Introduction
What We Do
Here at The Vitality Guru, we’re focused and centred around the philosophy and practice of holistic and sustainable health and wellness through the use of fundamental and natural principles of physical fitness, nutritional intake and psychological wellness.
Holism does not care to divide the body or the health of a person into pieces, parts or categories unlike its much more famous counterpart of allopathy which is the school of medicine famous throughout the world today. Where today, medicine is usually made up of specialised experts such as neurosurgeons, psychiatrists and heart specialists accompanied by only a few general doctors who essentially agree that the health of any individuals mind or body is far too complicated to be understood by any one person, holism goes the other way.
Rather than separate the mind from the body, the body from its organs and its organs into organelles so that it can continually inspect the inner functionings in a reductionist manner, the practise of holistic health not only considers all of the organs of the human body and mind to function as one totality but that the health state of any individual is directly correlated and tied into the health state of those you spend your time with, the state of the environment you live in, the state of the society and culture you are a part of, the overall state of the community and so much so even the ecological health of the earth at the time in which you are alive.
To a holistic practitioner, health is relative. It’s not merely about the functionality of your organs or about removing a painful symptom. Instead, it’s about coming to a fundamental understanding of our interdependence upon all the so-called ‘parts’ of our body and of the greater community and world in which we all exist in.
Therefore, in the practice of holistic health, if you have an ongoing cough caused by an infection, you are not offered something to soothe your throat or something to make up for the lacking ability of your immune system, instead, you address either the air quality of the environment you spend most of your time in, you discover where deficiencies in vital nutrients may be which might be causing your low immune response or you directly practice exercises and methods which humans have used for millennia in regards to boosting the immune response and managing stress levels which down-regulate the bodies natural defences.
A Global Health Crisis
In a 21st century era where science, medicine and technology are evolving faster than the public can begin keep up with, it seems only logical to think that the rate of which disease is present ought to have begun to rapidly decline.
However, rates of disease and health issues like heart disease, sickness, obesity, cancer and psychological disorders seem to continually be on the rise across the population – in fact statistically speaking, an estimated 96% of the worlds population currently live with some form of long term illness or disease.
This is arguably down to many factors, which vary from person to person. However, above all else we believe that the way in which we are living, how we approach to health and the way in which we understand treatment is at the heart of this crisis.
(For reference, this above passage was written in 2018 prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 health crisis.)
What About Modern Medicine?
Some people may get the impression that we’re utterly against modern medicine – we’re not. We have regularly worked with, or alongside many Doctors, Nurses and Psychologists who have often strongly agreed with us about where the usual approach to healthcare tends to fall short. Allopathic medicine, conventional medicine or western medicine as it is often called is the form of medical treatment predominant today as a symptom of industrialist culture that focuses on trying to suppress unwanted symptoms mostly through a form of chemical reductionism and not necessarily on the healing of the source of the disease itself.
Although we cannot deny the benefits that this does offer to billions around the world and as a near-perfect safety net for short-term fixes, it’s well known that the ongoing dangers of antibiotics, painkillers and many other medical treatments can be extremely harmful. Despite this though, we don’t approach our health this way at all. Most of us completely neglect our bodies, our minds, our diets and our well-being and get by merely by constant reliance of this safety net not realising that we are leading a life of suffering and sickness.
Not that many people acknowledge the fact that allopathic medicine isn’t the only approach out there; let alone likely even the best one. It’s simply just the most funded and relied upon because our general common sense is that what is true is only what is scientifically trusted – but our modality of western science is barely a three-century long practice of reductionist rationalism which doesn’t like to talk too much about where its roots lie and the thousands of years of research humans have done on plant, animals, natural drugs, herbs and spices through evolutionary experience. Allopathy is merely the most economically efficient, potent towards symptoms and easy to sell – and therefore profit from.
The benefits of this are that it is fast-acting and provides quick relief; allowing patients to return to their lives, to return to work or to a place of improved functionality in their lives within time frames from 20 minutes to a few months. The drawbacks to this are that on the one side, the initial cause of ill-health (the problem) is oftentimes not formally addressed, causing many illnesses and diseases to remain ongoing or possibly return at a later date with greater aggression. Furthermore, the long-term effects (or side effects) of proposed treatments are often disregarded and are to be an accepted result.
On the other side, this also has potent psychological results in most patients. Since people trust in the approach so firmly, thinking that it’s essentially the only real and useful form of medicine to exist it can often be absolutely debilitating if this system cannot help you. Although we cannot source any accurate statistic that is reported on this matter, we are first hand aware of the thousands upon thousands of patients who have faced severe cases of ongoing physical and mental health issues for sometimes decades only to be refused acknowledgement because they don’t quite fit the box in being treatable through reductionist allopathic medicine.
The Solution
The approach we take here at The Vitality Guru is that of a holistic approach. A holistic approach is to address issues at their core through direct change on a personal and/or lifestyle levels such as behaviour, nutrition/consumption, mental practice, movement and approach to understanding health as to help promote health and bring the body into a natural state of well-being once again.
Again, we do not offer quick, short-term fixes. Taking a holistic approach is about finding ways to bring about a long-term and ongoing state of balance of physical, psychological and emotional well-being to one’s experience and to allow yourself to live in a place of security, trust and acceptance or as we call it, happiness, health and well-being (also known as vitality).
• If you are in need of quick, short-term relief for symptoms of sickness, disease, illness, injury or other then speak to your GP / Doctor or call the non-emergency services (111 in the UK).
• If you are in need of immediate medical attention due to sickness, disease, illness, injury or an other then you must contact the emergency services and request immediate medical attention (999 in the UK).
• If you want consistent, dedicated co-operation and lasting, life-long results then you come to us. We acknowledge that there is a time and place for all different approaches to medicine and we want to help you do the same.