First of All, Do No Harm.

This is a principle shared with conventional medicine. Its meaning is obvious, yet the potential to do harm is at times, subtle and not as obvious as if we, for instance, give a supplement or herbal formula that has ingredients that are contraindicated for a certain condition and cause direct damage from it. We must know when we are in over our heads in a given case and need to refer, and when we need to send a patient to the Emergency room. When we work to treat the symptoms of disease and not the root cause, there is a worsening of the disease at the level of the Vital Force, and this is a form of harm. When we practice counseling allopathically, we offer a lot of advice, we tell the patient what they wish to hear. We can also cause harm by the dependence we create in the patient, and also the advice we thought was accurate but was misleading. When we work holistically and in harmony with Nature, we tend to do no harm, so fear around this topic is unnecessary, but mindfulness and awareness is always important.

To Heal the Whole Person

In Picture 1, I depict four-dimensional "worlds" or realities that are equivalent to the four dimensions of the "whole person" widely accepted in Naturopathic medicine. I have depicted some additional similarities spanning other traditions to demonstrate the universality or similarities found in this topic. The understanding of the four dimensions of the human being, along with direction of influence is very important in understanding Holism.

It is at the soul level where we derive our origins. It is at soul level where our "I AM" statement is pronounced. At the soul level, we sit in a world of infinite healing energy, where The Healing Power of Nature is at its most pure and highest vibrational frequency.

From the soul emanates all life, all vitality. All energies of Nature trickle down to the other three-dimensional worlds that are slower and lower in vibration. One can call them "more dense."

In Picture 2, the waterfall represents the energies that work their way down to the three lower worlds, originating from the world of soul. On the right-hand side of the picture, when there is nothing that interferes with the I AM statement of a soul, the mind is supplied with free-flowing uninhibited and healthy energy from the Universe, from the source of all life, the Creator. We say that in such a state all things are in harmony. The emotions and body will happily reflect the nature of the soul and the mind, all in ways that resonate with and mirror the soul's I AM state.

The Mind and False Belief Systems – The Fundamental Cause of Disease

"Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to mis-thought."

On the left-hand side of Picture 2, we see that a rock, at the level of the mind, is impeding the flow of the vital life force that emanates from the soul. As a result, the emotional world and the physical world (body) will equally be blocked from the supply of the vital life force. This is how disease begins in a person. First the mind adopts some form of false idea (called a negative belief system) that is not in harmony with the I AM statement of the soul. This gets in the way or impedes the natural flow of emanation from the higher world to the lowest. In simple terms, health comes from being oneself. Disease results in believing something about the self which is incorrect and then living by that false belief.

It is because the belief system that a person chooses to believe is false that it impedes the flow of life force. A belief or way of thinking that is in harmony with the state of I AM at the soul level, will simply work in harmony, flow, and be a part of the source of Truth from the soul. One can say such a belief in the mind that is in harmony is not even an active or willful state of mind, but rather that it emanates from the soul and is effortless. It is therefore, take note, not even a choice. It is more like a reflection of the soul, and a way of the mind "knowing" one's I AM statement. That is an effortless form of observation of what is. Here we see that we did not create ourselves and life is therefore more about discovery of self and then allowing ourselves to be who we really are.

One way we discover who we are is by recognizing what we are not. We know what we are not by choosing to believe something false about ourselves and discovering that it really doesn't work for...