Holistic Health Approach

What is holistic health? I'm going to explain how it works.

Some people love the notion of holistic health and others think that it's pseudoscience. So I am going to talk about what it really is and how it really works. So holistic health has nothing to do with burning incense or waving crystals or wearing strange clothing or moving into a cave.

Holistic health simply means that you address all of the person. You address all of the factors that influence health. So first we have to understand what is the body and what is it that affects the body.

So if you ask a scientist what the body is he'll say well you know it consists of matter and matter is the same thing as energy and energy gives rise to vibration and vibration has frequencies. And Nikola Tesla said if you want to find the secrets to the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration because if the entire universe is energy frequency and vibration then so are we. And we have to start thinking of the body more in those terms.

Everything that is alive has the ability to process signals or information from a little bacterium or an amoeba to more complex beings like humans. We all have the ability to process signals that is what makes us alive. So the human brain is one of the most complex things ever devised.

It has the ability to process billions of bits of information per second and it receives about 1 billion bits of information per second and for every bit it receives it's going to turn something on or it's going to turn something off. The sum total of all of that is called regulation and when regulation works then we find ourselves in a state of homeostasis which is the same thing as health. So then we want to understand what are those different signals what are those different pieces of information.

So there are three main categories and in chiropractic we talked about for a very long time that there's a triangle or a triad of health and there's a chemical side to us there's a physical mechanical side to us and there's an emotional thinking side to us and every one of those is equally important. We can't just work on one because then that triangle could get lopsided or lose a side altogether. So just think about this for a second.

We all know that movement creates signals and we get more energized if we stand up and do some jumping jacks then we feel more energized. We also know that we can eat something that makes us feel good or we can eat something that makes us feel bad. There's good and a bad side to all of these aspects.

So nutrition proper nutrition is the good side toxic nutrition would be a bad aspect of the chemical side. As far as emotion we also know that you could think something you could have an emotional response to the thought and you could feel really tense and your blood pressure could jump 50 points. So all of these things change physiology they change your health.

So movement chemical nutrition etc and thoughts they're all equally important so if they can affect you if they can cause stress then they can change your health and then that something that we need to address. So that's what holistic health is that we don't just look at one thing we understand how the body works we understand what impacts health and then we look at all of those aspects we look at the whole. There's nothing mystical there's nothing strange it's just an understanding of how the body really works and we address all of it so we don't leave anything out.

And that is the only way that you're going to return the body to health or maintain the body at an optimum level of health is through holistic health is by understanding what the body is what impacts it and by carefully learning and understanding what those factors are and how to develop a lifestyle so that you can optimize all those factors.