The Yoga of Alternative Therapy

I believe the best way to properly grasp the concept of alternative therapy is to compare it to modern medicine. Modern medicine shines in its ability to deal with the mechanical and structural aspects of our bodies. Repairing broken legs, stitching wounds, elevating low insulin levels and helping other demonstrable aspects of our physical system are effectively dealt with in hospitals and doctor offices today. Yet the medical fields underlying paradigm of life, is we are nothing but an interaction of chemicals that are orchestrated by our brains. This paradigm places medicine in a tightly closed box that refuses to acknowledge the role of the spirit and the mind as separate from the brain. So far has the pendulum swung today that unproven theories of chemical imbalances as the cause of everything from depression to Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and caused a proliferation of the consumption of medications to “resolve” the unproven causes of these “physical” diseases. As the beginning of the Zoloft commercial reminds us about depression; “while the cause is unknown a chemical imbalance could be the reason.” Could? So could lots of other things!