In Homeopathy, a person's uniqueness is everything.
Compared with conventional medicine in which uniqueness is completely ignored, Homeopathy is all about how you are different from everyone else. You know in an MD's office, a diabetic will get insulin, anyone with depression will get Effexor or Prozac or Wellbutrin, and every woman with a hormonal complaint will be given birth control pills. You are treated as a statistic that should fit into a chart. In this same way, bad reactions to drugs are considered anomalies that don't fit into the bell graph.
In the paradigm of Homeopathy, you are considered to be an original, one-of-a-kind-person that comes with your own set of symptoms, strengths, and weaknesses. Not only that, but the particular way in which you express a symptom (i.e. headache, menstrual cramps, chest pain) is also reflected in the "totality" of your mental and emotional way of being in the world. We could say that symptoms are a strategy for expressing ourselves. A good homeopath sees how everything about you resonates with a specific pattern (or color, or sound, if you want to get metaphorical.)
We could call the conscious part of you, your personality. The unconscious parts of you are attitudes and beliefs that motivate your behaviors and choices, big and small. All of us at one time or another, usually before the age of 5, decided who we are and what's possible for us, and we have been living our lives as if we are that. It's often the unconscious that runs the show called "life," where we are the stars of our own daytime soaps. This is the how a Homeopath diagnoses where your uniqueness has gotten "stuck" on one level or another - i.e. how you're not getting to fully "be" you.
I believe we are all here on this planet to learn how to express our uniqueness at the highest level, and that Homeopathic treatment is key to unlocking our own personal evolution. Relationships, family dynamics, work, and health status are all impacted by how we choose to either be ourselves, or not. Everything we attract into our lives is another piece of the puzzle to nudge us into unfolding, blossoming, manifesting, and expressing. The events and people that surround us are in some way resonating with who we are, who we want to be, or even who our parents wanted us to be. Since we can only evolve as much as we are fully expressed, the more evolved we are individually, the more the whole world becomes more perfectly expressed. When we are fully expressed we experience freedom, satisfaction, and joy - we are fully alive.
Sound interesting.
I am down with giving homeopathy a shot. I believe the doctors do prescribe drugs too often when other methods may work as well or even better.
In a different life I deliver personality assessments in corporate America and I have found that we are hardwired from birth to have a particular personality. What ebbs and flows is stress related to our hardwired way of thinking or acting. When pressure mounts we will pull away from our intended personality to affect change. Unfortunately, it's like stretching out a rubber band. Eventually, it snaps back hard. One can never wander far from our intended thoughts act.
We are a bundle of emotions and pre-programmed ways of being.
Great blog. Thank you.
Posted by: Spencer McDonald | May 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM
"I believe we are all here on this planet to learn how to express our uniqueness at the highest level..." I totally feel at one with these words of your:)
Thanks for the post, it does open one's mind to Homeopathy as a viable option.
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Charnita
Posted by: Charnita | August 31, 2009 at 03:09 AM
Thank you for your comment Charnita.
Homeopathy is a medicine that addresses the physical AND emotional symptoms of dis-ease, or illness. I have experienced this in my own life and in my patient's lives.
As an artist and Homeopath, I see the world as a place for self-expression via words, actions, and various art forms. When we are on our path of evolution, life has a beautiful sense of synchronicity and effortlessness that comes from authentic expression and communication.
Posted by: Hannah | September 09, 2009 at 10:51 AM