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Healing Life Homeopathy Newsletter
January, 2010
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to 2010! May this year bring great joy, understanding and vibrant health to you and your loved ones and may this be reflected back on a global level.
Thank you to all
those who responded to my questionnaire regarding this newsletter. In the coming months I will try to
incorporate the many excellent suggestions you made. As always, my aim is to provide an
inspirational, educational and practical newsletter that you enjoy reading and that
contributes to your well-being.
Below the articles, please check out the next home use seminar on Feb. 4th and a special offer for all you lovely readers!
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New Year's Resolutions - Constitutional Homeopathic Treatment
Have any of you made New Year's Resolutions? This annual rite can be aimed towards different
things (getting in shape, getting your finances in order, creating better
balance of work and play) but often underneath is the feeling that something
isn't as you would like it to be and a resolution is our mind's effort to
muscle us towards change. That's all
well and good, but our mind usually has no awareness of the deeper levels of
our being and operates under a set of "shoulds" and comparisons that result in making us feel
greater or lesser than those we compare ourselves to.
When our mind rules the roost, our freedom to live authentically is
limited by a theoretical height and weight chart - when we don't conform to mentally imposed
standards, we feel bad about ourselves.
Along with resolving chronic health issues, one of the goals
of homeopathic constitutional prescribing is to gently, easily release us from those limiting mindsets of what we should be
like and allow our deeper nature the freedom to emerge. The idea that we are a body based in spirit goes across the board of all
religions and spiritual ideologies and applies to the realm of physical, mental
and emotional health as well. Being an
integrated, aligned person means your health, your emotions and your mental functioning are all in balance and work together in service of those deeper potentials and gifts you are here to
express and manifest. The founder of
homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, wrote of this in his classic homeopathic
text The Organon published in 1810: "In the healthy condition of man,
the spiritual vital force...that animates the material body, rules with unbounded
sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital
operation...so that our indwelling,
reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher
purposes of our existence" (Organon, Aph. 9).
In homeopathy, your healing pertains not just to physical health, but is
part and parcel of your whole being's unfolding - balanced physical, emotional
and mental health which then allows you to freely live and express the unique
being that you are.
So while this may be a good time for you to make some New
Year's resolutions, consider whether the corrections you seek may go deeper
than a cosmetic change. If you have
never sought constitutional homeopathic treatment or have been out of touch
with other mentors of the body, mind and spirit, the assistance available from
those sources could empower whatever changes you really want to make. Along with physical healing, constitutional homeopathy opens the door to greater
freedom in all aspects of being and expression within the world.
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A Practical Reminder:
If you aren't already taking Vitamin D on a daily basis,
start now! The gloomy and short days of
winter mean we get much less of this necessary vitamin than in sunnier
climates. Adequate Vitamin D can keep us
from getting sick (as in the flu and possibly even more serious diseases such
as cancer, auto-immune diseases and Type 1 Diabetes), and falling prey to winter
depression. During the winter, research indicates
adults can take 5,000 iu's daily; babies and young children can start at 1,000
iu's per day, and go up another 1,000 iu's for every 25 lbs. of body weight. This
information (and much more!) is available at www.vitamindcouncil.org.
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For Home Prescribers:
Spotlight on Silica
This is a polycrest remedy, or one that is frequently used both
on a constitutional and acute basis with vast breadth of homeopathic useage
behind it. Silica's main theme is difficulty in
emerging, or problems in moving something from the inside to the out - whether
physically, emotionally or mentally. In
children, it can be prescribed on difficult physical transitions such slow/painful
teething, slow development in walking and talking, constipation, and poor
nutritional assimilation, often reflected in a thin, delicate body. People are generally chilly even though they
can perspire and have smelly, sweaty feet.
Emotionally Silica is timid and generally yielding to others
- however, often with a deeper kernel of stubbornness and a tendency to "fixed
ideas" (or an inability to be flexible in their thinking). There can be mental fatigue from studying and
a fear around public speaking, exams, or any situation where they need to
perform or "bring something out" in a public way. To move forward, they need support - it is hard for them to stand tall on their own.
Keep this remedy in mind for issues where things get stuck
and can't fully come out such as recurrent abscesses, swollen glands, skin
eruptions/infections or splinters that don't come out but suppurate on and
on. Chronic leaking ear infections, sore
throats with a sensation that something sharp is stuck inside, chronic colds or stuffiness and a general sense
of weakness can all point to Silica. There is a tremendous fear of needles, and
this has been a classic remedy for bad reaction to vaccination (for instance a chronic state of infection or poor health following vaccination) - although today with
the ever increasing number and larger combinations of vaccines,
treating vaccination reactions is much more complicated and needs to be done on
a case by case basis with professional advice.
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Upcoming Events:
Homeopathy for Home
Use Seminar
Thursday, Feb. 4th
Learn to use homeopathy to treat
acute illnesses, injuries and other home prescribing situations. This seminar will give
you the background, understanding and tools to bring this powerful but
gentle system of health care home to yourself and loved ones.
Thursday, Feb. 4th from 9 a.m. - 12 noon at The
Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., N. Vancouver. Cost $35.
To register for this seminar, call 604-671-7863. All participants must pre-register.
I look forward to further sharing of homeopathy and its gifts with you this year.
Warm regards,
Susan
604-671-7863
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Special Offer to
Newsletter Subscribers:
For those subscribers living in the greater Vancouver area,
Healthworks Health Centres (two of my favorite natural health stores with
highly knowledgeable staff) are offering readers who mention this newsletter
10% off any purchase of products not already priced at a discount. This applies not only to homeopathics, but
any product they carry (vitamins, minerals, teas, cosmetics, etc.) that does not have a red dot on it (discounted
price).
Find Healthworks at 3120
Edgemont Blvd., N. Vancouver or
5351 Caulfeild Mall, W. Vancouver and mention
this newsletter
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