Title: What Does Holistic Health Mean? | Medicines Naturally
Headings: What Does Holistic Health Mean?
What Does Holistic Health Mean?
Beyond The Realm Of The Mind
What Does A Healer Do?
Holistic Lifestyle Retreats
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Content: Alternative health therapies are those that are practiced outside the realm of modern scientific belief therapies. The word holistic stems from the Greek work holos that means all or total. So one could say that holistic health is whole health. The general concept was derived from Aristotle when he theorized that “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”. The idea of it all is that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, etc) cannot be determined by its component but rather the system as a whole determines how the parts behave. The goal is a wellness that encompasses the entire person, rather then just the lack of pain or disease. The concept of health and fitness view achieving and maintaining good health more then just taking care of the physical aspect. The mental and the emotional aspects of the whole body must be met for whole wellness to be achieved. Holistic health is more then a one-way approach to wellness; it is a lifestyle and an approach to how treatment should be applied.