Self-Healing
Self-healing is described as an intrinsic ability that has developed throughout evolution, and is in line with the Greek ideal of whole person healing. Psychology plays an important role within the self-healing process and there are psychological aspects to pain even within the conventional IASP 2020 definition “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”.
The self-healing concept is an integrated set of body practices applied in the prevention and rehabilitation of a wide range of organic, physical, and visual diseases. The application of these techniques stimulates and balances the organic, physical, psychological functions in a harmonious way, as it allows the development of a dialog between the body, the mind, the emotions, and the sensations.
It has been shown that health promotion programs in stress management, fitness, nutrition, weight control, and self-medication improve health conditions; however, the impact on self-healing among people with acute and chronic diseases has also been shown to be mixed.
The interest of the global scientific community to additional self-healing methods of restoring, healing and recreating the human body is not accidental. As the reality of life shows us, stress has become a constant (but undesirable) companion in a person’s life everywhere. In Ukraine, a country that has experienced, in recent years, major socio-economic difficulties and is partially now in a state of war, the economic and social instability, different forms of stress, various problems (cognitive, behavioral, emotional and physiological) lead to a more negative life background for the present-day youth. Trying to self-protect, students use ineffective and even anti-social means of reducing stress, such as alcohol, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, spending too much time on TV or Internet, and avoiding physical activities
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