What is Holistic Healing?

The term healing means “the process of becoming well again”. In 4th century BC, Socrates said that “part can never be well unless the whole is well”. If there is any imbalance in your body, healing helps in bringing it back to its natural state of wellness.Holistic healing focuses on balancing the Mind, Body, Soul and Emotions through natural, gentler ways.

It believes that all these four components are connected. Imperfection in any component can lead to an imbalance in your energies and over a period of time, in your physical body.

Modern medicine treats all these as separate branches, whereas Ancient modalities and Holistic Healing modalities believe that your well-being can be attained only when the Body, Mind and Soul are treated as interdependent and interconnected.

For example, Holistic treatment for pain would not only involve prescribing a painkiller but also do a root cause analysis of the ailment. It would aim at analysing your dietary habits, exercise, sleep patterns, psychological and emotional state, stress factors etc., and work on all these simultaneously to heal you as a whole. Results from these are seen to be more permanent in nature.

Holistic healing works on your wellness through lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, work-life balance, self-care, psychotherapy, spiritual counselling, relationship counselling, etc. If your Mind and Soul are at peace, your physical body is not too far from being healed.

To help you understand Holistic Healing that uses a combination of therapies for your mind, body & soul, given below are some classifications:

1. 1. 1. Complementary Therapies – These work together with conventional medicine
         1. a) Natural Products: such as herbs, vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, Diet & Nutrition therapies, etc.
         b) Mind and Body Practices: These are administered by a trained practitioner and include Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Theta Healing, Life Skills Coaching, Chiropractic and Osteopathic Manipulation, Acupuncture, Tai chi, Hypnotherapy, etc.

   

   1. 1. 1. Alternative Therapies – These can be used in place of conventional Therapies. They are Bach Flower Therapy, Homoeopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, etc.

   A Holistic Approach uses a combination of Therapies mentioned above to work in a holistic manner on your mind, body, soul and emotions.

   You can choose from one or more of the above to heal yourself. To explore therapies, do click on https://www.thinkliving.in/therapies/