The Best Introduction to Natural Healing

Newsletter #5 in the Wellness Wednesday Series

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A 2 minute read

I’ve always had a passion for Natural healing science. I say science because there are thousands of studies on plants, armomatherapy, massage, bodywork, exercise therapy, hypnosis and more about various therapeutic processes that address imbalances and dysfunctional patterns in the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

The most skilled practitioners employ an array of tools, techniques, strategies, and philosophies that focus on supporting our innate ability to heal.,

If you Google “Natural Healing meaning” these are the questions asked most often.

• What is the meaning of natural healing?

• What are the natural ways of healing?

• What is the concept of healing?

• I will address these throughout this newsletter.

• What Makes Someone a Natural Healer?

These are practitioners practitioners of techniques that may help a patient or client to avoid more invasive therapeutic approaches such as pharmaceutical drugs and surgery though these practitioners are not necessarily opposed to these more invasive approaches.

Natural healing has been practiced since the dawn of human culture. Early communal groups and tribes knew how to use local plants, clay, animals, and other tools and techniques for healing ailments of all types. The codification of healing techniques goes back thousands of years to the Rig Veda India, the writings of the mythological Yellow Emperor in China, and thousands of indigenous practices that have existed and are still used around the world. In the west, the origins of natural healing are usually traced to help the ancient Greek Hippocrates, who is often referred to as the “Father of Medicine”. Through millennia, certain individuals have come to be known as pioneers in the development of natural healing in the west. Among them being Paracelsus, Thomas Allinson, Andrew Still, D.D. Palmer, Peter Ling, Randolph Stone, John Harvey Kellogg, Bernarr McFadden, John Tilden, Henry Lindlhar, Sebastian Kneipp; his student Benedict Lust; and his student Jesse Mercer Gehman who was my teacher. It was Dr. Gehman and his friend the great natural healer and my shamanic guide Vince Collura who helped me to set up my own naturopathic practice in NYC in the early nineteen-seventies

”Natural healing is a broad discipline rather than a particular method there are many different drugless methods in natural healing.”

What are Among the Most Common Natural Healing Techniques?

· Massage,

· Acupressure

· Chiropractic,

· Osteopathic manipulation,

· Herbal medicine,

· Homeopathy,

· Aromatherapy,

· General vitamin and herbal supplementation,

· Orthomolecular Medicine

· Nutritional and dietary therapy,

· Color therapy,

· Fasting

· Chinese Medicine

· Aryuvedic Medicine

· Psychological Counseling

· Hypnosis

· Exercise Therapy

· Hydrotherapy

· Somatic and Movement Re-education

· Spiritual and Metaphysical Healing in all its many forms. 

Are all Natural Healing Techniques “Scientifically Proven”

Some are and others are part of traditional folk medicine, and “energy healing”. Some techniques and methods often focus on “a reliance upon the cosmic forces of man’s nature”.

Many of the key elements on the practice of natural healing are based on a belief in the body’s ability to heal itself through special vital energy or life force guiding bodily processes internally. It is quite similar to the Chinese concept of qi.

More than anything natural healers focus on a holistic approach to preventing illness through a balanced, stress reduction and changes to diet and lifestyle. To this, they are likely to add many of the methods of evidence-based medicine, especially in case of an emergency.

There are many professions within mainstream modern health care that originated in the early natural healing movement. Among these are physical therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Creative Art therapies.

Today there are certain concepts that are fundamental to most natural healing even when applied by a formally trained medical doctor who uses drugs and surgery in combination with some of these techniques. An example of such a physician might be someone like Dr. Oz, the popular Turkish-American television personality, cardiothoracic surgeon, and Columbia University, professor.

The Takeaway.

Anyone can learn to use natural healing techniques. I’ve been teaching this work for over half a century

As of 2022 professional natural healing can generally be categorized into three groups:

1. those with a government-issued license;

2. those who practice outside of official status (‘often traditional natural healing professional, and naturopaths”);

3. those who are primarily another kind of health professional who also practices natural healing.

This particular post is extracted from the Course on Natural Healing A-Z and Beyond

http://chihealer.healthwealtheducation.com/the-course-in-natural-healing-a-z-beyond/

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Author: Hey there. My name is Lewis Harrison, and I created this newsletter. I am a transformational life coach, natural healer, and teacher. I am a proponent of entrepreneurism and also a writer and seminar leader. The author of over twenty books, and numerous self-improvement, business success, and personal development courses, I am the former host of a talk show on NPR Affiliated WIOX91.3 FM.

I am also the author of the book Hands-on Healing: Massage the Shaman’s Way, and Helping Yourself with Natural Healing

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