Category: Health/Wellness Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN-10: 1600373879
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 176
Copyright: October 1, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781600373879
The big picture ABC book for patients and practitioners of alternative medicine and holistic therapies. Explains the secrets of making the best choices in a personalized way, out of the overwhelming number of bewildering options available.
This is the book that alternative therapy practitioners and their patients with chronic illnesses have been waiting for! Getting Whole, Getting Well gives the reader an introductory big picture blueprint for sorting through the bewildering options available in alternative health and finding the right program for a personalized package of care.Not an encyclopedic list of options, but rather a practical and inspiring road map for navigating the endless claims for the latest “cures.”Dr. Bell puts the word “holistic” back into the story. This guide reveals the secrets of true holistic healing. Anyone suffering from a chronic illness and wanting to take charge of their treatment program will find expert help here from one of the top researchers internationally in the field of complementary and alternative medicine.
Excerpt
The point of the book is that you can learn to build your own effective individualized program of holistic healing care that includes practitioner-provided and self-care interventions – but you have to understand where each option fits into the big picture.
Most other books on CAM are either introductory overview encyclopedias of treatment modalities or in depth explanations of one type of CAM. But, all CAM treatments — just as with Western medicine — are not the same, in terms of their potential to help different people with different types of health conditions.
As a consumer, you probably find it hard to decide what is best for you. Many people combine treatments without giving much thought to interactions — good or bad — between them, let alone the potential for the package of care to help them overall.
Picking treatments just because you prefer something more familiar or easier to do, rather than something less familiar and harder to try could keep you from maximizing your results. And, picking treatments — or, sometimes, providers, because they helped Aunt Alma is no guarantee that you’ll get what you need to solve your problems. For many people with chronic illnesses, putting together a handful of vitamins and minerals and herbs is a way to start, but it is usually not enough. True healing is a complex but rewarding journey, not an overnight cure from a magic pill. Putting your options into a larger perspective will make it much clearer for you to know what to do.
This book is different. Getting Whole, Getting Well gives you an alternative to the confusion – with the ABC Principle of personalized holistic healing. The ABC Principle is a way to create your own individualized plan for getting the most benefit and least risk from the integrated package of care that you will develop. Throughout this book, you will see these ideas at work:
Assess
- Assess your options and how they might help you. Re-assess the benefits and risks before you begin and periodically throughout treatment for each intervention and for the package of care that you choose
Balance
- Balance yourself as a living system whose body parts all play different, essential, and interrelated roles within you, by balancing the elements of your treatment package to serve your ability as a whole not only to survive, but also to thrive
Coordinate
- Coordinate the elements of your treatment plan as a whole, interconnected system of care intended to balance you, not as a patchwork collection of things-I’d-like-to-try-and-see-what-helps-each-separate-symptom
Re-Release! No longer back-listed. Return to the Olde Ways. The hustle and bustle of modern day life has brought many of us to a quick fix attitude.This book is for those of you who are fed up; have looked at your life and your loved ones and realize
