• To view a symptom or disease as a sign of health and lifestyle imbalance.
• To view health as an expression of a harmonious balance between humans, the environment (season, plants, sun, moon, animals and nature in general) and ways of life.
• A genetic predisposition to an illness does not have to be expressed if an individual creates a harmonious balance in life.
• When taking a client’s case to be free of prejudice or judgement, to observe the whole client’s physicality, to ask questions relevant and understand the reason for the client’s visit. To take a history and lifestyle account and to hear a client’s description of symptoms and diease. A client will reveal how and what they are feeling and why.
• Offer diagnostic tools as a means to discover more information or to help a client understand why they are feeling the way they are feeling. To assess what is relevant to the client at that time.
• To treat the whole person- when preparing a treatment plan, all aspects of a person’s being are taken into consideration viewing the whole person in regards to finding a cause of disease, and using the laws of nature to induce cure. Identify and treat the cause – there is always an underlying cause, be it physical, mental or emotional
• To understand how the client takes care of themselves on a daily basis

Thoughts
Are you stressed and overwhelmed? Time poor and exhausted? How you think and feel governs how you live your life and the choices you make.

Breathing
Oxygenation is the number fuel for the body to make energy. How you breathe, factors that affect your breathing and what you breathe all impact oxygenation and consequently energy production.

Hydration
What you drink, how much, when you drink and factors which dehydrate are assessed. Water carries information eg nutrition and toxins around the body.

Nutrition
You are what you eat, how you eat, when you eat, your relationship with food and how your digestive and immune system deals with what you eat. What is fundamental is the quality of your foods and that is all about SOURCE & PROCESSING! Understand what we ate pre industrialisation of food is ancestoral food.

Movement
how much and type of activity is assessed. Vital for oxygenation, energy and relaxation.

Rhythms
when you sleep, quality of sleep, time you wake and sleep. What does your 24 hour day look like, your 7 day per week, your month, your year, are you connected eg to the earth’s natural rhythms eg day/night, lunar cycle for women’s hormonal cycle.

• To involve the client in their own healing process. The practitioner and therapy is a guide to help the client stimulate and create an environment for the body to switch on its own innate healing abilities. The practitioner empowers the client to take responsibility for their own health by teaching self-care. A practitioner does not heal a client nor do they want that responsibility as this disempowers the client.

• To help a client discern through the wealth of health, food and lifestyle information out on offer. What’s true? Who is just trying to sell a product?

• To understand the obstacles that, prevent clients achieving their health & happiness goals.

• To encourage preventative practice through living well. Prevention is better than cure.

• To offer therapies which do not rely on fossil fuels for its creation or delivery? Therapies are nature based sustainable, environmentally friendly. Unprocessed, local and seasonal.

• To do no harm, that is, offer therapies that will create side effects or discomfort to the client or produce a side effect that is detrimental to the environment.

• To practice what I (your practitioner) teach or encourage you to do. “I am quiet transparent with my life and I m happy to share with you how I take care of my health and how I live each day. I personally don’t take any supplements or remedies and live a very balanced healthy lifestyle. I sleep by 10pm, enjoy my relationships, my home, my puppies and I love cooking and being an excellent example of health & happiness. I am not perfect (because what is perfect? But I am strong and lean and vital) and I love learning this field of work I am in which is really the information that is innately every human beings right to know. I am constantly learning”.

Achieving amazing Health & Happiness: How is this achieved in consultations….

There are 3 steps in helping you achieve your health and happiness goals.

Step 1 is to meet you where you are at and give you the tools to better understand how your mind and body works and what it takes to be a healthy human being. We address the underlying reason for your ill health and offer symptomatic relief if need be. This is called the Transition Process. We are all subject to the same fundamental physiological laws. We all have the same basic requirements nutritionally, physically and emotionally even though we express biochemical, emotional, physical individuality because of our upbringing, knowledge imparted or learnt, patterns, beliefs, environment, food & lifestyle choices and what our parents/family have imparted to us. Hence why the Transition Process is an individual process. Once the mind and body is running rhythmically, healthily, beautifully we can impart Step 2. Step 2 is Seasonal Cleansing (http://www.ovvioorganics.com.au/meet/seasonal-cleansing-consultation). Step 3 is maintenance, keeping healthy and well and living and staying in a rhythm and on the path that you desire.