Alternative Therapies

Benign Or Malignant

Although there are literally hundreds of alternative and complimentary therapies most all of them can be broken down into the following five categories.

1. Energy therapies: Magnets Reiki, Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Acupuncture and Acupressure.
2. Mind-Body Therapies: Yoga, hypnosis, guided imagery, and dream interpretation.
3. Biological Therapies: Diet therapy, Herbalism, Chelation therapy.
4. Manipulation therapies: Massage, Chiropractics, Rolfing, Reflexology.
5. Whole body therapies: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, Naturopathy.

Under each of these broad categories their are dozens of therapies to choose from. At last count, the National Center for Complimentary Medicine identified over 1800 distinct alternative and complimentary  therapies to choose from.

As Christians, God has given us the gift of discernment of spirits. This is the ability to be able to differentiate between the activity of God's Spirit, demonic spirits and the human spirit. Since alternative medicine is very often linked to eastern mysticism and the occult, let us be particular careful of which therapies are benign and malignant spiritually. Read about them, study them and make yourself aware of those which tap into the power of the dark side in their practice.