Yoga & Holistic Health Therapies
YOGA & HOLISTIC HEALTH "Progressive Therapy" is taking the latest resources (even if they are thousands of years old) and applying them in a way to have a happier life today. Peace of mind and ease of body is achieved by becoming aware of what works best for your spirit in day-to-day life and approaching each act and decision with this awareness.
"Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail."
--TAO TE CHING
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail."
--TAO TE CHING
Holistic health is the overall, big picture of your total being and Yoga is the path or practice that you exercise to enable, strengthen and maintain the realization of a healthy body, mind, spirit connection and balanced life.
There is a bidirectional connection of the body and mind already physiologically present. Our brain, mind, and nerves all manifest throughout our body. The network of nerves through our spine go out to influence the functions of organs, glands, and muscles. Besides the electrochemical pathways of the brain and nerves, there exist other pathways of energy or life force from such paradigms that mapped out meridians of the meridians of Chinese medicine and the Chakras from Yoga traditions.
HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE
Often referred to as "Alternative, Complementary, or Natural" medicine integrates the mind, body and the whole being versus just looking at a symptom or disease like Allopathic healthcare has been set up to do.
We may need Allopathic medicine in serious crises such as emergency care of an accident or heart attack. However, many trips to the hospital could be avoided by preventative, holistic health regimes and recovery from a necessary operation is enhanced by holistic measures and support.
Holistic healthcare aims at preventing and treating the leading causes of discomfort, degeneration, and disease – namely, stress, poor habits of posture, biomechanics, diet, tension, etc.
Imagine if the oil light of your car kept blinking red. Would you cut the wire to stop the blinking? That would be like taking a pain medication which masks the signal instead of remedying the cause or real problem. Masking or treating the symptom is a temporary solution; but if you do not address the cause, a worse condition could result (like a dead motor in your car, or a more serious condition disabling your body).
It is never too early or too late to receive some boon from Holistic healthcare.
Examples of Holistic healthcare are Yoga and Ayurveda, Naturopathy, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine, Shamanism, bodywork or other Somatic therapy (Thai Medical Massage, Sports Massage, Polarity, Reflexology, etc.), and Aromatherapy.
There are infinite healing modalities from around the world and all with the universal appeal of Holistic health. Many techniques overlap, such as herbal remedies and dietary recommendations or various massage, exercise, and even prayer components. There is a growing trend to seek from holistic healthcare from around the world and even use it eclectically or collectively as "Integrative Planetary Mind-Body medicine." Another way to think of the renaissance of any ancient healing wisdom applied to modern health being concerns is perceive this trend and evolution as “progressive therapies”.
