Traditional Healing is an energetic medicine. It considers that an all-pervading energy is present in all matter, that embodies the natural laws and universal creative force. This energy has different names in different cultures. Although this energy may have many different names, the underlying attributes of this energy are understood in much the same way in all cultures. Thus living beings are considered to manifest a higher level of this energy, while inanimate objects manifest this energy in a much more limited and basic way. Traditional Healers believe that this energy can become disturbed in living beings due adverse thoughts and emotions, an inappropriate lifestyle, an unwholesome diet, unhealthy air, tainted water, an unnatural environment and disharmony with natural cycles.