{"id":880,"date":"2008-01-25T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T08:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2008\/01\/what-does-holistic-mean.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T08:53:22","slug":"what-does-holistic-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2008\/01\/what-does-holistic-mean.html","title":{"rendered":"What Does Holistic Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I loved this comment by Beyond Blue reader<\/a> Leslie because she views “holistic health” as a system using any and all tools that can facilitate growth, recovery, and health of the body, mind, and spirit.
\nCompassionate people like Leslie also remind me that I shouldn’t lump all “New-Agers” or even all Scientologists into one category, as I’m sometimes tempted to do. There are those, like Leslie, that are very committed to alternative therapies, but do not shun a person for taking medication. And then there are those, who I won’t name, that are anti-medication.
\nNew-Age, and New Thought (as my friend Jim is helping me to understand) doesn’t come with one creed. There are as many philosophies found in those groups as there are in the Catholic faith, or the Christian faith. So, thank you, Leslie, for that lesson. And thank you for being a very compassionate new-ager (if I can use that term).<\/p>\n

I work in the holistic health field, and there is an interesting dichotomy.
\nMost of us (I’ll say acupuncturists,herbalists, chiropractors, the like)
\nwill say to try some of these visualization and positive energy methods,
\nthey may help. Just as Therese has found, Medicine is not one one side, and
\npostive thinking and energy and prayer is not on the other. We all have to
\nfind a combination that works, and bring it all together. Most of the “get
\noff all meds” messages are coming from people who are not trained in any
\nway to give advice on this issue (yes, I mean you, TC!).
\nI walk, pray, meditate, do Reiki on myself and others, read inspirational
\nwriting such as this, and boy howdy, pop my Paxil every day! It is like my
\ndaily pharmy communion wafer! I recently ran out (accidentally), and that
\nwas a great test for me to see how much I need it. I need all that help. I
\nwouldn’t tell my diabetic grandma to visualize that her body has all the
\ninsulin she needs. My brain just doesn’t produce the seratonin it needs.
\nI’m a new agey person, and would love to be able to say my powerful prayer
\nlife cured me of this disease. I’ve seen it work in other people who are
\nmuch less spiritual than I am ;). I would never advise you to take my
\napproach, because you need to walk your own path. Let us walk ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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