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How Healthy Are You? Where Holistic
Health Can Help
There are many approaches to
natural health and healing these days. Drugstores not only offer
prescriptions, but they now line the shelves with organic health
and personal care products, and books on alternative health and
the healing arts. Alternative health care (whether it be guided
meditation, reiki, massage, conscious living, conscious loving,
or integration of many of the healing arts) can lead to overall
happiness, freedom, taking life circumstances less seriously, and
humor, so that your next medical checkup will be a positive one!
Holistic living has to do with
being whole. To be truly healthy, you must take all aspects of your
life into account: spirit, mind, emotions and body. Maybe your last
medical check-up went great; your cholesterol was low, your eyesight
hasn’t faltered, your bones are sturdy, and you’re blood
pressure is just right. What about the next appointment; can you
guarantee it to be just as successful?
We live in a society where diseases
seem to "sneak up" on people. The reason is that people
ignore their bodies’ messages. If you’re tired, you
pull into Starbucks for a pick-me-up. If you’re an insomniac,
a few sleeping pills do the trick. If you’re feeling sad or
angry, you suck it up and grin and bear it.
A healthy lifestyle isn’t
necessarily always coming out of the doctor’s office with
a feeling of relief. Holistic health or "whole health"
has to do with paying attention to the mental, spiritual, and emotional
parts of yourself, as well as the physical. In fact, ailments usually
manifest on the physical as a last resort! If you’ve been
stuffing down your resentment toward your boss, you may end up with
the flu to be able to stay out of the office. Perhaps your spouse
isn’t giving you the tenderness and love that you crave, and
to get back at him or her, a migraine headache springs up every
time he or she wants to have sex.
What we eat, our romantic relationships,
our choice of jobs, how we deal with family members, what we read
and watch on TV—all these things determine how good we feel
and if we are to be healthy for life. Unfortunately, very few medical
doctors have a background in holism or instill these ideas in their
practices. Rather, they treat the symptoms of the disease, the allopathic
approach, as a sort of cover-up, rather than getting to the truth
behind the health problem.
This is where The Attitude Doc comes
in. She knows that at the root of any ailment—whether stress,
cancer, PMS, migraine headache, a broken back, depression, nausea,
or a simple cold—is an underlying belief or attitude that
has surfaced in the body to get your attention. By recognizing these
inward beliefs and by giving your feelings some credit, healing
can begin.
For more information on the role you play in your health and happiness,
pick up a copy of Transforming Your Emotional DNA by Dr. Theresa
Dale. You’ll be amazed at the impact your emotions are having
on your body!
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