So should we define holistic or have a wholistic healing definition? I don't see why we should use some foreign spelling for the words. JC Smuts invented holism and holistic in 1926 from the Greek word holos meaning whole. So if it means wholistic or wholism why should we go along with the ancient Greeks who are all dead now anyhow?
Wholistic (or holistic) healing is the best approach to health because it prevents you getting sick in the first place.The term came into use in 1960 to mean therapies that attempt to treat the patient as a whole person. I.E. instead of fixing a disease, as in conventional allopathy, eclectic medicine is about an individual's over-all physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being.
If you use wholistic healing principles all the time, you will never get sick because you will optimize your health. Alternative medicine includes Homeopathy, naturopathy and traditional Chinese medicine which all believe in wholism. In the UK it is sometimes called complementary instead of alternative medicine.
Balance in Wholistic Healing
Wholistic healing can affect just about anything if you use it early enough. Many diseases cause irreparable damage to the body but if you can prevent that happening with wholistic healing it is a victory.
Wholism seeks to balance the body, mind, spirit, and emotions so that the person's whole being functions smoothly.
Modern Lifestyle
Alternative medicine holistic healing has a particularly difficult job in modern times. You are assaulted by poisons and radiation from every direction - in your food, in the air you breathe and in the water you drink, and the cell phones you listen to.
Refined foods are almost always bad for you, especially sugar, vitamins and vegetable oils. In other words the wholistic healing definition should apply to your food as well. If you peel an apple or a grape you are refining it, and depriving yourself of the whole value of the food. So what should you look for in healers? See the next article.