From the American Holistic Health Association

Please don’t tell me what I don’t have. We both know I came to you to learn if I have cancer. If I know what I have, I know what I am fighting, and there is less to fear. If you hide the name and the facts, you deprive me of the chance to help …

Spiritual health, while often the most overlooked aspect of healing, is actually the ultimate goal of holistic medicine, and leads to a heightened awareness of the Divine Spirit referred to by all religions. It isn’t important what name you give it. What matters is that you come to know and attune yourself to its guidance in …

Is the chronic stress of today’s hectic lifestyle leaving you drained, depleted, perpetually tired and irritable? Perhaps you agree with Nobel prize winner, Albert zent-Gyorgi that “Very few people know what real health is, because most are occupied with killing themselves slowly.” In reality, nature created you to feel good. Wouldn’t it be great to …

A year or so ago, I treated a young woman patient suffering from terrible, recurring migraine headaches. What made this case different from the norm for most physicians was the patient’s partnership in the healing process. During the first few visits we worked with the young woman’s diet and different forms of manipulation. No success. …

In today’s society, we often have the mindset of “pills solve problems”. If you’re nauseous, queasy, stuffed up, or otherwise not in the best of conditions, you grab whatever pill treats those symptoms and hope it works… but is that really the best way to treat (and prevent) diseases? Apparently not. Increasing amounts of evidence …

Health, True Health, is Knowing in the heart (for it can never be known in the brain), the answers to the two questions, really one, that confront, challenge, and terrify every human being: Who am I? and Why am I here? Health, True Health, is at last, the blessed, blissful, relief from anguish – from the inability, despite …

If humor is “the best medicine,” then how do we sustain it as a central part of our day-to-day lifestyle? While isolated humorous experiences, where we fall over with laughter, are an important aspect of the health potential of humor, the greatest benefits of humor lie in our daily ability to use humor to reduce …

Herbal remedies in their many available forms may seem complicated, but the principle is a simple one. Your body views plants as food and utilizes them very efficiently, taking almost all the valuable active principles and organic compounds right into your body’s cells. In contrast, your body does not recognize synthetic drugs as food and often …

The 3LS Wellness Program for Reversing Chronic Symptoms and Creating Lasting Health “There are many paths to the top of the mountain.” This statement by the great sages of human history can be used to describe the various ways to reach the goal of vigorous health and wholeness. Although this is true, in more than 38 …

Your first responsibility as a patient/client is to select a practitioner who will join your “team” to support you in obtaining and maintaining optimum health for your body, mind, emotions and spirit. While most holistic practitioners use modalities that are currently labeled “alternative medicine,” their interests and practices may vary widely. Thus, one person might …