic (it won't go away), then oftentimes it is recommended that that part of the body may have to be cut out (using a surgical procedure). That's the allopathic viewpoint and its logical progression is: disease, symptoms, drugs, surgery.
There are two basic opposing viewpoints concerning health and disease and they've been at odds since ancient times. The conventional view, called Allopathic (literally, “other disease”) sees problems coming from outside the body. More simply; the cause of disease comes from the outside, then invades and attacks the body and the person gets "sick." This is also referred to as the "Germ Theory". Allopathic philosophy declares that when the body has any symptoms, like pain, fever, nausea, etc. that means the person has caught some sort of bug, or disease and needs to have these symptoms “treated” (i.e., covered up). Usually drugs are prescribed to accomplish this. If the disease localizes itself in one certain part of the body and becomes chronic (it won't go away), then oftentimes it is recommended that that part of the body may have to be cut out (using a surgical procedure). That's the allopathic viewpoint and its logical progression is: disease, symptoms, drugs, surgery.
Thankfully, the holistic point of view is different. Holistic philosophy says that both the cause and cure of all disease lie within the body. The parts of the body are interrelated in ways that are so complex, so sophisticated, so elegantly orchestrated and exquisitely tuned, that, as Deepak Chopra says, "...all medical technology has only the crudest, faintest understanding of just a few basic mechanisms. In most cases, the body can heal itself if provided with the opportunity. It does this from the inside out - from the brain and spinal cord, outward through the nervous system, to every organ, and cell. For every time you have ever been sick, there have been hundreds of times when your immune system has conquered a disease without any overt symptoms being expressed. The mysteries of the body - its inner workings - are actually the most evolved systems in the universe. We are dealing with the life forces, the life substances - that which can never be viewed in dissection or isolated in laboratory culture. To influence these subtle, delicate interweavings, natural cures seek to nourish and encourage the body back into a condition of balance, by gentle support."
The bottom line is: Holistic and natural methods say the body can usually heal itself. Allopathic medicine says it can’t, and that it requires powerful interventions. Allopathic advocates are constantly proclaiming that they “understand” the body well enough to chemically take control “for that body's own good.” ...Unfortunately our disease statistics prove otherwise. Everyone knows that incidences of cancer continue to be on the rise. Multiple studies have documented the increase in many other major chronic diseases in the last 30 years, telling some shocking stories about infant mortality as well.
We all have to choose for ourselves; a quick fix to relieve symptoms, or a lifestyle change that promotes health and prevents disease.
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