What Exactly is Holistic Health?

Holistic health is a 360-degree, “umbrella approach” that examines your overall physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual state. How is everything functioning holistically as one systematic, bodily unit?

What is a Holistic Health Practitioner?

Holistic health practitioners don’t focus on one singular aspect of the human body. They’re more concerned about our overall health and how the human body, mind, and spirit intertwine.

Through this comprehensive lens, holistic health isn’t about one or two physical symptoms—it revolves around making micro improvements to the body to achieve optimal wellness.

It’s also rooted in achieving a greater state of balance. In turn, this may prevent certain ailments from manifesting by nourishing the body properly and limiting exposure to certain chemicals and toxins.

What Does a Holistic Health Practitioner Do?

A holistic health practitioner (also known as holistic healers, integrative health practitioners, and wellness practitioners) employs a wide variety of wellness techniques to help patients achieve “full body” health goals, specifically honing in on the mind-body connection.

Typically, a holistic health practitioner will scan a patient’s medical history first and conduct an overall wellness assessment. The real goal here is to pinpoint any underlying causes for a patient’s health condition and create a more comprehensive plan.

Some of the most common holistic treatments include:

• • • Nutrition: It’s common for a holistic health practitioner to tackle nutrition first and begin to help patients heal through natural, unprocessed foods. They’ll usually suggest day-to-day healthy eating habits, create custom meal plans, and advise on the best wellness supplementation.

    • Herbal Medicine: By addressing the source of a given illness instead of looking solely at symptoms, holistic health practitioners may recommend plant-based medicine in lieu of pharmaceutical drugs. This eastern healing technique entails using the plant’s berries, roots, seeds, leaves, or flowers.

    • Acupuncture: This ancient Chinese treatment aims to stimulate certain healing points by intentionally inserting needles throughout the body, igniting pain-relieving chemicals. This type of treatment may help patients with chronic migraines, headaches, jaw discomfort, and overall pain.

    • Meditation and Mindfulness: By calming the mind through meditation and structured breathwork, many holistic health practitioners believe that these periods of mental relief may relieve symptoms of emotional stress and chronic anxiety, while improving sleep cycles.

    • Yoga Therapy: Addressing both physical and mental health, yoga involves detailed posture work and breathing exercises to calm depression and anxiety, and it may also support weight loss goals.

    • Body Massage: Holistic body massage is known to clear the lymphatic system which can help naturally discard toxins from the body. This activates the body’s recovery capabilities, especially when coupled with aromatic oils and botanical extracts.

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