How holistic do you want to go?

For many people complementary therapy is no longer the odd, weird or quack stuff that you try if your doctor can't help you.  Certain therapies, although lacking in the scientific research in comparison to allopathic medicine, are even embraced by the medical establishment. 

The main difference between allopathic medicine and complementary therapy (once called alternative) is that the latter treats the person holistically, understanding that every part of our body is intimately connected to the rest and that our minds, emotions and experiences have an effect on our physical health.

Although I no longer practise, I am a qualified aromatherapist and I also combined Rei-Ki in my treatments.  I got the whole holistic thing and my clients did too.  However, for me, there was still, at times, something missing: my clients weren't always getting the results they expected.  There was still an unknown factor that wasn't being accounted for but affected them nonetheless.

Then I studied Feng Shui.  Feng Shui derives from a belief system known as the Tao.  Chinese medicine and macrobiotics come from the same source and work on similar principles to Feng Shui.

Although the use of Feng Shui can have health benefits it occurred to me that I had only peeled back another layer of the holistic onion.

Feng Shui helps us accept that we interact with our environment both physically and on an energetic level and this allows us to expand our view of what being holistic is all about: not only do we treat our body as a whole but we can treat our body and how it lives in our environment as a whole.

So, let's peel back another layer and examine how we can be detrimentally affected not just by location and orientation (as in classic Feng Shui) but how we can be detrimentally affected by the things we place in our environment.  Technopathic stress, or Electrosmog, is a term used to describe the negative effects we encounter from electrical equipment both outside our homes (overhead cables, phone masts etc.) and inside (microwaves, mobile phones etc.).  Energetically our bodies clash with all this equipment that vibrates at a different rate to us.  This clash puts added pressure on our immune system to perform and on our cells to function normally.

Then we have another layer.  Geopathic stress is naturally occurring disruptions to the earth's vibrations: underground water, energy lines, fault lines etc. disrupt the earth's natural vibration and clash with our own vibrations.  The effects on our health are similar to exposure to Electrosmog.  (You can find out more about Geopathic and Technopathic stress from my web site.)

Are there other layers?  Probably.  But we can't discover them until we get through the ones we know about already.  So, if you really want to address your health issues, or if you're a therapist wanting to offer an even more holistic service to your clients, then maybe you should widen your view of how you interact with this world and what being holistic truly means.  Do you really stop at your skin?

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