Holistic Health Belief System

Religious experiences are based on the cultural beliefs and may include thing such as blessings from spiritual leaders, apparitions of dead relatives and miracle cures. Healing powers may be ascribed to animate or inanimate objects. Religion dictates social, moral and dietary practices designed to assist an individual in maintaining a healthy balance and in playing a vital role in illness prevention. Treatment is designed to restore balance with physical, social, and metaphysical worlds. It may extend beyond treating the person to treating the environment(eg decreasing pollution, preventing world hunger)