Holistic travel is a journey one takes for the development and nurturing of the body with relevance to the body's four subtle layers: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It consists of holistic, metaphysical and/or spiritual tours, cruises, and/or workshops. It addresses holistic health, metaphysics and spirituality. It encompasses exploration of alternative healing arts from diverse cultures throughout the world. It addresses the physical and the metaphysical planes, exploring various dimensions of thoughts and feelings, in present times or other lifetimes. It highlights world travel and diverse cultures, approaching the world from both terrestrial and extraterrestrial modes of experiencing. It honors soul journeys, shamanic journeys, and astral travel as real and relevant forms of time and space exploration. It also advocates the pleasures of sensuality as linking to spirituality as in case with tantra, with meditation and transcendence of consciousness as its center.
Alternative healing arts have been passed down from generation to generation for 5,000 years, encompassing ancient civilizations' contribution to the modern world's understanding of esoteric and exotic healing arts. Holistic medicine practitioners, metaphysical educators, and spirituality teachers working with energy healing, ancient wisdom and universal laws have become more available to the western world. So, holistic travel makes it necessary to engage these masters of their craft through travel in the physical realm.
In the world of holistic health and naturopathic medicine, alternative means of wellness are explored. Energy healing in the forms of Reiki from Japan, QiGong from China, and Pranic Healing from Southeast Asia top the list for energy workers, yet more modern modalities such as massage therapy and reflexology have also become mainstream. Acupuncture, herbology, and homeopathy have also become more ubiquitous. More green or sustainable living and balanced diet with organic food promote wellness and drug-free healing at DNA levels. Feng Shui from China and Space Clearing from many parts of the world offer environmental healing with the purposeful elimination of stagnant energies, and bringing in natural elements in our living space.
The elimination of industrial toxins with anti-oxidant coming from natural herbs supports the idea of more vegetable-based organic diets. Physical exercise, especially in the presence of higher concentration of oxygen from natural surroundings, top the list for achieving higher states of joyfulness as it produces endorphins in the body. Yoga from India, working with the balancing and clearing of our chakras, our major operating energy systems have become more mainstream and widely accepted. Meditation helps calm the mind, allowing the body to heal itself without undue stress which anxiety and fear provoke.
In the world of metaphysics, the world is understood through intuition. Among indigenous peoples, shamanic healing arts practiced in Europe, all of Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand share a common perspective regarding helping spirits, that our ancestors play a critical role in our healing and finding answers to our life's problems and our environment, along with its principles regarding flora and fauna providing us many sacred signs. Light beings such as the ascended masters, spirit guides, angels and fairies make themselves known in many ways that they exist to help us shift our internal consciousness, affecting the global expansion in preparation for our working our life purpose in a new world age.
The power of light, sound, music and crystals are no longer unknown modalities to increase our vibrational frequencies, affecting our well-being. Astrology provides us forecasts which are trends taken overtime from historical accounts matched with astronomy accounts. Divination helps us create a communication line with our higher consciousness and universal energies, not usually detected by the naked eye. Angel communication, spirit communication or mediumship, and animal communication share in the perspective that we are all energy bodies of the same source, not fully separated by time and distance. Soul work and discovering past lives are help resolves issues with the psyche at its most basic cellular level, our DNA.
In the world of spirituality, God, Universal Energy, All That Is, The I Am, or Great Spirit, among other names people render to a Higher Power greater than themselves, is understood to be an individual choice as to who he or she is in one's life. Universal laws and ancient wisdom have been passed on from the beginning of time, and it is understood among practitioners that we are all born into the world we contracted to experience, and that includes the nature of our spirituality and our need to adopt a religion.
In essence, holistic travel allows us to explore the many nuances of living from the perspective that we are all travelers through life, and our life experiences are in themselves individual journeys in physical and in metaphysical dimensions.
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By Gina Alzate, World Tours and Cruises
** Gina Alzate is an Usui, Tibetan and Karuna Reiki Master. She is also an Angel Therapy Practitioner. She facilitates workshops on land and at sea on Angel Communication, Discovering Past Lives, Feng Shui, Space Clearing and Soul Coaching,