‘Five Holistic Hacks to Take Care of Us’ By Ami Nakamura, Founder of Harmony Harvest

Credit: Founder Ami Nakamura, Harmony Harvest

As a Health Retreat founder, oriental energy therapist, and spiritual counselor, the biggest issue with those visiting our health retreat is mental stress and many body aches.

This is because brain stress stimulates stress hormones, which tense muscles, make breathing shallow, reduce oxygen to the whole body, and cause muscles to contract and cause pain. Many people have fallen into this state due to various stressful events over the past four years.

Western medicine treats stress with pain killers that numb the senses so that people do not feel stress, but holistic therapy treats the symptoms from addressing the root cause.

Our body is complex, with multiple layers: the physical body, the energy body, the emotional body, and the spiritual body. If one part of the layer is not functional, the whole layer will be unbalanced and, ultimately, cause illness.

In the current medical world, many people prescribe painkillers. However, since these do not cure the underlying cause, the more the pain is suppressed, the more severe the pain becomes, and the more it explodes. It is possible to heal by caring for our mind, body, and spirit, rather than trying to make ourselves feel no pain or cutting out and discarding the diseased parts.

My first priority is to provide treatments that will bring about peace of mind. Many health retreats include lectures on health techniques and healthy foods, but instructing such things will not bring any healing to people who are exhausted from stress.
Our first and foremost priority in our Holistic treatments is to help patients feel truly at ease and relaxed.

Here are 5 Holistic Hacks to Help You:

Detoxing the Body
We detox the body using Ayurvedic therapy — warm herbal bundle patting is also more deeply detoxifying by using traditional Chinese medicine- moxibustion. This therapy has treated cancer for over a few thousand years. Wormwood has substantial healing benefits for detoxing the body. These traditional Asian healing techniques work intensely using many herbs, oils, and medical herbal moxibustion. Wormwood kills any virus and apoptosis cancer cells and removes all disease from the body.

Relaxing the Mind
Once you are stressed, all your happy feelings are destroyed. You feel heavy and depressed every day. Some people cry and can’t sleep. Emotional stress destroys all hope and makes you feel like there is no way out. These emotions also worsen your physical condition every day, so you need to get out of there immediately. The most effective way is meditation. You can do it by yourself while listening to music. Still, if you are suffering from severe stress, it is more effective to receive individual counseling and a personalized meditation treatment that is tailored to the individual. Because everyone’s condition is different, meditation is not just a way to relax but also the only way to break free from the core mental state you are in.

Seeking Spiritual Counseling
When we feel emotionally stressed, many people blame themselves or feel that their daily lives are being dictated by someone else’s commands that are severely out of line with their soul’s desires. They ask themselves these questions every day and make various efforts, but they end up exhausted halfway through. To lighten the spirit, people’s stress will go away when they can find out the cause, find a solution and the background of the incident, and discover a way to escape from it from the bottom of their hearts.

Eating Plant Based Meals
Humans are not carnivores to begin with. You can tell by looking at our teeth. Our teeth are not like those of carnivores like dogs and cats. They are more similar to the teeth of herbivores like cows and horses. So, by giving up meat and animal milk and eating plant-based foods, you can relax your body’s digestive system. Our emotions have a direct impact on our stomachs. Our diet puts our digestive system under stress every day, so by simply changing from a stressful diet to a plant-based diet, your mind will also relax.

Focusing on Your Own Happiness
If emotional entanglements cause significant stress and severe illness, we need to protect our emotions more than ever before. No matter what others say, we should control our emotions to maintain our health. Simply put, we should avoid everything that makes us feel emotionally uncomfortable. Everyone needs challenges, but we should only take on challenges that excite us and avoid challenges that disappoint us.

Meet Our Contributor — Ami Nakamura
Ami is an expert in holistic well-being with over 35 years of experience in alternative medicine, including traditional practices such as Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, aromatherapy, and herbal remedies. Ami’s extensive studies also encompass breathing techniques, yin yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation, leading to the development of unique quantum energy healing techniques. Ami has cultivated an open connection to a higher universal source, discovering methods to directly connect with this energy source to create and shape one’s life. This profound understanding has fueled the development of certified organic skin, hair, and body care products, as well as food supplements. Ami is the founder of Harmony Hill Health Retreat, a sanctuary dedicated to holistic health and rejuvenation. Additionally, Ami is the author of “Your Organic Super Power,” a guide to harnessing natural and organic methods for personal empowerment and well-being. Learn more about Ami’s work here.