psychospiritual holistic healing: A form of psychotherapy that includes chakra healing, inner child therapy, meditation, and positive thinking.

(See also: Psychospiritual holistic healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Holistic Healing: A view of health care focusing on the "whole self" (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic Healing

A view of health care focusing on the Òwhole selfÓ (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

holistic psychiatry: Form of psychiatry that may include biofeedback, bodywork, energy healing (see vibrational medicine), and homeopathy.

(See also: Holistic psychiatry, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

holistic medicine:

1. Alternative medicine.
2. That form of alternative medicine which focuses on
1. personal accountability for one's health;
2. the human body's ability to heal itself; and
3. balancing the body, mind, and spirit with the environment.

Holistic medicine includes among others acupuncture, biofeedback, faith healing, folk medicine, meditation, yoga etc.

(See also: Holistic medicine, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Emotional Energetic Healing (E.E.H., E.E.H. Healing methodology): Mode of holistic healing founded by Mari Angelique Raphael. It includes hands-on energy work and spiritual counseling. , E.E.H. utilizes the divine healing energy of the Angelic Realm, activates the client's Lightbody, and clears past, present, and future lifetimes.

(See also: Emotional Energetic Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

holistic nursing (wholistic nursing): Form of nursing that exalts intuition and may include AMMA Therapy, biofeedback, guided imagery, Healing Touch, homeopathy, iridology, massage therapy, Oriental medicine (especially acupuncture), psychic healing, tai chi, and/or Therapeutic Touch. Its goal is integration of body, mind, and spirit.

(See also: Holistic nursing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Unergi Method (Unergi holistic therapy): Self-care system that integrates the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Awareness Movement, Gestalt therapy, and Rubenfeld Synergy. It includes dreamwork, healing touch, inner child work, meditation, and verbal therapy. Holistic Therapist Ute Arnold developed the method in or before 1978.

(See also: Unergi Method, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing: Holistic approach to healing and wellness that encompasses breathwork, energy field work, Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods, and remedies (e.g., the apple diet) related to the readings of clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945).

Its theory posits reincarnation and a triune body (physical body, mental body, and spiritual body) and defines healing as the process of awakening the God-pattern within humans.

(See also: Cayce Approach to Health and Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Tatwa meditation: Cornerstone of a holistic system of self-healing developed by spiritual teacher Emahmn (sic). Tatwas are Hindu mandalas (mystical drawings) that have healing powers. Emahmn's system includes a mandalic-zodiacal form of astrology.

(See also: Tatwa meditation, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Dr. Lynch's Holistic Self-Health Program: Variation of self-healing developed by James P.B. Lynch, D.C. The primary tool of this program and lifestyle is the Holistic Triangle or Holistic triad, a philosophy that consists of:

(a)           a physical side, which encompasses acupressure, acupuncture, shiatsu, and chiropractic;

(b)          a chemical side, which encompasses food combining, herbalism, homeopathy, macrobiotics, scientific fasting, and vitamin therapy; and (

(c)           a mental/spiritual base, which encompasses biofeedback and self hypnosis.

(See also: Dr. Lynch's Holistic Self-Health Program, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Healtheology: One of the fields of study offered by the American Institute of Holistic Theology, a correspondence school in Youngstown, Ohio. The institute defines Healtheology as a theological science of health, a concept that health and theology have a common ground.

Healtheology encompasses acupressure, angelic healing, aromatherapy, Ayurveda, breathwork, color therapy, crystal healing, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, music therapy, polarity healing (polarity balancing), psychic healing, reflexology, shamanism, shiatsu, Therapeutic Prayer, transpersonal psychology, vibrational healing (vibrational medicine), and yoga. Its theory posits a soul with a threefold purpose: to experience, learn, and express itself. Practitioners are called Healtheologists.

(See also: Healtheology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Kum Nye (Kum Nye relaxation, Kum Nye relaxation system of self healing): Holistic mode of self-healing developed by Tarthang Tulku and based on Tibetan medicine and Buddhist mind-body disciplines. It involves breathing exercises, self-massage, slow movements, and visualization. Its theory posits energy centers (e.g., the head center and the heart center) and energy blockages (e.g., sexual blockages). Practicing Kum Nye vitalizes the senses and conduces to alertness and limberness.

(See also: Kum Nye, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Therapeutic Touch (TT, Krieger-Kunz Method of Therapeutic Touch): A derivative of the laying on of hands. Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., and Dora van Gelder Kunz, a clairvoyant born in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), initiated TT in 1972. Nursing professor emerita Dolores Krieger is the author of Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch (Bear and Company, 1993), Foundations for Holistic Health Nursing Practices: The Renaissance Nurse, Living the Therapeutic Touch: Healing As a Lifestyle, The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Simon & Schuster, 1992), and the Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook: Ventures in Transpersonal Healing (Bear and Company, 1996). TT theory posits chakras and manually transmittable human energies.

(See also: Therapeutic Touch, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Orthopractic: Holistic healing approach promoted by Anthony Cimino, N.D., Ph.D., founder of the Long Island Biotherapy Center, in Syosset, New York.

It embraces acupressure, Dianetics, hypnotherapy, muscle testing (see above), nutritional counseling, reflexology, and Neuro-Communication (Neuro-Communication Systems). Neuro-Communication, according to a Biotherapy Center leaflet, is a process discovered by Cimino that asserts to better the nervous system through the use of special words and body movement.

(See also: Orthopractic, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

integral counseling psychology: A form of psychotherapy taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco. It encompasses bioenergetics, Gestalt therapy, holotropic therapy (see Holotropic Breathwork), Integral Yoga, psychosynthesis, spiritual mind healing, Taoism, and Theosophical Therapy. One of its principles is that one can help humans to contact and activate their inner organizing center for holistic living.

(See also: Integral counseling psychology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Cayce/Reilly massage (Cayce/Reilly approach to massage, Cayce/Reilly method, Cayce/Reilly technique): Holistic form of massage named after psychic Edgar Cayce (see The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing) and physiotherapist Dr. Harold J. Reilly, coauthor of The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy A.R.E. Press, 1975). It includes energy balancing.

(See also: Cayce Reilly massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

cosmo-biological birth control: Subject of the Lotus Light book of the same name, by Shalila Sharamon (whose training includes holistic astrology and the Sidhi technique) and Bodo Baginski (whose training includes meridian therapy, Polarity, spiritual healing, and Touch for Health). Cosmo-biological birth control is a mode of birth control and family planning based ona interaction of personal and cosmic cycles.

(See also: Cosmo-biological birth control, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

absent healing (absentee healing, distance healing, distant healing, remote healing, teleotherapeutics):

(1)           Treatment of a patient not in the practitioner's vicinity through magic, meditation, prayer, spirit doctors, or telepathy.

(2)           A form of faith healing that involves the projection of positive healing energy.

(See also: Absent healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic Healing

A view of health care focusing on the Òwhole selfÓ (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)