Holistic Healing is nothing new

Almost a thousand years ago Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides 1135-1204) was one of the Middle East's greatest Physicians and Scholars. He was widely know by Arabs & Christians, as well as, Jews. From his studies of the Torah (over 3,000 years before),Hippocrates (460 BCE – ca. 370 BCE) and Galen (129 – 216,  Maimonides developed his theories of medicine. He taught about the Mind-Body-Spirit connection for mental and physical health and found great value in laughter. We sometimes forget that us Westerners have a tradition in Holistic Medicine as long and valuable as the any of the Eastern Medicines.

"For this reason physicians have recommended constant concern for, and awareness about, the soul's movements, as well as concern for putting them into equilibrium at the time of health and sickness-giving no other treatment precedence in any way. The physician should desire that every sick person and every healthy person be constantly cheerful and relieved of the passions of the soul causing depression. In this way the health of the healthy will endure. This is foremost in curing every sick person, especially those whose sickness pertains to the soul-like those with hypochondria and morbid melancholia. Indeed, concern about the soul's movements ought to be strongest for these people, as well as for anyone overwhelmed by worry, obsessive thoughts, apprehension about things not such as to produce apprehension, or anyone who is only slightly cheerful about cheerful things. For all of these people, the skillful physician should place nothing ahead of improving the condition of their souls by removing these passions." The Regimen of Health

We must maintain the Holistic approach without diminishing the wonder of what we can't prove with the evidence science provides.