Indigenous medicines and treatment methods are showing to be greatly effective with mental health disease across the board, especially with substance abuse. Their holistic methods hold further implications for treating psychosomatic and chronic physical disease because are often the side effect of long-term mental health issues. The holistic model can be an additional layer to all medical practices as it an be an inclusive and a more coherent treatment when treating a whole p

What is really fascinating is the parallels between pain in the body and pain in mind or psyche. A great example of this can be taken from injury to the spine or a chronically poor posture that turns into serious spinal problems. How a person typically experiences spinal pain especially if there is scar tissue is typically pain and tightness. Scar tissue is typically the body’s way of over compensating for a lack of support or injury done to the body in order to maintain some

In mainstream psychotherapy negative self talk and other forms of anxiety are often dealt with an ever so antagonistic manner. They deploy interventions like thought stopping or thought replacement, typically found in cognitive behavioral therapy. Even in some forms of meditation, people are instructed to shut up the negative voices and dominate the psyche in a preferred manner. This style of treatment is reflective of the entire impetus of western civilization to go to war w