Snakes as your masseuse and urine as your facial wash.
I can have a massage therapy every week – I feel rested and cozy. But I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me because I’m not satisfied with that. Doing the same things over and over is terribly boring. Let’s see what alternative therapies I’ve got at my disposal.
Snake Massage Therapy
Photo from oddstuffmagazine.com
This is supposed to be relaxing, but how can you do that when snakes are dancing in your face and body? The snakes used are non-venomous but you would only know for sure if you didn’t die, and they still can bite. This is for the tough-hearted.
Past Life Regression Therapy
Photo from Kathryn Cartwright’s flickr
If you have breathing difficulties, you probably have been buried alive in your past life. This therapy digs the unresolved issues of your previous self, which it claims to be the root of your health problems.
Laughter Therapy
Photo from Craig Cochrane’s flickr
All you do in this therapy is laugh. You force yourself to laugh and continue to laugh until the session ends. People laugh because they’re happy, but people can be happy when they laugh too. It must be liberating to laugh like crazy.
Maggot Debridement Therapy
Photo from Steven Depolo’s flickr
Maggots can clean your infected wounds. You immerse your wound, say your cut finger, in a whirlpool of maggots and they kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria in it. I’m sure my doctor can come up with something stronger than antibiotic. I’ll pay, I promise but not the Maggots.
Urine Therapy
Photo from SuSanA Secretariat’s flickr
I’ve watched this in television and people really drink their own urine kidding aside. They also use urine as facial wash for babies in China. They believed that urine can cure. Dare to put this in your bucket list?
Bee Sting and Leech Therapy
Photos from healthyfellow.com; OakleyOriginals’ flickr
For some reason people disliked mainstream medicine, they let the bees stung them and leeches suck them. If you prefer the leech one, you have to immerse yourself in turpentine first.
Sound Therapy
Photo from Tess Watson’s flickr
Sound frequencies can heal, apparently. It can put balance in your body. It can “act like vitamins and minerals”. Give me the sound of vitamin A plus iodine!
Beer Therapy
Photo from beerbath.eu
Oh how can you not love this? You bathe in beer. Drink while it rejuvenates you. This is how people in Czech Republic, Austria and Germany roll.
Ho’oponopono
Photo from lightsoflove.us
This is a Hawaiian practice that targets the root of an illness like the past life regression therapy. If there’s dispute, anger or guilt, you have to be “sorry” and “make it up” and see the magic in your life.
Virtual Dolphin Therapy
Photo from Patrik Jones’ flickr
Just imagine dolphins swimming in the calm sea. I know, it’s softening.
What therapy would you try?
Sources: Top 10 Weird Health Therapies; TopTenz.net 12 Most Bizarre Modern Alternative Medical Treatments; WebEcoist
Moment Matters 
So nice indeed.
I think I will stick to my boring massages. But my masseuse is going to acupuncture school and I have agreed to be a test subject when she actually gets to the point 🙂 of poking people.
Past life and Sound therapy are the only ones I know, the others just sound a little weird! But sound therapy works, although this is different to sound healing which is I think what your describing! Sound therapy works with the muscles in the inner ear which connect to the brain, its a muscle that we stop using after childhood for some reason, sound healing works with the natural frequencies of the body! I’ve never had either but sound therapy sounds amazing and the affects are incredible!
Surfing lesson for three hours does it for me.
The maggots eat away any corrupt or infected flesh, not nice, but more effective than most other forms of meds. They dont/cant go near any good flesh so its clean to recover. Like donating blood, dont mind it but don’t/wouldn’t watch it (don’t like the sight of my own blood).
Leaving your life and being someone else for a few hours. I like arranging visits to research libraries. Some army/police/university/government/communities/etc have private or specific museums – available to access on request (if done properly). Can be great to wander, usually with an interested and proud guide, through the stacks and exhibits, looking into a different world for a few hours. Refreshing, usually with a cup of great coffee (if it’s to be found) afterwards.
I’d go for the dolphin therapy but I saw something on TV about dolphin rape. Nothing is sacred anymore!
I’ll take the beer therapy. I guess if I get enough of it I might not notice participating in the urine therapy. I’m just wondering what idiots believe urine is something good when your body already kicked it out? That’s like having the filter full of grounds instead of the coffee!
Emotional Freedom Technique and Project Sanctuary!
massage works for me! And Reiki 🙂
Laughter therapy would be my choice, surely you feel happy when finished. And I wouldn’t mind the beer therapy sounds interesting. A word about the Urine….I actually believe that is is good for certain things, my grandmother used to say when you had a bad cut on your fingers, just next to the nail, wee over it. It heals a lot faster, and I can see that the creams for cracked heals contain urea, which is found in urine. I wouldn’t drink it though 🙂
The snakes are definitely out, I would be more stressed if I didn’t have a heart attack that is.
I have been using Sound therapy, I have a music CD that is used during meditation and for me, I feel that it works.
Spending time with my dog is a great stress-relieving (alternative) therapy! Whether its playing tug-o-war, exploring the outdoors or just cuddling on the couch, petting an animal and spending time with them have such positive psychological impacts on us humans!
I know that ‘pet therapy’ isn’t mentioned above, but maybe an additional alternative therapy (that could be added to the list) is volunteering at a pet shelter since you get the benefit of playing with dogs or cats and not having to care for them full time (if owning a pet is not an option for someone at that time in their life).
And I had no idea such, um, interesting therapies existed in the world…
Interesting stuff! I’d rather the laugh and dolphin therapy though. 🙂
I am an artist so I get my mental rehabilitation there. When I have anger my work is angry. Happy then you get a happy piece. Drinking wine…. Well, it’s always interesting lqtms
My “sacred space” is when I write – blog, fiction, poetry, and I’ve just re-discovered the joys of letter writing – to a select few where the exchanges are really meaningful -the process is very cathartic and the feedback allows greater retrospection. Very healing.