How do you treat disease holistically?

By its nature holistic is inclusive, not exclusive. Holistic by definition is encompassing Mind, Body and Spirit. So you don't see an approach that only uses one therapy. Generally I will leave most of the "traditional" techniques to the primary care physician or attending physician. IHC works with traditional approaches, never against and rarely without them. It takes the best of alternative and complimentary care combined with traditional care to get the best result.

IHC specializes in energy medicine. Energy medicine deals with the body's energetic field. Since everything the human body manifests is energy, it makes sense to deal directly with the source of the disease. Energy medicine deals heavily with thought. Thoughts are energy, and this is how everything begins. As I say: Thoughts Create!

Everything that encompasses you as a human begins with a thought. Wellness, sickness, peace, joy... all begin with thoughts. Thoughts are energy and when they recur, thoughts begin to leave impressions on your mind and create emotions. Emotions linger longer than thoughts, and emotions begin to affect neurotransmitters in your brain. These neurotransmitters affect the function of every organ, and the body as a whole. When these emotions are held onto they can create wellness or dysfunction, depending whether the emotion is love-based or fear-based. Repeated dysfunctional living creates the basis for long standing illness.

IHC addresses the dysfunction at the source. We do not try to suppress the symptom—we spend the time needed to find the root of the dysfunction.

Aren't medicines necessary?

Simply put, sometimes. Medicines are not evil, and there are times when medicine makes things more tolerable. But in our experience there is not a condition that REQUIRES medication to heal. Rarely do the meds heal anyway. Usually they are used to suppress an unwanted symptom, and the cause for the symptom goes unchanged or even unknown. If you can use a medicine for short term relief while you are addressing the underlying issue, then you have a balance of science and nature.

Pills generally enable someone to continue to live a dysfunctional life. Think about it. Blood pressure pills save millions of people from having a stroke or heart attack. Yet couldn't most, if not all, of these individuals lose weight, eat nutritious food and exercise more? What if they were at their ideal body weight? Statistically speaking, lifestyle accounts for most hypertension. So Mr. Smith takes norvasc, lisinopril, and HCTZ for his hypertension so he can eat too much, lay around the house, ride a riding lawn mower and generally be a slug. He takes his pills so he can live his choice of lifestyle. Not a bad thing, freewill is a God-given right. Mr. Smith's habits are costing all of us, and continuing to treat his symptoms without treating the underlying cause hasn't worked.

So how is IHC different? Mr. Smith continues his pills, for now. It is much easier to treat a live person than a dead one! The key to successful treatment lies in Mr. Smith taking responsibility for his disease (or lesson, as we call it). Using The Emotional Basis of Disease, we find that hypertension indicates a need for forgiveness. A need to accept and give love unconditionally. This is part of the solution. We work with him to identify those he needs to forgive, and help him to accept love more freely. If he is having side effects from his meds, we try switching to something more natural. We use supplements to help improve his health. These are other parts of his healing.

After he has begun his journey back to balance, he will be much more open to dietary changes and exercise. These changes will only occur with a fundamental shift in his thinking that was being obstructed by his underlying lesson in forgiveness. We would use combinations of Reiki, acupuncture, massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, hypnotherapy, and more to help Mr. Smith bring balance back into his life. As he heals his meds would be weaned carefully.

How do you treat Fibromyalgia?

In my experience with fibromyalgia, I have seen a distinct personality trait emerge. People with fibro tend to be very hard on themselves. They usually have some degree of self-loathing. They usually have something in their past that they feel they will never be forgiven for, or something that if others found out about would judge them harshly.

Some common phrases I have heard: I had a good day today, I'll pay the price tomorrow. I don't deserve that. I hurt so badly I can't enjoy life.

A wise teacher of mine once likened humans to a clod of dirt. As you remove the parts you don't like, or don't want people to know about, the clod gets smaller and smaller. Eventually there is nothing left. We are that entire clod, and we are loved—unconditionally. It is up to us—and only us—to love ourselves.

Remember, what others think about us is none of our business!

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