Holistic healing is defined as healing the person as a whole – including current signs and symptoms of the disease, collaterals of the disease, mental health that caused the disease or that is caused by the disease and lifestyle around the disease, and not target just one specific area of the disease or its single parameter.
Unlike modern medicine, which can act faster and instantly show temporarily controlled parametric results, holistic healing on the other hand can take a much longer duration and can be a fairly slower process. With holistic healing, the focus lies on creating long term recovery with an emphasis on sustainability, prevention and wellness of overall health.
The duration of holistic healing can depend on a number factor such as:
- Lifestyle changes
- Current health state
- Energy levels of the patient
- Will power to be better
- Patience
- Self-awareness
- Commitment
- Patient-practitioner communication and trust
The key is to achieve a balance among all areas and promote optimal health.
An individualized assessment is often used to guide the patient to establish healthy habits through lifestyle changes and appropriate remedy selections. It is like revamping your life which might take a while for the patient to adapt to. The process works by slowly bringing you back to your natural state of functioning and then to work out a way to maintain the stability for long term. It aims to improve mental clarity and makes the person feel connected and to have a better understanding with themselves.
An individualized assessment would include the following:
- Emotional state
- Stress levels
- History of the person
- Family’s history
- Food preferences
- Lifestyle behaviours and habits
It is an elaborate process which may include a lot of interfering factors that could lead to a treatment taking longer to work.
Holistic health bypasses the conventional medicine’s ‘quick fix’ approach and looks beyond the person’s disease state to identify the root cause of it.
It works by curing the imbalances in each layer to an extent where it no longer exists and the person is free of it. The duration can never accurately be predicted. However, on an average, holistic treatment is expected to restore the health to 25%-50% in a duration of 6 months to 1 year, with a complete healing taking around 18 months to 2 years. Patients with lesser interfering factors see a complete restoration of health within 6 months itself with a few people claiming to feel 10 years younger.
The stage at which a patient is crucial in terms of how long the patient might take to heal and for the system to build up.
