A therapy can be classified as a natural therapy, provided:
- Its mode of action exists in the physical realm of existence.
- Includes any therapy designed to manipulate the human body alone or the mind - body connection.
- Mind - Body Connection: Considerable evidence exists to support an association between psychological states and immune function; with inflammation being one possible mode of action or mechanism.[1],[2],[3]
- Excludes any therapy designed to work in other worlds or dimensions that are invisible to our normal senses (such as trying to manipulate spiritual, karmic, or ancestral forces and personal auras or energy flows around the human body).
- Includes any therapy designed to manipulate the human body alone or the mind - body connection.
- The therapy can be physically measured or detected.
- The therapy must be visible to our normal senses.
- The therapy can be either about engaging in more, reducing participation in, or avoiding entirely specific activities or lifestyles.
- The therapy is targeted either at health, wellness, illness, and/or healing.
- The therapy must either promote personal health, wellness, or treat/manage a specific health condition.
- What might be effective for treating a specific health condition, might not be recommended for promoting general health.
- The therapy must either promote personal health, wellness, or treat/manage a specific health condition.
- The therapy is slow acting, simple and inexpensive.
- Natural therapies are slow acting because they rely on the body's innate healing abilities.
- The first choice for treating any health condition, in natural health, should always be the simplest, safest, and least expensive method available.
- Unhealthy diets and lifestyles are corrected, first, before any nutritional supplements and herbs are taken to enhance the healing process.
- The therapy is under the control of the individual.
- The therapy has to target some aspect of lifestyle that is a matter of personal choice and, thus, can be changed by that individual.
Sample Natural Therapies:[4]
- Lifestyle
- Going for an evening walk in the fresh air and sunshine.
- STOP Smoking
- Science has shown over and over again that smoking is a risk factor for most degenerative diseases.
- Eating natural whole foods
- If you do not eat, you will eventually starve to death.
- The science of nutrition exists to study the effects of diet on health.
- The health benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables has been documented by science over and over again.
- In 1754, James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, conducted the first ever clinical trial, when he studied 12 sailors with scurvy to see if they could be healed by diet. Within six days, the fruits effectiveness was obvious.
- Today, people who live on a hamburger, coke, and French fry diet often suffer from borderline scurvy due to a lack of fruit in their diet.
- In 1754, James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, conducted the first ever clinical trial, when he studied 12 sailors with scurvy to see if they could be healed by diet. Within six days, the fruits effectiveness was obvious.
- Nutritional supplements
- Research on the value of nutritional supplements for preventing specific lifestyle diseases has shown mixed results.
- Some studies support taking a daily multivitamin, while other studies do not.
- Research on the value of nutritional supplements for treating or managing specific health conditions has been generally favorable, depending on the specific supplement used and the specific health condition treated..
- Specific supplements are effective only for certain health conditions.
- Research on the value of nutritional supplements for preventing specific lifestyle diseases has shown mixed results.
- PHYSICAL EXERCISE
- Exercise therapy has been proven by science over and over again to reduce the risk of getting most lifestyle diseases.
- STRESS MANAGEMENT
- Getting seven to eight hours of sleep every night.
- Taking yoga lessons.
- Practicing counting meditation.
Longevity Anti-Aging Therapy
Our longevity and anti-aging therapy is grounded in the same five key areas required for optimum natural health and wellness. Our longevity therapy is simply the Natural Health Perspective wellness program being taken seriously by you over a very long period of time.
Sure we all listen, when our bodies tell us it is time to go to the bathroom and snack when we are hungry. And, we all know when we are having a bad day. But, many people are ignoring important messages being sent to them by their bodies. Are you sensitive to what your body is saying, when your body starts to complain, or are you totally numb to these bodily sensations?
The basic premise of this web site is that if you provide your body with what it needs, it will naturally heal itself. Likewise, when you are doing something wrong that your body does not like; your body will complain about it. Are you listening?
"Unless you learn to notice and be bothered by the early, subtle stages of illness, you will lose your chances of managing your body through its changing cycles by simple means and will find yourself more and more dependent on outside practitioners and the costly interventions of modern hospital medicine." -- Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, MD |
It is vital that everyone becomes aware of what is normal for their own body, so that you can hear your body complaining when something goes wrong. Are you listening to your body? We all have aches and pains, but what is unusual, what is different should motivate every one of us to find out what a strange new feeling, sensation, or whatever, might be all about. Anything that you may be experiencing which feels different to you could be important enough to be worth discussing with a qualified health care provider of your choice.
You listen to your body by focusing on what you are doing, throughout the day. Many people call this being centered. The practices of meditation helps people to become more centered and live for the moment rather than always for the future.
When you come down with a headache, for example, you should be able to make a connection between your behavior and your headache. How many times have you just automatically reached for a OTC drug pain reliever when you got a headache? But, have you ever asked yourself what might have caused that headache in the first place? Have you ever observed, how often you get headaches? Could it be related to what you ate or drunk? Have you ever observed on what days of the week you usually get headaches?
There are many opportunities to increase your sensitivity to, and awareness of, the true needs of your body. These include when to be active and when to rest, when to sleep and when to get out of bed, when to work and when to relax and enjoy yourself. There is more than one way to listen to your body. Periodically, measuring your body weight, waist size, body temperature, blood pressure and pulse rate are objective ways of listening to your body. Taking an appropriate blood test will quantitatively answer questions about your health status. Did you know for example, that moderately high cholesterol levels often means that your body that is trying to make more vitamin D with sunshine synthesisin your skin? The list of opportunities for listening to your body is quite long. Listening with greater interest should be part of any program of natural healing and health.
When you have symptoms, treat them with OTC medicine, if you must, but also be sure to ask yourself what those symptoms might mean. Do they indicate that there is something more serious that should be investigated? In natural health this is called a constitutional imbalance, while conventional medicine refers to them as underlying disease processes which if left untreated could lead to a serious lifestyle disease. Are your symptoms telling you that you are an experiencing a medical emergency? Or, do they mean that you should simply slow down or alter your lifestyle in some way?
Learning to answer these challenging questions is a part of dealing with the problems of living a good life.
In conclusion: everybody must decide for themselves, including physicians, when something is wrong, and whether or not it is a medical emergency. The natural health way of doing this is called listening to your own body. Find out what is normal for you. And, learn to recognize when your body starts to complain.
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