Holistic care is the non-traditional means of treating symptoms or disease. It involves understanding the cause of disease prior to treatment.
When you come in contact with an allergen or virus, do you initiate an immune response? When you cut yourself do you tell your body to begin the clotting action so the bleeding will stop and form a scab? Of course not, because these functions are performed automatically without the conscious mind thinking about it. Our body's nervous system is a complex of fibers that constantly monitor our voluntary functions within the body and make appropriate changes when needed to keep the body in balance. Messages are sent from the body to the brain such as when we touch a hot stove; we feel pain and a signal is sent to pull the hand away to eliminate the pain. Our brain makes a decision and the body follows. Optimally, this is how our bodies are supposed to work.
But because the world we live in today is surrounded with toxins, our bodies have a strenuous time adapting (find a state of balance). We consume meats and dairy from animals injected with overwhelming amounts of hormones; our garbage is compiling with little concern for what it is doing to our environment; we eat processed dead food; take synthetic vitamins; overload our bodies with caffeine; load our children up with sugar and drink far to little good clean water.
It's no wonder illness and autoimmune diseases are on the rise. Unfortunately, we are spending so much time trying to treat the problems that we are missing the source of them. Many times patients are told to go to a psychologist because they can't figure out what is wrong with them. Fortunately, we have options in our health care today. Holistic care is on the rise and not only by the general public, but by the medical professional as well. The combination of both eastern and western medicine can create ideal results for our patients today.
Holistic care is the non-traditional means of healing the body. It begins with the patient wanting to take responsibility of his or her health. It does not break the person down into pieces attempting to treat one piece at a time, but rather strives to treat the person on the whole- emotional, structural, nutritional, spiritual and physical. Did you know that emotions affect your health just as much as processed food, drugs and alcohol? In fact, many of our structural complaints stem from emotional traumas.
Emotions such as fear, anger, grief, sadness and many others can negatively affect us long after the original event that caused them. When our body fails to let go of these emotions we can find ourselves with unexplained aversions, self-sabotaging behaviors, destructive beliefs, phobias and many chronic problems. People used to think emotions resided entirely in their brain. Now we know other parts of the body can hold emotions too.
Ever felt butterflies in your stomach before a speech, referred to something as a pain in the neck or felt a lump in your throat?
Clearly emotions happen in our body, not just our brain! If we are in a weakened state due to poor nutrition, stress or physical trauma, everyday emotions may not resolve naturally. Later in our lives when we experience a similar situation, the old emotional response kicks in.
Dr. Ormsby uses her techniques to clear these emotional pathways in order for the body to heal itself.
