What is Alternative Medicine?

The term Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for alternative medicine and complementary medicine. Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional treatments. Complementary medicine describes practices used in conjunction and cooperation with conventional medicine. Complementary and Alternative Medicine together defines a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine. It also defines integrative medicine as ?combining mainstream medical therapies and CAM therapies for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness."

What is Naturopathic Medicine?

Naturopathy is the eclectic practice of Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.) using many different natural therapies as treatment. The original method of treatment of Naturopathy was the water cure.

What is Massage Therapy?

Also known as Integrative Body Work, is the base that supports all other strategies. Many people seek therapeutic massage as a natural means to promote healthy body functioning, and to enhance the body's own restorative power.

What is Homeopathy?

It is a dynamically powerful system of natural healing. It works by gently activating your body's inner healing abilities. Premium homeopathic formula are produced by combining minute amounts of the purest ingredients from all realms of nature.

What is Qi Robics™?

Dr Frost is the developer of this new exercise form. It is a creative combination of Breath Therapy exercises (Medical Qi Gong) and Integrative Movement Therapy (Taiji, Tai Chi). It loosens and lubricates all the joints of the body and increases flexibility as it relieves stress.

What is Polarity?

Polarity is a modality for posture and muscle balancing. It is a system of energetic touch of reflex and acupressure points that balance energy flow in the body. Polarity, an integrative approach to healing and wellness, involves energetic touch, exercises and polarity nutrition. These techniques reduce stress, increase vital energy and promote healing through self-awareness.

What is Hair Analysis?

Hair Analysis is also known as Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), is a screening test that measures the mineral content of your hair. It provides us with a mineral blueprint of your biochemistry and specific information about your metabolic rate, energy levels, sugar and carbohydrate tolerance, stage of stress, immune system and glandular activity.

What is Pranic Healing?

It is a bio-electric energy management system (B.E.E.M.S.). It is an integrating, non-touch, body and mind healing system that relies on the fact that there is an intimate connection between the bio-plasmic body and the physical body. As your bio-plasmic body begins to heal, it creates a new and perfect pattern for the physical counterpart to follow. B.E.E.M.S. acts as a powerful catalyst to spark the body's inborn ability to heal itself. However, it is not meant to replace orthodox medicine but rather to complement it and enhance it.

Why do you recommend certified whole food supplements and herbs?

Commercial food is refined and left devoid of nutrients. Whole food supplements supply these nutrients. These companies are devoted to improving the quality of life by providing the safest, most effective, high quality dietary supplements through health care professionals. These products are formulated, to nourish specific systems and support the process of regaining wellness.

Are there any supplements that support depressed libido?

Depressed libido is often one of the complaints clients (male and female) mention when seeking wellness services. This is often a side effect of the unnatural lifestyles that we live. The whole food supplements that we recommend help nourish your whole system. Along with whole food supplements, we have a Body Complete Formula 1 that you must hear about. It provides the finest herbal supplementation we could find. This patented formula is the absolute most effective "first step" you can take to place you on your path to improved health. These ingredients have historically been used to support prostate health, resolve inflammation, improve immune function and support optimum male and female health.

What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP is a state-of-the-art set of communication methods for enhancing personal development and for creating personal change gracfully. NLP is described as "software for your brain" allowing you to automatically tap into the kind of experiences you want to have. NLP can assist you in going through old memories in new ways, quickly transforming unpleasant experiences into positive resources.

What can I learn from Alternative Strategies In Healing?

At Alternative Strategies in Healing, we teach health professionals and laypersons alike, that there are six major factors that can affect our health and vitality. When we handle these six influences properly, we can regain and/or maintain our balance.

1. Emotions: Emotions can be defined as energy in motion based on how we think and feel and is by far the biggest influence.

2. Nutrition: Nutrition is a very broad and deep subject. To summarize nutritional influences, we can break it down into three main categories by degree of importance.

A. Air (Oxygen): The quality of the air you breathe and your capacity to absorb airborne solar nutrients from breathing. We can survive 4-6 minutes without air.

B. Water: How much are you drinking and what is the quality and type of water you ingest? We can survive clinically about 14 days without water.

C. Food Stuff: Pay attention to the quality, amount and types of foods we eat, including micro-nutrients we get from supplemental vitamins and minerals and herbal formulas. We can survive clinically about 60 days without food.

3. Daily and seasonal weather changes: The Geomagnetic field around our planet creates a circadian rhythm that effects our personal biorhythmic cycles physically, mentally, and emotionally. There are also Solar, Lunar and Celestial changes electro-magnetically that have both subtle, and powerful influences on how our bodies interpret stress.

4. Environmental Toxins: The EPA states that indoor air pollution is our number one environmental problem in both the home and workplace creating a situation that is now referred to as "Sick Building Syndrome." There is also a little known phenomenon called the "psychic radiatory field" which is actually a collective process of toxic thought imprinting, that can create a very uncomfortable environment for humans, animals, and plants to live in.

5. Adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs: At present this information has been getting a lot of press. In fact, deaths caused by adverse reactions to drugs, is now ranked as the number four killer of Americans, behind heart attacks, cancer and strokes. Also, a little known fact is death caused by doctor error is now ranked number eight. AIDS is number 14. We mention this because of the huge effect the HIV and AIDS epidemic has had on the world in the past 20 years, especially in the African American community and most definitely on one third of the African Continent. Just thinking about this makes us feel stressed out!

6. Injury: At some point we all experience the stress of having an injury to our body, from stubbing your toe to recovering from major surgery. The human energy system has a huge task at hand when it comes to healing a wound or injury from some form of physical trauma. It is quite challenging to divert our emotional and mental interpretations to pleasant thoughts and feelings when we are in extreme pain. Automatically our body is bathed in the stress hormones, cortisol and adrenaline, which increase high levels of free radical damage, causing mutations to the integrity of our cells and DNA. Depending on the severity of the injury, you may experience as much as a 20-30 percent permanent loss of your inherent vitality. And of course, with lower levels of energy, we continue to become predisposed to the ravages of stress.

What can Alternative Strategies in Healing offer to your personal stress management program?

A stress management program must take place on many levels, from the spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and social with various modalities utilizing food, water and air as well as other means. This system is designed to work with you in complete cooperation with your body so that it can utilize its natural intelligence to heal itself.

Our programs are varied and individualized to provide you the opportunity to clear some of the mental and emotional stuff that may be slowing you down. By supporting your body with key nutrients and therapies during purification, you will likely find that your thoughts are clearer and you are better able to handle the events of your day without debilitating stress.