What are the examples of holistic health?

Answer 1

HOLISTIC health is a concept that takes into account everything that directly or indirectly affects our health. This would include spiritual, psychological/emotional, social, lifestyle, physical, hormonal, nutritional, exercise, environmental, and even, economic/financial factors.

Nowadays, to maintain good health is not always cheap, and to cope with hospital bills should you get sick is even worse.

Did you hear the story of the man who was successfully operated upon (he had quadruple bypass surgery) only to die of a massive heart attack after he was given the bill?

To all these, I would like to add energy (life-force) as an important component of holistic health and healing.

Although conventional medicine, being a strictly scientific discipline, has a more contracted view of what is meant by "holistic", there is a trend towards acceptance of the wider definition, even among modern doctors.

For example, research has been done to see if prayers help in the recovery of patients (the result, until now, is inconclusive).

Unfortunately, the general impression is that holistic medicine only improves health through the "placebo effect", and until adequate scientific studies are done, it will remain officially so.

Most of what make a holistic approach to health and healing are already familiar to most readers. Today I would like to discuss only the spiritual (briefly) and psychological aspects. I will elaborate on the others in future articles.

Answer 2

The word holistic is related to the word whole. The basic philosophy of holistic health is the belief that an organism works best when all of its parts work together in balance and harmony. So, anything that promotes such a philosophy can be considered holistic. Usually holistic health refers to lifestyle habits that people do every day. The most common of these is diet and exercise. After that comes herbs and massage.