In Reply to: Re: New Age and Holistic Health posted by MG on July 16, 2004 at 10:57:40:
.....Or maybe I completely misunderstand you OT when you say: "I feel good about dropping the subject on this board; OK?" And that was after posting lengthy excerpts from the guidelines.
My wife, who is a nurse, is taking courses Holistic Nursing care. In terms of the whole: mind, body, spirit. Below is an excerpt from the American Holistic Nurses Association’s preamble:
"We Believe:
1. Nursing is an art/science with the primary purpose to nurture others towards the wholeness inherent within them.
2. Nurses have a unique opportunity to provide services that facilitate wholeness.
3. Holistic Nurses demonstrate expertise in a variety of roles and activities.
4. Holistic nursing assists people to assume personal responsibility for self-care.
5. Clients, families, and communities have the right to health care that honors the body, mind, and spirit.
6. Disease and distress are viewed as an opportunity for increased awareness of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit.
7. Holistic modalities and therapies provide support and options in healing."
Whether this is New Age or not, my personal belief is that Holistic health care is a very needed and very helpful.
When my wife comes home from the courses she's taking in Holistic Reflexologie she practices on me. There's pressure points in my feet that she massages which are linked to every part of my body. It's fantastic how good for me it is.
When I was in the Family there was a publication on how anything to do with New Age was completely satanical, the Devil coming as an angel of light, etc. The last thing I would have done at the time was to even consider that there be valid and useful thought, teachings, philosophy, etc., in some of the New Age stuff which can help me grow and progress spiritually.
Now I'm so thankful to have been wonderfully freed from that control. A lot of New Age stuff doesn't mean anything to me, but a lot of it does.
If someone doesn't agree then they don't agree. What I do and what if believe, I do for myself. I would hope that Journeys is a place where I can talk about it. Whoever wants to is completely free to have other beliefs and disagree, I don't thing that should mean the topic should be dropped from the board.