History of holistic medicine : Ancient therapies for good health and longevity

Discover the history of holistic medicine. Welcome to Holistic Life Living, my Holistic Therapy website. I hope that you will find this site interesting, enjoyable and that you might find yourself trying some of the therapies!

Within this site you can learn about different types of holistic therapies such as Reflexology, Hypnotherapy and Colour Therapy.

Holistic medicine and related therapy is so beneficial to our health and wellbeing. Here, we can learn how we can increase our longevity, and discover herbal remedies that are safe and effective to use.

There are links to other sites that will inspire you to look at your life in a more healthy way and encourage you to see holistic life living as a beautiful way of living.

By choosing holistic therapies we are learning how to take care of our physical bodies, as well as our spiritual and emotional bodies. Read through the site and see how holistic healing works. Through learning about chakras, for example, we realise that we are not simply a physical body, but much more - we have a spiritual aspect and this needs to be healed as well as the physical body. People choosing to live a holistic life, have at their disposal a huge array of wonderful and insightful information never before available. Holistic Therapies are becoming widely accepted as being of real benefit to our health and wellbeing and are available to people from all walks of life.

Today, through the mediums of internet, television, DVD, video etc, we have at our fingertips pearls of wisdom from truly great teachers who have shared their knowledge with us. Information is free to us all from the internet. We have at the touch of a keypad endless opportunities for spiritual, mental and physical growth. We are incredibly lucky to be alive today! Whenever we undergo a Holistic Therapy, it gives us the chance to connect for a while with the beauty and magnificence of life - and time to connect with our spiritual nature, or God, or Spirit - whatever you like.

By being aware, all of the time, of the connection between our thoughts and our physical body, we can begin to change our lives for the better. Your inner thoughts are manifest in your physical life.

When we focus clearly on positive, happy, uplifting thoughts, we actually can help to heal damaged cells in our bodies and bring about healing. This is how holistic healing works. Deepak Chopra says that a few minutes of daily, concentrated breathing can have a lasting beneficial effect on our lives. Correct breathing can add years to your life. Real healing cannot be understood until we realise the importance of our personal beliefs, assumptions and expectations in the context of our health. Death rates are higher from diseases such as cancer in those people who are distressed psychologically and lower in those people who have a strong sense of vitality and wellbeing.

If we can transform our negative thought patterns into more life enhancing positive beliefs, we can improve our health dramatically. Holistic Medicine and holistic therapies encourage us to look beyond the physical body and to incorporate all aspects of our lives - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

The roots of many of the therapies date back thousands of years, to the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, any many other civilizations. Even western medicine has its roots in holistic therapy.

I hope that you enjoy browsing through them, and that maybe you might find yourself trying out a few new approaches and see if they make a difference in your life!