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So often people think what ails them are
ailments of the body, when often ailments of the body may have
started as ailments of the heart .
Does that seem simplistic to you?
Or even worse, does it seem like we are
“blaming the victim,” if the person would just buck up and
pull themselves up by their bootstraps (does anyone have these
anymore?) they would be fine.
But disease, or more precisely,
dis-ease,
is—on an energetic level—a state of stuckness.
And rather than lay blame for the disease at the feet
of the sufferer, let’s take a more compassionate approach: if
a person knew how to get themselves unstuck, most often they
would.
So why can’t we get ourselves unstuck
and help ourselves heal?
Most often a person is stuck because they
don’t know they have options or choices:
* They may never have seen family members
look at life in a different way so they have no template for
self examination.
* They may be stuck in a state of
unforgiveness, toward others, but most often toward
themselves.
* Their stuckness may have turned into
depression, where they lack the energy to examine choices or
the hope that things can get better.
* They may be broken hearted from the
loss of a loved one and can’t summon the strength to carry
on.
In the nine years I’ve been a
practicing homeopath, I’ve seen the power of homeopathy help
people become unstuck many, many times with amazing results.
I’ll outline some examples of how homeopathy has
helped heal the heart (details changed to protect the identity
of my patients).
Gillian, in her early 50’s, came in
with skin and digestive problems.
But when we talked, she told me she had never gotten
over the sudden death of her husband.
She had found him dead in their home in his late
30’s, a very sudden and unexpected death. Her skin and digestive issues had started soon after his death
When she spoke of his death, the tears
and feelings were so fresh I thought that he must have died
within the past year. Her
grief felt so recent.
Yet he had died 14 years before.
I gave her a remedy based on all the
things she told me about, but a remedy that had, as a main
issue, deep and long-held grief.
And then I waited to see what would happen.
When she came back for a follow-up
appointment, she was clearly better on many levels; her skin
and digestion were clearly improving.
I knew that it might take some time to get completely
well, but things looked encouraging.
At her second follow-up appointment, I
asked her how she felt about missing her husband, just to
check on what I saw as her biggest issue.
Now remember, two or so months before she was shedding
fresh tears over her loss.
At this appointment, she looked startled
and said while she still missed him and regretted that he
wasn’t able to see their children grow up into such fine
young adults, that she just felt a mild, sweet and sentimental grief for him.
Nothing more. No tears, no deep regrets, no anguish.
Clearly her remedy had helped heal her
heart.
Sonja, a lady in her early 60’s, came
to me to improve her general health.
She had done homeopathy many years before on the West
Coast with great results.
So when she heard a homeopath had moved to town, she
jumped at the chance to come see me.
We talked of many things because she had
lived a rich and interesting life.
At the very end, she spoke about how much she missed
her only child, a daughter.
This daughter had married a man who was anti-social,
who separated the daughter and their children from Sonja.
Sonja hadn’t seen or heard from her daughter or
family for four years, did not know where her daughter had
moved to and had no way of contacting her.
Her grief seemed bottomless. She was so stuck in missing her grandchildren, she still
bought Christmas and birthday presents for all four children
every year and kept them stored for the children, hoping one
day to give those presents to the children.
She kept their favorite toys and books around, with the
hope the grandchildren would visit her again.
I gave her a very different remedy from
Gillian’s, based on all of the things we talked about.
But this was a remedy that dealt with estrangement from
loved ones, with the twist of not being able to acknowledge
that time would have changed her loved ones.
I knew the remedy was doing its work when
she told me, several months later, that she had cleared out
the pile of presents and the playroom of toys, “because if I
ever do get to see them again, that stuff will be too young
for them and just junk.”
Again, clearly her remedy had helped heal
her heart.
Then there was Nadine, a girl of 15.
Her mom brought her in because Nadine had
“scratched” her arms.
I thought that was an unusual reason to see a
homeopath, but Nadine and I sat down to chat about her life.
It turned out the “scratches” were
self-inflicted cuts, that Nadine had become a cutter.
Her mom had taken her to the family doctor, to a
psychiatrist and to a psychologist.
Nadine was mad at these adults because she said they
didn’t seem to want to know about her, they acted like they
already knew all they needed to know.
She felt quite discounted and disconnected, even though
she was the center of the drama.
So I asked her why she was cutting
herself. “It is
easier to feel the physical pain of the cuts than the
emotional pain of breaking up with my boyfriend,” was her
response.
(This actually is a common reason for
cutting, but because no one had bothered to ask Nadine her
reason for cutting, she was angry.)
I gave Nadine a remedy for self
destructive actions, grief and indignation.
Because she was young and otherwise very healthy, she
got well very quickly, realized that her former boyfriend was
an inconsiderate loser, not worthy of her love and she shook
off her stuckness, her dis-ease.
Again, clearly her remedy had helped heal
her heart.
You may have noticed that I have not
listed the remedies that I chose for these people.
Each of these people was given a single
homeopathic remedy, in each case a remedy that specifically
matched their symptoms, their precise physical, emotional and
mental symptoms. With
classical homeopathy we use one and only one remedy at a time.
Because we’ve had many of our remedies for over 100
years, in some cases for over 200 years, we know exactly what
they will do and what symptoms, physical, emotional or mental,
they will help heal.
The gift and blessing of classical
homeopathy is that with it, we can help people become unstuck,
to help them shake off their dis-ease and return to the health
that we are designed to enjoy.
Note from the author:
Do you, after reading this article, think that you
should take one of the remedies that I chose for one of these
women, above, on your own because what you experience is
similar to what one of them experienced?
To be honest, a person who self-treats has a fool for a
patient and an idiot for a homeopath.
None of us has the ability to see
ourselves accurately, which is necessary to choose the best
remedy from the almost 4000 remedies we have.
I’ve seen people self treat and then they come to me
to undo the effects of poorly chosen homeopathic remedies.
Homeopathic remedies are natural and,
when taken correctly and well-indicated, can create profound
healing. Please remember that anything that has the power to heal,
does, if misused, have the power to harm.
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