10 Principles of Holistic Health

From the American Holistic Medical Association:

1. 1. Optimal Health is the primary goal of holistic medical
   practice. It is the conscious pursuit of the highest level of functioning
   and balance of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of human experience, resulting in a dynamic state of being fully alive. This creates a condition of well-being regardless of the presence or absence of disease.
    


2. The Healing Power of Love. Holistic health care
   practitioners strive to meet the patient with grace, kindness, acceptance, and
   spirit without condition, as love is life’s most powerful
   healer.
    


3. Whole Person. Holistic health care practitioners view
   people as the unity of body, mind, spirit and the systems in which they
   live.
    


4. Prevention and Treatment. Holistic health care
   practitioners promote health, prevent illness and help raise awareness of
   dis-ease in our lives rather than merely managing symptoms. A holistic approach
   relieves symptoms, modifies contributing factors, and enhances the patient’s
   life system to optimize future well-being.
    


5. Innate Healing Power. All people have innate powers of
   healing in their bodies, minds and spirits. Holistic health care practitioners
   evoke and help patients utilize these powers to affect the healing
   process.
    


6. Integration of Healing Systems. Holistic health care
   practitioners embrace a lifetime of learning about all safe and effective
   options in diagnosis and treatment. These options come from a variety of
   traditions, and are selected in order to best meet the unique needs of the
   patient. The realm of choices may include lifestyle modification and
   complementary approaches as well as conventional drugs and
   surgery.
    


7. Relationship-centered Care. The ideal practitioner-patient
   relationship is a partnership which encourages patient autonomy, and values the
   needs and insights of both parties. The quality of this relationship is an
   essential contributor to the healing process.
    


8. Individuality. Holistic health care practitioners focus
   patient care on the unique needs and nature of the person who has an illness
   rather than the illness that has the person. 
    


9. Teaching by Example. Holistic health care practitioners
   continually work toward the personal incorporation of the principles of holistic
   health, which then profoundly influence the quality of the healing
   relationship.
     


10. Learning Opportunities. All life experiences including
    birth, joy, suffering and the dying process are profound learning opportunities
    for both patients and health care practitioners.

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