Introduction to Natural Health and Healing

Introduction to Natural Health and Healing This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to promote wellness, balance and health in their daily lives. It will give you a basic understanding of the field of natural health. You will discover how to create and maintain a naturally healthy lifestyle and a healing environment. You will explore areas of natural health to include Naturopathy, Aromatherapy, nutritional healing, and body therapies.

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Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

In our first lesson, I'll introduce you to the principles of natural healing and we'll discuss the various stages of health and illness. You'll begin to understand that true health means wholeness of the mind, body, and spirit. You'll put together a personal health journal that will help you self-evaluate your current lifestyle. Throughout the course, you'll be able to use this to observe how your behaviors can affect your health.

Friday - Lesson 02

Today you'll learn all about naturopathy and its basic philosophy—seeking ways to help your body to heal itself. Then I'll teach you a valuable breathing technique that can enhance your heath. Finally, you'll learn the value of hydrotherapy, diet, biorhythms, and fasting.

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

We'll explore ways to use the power of the mind and the placebo effect in this lesson. You'll begin to understand the power that your mind can have in healing your body. We'll talk about brain function tests, visualization, and relaxation therapies. Then you'll discover the power of belief.

Friday - Lesson 04

This lesson will teach you to look at nutrition and its healing effects. We'll explore basic nutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and free radicals. You'll learn what basic requirement you need to promote a healthy diet. Then you'll learn how to develop menus to improve your health.

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05

In this lesson, we'll briefly explore the history of herbal healing. You'll have the opportunity to identify the most popular herbs and learn ways to prepare herbal mixtures. Then we'll explore herbal charts to help you to understand some of the most beneficial herbal remedies.

Friday - Lesson 06

Today, we'll explore aromatherapy. You'll not only learn about its benefits, but also how to blend oils for medicinal uses. You'll discover how to make and use poultices, compresses, tinctures, and infusions. We'll also go over some essential oil charts to help you create wonderful blends.

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

Today, you'll discover the wonders of body therapies as we explore many of the most popular therapies and their benefits. We'll discuss massage techniques, osteopathy, chiropractic, T'ai Chi, reflexology, and yoga. You'll discover why the main theme of body therapies is to regain and maintain balance and well-being.

Friday - Lesson 08

In this lesson, you'll learn all about natural energy fields. We'll discuss how energy can be manipulated using magnets, TENS, Feng Shui, and Therapeutic Touch. You'll learn how to center your consciousness, and you'll have the opportunity to try energy modulation. You'll even find out how to feel your own energy between your hands!

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

Today, we'll talk about how to identify pollutants in your environment. We'll discuss indoor pollutants and ways to clean indoor air. We'll talk about methods to purify your drinking water and allergy proof your indoor spaces. This lesson will help you gain an understanding of the relationship between your immune system and the health of your surroundings.

Friday - Lesson 10

In today's lesson, you'll discover how to use natural remedies for common emergencies, illnesses and injuries. Some of the topics we'll discuss include treatments for cuts, bruises, fractures, burns, breathing emergencies, fainting, and travel illnesses.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

In this lesson, you'll begin to understand the effect that light, color, and music can have on your mood and behavior. You'll learn how to heal and relax by using practical applications of these therapies. You'll be able to use energies that are inherent in light, color, and sound to improve your overall well-being. We'll also discuss using chakras and colored light in healing.

Friday - Lesson 12

In our final lesson, you'll continue to learn how physical, emotional, and spiritual factors make up your whole being. You'll begin to understand the impact that these three sectors of your life can have on your stress level and healing rate. Once you make that connection, you'll begin to take charge of your own health and healing! We'll finish up with a discussion on what to expect when going to a natural heath therapist.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Theresa Snyder.

Theresa Snyder is a Natural Health Consultant. She has been an educator for more than 20 years. She has earned a BS in Education as well as an MS in Natural Health. This provides her with the ability to teach courses related to the many disciplines related to Natural Health. She also enjoys teaching seminars related to natural health for a local hospital.

Requirements:

Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader).

Student Reviews:

"Excellent course! I will recommend it to friends."

"Glad to have taken this course. It opened a whole new world to me and there are many ideas which I plan to use. Well worth the time. Looking forward to next semesster"

"I can not tell you how much I learned in just a few weeks.I really enjoyed this class."

"I did a lot of traveling during the run of this course - turned in some material late - but found that it wasn't too difficult to stay up and to learn even when in other locations and sometimes without a computer. Very valuable in my day to day life... reinforced a lot that I already knew and taught me a lot that I didn't know. Thank you for a well-constructed class. Simple, easy lessons that allowed me to retain a great deal of the information offered and to use the info."

"I enjoyed taking this class!! I learned so much. I know I will look back at the lessons from time to time to refresh my memory."

"I enjoyed the course. I especially liked the classes on energy healing, meditation, spiritual healing. These are my main interests but I picked up good ideas from all of the lessons. Good all round introductory course."

"I enjoyed the course ... thank you! It has directed me to further interests."

"I found this course extremely interesting!! I appreciated the fact that I was able to research for information on my own through the links presented and found myself with an over whelming amount of info. This course has made me realize how important health and life really is - Thank you."

"I have become more interested in the field of natural medicine and this course has helped me decide to work towards a Holistic Health Practitioner License. Thanks so much!"

"I have enjoyed this course very much. I was finding myself getting anxious for the next lesson to be posted. I have also notified several of my friends about the big selection of courses avalible. Great supplementary material. Thank You."

"I learned so much from the lessons. I will use the information to help use the natural ways of healing."

"I really enjoyed the readings. I teach high school health and plan to utilize some information found here. Thank you."

"I really enjoyed this class... the instructor seemed very knowledgeable and provided useful information and links."

"I thought this course was a wonderful addition to my summer routine. It was a good introduction to an area of living that I am both fascinated in and expect to explore much more deeply. Without this course (the lessons, assignments, discussions), I truly would not be as confident in the wide range of opportunity that now lies before me. Anyway, thank you for offering this class. Please, do it again, not only for others who are interested but ultimately for the goodness of our earth and world."

"I totally enjoyed this class and would sign up for an advanced course. Thank you!"

"It's a tough job to tackle Natural Healing Therapies in 12 lessons but the instructor did a remarkable job going into detail on many, if not all therapies! Fanatastic amount of information and knowledge gained!"

"Ms. Snyder is an excellent instructor. The text was never over-my-head,it was always understandable. She also, made this course interesting. All of the information that I have learned from this course will give me the ability to take control of my health and my family's health. Thank you, Theresa."

"Thank you for preparing this course. It has be interesting and very beneficial."

"Thank you for such an enlightening and indepth course on natural healing. I really learned a lot."

"Thank you for the wonderful on-line class! The topics were great and the information so helpful! Thank you again!"

"Thank you for this online course.This is the first online course I have taken. This class is the first time I have really used a computer and all that entails. Thank you so much for such a wonderful first experience I learned a great deal of information about a very fascinating topic and I want to learn so much more."

"The class An Introduction To Natural Health and Healing is an excellent one for beginners such as myself. I thought the instructor was very knowledgeable and would recommend this class to anyone who either has no knowledge or some of natural health and healing techniques. I will be keeping all of my lessons and making a table of contents for the book I now have so that I can go back for future reference. Thank you!"

"The class was very interesting. The more I read the more I wanted to know. I'm very glad I took this class and would recommend it to anyone that wants a deeper understanding of themselves and an interest in having some control over their own health."

"The material covered was just what I was looking for. It was indeed an introduction to all areas. I can take this information and delve further into the areas that interest me. The course was well written and interesting and understandable."

"This course gave me the basic introduction of Natural Health - it hit the highlights of the numerous forms of natural health and healing. I am now better prepared to take courses in different areas than I was before this course because of the "wide brush" of information the instructor gave us. Thank You!"

"This is a great course. I've learned a lot."

"This was my first internet course so I didn't know what to expect. I enjoyed this course and found the information useful."

"This was one of the most interesting courses I have ever taken. It was a very informative course and the links to other sites were awesome. I hope that there will be an intermediate course for Natural Health and Healing and I if so I would like to be notified so I can take it."

"Wishing this online class would never end. It is better than reading books, magazines or searching the library or the internet. The instructor is very cool indeed!"