New Choices in Natural Healing for Women: Drug Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine
Prevention Magazine
ISBN 0-87596-387-0
Excerpt from the book:
“A therapy is considered natural if it relies more on your body’s innate poser to heal itself than on invasive interventins such as drugs and surgery. Some natural therapies, like acupuncture, are considred conventinal in non-Western countires such as china. Others, like herbal medicine, ar practiced widely in one form or the other in nearly every cultureof the globe. In this country, however, natural therapies are variously referred to as unconventional, alternative, complementary or unorthodox.”
New Choices includes this about my favorite therapy, cognitive therapy. One of the characteristics of cognitive therapy is that the sessions are free-associating but are structured. Some of the ways the session may be structured are:
1. Briefly review your week 2. Set a session agenda 3. Give feedback on your last session 4. Review your therapeutic homework 5. Discuss agenda items 6. Set new homework 7. Summarize the session 8. Provide feedback on this session (These have been suggested by Dr. Judith Beck, the daughter of Dr. Aaron Beck who developed cognitive therapy in the 1960′s.
Natural Healing (includes acupressure, acupuncture, Alexander Technique (posture), aromatherapy, art therapy, biofeedback, breath work (deep breathing), chiropractic (alignment), cognitive therapy (positive self-talk), exercise, Feldenkrais Method (awareness), food therapy (some diets), Hellerwork (massage bodywork), herbal medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy (water), imagery/visualization, light therapy, massage/bodywork, meditation, music therapy, naturopathy, osteopathy, reflexology, therapeutic touch, Chinese medicine, vegetarian diets, vision training, vitamin and mineral therapy, and yoga.
