Gout Remedies - Holistic Healing

What Does "Holistic" Mean?

The holistic approach to treating gout doesn't just concentrate on the pain in your big toe. It endeavors to bring wellness to your whole being. By this I mean, not only to your physical body, but to your emotions, mental health, and spiritual health as well. Holism maintains that your health is your responsibility based on choices you make each day. You are living a (w)holistic life if you balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual parts of your life, and you will enjoy optimum health.

How Can We Do This?

• To balance your physical needs, you must eat a healthy diet, maintain your ideal weight, exercise at least three times a week for 30 minutes (if possible), and get enough sleep. All of these things are good for treating gout. Avoid the foods that are high in fat and purines. Learn which foods are part of a good diet for gout sufferers.

• Your emotional needs can be met by being loved and loving others, forgiving and accepting forgiveness, being happy and laughing (laughter is still the best medicine), and having relationships that are happy and full of joy, not only with others, but with yourself as well. If you stay relaxed and happy, you will have a life with much less stress.

• Your mental needs start with self-esteem. You must accept that you are a worthy person, which you are! You need to cultivate positive "self talk", and look on the positive side of any situation positively. If you do this, you will want to take the steps to wellness and a better, healthier life, free of gout pain.

• Your spiritual needs include periods of contemplation, perhaps meditation if you like to meditate, being open to your special creativity, and trusting implicitly to your intuitiveness. Listen to your body and your mind. They can tell you what you need.

Your wholeness and wellness depends on your being in balance in all of these different parts of you. By letting one part become unbalanced, such as being angry (emotional), you can end up having a bad headache (physical). To have complete wellness, all four aspects must be in harmony. We all know that stress is one of the main causes of gout. Learn relaxation techniques to handle your stress and you may be able to relieve or stop a gout attack from happening.

What Can You Do to Improve YOUR Health By Living a Holistic Lifestyle?

• Pay attention to how your body feels. How do you feel when you eat certain foods? Good? Bad? Listen to your body and respond to what it tells you.

• Pay attention to your emotions. What makes you happy, sad, loving, angry, afraid, depressed, connected. Chose to focus on the situations that bring you positive emotions.

• What do you think about? Are your thougts and "self talk" negative, brooding about the things that happened in the past, worrying about the future? Or do you have happy thoughts of joy? Learn to live in the moment and focus on joyful thing.

• How is your spiritual life. Do you take time out each day to sit quietly and contemplate the positive things in your life? Do you listen to your intuition? Intuition can be a very powerful tool to give you guidance for what's best in your life, and to allow your creativity to become strong. Listen to your intuition. Be aware of the things that bring you joy, a sense of rightness in the world, and inner peace.

If you follow these steps and start to make choices that will bring you wellness, you will see a big change in your life and well-being.