The

e Otherr Side of
o Wesstern Medicin
M ne
We cann not deny worldwide
w t
that there is a generaal acceptance of the superioritty of
Westernn Medicinee over all th
he healing arts that are
a now prresent in th his planet. We
cannot even
e deny the fact thhat Westerrn Medicine has alreaady advancced to such h
high deggree and prrecision so
o as to expllore the ch
haracteristics of life within
w the
microscoopic genes.

When inn the past, humanity has been plagued

p byy virus and bacteria such
s as thee
Black Deeath, the ye
ellow fever, and otheer epidemiics that killed thousaands, now we w
can say that
t we aree in full control of evven the smallest straiin of virus and bacteria.

Lifespan has significantly increased andd health caare has reaally improvved so thatt we
have acttually been
n dependen nt on the solutions
s that moderrn medicine providess. In
fact, wesstern medicine has been
b so pro
oud even tot the poinnt of ridiculing variou
us
types of alternative medicinee such as massage,
m m
meditatio on, energy healing annd
many others.

But not all

a of western medicine can be considereed good. Yees we weree able to
develop vaccinatio ons and immunizations but we have in efffect helped d the viruss
develop into new and
a difficult strains. In fact, maany diseasees existing today are an
indirect result of modern
m meedicine.

Another backlash is i that we have been n fixated with the sho ort term soolutions to
illness prrovided byy modern medicine
m and have fo orgotten too analyze the
t other
aspects ofo disease.. An examp
ple of this is the commmon head dache. Everry time wee
have a headache, we w usuallyy drink a paain relieverr. But we never
n reallyy analyzed
d the
psycholo ogical and emotional dimension ns of havinng a headache.

We neveer even thoought that an honestt‐to‐goodn ness reflecttion and meditation

m
could haave the sam
me effect as
a paracetaamol. Heree lies the problem, we w have
stressed too much on the ph hysical body and havee totally foorgotten thhe role of the
t
he mind, an
heart, th nd the spirrit to the question off health or disease.
Now mo odern life has
h becomee so stresssful. We mo ove and acct like robo
ots and reaally
work hard for the money. So oon stress will
w take its toll on ouur health, on our
emotion nal wellbein
ng, on our emotional state. Yett modern medicine
m o has cu
only ures
for the manifestat
m ions and syymptoms ofo the diseease but no
ot the roott cause‐‐‐our
lifestyle and the cu
urrent societal structtures that compel
c us to work likke machines.

Does mo odern med dicine havee a name fo or that? In fact, modeern medicine doesn’t
have a name for en nergy healing. Energgy which ceentral to everything we do is
actually a basic pre
emise of Eaastern med dicine but has no namme in Wesstern Mediicine.
Hindu, Chinese,
C an
nd Japanese healing arts a have a name forr different types of
energy such
s as chi,, ki, shen, jing,
j and utilize this knowledge
k e for healin
ng.

And althhough what we call alternative healing is not savvy about cellss and organs
and genees and miccroscopic elements,
e a
alternative
e healing has a more
compreh hensive and encompassing fram mework th hat consideers the emo otional,
mental, psychological, social, and spirittual aspectts of the disease. Alll these havve
their imppact on the
e body’s en
nergy centters called chakras. Meditation
M n can actuaally
work wo onders on health
h andd wellbeingg.

Emotionn which is a given factt of life has not been

n factored in as a majjor cause of
o
disease. In fact wh
hen you havve negativve emotion ns, your immune systtems collap pse.
You body becomess susceptib ble to vario ous types of
o infectionns. On the other hand
when yoou are in lo
ove, you im
mmune systtem becom mes strongger.

ent healingg art of Reiiki consideers all thesse as moveements and

In Japan, the ancie d
dynamiccs of energy. Healing is therefore wholeso ome, all‐sid ded, and grounded
g in
n the
various aspects
a of self and livving.