Serious Mind+Body Healing

Functional Medicine involves a holistic approach that looks at the interconnectedness of the whole person – not a disease. It is steeped in the understanding that if you support the normal healing mechanisms of the body, the body will heal itself once provided with what it needs to do the healing. The focus of care is on looking to find the root cause or mechanism involved with any loss of function which ultimately reveals why a set of symptoms is there in the first place or why the client has a particular disease label. It is a system based in the understanding that health is NOT just the absence of disease but a state of immerse vitality. It is an approach that understands that the body is intelligent and has the capacity for self-regulation which expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all body systems.

The definition of ‘holistic’ when applied to a medical forum is as follows: “Characterized by the treatment of the whole person taking into account mental and social factors rather than just the physical symptoms of disease.”

Energy Medicine is based on the fundamental premise that all physical objects (bodies) and psychological processes (thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and attitudes) are expressions of energy or qi or life force. Most of us are familiar with devices such as an MRI machine, lasers used in eye correction surgery, or a pacemaker; all of these devices use what we refer to as veritable energy (energy that can be measured with current technology) for medical diagnosis or treatment. Many of us are also familiar with veritable energy practices used in the health and wellness field such as sound therapy (tuning forks, crystal singing bowls), music therapy, and magnet therapy.

In addition to these there are also many types of energy techniques that could be categorized as putative energy (energy that cannot be measured with current technology) techniques such as Reiki, prayer, and acupuncture that involve using the subtle energy fields of the body. These types of therapies are used to restore balance in the energetic system for it is believed that health is determined by the overall flow and balance of a person’s vital life force energy and any imbalances or blockages in the natural flow of the subtle energy fields in the body cause illness.

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