Holistic Medicine III: The Holistic Process Theory of Healing

Abstract

It is possible to understand the process of healing from a holistic perspective. According to the life mission theory, we can stretch our existence and lower our quality of life when we are in crises, to survive and adapt, and we can relax to increase our quality of life when we later have resources for healing. The holistic process theory explains how this healing comes about: Healing happens in a state of consciousness exactly opposite to the state of crises. The patient enters the “holistic state of healing” when the (1) patient and (2) the physician have a perspective in accordance with life, (3) a safe environment, (4) personal resources, (5) the patient has the will to live, (6) the patient and (7) the physician have the intention of healing, (8) the trust of the patient in the physician, and (9) sufficient holding. The holding must be fivefold, giving the patient (1) acknowledgment, (2) awareness, (3) respect, (4) care, and (5) acceptance. The holistic process has three obligatory steps: (1) to feel, (2) to understand, and (3) to let go of negative decisions. This paper presents a theory for the holistic process of healing, and lists the necessities for holistic therapy restoring the quality of life, health, and ability to function of the patient.

Five Theories of the Human Existence

“…The holistic process theory [2] explains how healing happens. When the human being gets and accepts the acknowledgment or respect and care that was originally lacking, these frozen memories from the past come to the surface of the consciousness and can now be integrated.…”

“…The intent that brought us to the theories was the intent of giving support, holding, and holistic medical treatment to our patients. Recently, the fruit of this positive development in Denmark, Norway, and Israel was expressed in the holistic process theory of healing [2]. This theory is now making the basis for the development of a clinical and holistic medicine [14,15,16,17].…”

“…The theories support another new theory that we have called the holistic process theory of healing [2,3]. Before you can understand the holistic process of healing or make it work in the clinic, you need to understand human existence thoroughly.…”

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus

“…Biomedicine is often unable to find a cure in these situations, leaving the problem unsolved or leaving the patient on a palliative pharmaceutical cure often for a lifetime. In this case, consciousness-based (holistic) medicine is often the patient's choice and using the theories [6,7,8,9,10,11,14,15] and tools of holistic medicine [1,2,3] wisely, the physician can provide a cure for the patient in many cases. Helping the patient to get rid of a symptom that you do not understand as a physician is intellectually upsetting, but the physician must give priority to the intention of healing the whole patient.…”

“…To do this, it is important to develop as a person into what is known as the natural condition, a condition where the person know himself and uses all his efforts to achieve what is most important for him. The holistic process theory of healing [12,13,14,15] and the related quality of life theories [16,17,18] state that the return to the natural state of being is possible whenever the person gets the resources needed for existential healing. The resources needed are according to the theory of "holding" in the dimensions awareness, respect, care, acknowledgment, and acceptance with support and processing in the dimensions feeling, understanding, and letting go of negative attitudes and beliefs.…”