How The Wiki Works

The Wellness Wiki is the fundamental basis of this site. To enable you to make the most of it, below is a How To and Walkthrough. I hope it will assist you in making the most of this incredibly rich resource, that has been pulled together with the sole purpose of helping you understand more, so you can make use of all that is out there.

So…. There is a huge amount of information out there around complementary and alternative medicine and not all of it is that easy to understand. It’s very opinionated and quite often contradictory and written with a very subjective viewpoint. What I believe, having had my experience over the last 13 years, is that there is a different answer for everyone around what works for them and what they’re looking for and therefore I wanted to provide a substantive basis of information to enable you to make those informed decisions for yourself.

So the Wellness Wiki is aimed to be a one -stop shop to answer all of your related questions. My research, talking to thousands of people as I have over the last 10 years, who have navigated a journey similar to mine in terms of finding alternative ways to look at wellness, purpose, mental health, stress – whatever it might be that is driving you. And the things that really frustrated them were the inability to actually get some consistent information about whether a modality does what it says it’s going to do and they said this coming from their point of view of having learnt a lot about Western medicine and Western research. In the Wellness Wiki you will find there is a section called Evidence of Efficacy and that’s where I share research studies and papers and things that look at whether or not this modality actually does what it says it can do. I’ve also added in a section called The Neuroscience of the Modality, where relevant, that talks about what we now understand is happening in the brain and therefore to the rest of the body as a result of this type of modality. I believe that knowledge is power so providing you with this information I’m hoping it will help you get past some of the stigmas around some of these modalities being a bit woo -woo. Our knowledge of quantum physics, our knowledge of neuroscience has developed so much in the last 20 years, in the last five years even, that we know understand a lot more about what is actually happening.

The next thing that people said they really worried about was what it was supposed to be like, what a good experience felt like and how they knew if they were going to be working with a competent practitioner. So I’ve added two sections into the Wellness Wiki to address this. One is called What Good Looks Like and that’s where we talk through what a positive exceptional experience should be like – from the feelings you should have, the sensations you should have, how the practitioners should act. Now I know that in many cases in alternative therapies, practitioners blend elements together, but that doesn’t stop the fact that the element of this modality should be delivered in a consistent way with its teachings or its overarching governing bodies. Then we’ve added in a section called What to Ask the Practitioner. These are the really pertinent questions with suggested desired answers that you should be able to ask a practitioner to check they know their stuff and that they are going to do it in a way that is going to maximise the potential benefits to you. These are the sorts of questions you should ask before you agree to work with them. That check that they really understand what they’re talking about before you part money and before you give them your trust to work on your health, mindset, wellbeing, whatever it may be. There obviously are some modalities where you don’t need a practitioner, in which case what are the quality resources I can go to to learn what it is I need to learn.

The Wellness Wiki is structured in a way that every one is exactly the same. So that helps you compare and contrast between them. Each has a Definition and an Explanation. This shares the history and what the intended use of that modality is.

We then go into the Evidence of Efficacy and Neuroscience as I just explained. There’s then a section on Governing Bodies – these are the organisations and associations that oversee the standards and ethics of the modality to ensure that there is consistency and upholding of quality. We include this to assist you in checking if a practitioner is registered as a sign of quality.

You’re then into the What Good Looks Like and the What to Ask the Practitioner sections as already covered. There obviously are some modalities where you don’t need a practitioner, in which case quality Self-Study Resources you can go to, to learn what you to learn are shared. And then at the end, there’s a Related Modalities section which allows you to navigate to similar modalities within the wiki.

And where we have a practitioner who works with us, who knows a lot about this modality, has qualified in it and so on. They’ve added some Additional Insights. That might be YouTube videos. It might be some videos that they’ve recorded with me to help bring that modality to life.

Below, you’ll see two walkthroughs. One on a phone and one on a laptop to help you see the different ways you can navigate around the Wiki from within the website. It should help you understand how to navigate through the wiki.

The Wiki has 3 ways you can explore its content. Firstly they are all added to a Type – Soul, Mind, Body. Then we have categorised the modalities into similar backgrounds (roots), approaches or styles allow you to explore similarities. We have done that as just because two modalities work on your energy and vibrational field doesn’t mean they’re both the same and it doesn’t mean they’ll both resonate with you. What we want you to do is to find one that does, to pop that into your toolkit and have it available to you, whether it be daily, whether it be just the once or unspecified option in the middle, monthly, quarterly, annually, whatever it might be, just with friends, just on a full moon, whatever, really doesn’t matter, the toolkit is yours, the rules are yours. There are nine Categories like Physical & Manual, Cognitive & Emotional, Traditional & Herbal or Spiritual & Metaphysical. The final way is we have themes via the use of Tags – for example the Top 10 Modalities by Efficacy, or the Top 20 by Usage in the UK. You can see the Modalities that link to a particular Practitioner. These are found at the bottom of each modality.

I hope this has been helpful. And I hope that you find what you need – even if that’s just a little nugget of something to get you started.