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e Otherr Side of
o Wesstern Medicin
M ne
We cann not deny worldwide
w t
that there is a generaal acceptance of the superioritty of
Westernn Medicinee over all th
he healing arts that are
a now prresent in th his planet. We
cannot even
e deny the fact thhat Westerrn Medicine has alreaady advancced to such h
high deggree and prrecision so
o as to expllore the ch
haracteristics of life within
w the
microscoopic genes.
Lifespan has significantly increased andd health caare has reaally improvved so thatt we
have acttually been
n dependen nt on the solutions
s that moderrn medicine providess. In
fact, wesstern medicine has been
b so pro
oud even tot the poinnt of ridiculing variou
us
types of alternative medicinee such as massage,
m m
meditatio on, energy healing annd
many others.
Another backlash is i that we have been n fixated with the sho ort term soolutions to
illness prrovided byy modern medicine
m and have fo orgotten too analyze the
t other
aspects ofo disease.. An examp
ple of this is the commmon head dache. Everry time wee
have a headache, we w usuallyy drink a paain relieverr. But we never
n reallyy analyzed
d the
psycholo ogical and emotional dimension ns of havinng a headache.
Does mo odern med dicine havee a name fo or that? In fact, modeern medicine doesn’t
have a name for en nergy healing. Energgy which ceentral to everything we do is
actually a basic pre
emise of Eaastern med dicine but has no namme in Wesstern Mediicine.
Hindu, Chinese,
C an
nd Japanese healing arts a have a name forr different types of
energy such
s as chi,, ki, shen, jing,
j and utilize this knowledge
k e for healin
ng.
And althhough what we call alternative healing is not savvy about cellss and organs
and genees and miccroscopic elements,
e a
alternative
e healing has a more
compreh hensive and encompassing fram mework th hat consideers the emo otional,
mental, psychological, social, and spirittual aspectts of the disease. Alll these havve
their imppact on the
e body’s en
nergy centters called chakras. Meditation
M n can actuaally
work wo onders on health
h andd wellbeingg.