I am forever grateful to Art of Living and master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Teaching. U.S.A. These are just few of the experiences cited by participants of the Art of Living, Healing Breath Workshops which are conducted in 83 countries worldwide and in hundreds of centers in India. Orthodox medicine has become highly specialized. And while its drug- based therapies are often the best choice for infections and other acute health problems, orthodox medicine offers little for these suffering from arthritis, back pains, allergies, stress and other chronic ailments. Healing is a natural process, common to all life.
Wounds heal by themselves in people, just as in animals and plants.
If we want to foster healing and promote health, we should pay attention to the ways of nature and learn to encourage the body's own, innate mechanisms of self-repair. But in the modern century, discovery of effective drugs for bacterial infections and development of immunizations and modern surgical techniques helped foster belief in a technological utopia, a technology that would conquer poverty, illiteracy, hunger and disease. But towards the 1960's the technological utopia faded, but Orthodox medicine did succeed in reducing the amount of sickness and the number of premature deaths due to infections and illness. On the other hand, it did not have effective treatments for viral infections, allergies, autoimmune diseases, mental illnesses, metabolic disease and functional and psychomatic diseases. So the only outlet available was the alternative Holistic medicine, which is a vast collection of theories and practices, some very ancient and some very recent, but very effective.