The point about holistic therapy is that we are all made up of mind, body and spirit, and all 3 elements (mind, body and spirit) work together. It might be tempting to think of the body as a machine, and when it goes wrong it’s because of a faulty component, and the machine has let us down somehow. There are so many ways in which our bodies are not like machines. Machines don’t grow. Machines don’t fix themselves when they get injured. Machines can’t usually adapt to the f