by Justina Hurley
1. Stress Reduction
Many complementary therapies concentrate on relaxation and reducing stress. They can help calm your emotions, relieve anxiety and increase your general sense of health and well being. Too much stress produces too much cortisol and adrenaline in the system and while the body can cope well with short burst of both, it cannot withstand high and continuous level of cortisol and adrenaline.
2. Staying positive
Having a positive outlook is an important part of coping with illness for most people. Even if your doctor tells you that your illness might be difficult to cure, of course you will still want and hope for a cure. This is normal and often a very important part of coping with illness. Some people use complementary therapies as a way of helping themselves feel positive and hopeful for the future. In addition, for people who find positivity difficult, there are complementary methods that can help teach you how to change your thinking to a more positive approach.
3. Being Heard
There is a great value in being heard. The downside of the current medical model is that most doctors just don’t have the time to chat and really listen to all concerns. Most complementary therapies in contrast, place a high diagnostic value on what the client says and pay attention to how a persons thoughts and emotions may be helping or hindering their recovery.
4. Time to learn about you…
Another reason people may use complementary therapies is because they get a lot of comfort and satisfaction from the feeling experience that a complementary therapy usually offers. Their self awareness increases and they become more in tune with how they are generally dealing with life. Giving time to a your emotional, psychological and spiritual needs can be a very positive aid to wellness.
5. Prevention
Having regular healing treatments may just help to prevent illness or to lessen the stressful impact of illness. Learning to destress, getting to know your own body and learning how to relax deeply can help the body to balance and to heal.
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