The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole … therefore if the head and body are to be well you must begin by curing the mind:
This is the great error of our day in the treatment of the huma...n body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.
Plato, Chronicles 156 e
Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago, yet he could very well have been describing the situation we have today. Some of us are only just beginning to open our eyes to re-discover the wisdom in these age-old words. We have coined the word ‘holistic’ (which has its roots in the Greek word ‘holos’ which means ‘whole’) to summarise this concept. In holistic healing, the whole person — mind, body and spirit — is taken into account. In all schools of natural healing the most important underlying principle is that the body will heal itself if given the chance. The therapist’s aim is to create the most effective treatment taking into account all aspects of the client’s ‘integral biology’, or environmental stress factors.
It is important to encourage sound nutrition, adequate exercise, sunshine, fresh air and above all deep relaxation therapy or perhaps meditation to buffer the adverse effects of life’s inevitable stresses and to counteract the potentially harmful effects of negative emotions. Body and mind are interrelated; whatever affects one will also affect the other. So a positive mental attitude is vital for the whole, health is transient without it.
This is the great error of our day in the treatment of the huma...n body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.
Plato, Chronicles 156 e
Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago, yet he could very well have been describing the situation we have today. Some of us are only just beginning to open our eyes to re-discover the wisdom in these age-old words. We have coined the word ‘holistic’ (which has its roots in the Greek word ‘holos’ which means ‘whole’) to summarise this concept. In holistic healing, the whole person — mind, body and spirit — is taken into account. In all schools of natural healing the most important underlying principle is that the body will heal itself if given the chance. The therapist’s aim is to create the most effective treatment taking into account all aspects of the client’s ‘integral biology’, or environmental stress factors.
It is important to encourage sound nutrition, adequate exercise, sunshine, fresh air and above all deep relaxation therapy or perhaps meditation to buffer the adverse effects of life’s inevitable stresses and to counteract the potentially harmful effects of negative emotions. Body and mind are interrelated; whatever affects one will also affect the other. So a positive mental attitude is vital for the whole, health is transient without it.
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