It believes that optimal health is achieved by cultivating mental and physical habits that promote physical and spiritual well-being. Meditation Meditation is defined as an active process of focusing the mind into a state of relaxed awareness. It lowers and normalizes blood pressure, heart rate, and levels of circulating stress hormones and lactate. It increases alpha brain wave activity indicating a relaxed state. It can lower cholesterol levels, improve concentration, memory, intelligence, and creativity.
Meditation also lowers the immune system resistance and induces the relaxation response.
It has been used to treat disorders by controlling the involuntary nervous system. Transcendental meditation is a form of relaxation technique which transcend normal thought processes to a heightened level of awareness, producing in the body and mind a sense of profound relaxation and rest. It focuses on altering the patient's mind, and using the power of the mind to generate healing within the body. Nutritional Therapy Nutrition is one of the most important aspect of holistic medicine. Proper eating and dietary habits promote health, prevent diseases and helps in the healing and restorative process.