People seem confused by the term \u201cholistic health.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s because businesses are using the catch-phrase inappropriately. Holistic practices aren\u2019t presented thoroughly or followed by some \u201cholistic practitioners\u201d as they prescribe the same old pharmaceuticals without another natural approach first. So what do I mean when I say holistic health? I\u2019ll tell you!<\/p>\n
Holistic health includes all aspects of the person \u2013 psychological, physical, social, and spiritual otherwise known as mind, body, and spirit. Whatever words you want to use to describe holistic health, it includes all aspects of well-being in you. To be holistically healthy, you must care for your body, your relationships, work and purpose in life, and your spirituality. You care for yourself, your friends, and your community. In order to do that, you avoid toxins in your food, environment, emotions, and life. You nurture your body with nutrient dense foods, relaxation, sleep, and exercise. You attempt to keep yourself healthy proactively through foods and natural healing, and you incorporate the same practices when dealing with an illness or disease. Don\u2019t get me wrong, we need our medical doctors \u2013 our trauma care and advanced medical practices are necessary when other things don\u2019t work or aren\u2019t appropriate!<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s try to allow our body to heal itself when we can!<\/p>\n
Holistic Health is nothing new. Ayurvedic medicine has taught us for thousands of years that we must treat the whole person to avoid illness, cure disease, and have a happy life without suffering. Through Ayurveda you learn to balance your biological tendencies, metabolic activities, and body functions using diet, sleep, activity, and sex. For instance, using Ayurveda you choose your food based on your imbalance, the taste, preparation, combination, quantity, and time to rebalance your body based on your constitution or symptoms. Here in the USA we eat at fast food restaurants, eat processed foods without paying attention. We eat fast food, junk food, and nutrition-less food and then take expensive vitamins and supplements.We eat fiber-less white bread and white flour in everything, but we take expensive fiber supplements.<\/p>\n
So, in Holistic Health we look at the Whole\u2026\u2026 the whole person.<\/p>\n
In order to be whole and healthy we need to change old attitudes and pay attention to the following aspects:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Remove from and avoid toxicity in the body, food, relationships, daily life, and thoughts
\n\u2022 Increase nutrition and positivity in food, emotions, priorities, exercise, positive mental energy, relationships, spirituality, and purpose in life or job
\n\u2022 The result of the above will be a less stressful, more comfortable happy life full of meaning, health, and happiness
\nWith all of this being said, I also believe that no one has all of the answers. Therefore we are open to and experiment with all kinds of healing through
\n\u2022 Tasty, fun, and healthy food
\n\u2022 Healing foods
\n\u2022 Spices, herbs, natural remedies
\n\u2022 Physical activity
\n\u2022 Natural healers and practitioners
\n\u2022 Energy work
\n\u2022 Emotional Health
\n\u2022 Connection
\n\u2022 Drugless practitioners
\n\u2022 Alternative healing methods
\n\u2022 Alternative Medicine
\n\u2022 Spirituality<\/p>\n
The list goes on.<\/p>\n
Are you healthy as a whole? Think about the areas you need to change based on what I have shared with you. Any positive change you make in any area of your life will surely improve your overall holistic health.<\/p>\n
(Beth Anderson is a certified Holistic Health Coach and founder of the Holistic Health Hotspot in Evansville, Indiana. She is also the author of \u201cThe Holistic Diet: Achieve Your Ideal Weight, Be Happy and Healthy for Life.\u201d Beth received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Beth is helping people improve their lives through nutrition and lifestyle education, health coaching, and by helping others to learn to make informed choices. Beth continues to spread understanding of the connection between body, mind, and spirit and encourages all to discern the truth about food, consumer products, environment, and life choices. You can find Beth on Facebook at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HolisticHealthHotspot<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0or email her at beth@holistichealthhotspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People seem confused by the term \u201cholistic health.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s because businesses are using the catch-phrase inappropriately. Holistic practices aren\u2019t presented thoroughly or followed by some \u201cholistic practitioners\u201d as they prescribe the same old pharmaceuticals without another natural approach first. So what do I mean when I say holistic health? I\u2019ll tell you! Holistic health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[913],"tags":[1033,1034,916,501,1030,1031,1032,500,1035,194],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health_and_wellness","tag-ayurvedic","tag-ayurvedic-medicine","tag-beth-anderson","tag-body","tag-holistic","tag-holistic-health","tag-holistically-healthy","tag-mind","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}