What is holistic health? This is a wellness strategy that focuses on the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual aspects – or body, mind, and spirit of an individual. By spirituality or spirit, I am not referring to anything religious.

This is about the core of who you are… the main self. The conventional doctors care for the body and neglect the mind, the traditional mental health practitioners care for the mind and neglect the body. Neither cares for the spiritual aspect. Both treat the symptoms with medication or surgery instead of looking for the cause of the symptom.

A holistic approach to health does not see the body, mind, and spirit as different entities and fosters medications and surgery only when it is necessary and after alternative solutions have been looked for. It explores the root causes of symptoms, as opposed to simply covering up with medications.

Body, mind, and spirit cannot be separated from each other. They are interlocked. What concerns one affects the others. A conception that is centered around one area is an unbalanced approach.

The World Health Organization reports that between 65 to 80 percent of the world’s population depends on holistic health organizations for their health care.

In general, holistic health organizations were created to stimulate physicians and professionals to adopt holistic approaches to health service delivery and to inform the public about these practices so that they would better understand, appraise and make decisions concerning their health care.

1. The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA)

AHHA is the leading holistic health organization in the world. This national resource center is a non-profit, independent educational association that helps people locate resources so they can improve their health and well-being.

2. American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA)

AHMA is a membership association for medical practitioners who wish to practice a wider form of medicine that embraces the holistic model. It connects and supports physicians through regional and national conferences, and a myriad of other informal channels as they move from conventional medicine to a more holistic model.

3. American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)

The AHNA is serving as the hope of holistic nursing. It is a gateway between alternative health practices and traditional health practices among nurses. American Holistic Nurses Association is a non-profit educational organization. Their membership is available to nurses and individuals interested in holistic health care practices in the USA and around the world. This organization is committed to educating physicians, nurses, and the general public about health issues.

4. American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF)

The AAHF is an advocate for health professionals who are practicing nutrition and related health approaches. They strive for medical freedom for people who want to practice alternative medicine.

5. The coalition of Natural Health (CNH)

The CNH or Natural Health Coalition’s mission is to maximize the freedom of choice of an individual’s natural health. This encompasses the consumer’s right to select natural health alternatives and the physician’s right to practice them. The coalition of Natural Health also seeks to educate consumers and legislators about the role of natural health approaches in promoting wellness.

6. American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP)

The AADP is a professional body and an accreditation board that aims to promote a more professional prestige and image among professionals in non-traditional and traditional therapies and methodologies. They provide free patient referrals, a nationally published membership list, licensed non-invasive testing laboratories, professional affiliations, consultation, and state board licensing assistance.

7. American Society of Alternative Therapists (ASAT)

The American Society of Alternative Therapists or ASAT is a non-profit organization of ASAT-certified C.O.R.E. Counselors. Conscious, Ownership, Retrieval/Release and Engage or C.O.R.E., is a unique method facilitating the needs of its clients. The advice of C.O.R.E. helps the clients to be aware of the cause of the problems, to take charge of the problem, to restore the means to solve the problem, to remove the source of the problem and, finally, participate in activities to have an elegant, abundant, and healthy future.

8. Foundation for Alternative and Integrative Medicine (FAIM)

FAIM was founded with the aim of identifying advances in Complementary and Alternative Therapies and to carry out research and report on their usefulness. The mission of FAIM also emphasizes the affordability and availability of treatments because the world needs economical ways to bring health.

9. HeartMath Institute (HMI)

The HeartMath Institute is a non-profit organization that is committed to helping activate people’s hearts. They believe that when we align and connect our minds and hearts and are connected to others, we are awakening the higher mental, emotional, and spiritual abilities that often remain dormant. HMI aims to always drive its operations with compassion, passion and a sincere desire to change lives. This is consistent with our desire to help mark the beginning of an era of ever-expanding cardiac intelligence.

10. Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI)

The PMRI is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public organization established in 1984 by Dean Ornish, M.D. Their mission is to provide the highest level of compassionate and service-minded scientific research and education. PMRI research utilizes state-of-the-art medical technology to prove the potency of these low-technology lifestyle changes.

Wrapping Up

These are but a few of the holistic health organizations that promote holistic health, and alternative medicine. There are several holistic health organizations all over the world.

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