August 2010 Newsletter
Contents:

*  When Summer Ends
*  Homeopathic Prophylaxis - safe, effective, flexible

When Summer Ends...
 
Here in beautiful Vancouver, we have been luxuriating in a string of perfect days of sunshine, brilliant blue skies and warm, soft air.  On health matters at least, the newspapers are momentarily quiet, with no looming health crisis or disease clouding our horizon.  When the weather is so good and people enjoying their holidays, what's really to write about? 

And yet, have you ever noticed that no matter how perfect things are, our minds are rarely able to fully relax and just accept a state of suspended pleasure? And if our minds are unable to relax, our bodies follow suit and likewise cannot bask in a prolonged experience of well-being .  After all, summer will end, we will have to go back to work, the uncertain future hangs forever overhead.   And then there is the inner unrest, which rarely stays quiet for long with self-doubts, discontents, un-achieved ambitions and disappointments just waiting to drown out any brief moment of peace. 

How much pleasure do you get simply from yourself?  Do you often feel gratitude just for your individual, unique personhood, or does it feel more like one long trial, broken up by a rare moment sitting in the sunshine?  Because it's true that nothing, ultimately, will last, whether it's great achievement, money, relationships or summer sun. While we may enjoy these things to a greater or lesser extent, they too shall pass.  But underneath it all, it is how we experience our lives themselves minute by minute that can provide a consistent source of creativity and fulfillment. 

So here's my plug for homeopathy this month, although it's not the only way to self-fulfillment.  When our energy systems are so overwhelmed by outer demands, internal negative dialogue and/or physical illness, there is little energy left to experience and enjoy our true nature, let alone creatively express those inner longings in the outside world.  Homeopathic treatment is all about gradually releasing the various destructive tentacles sucking away at us in order to restore our own inner balance in greater physical, emotional and mental health.  As our inherent energy is more available to us, so we can more easily explore, enjoy and nurture our own selves regardless of the turn of the seasons or the curve balls life will continue to throw.  We can't control much of what happens in our world, but homeopathy is a wonderful tool to increase our resilience and allow us to have more fun with whatever we've got.    



Homeopathic Prophylaxis - Safe, Effective and Flexible

 

For parents who have decided to not vaccinate or only partially vaccinate their children against diseases due to concerns surrounding the safety, effectiveness and long-term complications of the conventional vaccination program, homeopathy has long offered a viable and safe alternative in disease prevention.  When Dr. Samuel Hahnemann was first practicing his new medical system of homeopathy, he experimented with using homeopathic remedies as prophylaxis during various epidemics (such as cholera and scarlet fever) and he was greatly successful not only in curing the sick, but in keeping those healthy from contracting the disease.Using remedies as prophylaxis has since been used by many other homeopaths with many accounts of its success and usefulness.

 

Recently, Dr. Isaac Golden in Australia conducted a 15 year survey with over 3,000 children using homeopathic remedies corresponding to conventional medicine's  disease-preventing  vaccines and found that the homeopathic prophylaxis program had a 90% efficacy rate (comparable to conventional vaccinations) but with far fewer detrimental side effects.  In fact when rating those children who had received homeopathic prophylaxis versus those vaccinated and those children neither vaccinated or treated with homeopathic prophylaxis, those children protected by homeopathic prophylaxis had a higher overall score of health.

 

I am now offering Dr. Golden's homeopathic prophylaxis protocol in my office.  This program protects against the diseases children are conventionally vaccinated against (whooping cough, tetanus, mumps, haemophilus, polio, pneumococcinum, meningitis, diphtheria) and additional prevention is available for hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, chickenpox and influenza.  If you are interested in speaking with me or enrolling your child, please contact me at 604-671-7863.

 

All children enrolled in this program under my supervision will be part of a greater North American program overseen by Kate Birch, RSHom(NA) in Minneapolis.  Her very informative website is available at http://vaccinefree.wordpress.com/.


May you enjoy every moment of this August, with joyful abandon!

Susan
Suite 265, 1000 Roosevelt Cres
North Vancouver, British Columbia V7P3R4
604-671-7863