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A Simple and Easy to Understand Introduction to the Art and Science of Natural Healing
Natural healing is a therapeutic process that addresses imbalances and dysfunctional patterns in the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
The most skilled practitioners employ an array of tools, techniques, strategies, and philosophies that focus on supporting our innate ability to heal.
Most professional practitioners of natural healing will seek to avoid more invasive therapeutic approaches such as pharmaceutical drugs and surgery though they are not necessarily opposed to them.
Natural healing has been practiced since the dawn of human culture. Early communal groups and tribes knew how to use local plants, clay, animals, and other tools and techniques for healing ailments of all types. The codification of healing techniques goes back thousands of years to the Rig Veda in India, the writings of the mythological Yellow Emperor in China, and thousands of indigenous practices that have existed, and are still used around the world. In the west, the origins of natural healing are usually traced to the ancient Greek Hippocrates, often referred to as the “Father of Medicine”.
