Definition of HolisticWhat is holistic? – is it a medicine? …a treatment? …a therapy? …a lifestyle? I would say that the answer is – all of these. I think it is important to fully understand the definition of 'holistic', to understand how and why alternative treatments and natural health remedies can work for you. The dictionary definition of holistic tells us that it is an adjective, relating to ‘holism’. For me, this doesn’t exactly make it all become clear though… What the dictionary says next, though, does help a little – holistic means ‘emphasizing the whole, and the interdependence between the separate parts which make up the whole’. This is more like it – when we use the term ‘holistic’ when talking about health and lifestyles this is what we mean. In simple terms, holistic means looking at the body, or the illness, in terms of the whole person. This means that when a holistic practitioner or doctor looks at a patient with a headache, they do not just think about the pain in the head and prescribe pain killers for that pain, they also think about the person as a whole… ...perhaps in the diet, perhaps a hidden stress or emotional upheaval – there are plenty of causes of headaches… Holistic medicine, alternative treatments and natural health remedies all treat the patient as a whole - made up of different parts all linking in, and depending on each of the other parts. When we think of the body like this, it is easy for us to imagine how a problem starting in one area, could quite easily cause disruptions and pain somewhere else. Holistic practitioners like to call the parts they think about, ‘body and mind’, or perhaps ‘body, mind and spirit’, or sometimes ‘physical, mental, emotional and spiritual’. So, if you go to an alternative practitioner for your natural, holistic healing, these are the aspects they will help you to think about, and bring into balance. 
Holistic medicine deals with the whole person, this means that practitioners try to discover the underlying causes of the illness, and try to involve the patient in the healing and treatment. By becoming involved, like this, there is more of the mental and emotional side contributing to the cure. To read more about the holistic approach in medicine click here. Holistic medicine is nothing to be scared of, and it doesn’t need to be thought of as an ‘airy-fairy’ or ‘hippy’ cure. The definition of holistic shows us the basics of how alternative therapies and natural health remedies work – by considering the patient as a whole – ‘body, mind and spirit’. Because of this, you may find that there is not just one alternative treatment that is suitable for you – you may need, or even like to, try different holistic approaches until you find the one, or ones, that suit you the best. This is an approach that I find works very well myself, as I continue to use a combination of my preferred natural health remedies and holistic treatments, to keep my ME in a manageable, and improving, state. I hope that you will be able to find and understand holistic remedies to help you here. Please browse my site, choosing the sections you will find most useful from the left hand menu.  Custom Search
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They think about what might be the underlying causes of the pain... 
