Excluding regular medicine, the various types of natural healing includes all types of methods that contribute essentially to good health.
In the drug-free world, there is usually an emphasis on three MAIN limbs to make up one form of attacking most ailments.
These are
1. A Proper Diet
2. Adequate Exercise
3. Positive thinking habits.
Perhaps, nothing comes close to achievine natural healing of our many ailments than these three factors combined.
However, to target specific ailments, and still keep things in a drug-free approach,
the common and more popular methods of natural healing are:
-Chiropraction
-Reflexology
-Hypnotherapy
-Reiki
-Ayurveda
-Massage
And this is naming just a few.
Still, natural healing can be classified into five major domains of practice: alternative medical systems, mind-body techniques, biologically based therapies, body-based therapies, and energy therapies and under each category, one will be able to find some common natural healing methods as indicated.
*Alternative Medical Systems:
-Traditional Chinese Medicine
-Ayurveda
-Homeopathy
-Naturopathy
Mind-Body Techniques
-Meditation
-Relaxation Techniques
-Guided Imagery
-Hypnotherapy
-Biofeedback
Biologically Based Therapies
-Herbal Medicine
-Orthomolecular Medicine
Body-Based Therapies
-Chiropractic
-Massage Therapy
-Rolfing
-Reflexology
-Postural Reeducation
Energy Therapies
-Bioelectromagnetic-based Therapies
-Reiki
-Therapeutic Touch
So there you have it, the various forms of popular natural healing methods categorized under their parent categories.
At this point, it is safe to say that the plethora of choices does depict that indeed all of these methods are quite popular and documented statistics are showing that they are all indeed more or less effective, so suffice it to say one may be missing out by not looking into the several options.
Here’s to health in ’07 and beyond.
Aje