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More articles on this topic: Alternative HealingYour body is pretty complex, sometimes needing an unconventional approach to soothe ills. Rosamund Burton checks out some wacky alternative therapies.
Alternative medicine is more popular than ever so as new therapies become available it’s important we know how to use them.
“Many therapies work in a way we understand little about, so it’s hard to evaluate them. The most important thing you can do is find treatments that are safe,” says Dr Giselle Cook, who combines orthodox and complementary medicine in her Sydney practice.
While results can vary from person to person when it comes to alternative therapies, many people report life-changing experiences.
“Alternative medicine can be unregulated so it’s a good idea to get a personal recommendation from someone who has been to the practitioner and was happy with the results,” advises Dr Cook. Check out these alternatives.
the mozart effect
• According to Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect (Hodder Headline) the harmonies and melodies of Mozart’s music can boost the physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual health of your unborn child.
“Mozart’s music is like a protein to the mind and body. It stimulates and charges the creative and motivational regions of the brain,” says Campbell.
Ankya Klay, a 56-year-old artist from Clareville in NSW uses Mozart to inspire her creativity. “It makes me feel content, and that life has a natural order. Now when I have a lot of work on I play Mozart. It helps me focus,” says Klay.
To see for yourself, play the music in the background, softly and for no more than 25 minutes at a time.
neuroskeletal therapy
• Heralded as the new approach to back pain, this skeletal alignment technique was developed by Diana Hunter from South Australia.
“The treatment is very safe,” says Sydney practitioner, Robert Dehn. “It realigns the body without manipulation. The light pressure on specific parts on the body stimulates the nervous system, causing the body to readjust and move into its alignment.”
Dr Clive Lovell, a Sydney-based GP says, “I’ve been very impressed with the treatment’s success rate. A number of my patients have been relieved of painful conditions which had previously been resistant to physiotherapy and medication.”
rebirthing
• Pent-up emotions can prevent a person breathing as deeply as normal, which can affect oxygen intake. Rebirthing uses the breath to let go of painful feelings like guilt, shame, longing and neediness.
Michael Adamedes, a pioneer of rebirthing in Australia, explains: “Painful emotions from any period in a person’s life can be explored. It accesses deep patterns of behaviour and helps people to release pent up emotion.”
Millie Flynn, a Sydney-based herbalist, went to a rebirthing session for her asthma but found it helped her in many other ways too.
“I was carrying a lot of anxiety and stress. Doing the rebirthing actually helped unlock that anxiety, and as the therapy encouraged me to breath fully into my life, the incidents of asthma reduced too.” she says.
crystal bowl healing
• You can also experience the healing benefits of sound with crystal bowl healing.
“The most abundant element on earth is crystal and because our blood, bones and spinal fluid are all crystalline, hearing the sound of crystal can bring a person back into harmony,” explains therapist Awahoshi Kavan who first used the crystal bowls as a therapeutic healing tool in the mid-1990s.
According to Kavan, crystal sound can heal people with both physical and emotional problems.
“Most illnesses have an emotional base,” she says. “What crystal does is enable people to release old emotions and immediately replace the vibration with a harmonic frequency.”
core energetics
• Do you ever get upset and then find yourself with a cough or cold? Core Energetics looks at how the body manifests an underlying psychological issue as a physical problem.
Developed by psychiatrist Dr John Pierrakos in 1970, and brought to Australia by Robert Kirby in 2000, the therapy helps people recognise what is not working and see how this maybe connected to their past history. It’s combined with bodywork.
“Core Energetics turned my life around,” says Anne McIntyre, a therapist from Harbord, NSW. “I’d found myself in an endless cycle of negativity,” explains Anne. “Now my dignity has been restored and and I’ve found peace.”
the nia technique
• If you’ve had enough of pumping iron but still want to be fit, this could be for you. Neuromuscular Integrative Action (NIA) can be described as the east-meets-west way to tone mind and body.
Sunday Ross, who brought NIA to Australia, explains: “NIA’s great because it integrates everything, martial arts, modern dance, healing and visualisation techniques. It helps you move your body in the way it is intended to move.”
the dolphin within
• Psychotherapist Dr Olivia de Bergerac of the Sydney-based Dolphin Society says swimming with dolphins can help people reach their full potential, as doing so increases the frequency of alpha and theta brain waves, which calm us down.
“People often change jobs or strike out in new directions after the experience,” she says.
polarity therapy
• Based on his understanding of Ayurvedic healing, Dr Randolph Stone devised polarity therapy in the 1940s, which works with the energy fields that surround our bodies and electromagnetic patterns.
“When you re-establish the power that put you together in your mother’s womb, you heal yourself,” says agile and healthy-looking 76-year-old Sydney-based practitioner, Bill Hutchinson.
the natural facelift
• This revolutionary non-surgical treatment irons out wrinkles and slows down the ageing process. The hour-long face massage, incorporating Ayurvedic techniques, acupressure and Swedish-style massage, leaves you looking visibly younger.
Creator and Sydney-based practitioner Kundan Mehta explains, “It works the face systematically, releasing deep-seated tensions and freeing layers of muscle and connective tissue, so that the facial muscles can relax.”
You’ll need a course of eight treatments, and then a top-up treatment every three months.
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