One often comes across advertisements and healers, especially on the new age sites and events where a bouquet of services to heal and cure are advertised.
I've often wondered about the underlying wisdom, of offering multiple services to cure the same problem.
Is it only a marketing strategy to ensure that no matter what the customer wants, we will find a way to cater to it? Do the practitioners genuinely believe that by practicing a little bit of every school, they are in a better position to affect a cure? Giving the benefit of the doubt to the healer, if the latter were to be taken as true, that raises a very basic question.
Does it mean that no one science is complete enough to offer a cure on it's own? Are the schools of alternative therapies only partially dealing with the problem? They speak of these schools as being holistic, so the holistic nature of the system should encompass the whole / entire organism that is being treated and not the sum of it's parts (which unfortunately allopathy leans towards).
But if truth is universal, then if you treat a person holistically using energy, they should get better with that one school and it's practices alone.
If all the schools of alternative healing are the same, than any one school is as good as the other and preempts the need for another.
However, if we are to assume that not all schools are equally well developed or similarly equipped.
Some are ahead in their knowledge, understanding, techniques and effectiveness vis-a-vis others (personally a view that I subscribe to) then the very existence and knowledge of a more advanced school eliminates the need for the others, once the new school is discovered and its fundamental superiority understood by the healer in question.
A third scenario is quite simply that of - "Jack of all trades...
"! When assessing energy schools and Healers, people often equate the width of the offering on the menu, to an expertise in the field of alternative therapy.
However, on the contrary the wider the portfolio on offer, chances are the more shallow the knowledge and understanding of any one technique is.
If a healer truly knows and understands the science and workings of his art, he will not need to use other techniques to heal.
If such a healer should find a more advanced school then the one s/he presently employs, they will readily move his / her practice to the more advanced technique.
Alternative therapy is sometimes erroneously approached at, as a supermarket that you can visit, and get "a little bit of this and a little bit of that".
On the contrary, healing is a complete package by itself, if effectively developed by the founder, properly understood and systematically used by the healer.
However, often certain therapies are complementary to each other.
For example, energy healing is complementary to herbs, medications, physiotherapy, homeopathy and even Allopathy.
It works on the energy body or the aura and medications work on the physical body.
When the two are applied together, the healing is usually very rapid.
"There is no alternative medicine.
There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work," Richard Dawkins.