What is holistic therapy?

Holistic therapy is a technique designed to address an individual as a whole person rather than someone who is sick, just has medical condition, or as being separated into different components. Holistic therapy attempts to address the individual in terms of the body, mind, and spirit. 

What can holistic therapy help with?

Holistic therapies have been effectively utilized for centuries and can play a vital role in maintaining good health and overall wellbeing. Rather than addressing the symptoms of individual illnesses, a holistic therapist will seek to ascertain the underlying cause by considering physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states of health and wellbeing. 

We cannot live a meaningful and happy life if we are fragmented and disconnected. This explains why it is so important to consider all the elements of health simultaneously. Holistic therapy can offer assistance with:

Physical health: Bodily aches, illnesses, fatigue, tension, chronic pain, and diseases. 

Emotional health: Feelings such as anxiety, worry, anger, or sadness. 

Mental health: This encompassing all our limiting beliefs that manifest as stress, anxiety, depression, and sadness. For example, “I am not smart enough”

Spiritual health: This includes feeling incomplete, disconnected, lost, empty and fragmented. 

Types of holistic therapy treatment 

Holistic therapists may be certified and qualified in various disciplines and can often make use of a variety of techniques and treatments to support their clients. However, it is also common for practitioners to provide one type of holistic therapy, and to become professionally experienced in that field. 

Below are some of the well-known types of holistic therapies:

1.Acupuncture

This type of treatment entails having very fine needles inserted into various points on the body to stimulate nerves in your muscles and skin, which produces different effects. 

2.Reflexology

This has to do with applying pressure to and massaging certain areas of the hands, feet and ears. It aims to produce healing and relieve tension and stress.

3.Massage therapy

This involves using hands-on movements, manual and manipulation of the soft muscles and tissues in the body, to encourage healing and enhance a person’s overall wellbeing. 

How does holistic therapy complement other treatments?

It is very important to remember that holistic therapy does not disregard or negate Western medicine, which means that holistic therapy can work in conjunction with conventional medicine in a complementary manner. This explains why the term holistic therapy is often used interchangeably with “complementary therapy”

For instance, while medication may be part of a person’s medical treatment, a holistic therapy approach may include other treatments such as, reflexology or acupuncture to address issues and triggers that have not been resolved, massage, relaxation techniques are more. 

Holistic therapy is a completely non-invasive and natural treatment, that is for all ages such as, retirees, adolescents, mothers, university students etc. Depending on which holistic treatment you are receiving, therapy alleviate stress, help you to relax as well as ease a wide range of emotional or physical symptoms. 

How does holistic therapy restore balance?

Holistic therapy is being engaged increasingly by individuals seeking to find more balance and harmony within themselves. A holistic therapist can help to restore the body’s natural balance, that can lead to a more sustained and rewarding quality of life. 

Holistic therapies have become popular especially among people who are looking to manage chronic stress. Studies reveal that if you take time out for holistic therapy treatment, it can help to manage stress, aiding relaxation and enhancing longevity. 

Holistic therapy is instrumental in addressing countless psychological and physical concerns, from hormonal imbalances to muscular aches and pains to, enhanced sleep and mental clarity.