Lordy, lordy what to do when I am the one who is sick?
Okay so I have to observe my symptoms, try and take a step back, assess myself and then take a remedy. I also have to walk my talk, so I cancel patients, cancel my day and go back to bed. This is the advise I give my patients and this is the advise I take for myself and my family.
Disease is not there to irritate you: it is the path to health. I find that after a good fever, vomit, cry, flu I am 100's again, in fact more than 100's: I have de-toxed, slept and am re-newed. You will notice this with your children, they get sick and then when they are well again they have had a growth spurt, a health spurt or even a mental/emotional spurt!
If a patient cannot raise a fever, then I get them to have one: wear lots of jumpers and wrap up, encourage the body to fever. This is nature's way of burning the 'muck' out, feel no fear from a fever in fact rejoice!
Disease=health. So if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, stop trying to avoid it: go to bed, sweat, dis-charge and come out from under those duvet covers feeling stronger.
I am a holistic practitioner, this means to take care of the whole
patient in all aspects. So if you choose to go to the GP,
the faith healer...whatever, do so, if it works for you...fantastic. It does not make you less of a person to look after yourself.
Monday 30 January 2012
Thursday 26 January 2012
Connect or die!
Throughout the years of my long love affair with Homoeopathy I have to wonder at the difference's between people. For example I can, with confidence, prescribe a remedy that has worked successfully for many which does not work for someone with the same symptoms. This only means to me that everyone is different, individual. However we are all connected and the more we connect: the healthier we are.
Our connection with our immediate family, our friends, acquaintances and community is what helps us to be healthy individuals. If we only focus on the individual aspect of ourselves then others do not matter, we only think of ourselves. I believe this is one of the major causes of disease. The USA and western Europe have taken this way of thinking as a way of life. Number one, take what you want without thought for others, be the best you can be, the top of the heap....you know what I mean.
This earth, this community needs us to look into each others eyes and care. We are intrinsically made to belong to one another, we long for connection: to belong. To be isolated would mean death. I would like us to re-connect, re-establish and re-member that we are all one: one for all and all for one!
Our connection with our immediate family, our friends, acquaintances and community is what helps us to be healthy individuals. If we only focus on the individual aspect of ourselves then others do not matter, we only think of ourselves. I believe this is one of the major causes of disease. The USA and western Europe have taken this way of thinking as a way of life. Number one, take what you want without thought for others, be the best you can be, the top of the heap....you know what I mean.
This earth, this community needs us to look into each others eyes and care. We are intrinsically made to belong to one another, we long for connection: to belong. To be isolated would mean death. I would like us to re-connect, re-establish and re-member that we are all one: one for all and all for one!
Friday 20 January 2012
A learning curve
A few years ago I was working as a volunteer in a township clinic in Cape Town. As a white, middle-class, English woman, I thought like one and did not appreciate what poverty meant. This was one of my first patients and a profound learning experience for me:
A woman came into my clinic with her daughter. The daughter seemed lifeless and slow. She slumped across her mother, sleepily. Her mother described her as unhappy, she did not want to eat, always felt cold, for an African girl she looked pale and her hair looked sort of pale as well. I prescribed Silica (as a tissue salt) and told the mother to bring her back next week. The next week a bouncing girl came through the door, I did not recognise her at first. Her mother relayed that her daughter had life again and was eating. She was hungry all the time. The mother thanked me hugely and then said that only problem she now had was that she could not afford to feed her daughter.
Poverty is part of the disease. Poverty is a maintaining cause to ill health. Poverty is a huge tidal wave of need. A massive issue to address and one, most of the time, I cannot fathom. However, in my researching I have found: when there is disparity between the rich and the poor both suffer from higher rates of ill health, crime, mental illness, environmental problems and violence. Out of 20 countries the USA (one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with half the worlds billionaires) has the highest levels of social problems, crime, lack of education, mental illness, suicide, diseases of all sorts. Even though 1 in every 39 Americans are millionaires, one in 7 (39.1 million) Americans live below the poverty line. Japan and Sweden have less wealth disparity and less problems. Should we not be looking at these models of society to find the way to live in harmony with each other, the earth and with health?
A woman came into my clinic with her daughter. The daughter seemed lifeless and slow. She slumped across her mother, sleepily. Her mother described her as unhappy, she did not want to eat, always felt cold, for an African girl she looked pale and her hair looked sort of pale as well. I prescribed Silica (as a tissue salt) and told the mother to bring her back next week. The next week a bouncing girl came through the door, I did not recognise her at first. Her mother relayed that her daughter had life again and was eating. She was hungry all the time. The mother thanked me hugely and then said that only problem she now had was that she could not afford to feed her daughter.
Poverty is part of the disease. Poverty is a maintaining cause to ill health. Poverty is a huge tidal wave of need. A massive issue to address and one, most of the time, I cannot fathom. However, in my researching I have found: when there is disparity between the rich and the poor both suffer from higher rates of ill health, crime, mental illness, environmental problems and violence. Out of 20 countries the USA (one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with half the worlds billionaires) has the highest levels of social problems, crime, lack of education, mental illness, suicide, diseases of all sorts. Even though 1 in every 39 Americans are millionaires, one in 7 (39.1 million) Americans live below the poverty line. Japan and Sweden have less wealth disparity and less problems. Should we not be looking at these models of society to find the way to live in harmony with each other, the earth and with health?
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Ch ch ch changes
At this time of year we often review ourselves, the past year and make efforts to change and to grow. Some of it is easy, some of it not. In practice I have seen that for healing to occur change is needed.
We all have our own life challenges, no-one is exempt. To meet (and to heal) these challenges we must be able to change (our patterns, thoughts, habits, selves). People who work with me find that personal work is constant but always rewarding. You have to watch yourself!
I was reminded of the need for change to promote healing around an open fire, under the stars with some friends:
A dear friends son split open his big toe, dropped a cup on it, if I recall. I advised remedies, but it kept getting infected. After some questioning I found out that he was swimming on a daily basis. Off on holiday they go, toe looking foul, with my insistence that for healing to occur his foot must stay out of the water for a few days. So whilst the other children frolicked in the water he was, rather unceremoniously, dunked head first, so he could cool off. After 2 days his toe was healed and sealed. He was back in the water!
So whatever you are healing or working with remember change can be big or small, it can be for a life time or a few days and it will always be positive.
For the love of our earth and all who live on her lets make positive change.
We all have our own life challenges, no-one is exempt. To meet (and to heal) these challenges we must be able to change (our patterns, thoughts, habits, selves). People who work with me find that personal work is constant but always rewarding. You have to watch yourself!
I was reminded of the need for change to promote healing around an open fire, under the stars with some friends:
A dear friends son split open his big toe, dropped a cup on it, if I recall. I advised remedies, but it kept getting infected. After some questioning I found out that he was swimming on a daily basis. Off on holiday they go, toe looking foul, with my insistence that for healing to occur his foot must stay out of the water for a few days. So whilst the other children frolicked in the water he was, rather unceremoniously, dunked head first, so he could cool off. After 2 days his toe was healed and sealed. He was back in the water!
So whatever you are healing or working with remember change can be big or small, it can be for a life time or a few days and it will always be positive.
For the love of our earth and all who live on her lets make positive change.
Monday 2 January 2012
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