the healing power of homoeopathy

I have recently recommended ‘The Work’ by Katie Byron to a few people.

She has developed a way of questioning your own beliefs and attitudes and altering them in a way that you see fit, in order to improve your life. It is quite simple and straightfoward. It is a way of saying, ‘Yes, I believe this, is it true and does it help me?’.

You can do this on your own, but she provides some good work sheets on how you can do this.

I thought I’d provide a link here, The Work by Katie Byron please have a look and leave me some feedback on what you think. I hope you find it useful.

When someone is not listening to you, no matter how hard you try. Try listening to them instead.

You might need to listen.

You can learn their point of view better so you won’t be tackling them head on. You can try explaining from their point of view instead of yours.

Who knows, they might even be right anyway?

You have arrived.

It is great to strive for things, to have ambition and drive to change yourself and the world. But how do you know what you have changed unless you take a moment to take stock?

“If I just have…” is something we hear so often. “If I just lose those few pounds”, “If I could only earn a little more” are just a couple of examples of how people focus on the future. It is not wrong to want these things, but if we focus all our energy on our next step or the step after that, then we might forget where we are standing.

Remembering the statement ‘you have arrived’ is just one way of looking down at your feet.

A thing is good or bad only as the observer decides.

Love is not like cake.

The more you share it, the more you have.

Balance is not about being fixed in one place. It is the motion of the waves of the ocean.

This is the same when we talk about health. All the words we use in conventional health are part of this common attitude. We say things like ‘cure’ and ‘fix’, when both words are also used in pickling, in keeping something in the same state for a long period of time. Why would we want to do this? If life is all about growing and learning and changing ourselves then why would we hold the attitude of wanting a ‘cure’?

If you are learning a new skill, whether it is a baby learning to walk or an adult learning to drive you would not want to eliminate all difficulties in the task. If we were to move the baby’s legs for him and hold him upright he might ‘walk’ sooner but it would be completely pointless. As soon as we step away he would fall again.
We need to do things at our own pace.

This is the same in the world of health and healing. Using any therapy or medicine, you might get the end result you require, your symptoms are gone, you are walking. But as soon as that help is taken away can you still do it on your own? I feel that this is an important part of any journey, be it health, education or something as simple as cooking a meal. You can visit any therapist, doctor or healer and it will be a factor. Are they trying to do your healing for you? The intention of the practitioner is just as important as the intention of the person requiring the practitioner.

An example is a patient that goes to a doctor with depression and is sent away with a prescription for anti-depressants and no further help. They are simply standing at the same spot on their journey. They may no longer have depression, but they have not learned how to get themselves out of that state and to take the next step. Most people accept that if someone is depressed they would need some form of counselling as well as whatever medical treatment they may want. The counselling is one form of taking that vital step and moving on. In this way the state of depression was not a punishment or a fault on the patient’s part but something positive to help him move on to the next stage in his learning.

It is the same story with any other symptom, be it emotional or physical. Experiencing no pain, suffering or symptoms is not something to aspire to. Each stumble we make helps us to learn how to walk properly. While we are alive we might aspire to feel as much as possible. It is what we learn from this that helps us progress.

Every one of us will one day reach a state where we will no longer feel any suffering or pain or symptoms. Longing for this while we are alive is a waste of life.

Before the big bang we were all part of the same tiniest particle. Physicists say that if two particles are formed together they are always connected (Entanglement theory). So that means that everyone and everything is connected throughout all space and time.

Is this how one person can make a difference?

By healing yourself or doing something positive you are in fact healing and helping every other being in the universe. By helping someone else you also help yourself.

A fear of death is only a fear of a wasted life.

To be brave we must know what it is to be afraid.

To be strong we must accept our own vulnerabilities

To be wise we must also be the idiot.

By accepting our faults we allow our strengths to grow. They grow from the same soil.

This story (slightly rephrased) was told in ‘Like the Flowing River’ by Paulo Coelho.

A Moroccan tribe have this idea of how original sin came about.

Snake: Eat the apple.

Eve: No I mustn’t.

Snake: But you need to be more beautiful for Adam.

Eve: No I don’t. There are no other women, so it is just the two of us.

Snake: No. He has another woman. He hides her in that well over there.

Eve walks over to the well with the snake. She peers over the ledge and glistening in a pool of dark water, peering right back at her is the most beautiful woman she has ever seen.

Out of fear and jealousy she eats the apple.

The tribe say that paradise is to be regained by anyone who can look at their own reflection and feel no fear.