Holistic Guide

Holistic Guide is a site about Holistic living and health. The word Holistic comes from the Latin word Holisum, which means whole, entire, all. Holistic health usually falls around the belief that health is being whole and balanced and to stay healthy a person must be balanced.

At Holistic Guide, we have tried to collect a little bit of information from each of the great and rich holistic healing arts to help people along their journey to health, balance and a full life. Take some time and look though the site. Hopefully, you will find something that fits into your life and interests.

Holistic health can be a lot more complex than most modern scientific medicine practices. Most modern medicine deals with treating symptoms with chemical drugs or surgery. Each symptom has a specific treatment or series of treatments. Holistic medicine investigates and treats the cause of the illness, which often involves formulating a regiment that ends with the patient becoming balanced and whole again. Holistic health practitioners believe in the ability for the human body to heal itself, given the proper resources.

With holistic practices, a person has to look inside of themselves, their lives, and their living patterns to find the cause of the imbalance that is leading to illness. This process is often long and can be painful both physically and mentally. Once a person can find the imbalance and start to change the part of their lifestyle that is causing the imbalance, they can become better and whole and have a permanent lasting change throughout their entire life. When a person just takes a pill, they are just masking the symptoms and trying to bury a problem. The problem is still there and the pills just make it feel like it is not. When the pills are stopped, the symptoms come back, often stronger than before.

Not all modern medicine is bad. There have been many great advances in the world of medical knowledge and practice over the last century that have really help mankind tremendously. However, there are many practices that are at best very poor and at worst destructive that leaves many of us looking for alternative ways of health and healing.

We are lucky because there have been alternative ways of health for thousands of years. Many of these great collections of healing arts from around the globe have been collected and made available for the average person to study and learn from. Many of these ancient holistic practices have been refined by generations upon generations of healers dedicating their lives to only one thing: healing others through balance and integrity of mind, body, and spirit.