Healing Paradigms

• Respect for body's inherent capacity for self-healing in a supportive environment
• Symptoms are body's best effort to regain health/balance
• Medical action to support body's detoxification and healing efforts
• Body viewed and treated as whole
• Health is vitality
  
  
• Individual competency for health
  
  
• Reliance on high quality nutrition, air, and water to regain or support health

Girl Born without a Mother
Francis Picabia
1917

• Belief in body's complete omnipotence over toxicity and complete inadequacy over germs
• Symptoms are disease
  


• Medical action to suppress symptoms
  
  
• Body viewed and treated as separate parts with no interrelationship
• Health is absence of symptoms
• Responsibility for health given over to outside authorities
  
  
• Reliance on surgery or small amounts of poison (pharmaceuticals) to regain health