UNDERSTANDING HOMEOPATHY
Shirley Gillotti RN,MS,CCHc is a homeopathic practitioner and believes this healing modality can and does inspire our Vital Force to self correct and re-stabilize our true health. A well selected remedy, inspires you to feel an alignment with your true Self, your journey and your purpose. Our inner intelligence almost magically lifts the veil blocking what naturally illuminates our fulfillment and creativity. When we are at peace within, good health naturally follows.
See Shirley for a Constitutional Consultation
First Consultation: $200. (approx 2 hrs)
Follow ups: $85 ( approx every 6-8 weeks)
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For more information about homeopathy, take a look at this article by Robert Field RSHom, CCH, APH, CTHom.
HOW CAN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES HELP YOU HEAL?
- It is safe. It is non-toxic and can be used by anyone in combination with any other therapy.
- It inspires YOUR healing. YOU are the healer.
- It is very individualized medicine. The remedy is for the whole of you.
- It inspires healing on all levels, including mentally, emotionally, and physically.
- The remedies are very inexpensive. Most are under $20.00 and may last for months of usage.
- Seeing the Homeopath is a part of the healing process. You may discover many things about yourself during the appointment.
We are a collection of life experiences and all of them are recorded in our physical bodies. Our bodies have a perfect blueprint of health and know to heal. Our bodies never do it wrong. That would be against survival. Even a cancerous affection is the bodies attempt to heal. What is needed in any person's efforts to heal is inspiration. Webster's Dictionary defines inspire this way: "to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration. Exert an animating, enlivening or exalting influence upon. To communicate to an agent supernaturally. To bring out or about.
To spread by indirect means".
You are your own healer and you can heal. You have done it many times before. From the cut that quit bleeding and healed to the insult that hurts us emotionally; we have all recovered and have gone on to heal. Sometimes there are scars. They can be reopened and our hurts can remind us again we are still trying to heal. We will be put on notice of our healing especially when it creates suffering. Remember nobody likes to suffer. It is simply your body telling you it is trying to do the healing work. What it needs most at this time is a little inspiration.
Inspiration to heal is what homeopathic remedies are for an individual. They inspire a healing response. In homeopathy, we recognize each living individual has a vital force. The vital force is the energy we have that animates us, that brings life to the body. It is through the vital force energy that we experience all of life, from our breath to our thoughts and emotions and to all physical sensations of pain and pleasure. Everything comes out of the vital force. It is also this vital force energy that helps us heal.
No two people will suffer alike. Even with the very same diagnosis of dis-ease, no two people will have the same life story, nor the same sensation of pain. Thus, two people may share the same dis-ease diagnosis, yet a different homeopathic remedy may be selected as the treatment. This is how homeopathy differs from Western Medicine, because it is a completely individualized medicine.
Homeopathic medicine is safe because it is energetic medicine, not a drug. Strong drugs, poisons and radiation will only create harm to the body and its tissues. Sometimes if the disease has progressed very far it may be necessary to destroy diseased tissue and sacrifice healthier tissue with it. But this also creates more for the body to heal. Because homeopathic medicine is not a drug or physical medicine it can be used safely with any other form of treatment or protocol.
When the remedy energy is so similar to the energy of a person's dis-ease expression, the vital force is inspired to respond. It is this response that is your renewed healing response. Your body knows exactly what to do, how to heal, what to heal, and in what order. Homeopathy is really a very simple, safe and beautiful, natural way to inspire true healing.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY
Homeopathy is a complete science and art with a 220-year history. Founded in the late 1700's by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Germany, homeopathy has endured as a pure healing art with an enormous amount of cures to its name. Dr. Hahnemann was a true scientist and investigated deeply every patient he saw. His power of observation was unique in his time. He noticed that some of his patients did well with drug or treatment and others whom he would have assumed would do as well, did not. He was driven to find out why.
Dr. Hahnemann began his search by taking some of the medicine used in the treatment of malaria and found it to be quite bitter. The assumption of the day was that the bitterness was part of the cure. But he also found he developed a fever similar to the fever of his malarial patients. This discovery led him to look much deeper in the materials of his medicine and find out what the effect of each of them was on a healthy individual. Soon he began to understand why some of his patients responded to the medicine and others did not. Once he was able to identify the characteristic symptoms of each of the medicines, he was able to apply them to each patient much more accurately and his success rate improved dramatically. He discovered that "like cures like" and developed a system of medicine to use this principle effectively. Homeo-pathy means similar suffering.
Dr. Hahnemann was dedicated to the safest and gentlest healing for his patients. He found that when he diluted the dose, the patient would still respond but without any dangerous side effects and less of a healing aggravation. In fact, most homeopathic medicines have been so diluted there is not a single molecule of the original substance left in the solution. Then though the process of succussion (shaking it vigorously) it becomes dynamic and the effects are increased exponentially, while at the same time making it very safe. It was through his years of observations that he created the Organon of Medicine, the bible for the practice of Homeopathy. It is still the basis of all homeopathic understand and treatment today.
The applications of the medicines are very individualized. Through the process of"provings" the indications for the remedies are learned. Many individuals volunteer to take a medicine under supervision to find out more about it. They will then report the sensations, thoughts and feelings that happen to them. This information is correlated and a picture of the medicine is created. Particular themes will emerge along with mental and physical indications. These are collected and organized into Materia Medicas (materials of medicine) and contain many centuries of information that have been observed by Homeopaths through the years. Homeopathy is not a new age science.
Today the healing art and science of modern medicine has become an in depth exploration into technology. With the many advances there have also come a few pitfalls; the greatest pitfall being the failure to look at the whole person. We can now safely look at the molecular structure of the human body; yet, fail to ask simple questions like, "How are you?" "When did this condition begin?" "What difficulties in life have you experienced?". Homeopathy is medicine for the whole person: physical, mental, and emotional.
