Natural Health

Natural Health: natural health covers many treatments and techniques mentioned elsewhere on this site. These include; Acupressure , Acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Apitherapy, Aromatherapy, Aura Soma, Ayurveda, Bach Flowers, Biofeedback, Breathing Relaxation, Breathwork, Chelation Therapy, Chinese Medicine, Chiropractic, Clay Therapy, Color Photostimulation, Cranial Osteopathy, Dreamwork, Exercise, Feldenkrais, Feng Shui Gemstones, Guided Imagery, Healing Humor, Herbology, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, Iridology, Kinesiology, Leech Therapy, Lightstreams: Gemstones, Macrobiotic, Magnetic Therapy, Massage: Swedish, Massage: Shiatsu, Massage: On site/chair, Massage: Polarity Therapy, Massage: Myofascia, Meditation, Meditation: Transcendental, Music Therapy, Naturopathy, Nutrition, Pranic Healing, QiGong, Reflexology, Reiki, Rolfing, Tai Chi Chuan, Therapeutic Touch, Transcendental Meditation, Trager and Yoga.

Orthodox Medical doctors treat an illness while viewing the body as a mechanism regulated by scientific law. Once the ilnness has been identified it is treated, mainly by the use of chemical drugs, and onmce the illness is gone the patient is considered cured. Rather differently natural health treats the human body, and illness, in a holistic way treating the body as a holistic organism controlled, and influenced by, our minds. A well body is considered a well balanced body whereas a body which is ill is considered to be unbalanced. The way to then treat the illness is to remove this imbalance and restore the body to full health.

In natural health the mind is considered to play a crucial and inseperable role in restoring health. All external factors are considered before a complete assessment of the body is made. This approach seems far more logical to the almost old-fashioned view, that these factors do not influence our health. In recent years orthodox medical practioners have started to consider external factors and the effects upon the body. Stress appears to be a major influence in our health and it is now common to hear people say something along the lines of"this damn cold, I had it coming though, I was really run down after a heavy week in the office".

Natural Health is also refered by many as alternative health, holistic health, alternative medicine and natural medicine. However all of these titles refer to the group of treatments and techniques mentioned at the top of this article. As mentioned in other areas of this site I have had some experience of these treatments and, in each and every case, I have gained benefit from their use. However I have never used hypnotherapy as a form of treatment but, in my distant past, I had great fun hypnotising folk for the entertainment of myself, friends and others. I was continually amazed at the power of this technique and the anaesthetic properties blew everyone's minds but I never once considered a practical use for it. That is until I started to be asked by people if I would help them.

Using only books from the local library I read up a little more about hynotherapy and other natural health techniques. I then decided that I would give it a try. At first it was little things that really couldn't be measured. I helped one guy improve his darts game, he was really very good but every time he entered a competition his nervousness destroyed his game, after the hypnosis sessions he said that his game had improved greatly. I then helped a couple of people stop smoking but I then began to realise just how powerful hypnosis was and how foolish I had been in using it for entertainment without training. Furthermore I decided that if I wanted to help more people I would have to get training. I made a few enquiries and I was approached by another friend whose brother had been educated and suggested a college. I phoned them and they explained that I would soon be able to supplement my income while studying by treating people. Then they hit me with the big one - it was going to take YEARS to become fully qualified to their standards! No wonder they had such a good reputation but I am afraid that I could just not face it so I never did hypnosis again. However, over the years, I have learnt to respect those who offer this service and I sometimes get frustrated with the attitude of other, small minded, people who scoff at it. Like many areas of natural health hypnotherapy still struggles to get complete acceptance in modern orthodox medicine.

If you are interested in finding out more abnout natural health I would strongly suggest that you purchase a book by Dr. Andrew Weil, "Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health" (see below for further details). This book offers a wealth of useful information how you can use natural health to cure illness and how to lead a healthy lifestyle. He covers many different areas of natural health & medicine and even provides a gradual plan for excercise so that anybody can develop a weekly excercise regime. He also covers relaxation and the breathing excercises needed, antioxidant supplements, visualization techniques and so much more that I do not have the time or space to list them!

If you are suffering from something that conventional medicine has failed to find a solution, or you simply do not fancy filling your body full of alien chemicals, you will find Dr. Weil's book the key to your problem, virtualy everything about natural health is covered. In a typical complementary medicine style Dr Weil does not disregard conventional medicine he just looks at the problems and solutions in a holistic way taking the best from both and presenting them to you as a system that he refers to as "Integrative Medicine".

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health (Paperback) - Andrew T. Weil
The bible of natural medicine" (Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers" most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientic ndings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention decit disorder, reux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the u, and much more.

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