By Alexis Louise Reda
Classical holistic health is an approach to healing that comes from using the given (natural) laws and materials of the planet we’re on as healing tools, which recognizes the mind as having a partial role in the healing process. The intention is to reunite the body with the mind.
Sometimes, though, regardless of intention, holistic health adopts a disease-focus from conventional (non-holistic) medicine, in that its increased focus on natural remedies turns into an obsession that renders it a fear-based attractor for its clients. As we know, this recruits the mind, ironically, to fixate on potential diseases that may arise from an inescapable modern world.
Integrative medicine recognizes the power of the mind more, as its science base is quantum physics. It also recognizes the nature of an altered natural environment, where exposure to noted toxins are inevitable. Secondly, integrative medicine puts an emphasis on “positive health,” training its clinicians to use an approach that doesn’t connote a focus on the diagnosis or incoming disease at hand; instead it focuses on shifting perspective for mitigation and prevention. The most profound trait of this medicine that considers both holistic and conventional approaches as valid is its intention of putting the power back into the people regarding their immunity, healing, and overall well-being. The integrative practitioner observes any problem in the form of its underlying imbalances. The unique skill of the integrative practitioner is analogous to a strategist, who is educated on the broadest arsenal of tools in the modern playing field and can intuit the most harmonious implementation of specific tools for each individual client. There is no more need for the term “patient” in this revolutionary approach to health care.