Holistic Healthcare
Dr Steele speaks on WTKR about the various misconceptions about holistic medicine. So often people are confused about holistic medicine and what it means practically. A Holistic Doctor will work with a person on all levels and layers of their being. People will come into the practice with a physical ailment, then we explore environment/relationships and the impact those have on a person’ lifestyle. A holistic doctor will review mental, emotional, and even spiritual imbalances with a person. These aspects impact a person’s behavior and repetitive actions. These repetitive actions develop lifestyles. These lifestyles can create health or impact a person’s health to create disease.
Holistic Medicine is often misunderstood. People think that modalities such as massage, chiropractic, or even that taking supplements are holistic medicine. These are just modalities in natural healthcare, but these are not complete holistic systems. Naturopathy is a complete whole system. It is understood that in Naturopathy the belief is that the body develops disease as a result of an accumulation of toxicity based on unhealthy lifestyle habits, poor diet, improper care of the body, mental, and emotional abuses to the body as well as environmental exposures.. The body is always in a state of healing and can and will heal itself if given the right environment. It is determined that acute disease such as fevers, colds, inflammation, etc is determined as the body’s way to self initiate the healing process. Chronic disease is the continued suppression and the result of continued poor health. In Naturopathy, it is understood the body has a natural ability to heal itself but the person must take ultimate personal responsibility in doing so and contribute to the healing process. Thus the Naturopathic Doctor becomes a coach, a teacher, and a mentor in self-healing for the individual.
Naturopathy differs from all other forms of Healing Arts
- Medicine seeks to cure the body by producing chemical reactions in the body by use of drugs, serum, toxins, antitoxins, vaccines, etc.
- An Osteopath manipulates the muscles, joints, bones, etc in the belief that the primary cause is the impingement of the nerves and blood supply.
- The Chiropractor adjusts the vertebrae in the spine on the theory that the pressure on the spinal nerves causes disease.
- Physical Therapy treats the means of physical forces and energies only
- Psychology is the study of what ails the mind only and does not take into account the physical impact of such ailments.
- Naturopathy holds a distinction as a belief that the curative force is within the body itself and seeks to assist this natural force by use of physical and natural agents as well as methods including the impact of mindset, emotional wellbeing, actions, and behaviors.
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