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Welcome to the first edition of ‘Wholistic’ –
Quarterly Insights into the world of Holistic Health. ‘Wholistic’ aims to provide you with steps, ideas, access to trusted information, courses, retreats and starting points to help you to do this. Tips to help put things into practice. It is time for a new view! The Preventative approach is the rising star instead of adding your name to a long long operating waiting list or relying on a chemical cure. I must strongly point out that modern western medicine has numerous benefits as you will see in my following article. Integrated medicine is the way forward. My name is Huia Crosby. Holistic Health and Healing are my passions and I feel that this knowledge needs to get out there, that it has to be shared. I hope that you gain much from ‘Wholistic’. My aim is to provide you with simple ideas you can use everyday to make your life richer, clearer, stronger, healthier and wealthier! As
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Good Health should not only be the absence of disease but feeling full of vitality!!!
- when (oh when!?) did we start settling for anything less??There is a word which is creeping into our everyday vocabularies … slowly … slowly …. ‘holistic’. It is being splashed about on business cards, health products, magazine pages and on salon and clinic windows. Marketing people too are starting to awaken to its power. So why exactly is this word gaining in popularity??
Holistic Health
Holistic Health is the understanding that Human beings are more than just physical bodies- we harbour emotions, have thoughts, nurture souls, live within families, within communities and a society which is in itself dependent on the health of the environment. ‘Holistic’ comes from the Greek word ‘Holos’ – meaning ‘whole’. It was coined in 1926 by the statesman and naturalist, Jan Smuts. ‘Holistic’ is not only restricted to healthcare but also used by people who want a more humane and well-rounded approach to such topics as education, spirituality and politics: to create healthy and whole communities – local and global.
As the worlds populations continue to tame their environments, producing concrete jungles and becoming more and more urbanised, we are losing touch with the natural order. Holistic health & healing encompasses a whole person philosophy: looking after a person in their entirety. MIND – BODY – SPIRIT : The Trinity. Those three trendy words. But, when talking about a persons health, oh! The power that these three words hold when united together!!
A holistic approach to life
A holistic approach to life is dynamic and forever changing. Demands in a persons life and their requirements can often change from week to week, let alone month to year. What suited you then, may not suit you now.
Anyone entrusted to heal should strive to encourage the innate ability of the individual in distress to restore balance and harmony.
Did you know that in ancient China the doctor of the village was paid by its people when they were healthy! When they were sick they did not need to pay(!!!) ….. it was therefore, obviously, in the doctors best interest to ensure that the villagers were all enjoying prime health!! Now this is truly a ‘healthcare’ system huh?The face of illness is changing.
The face of illness is changing. ‘Civilised life’ has produced ‘civilised diseases’.
- In the UK it is stated that one in three people are developing cancer at some stage in their life. Certain cancer charities believe that this will soon become one in every two people.
- Crohns’ Disease did not even have a name until 1932 and still in eastern countries and Africa its prevalence is hardly seen and only now starting due to the slow adoption of a western processed diet.
- This is not even mentioning the next great epidemics: obesity, child obesity, diabetes, auto-immune diseases and the meteoric rise in allergies due to toxic man made chemicals that our bodies just simply cannot process and do not know what to do with.“A whole is always more than the sum of its parts. All life is inter-connected. Nothing can be fully understood unless we see the whole system of which it is a part. Life is dynamic and forever changing. Random elements are continually emerging and self-organising to form coherent wholes.” - William Bloom ‘SOUL-ution’
The Way Forward.
Unfortunately there is a big division between the conventional medicine and the natural medicine worlds with only a rickety bridge attempting to unite the two approaches. There seems to be little communication and much distrust, which is a real shame. For the individual patient and all mankind to ultimately thrive, both sides need to set aside their insecurities, stretch out the hand of friendship and begin to get really excited in what the ‘other side’ can teach them.I urge each of you to establish for yourself a good working network of local professionals in your area who happily communicate, take interest and co-operate together for the good of YOUR health. Don’t worry about being shy, freely ask them what their viewpoint is with regards to the holistic/conventional medical worlds, and try to select professionals who will serve you well.
The good news is the face of medicine is slowly changing and integrated medical schools are beginning to surface worldwide. Until that day however…. Enjoy the emergence of being involved in a new way of thinking, enjoying the best of both worlds! :-)
Huia is a Holistic Health Practitioner with a varied (and ever growing!) background of skills with which to draw from. Her passions include personal development, indigenous peoples healing methods, patting dogs, travel, the great outdoors, jogging, laughing, reading, writing, sunsets and spending quality time with friends and loved ones.
She helps educate people to enable them to revitalise and be all they can possibly be. Huia is committed to continually learning to utilise the gifts from nature and the wisdom of the body’s own innate healing systems to bring vitality and health.
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