How to Find a Therapy or Therapist - Negotiating Your Way Through the Maze

I had an interesting email from a man by the name of John this week. His dilemma, which probably resonates with most people, is how to find a therapist or therapy they can trust, with all the deluge of information available on the internet, with what your doctor tells you, with what is reported on the media, and so forth.

He, along with probably millions, spends hundreds on products, but never manages to find the right one.

So I’m going to try to address this issue.

Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, you need to learn to trust your intuition, your feelings. This is a long journey in itself, but is critically important.

What is good for the goose, is not necessarily good for the gander. Or put another way, one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Learning to trust your intuition is doubly hard because most people spend a lot of time trying to convince you what to do. It seems so much easier to solve other people’s problems, than your own.

When I was embarking on this journey, I didn’t tell anyone because I knew, in my sensitive state, I would waiver. It was easier to go it alone. Once I felt some inner security, I was happy to talk about it. Other people would not so easily influence me.

I read everything that appealed to me, went on some good and some bad courses and soaked up what touched my heart. Years later, I’m happier than I have ever been.

Humanity has moved a long way from being able to access this inner wisdom, although traditional cultures have retained it as a vital part of their way of life. I suggest that without this, humanity is doomed.

Practice, and make mistakes, but with persistence, you will get better.

This weekend, I had a very good example made obvious to me. I wanted to move a heavy, wooden wall cupboard from one room to another, and into position on top of another cupboard.

I am naturally impatient and have fallen on my face (literally and metaphorically speaking) many times, because of this.

Moving this cupboard with two people would have been easy, but I was on my own. How could I manage?

It almost became as if I had a guide in my head. “Drag the cupboard on a mat.” “Go and get two chairs and lift one end of the cupboard onto one, then the other end onto the other.” “Position a thick book under this end.” “Be careful, it’s not secure yet, watch that end, as you manoeuvre this end.”

I was calm, patient, didn’t cut corners and managed very well, in a short time. Very unlike me in this situation. The ‘instructions’ were a new feeling for me. One, I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed.

The second most important aspect that I use is, does this therapy/therapist reflect natural laws or man-made laws? I find man-made laws unreliable, changeable and mostly profit or ego driven. Natural laws are timeless, reliable and consistent.

You may have to practice a bit to work out these to your own satisfaction.

Thirdly, are you taking responsibility for yourself, your life, your health or are you hoping someone else is? No-one has your best interests at heart as much as you do. It’s no good hoping that a new drug will appear in time to undo your current bad habits. I can guarantee that it won’t and never will.

Discover a quality diet and exercise regime that is attractive to you and realistic to follow. Make necessary changes to your life that allow you to be who you are.

Lastly, once you have selected the therapy/modality, stick with it. Give it a chance. You may want to change therapists until you find one you can work with. But Rome wasn’t built in a day. Quick fixes rarely give you long term gain. However, you should be able to see (or a good therapist should be able to show you) that you are making headway.

For example, with homeopathy, it is common to get an immediate boost in energy after starting on an appropriate remedy, selected for you as a unique person. Your physical problem may be slower to go, but on a mental and emotional level, you feel much better. This indicates your health is going in the right direction - towards a cure.

The other way round is not good. Getting rid of the physical problem at the expense of mental or emotional symptoms shows you are moving in the wrong direction.

With animals, as their guardian, it’s important to allow them to have control over their lives. Don’t assume you know best. They know what is best for them as they haven’t lost this inner connection. Allow them the space and they will reward you many times more.

Which Celebrites Use Homeopathy?

Ever wondered which celebrites use homeopathy?
What about famous people, past and present, who benefitted from homeopathic health care?

Why Men Are Never Depressed

 In the theme of the approaching 'silly' season, I thought a little humour was needed.

Men Are Just Happier People.
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can never be pregnant.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another petrol station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks and engines.
A ten-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
Your underwear is $4.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

Homeopathy Heals the Patient, Not the Disease

When people first become interested in natural health, they experience only a little shift in consciousness. They simply look for a natural way to resolve a problem, but they remain focussed on the problem.

For example, someone with high blood pressure or diabetes, simply looks for a natural substance to take that will help lower the blood pressure, or help the diabetes.

Whilst much healthier than the toxic alternative of drugs, this only takes a small step towards better health. The real change comes about when you understand the meaning of disease.

Ill health is the result of an inner imbalance. It doesn’t just come about. Disease doesn’t suddenly strike you down. It takes years of ignoring your body’s signals that something is wrong, before you get a disease.

This inner imbalance can be caused by many factors. Let’s look at the more common ones.

Diet is important. If you don’t ingest a large amount of fresh, raw fruit and vegetables every day, you can’t expect good health. Fast food, microwaved food, processed food, a diet high in animal protein will all ensure your health deteriorates over time.

A lack of the essential vitamin that comes from regular exposure to the sun is common today. Continue avoiding the sun at your peril! Just be mindful of midday summer sun in hot climes if you are not acclimatised. There are no fixed guidelines as this very much depends on your location, the season, the time of day of exposure, the colour of your skin (darker skins need more exposure), etc. Pill supplements don’t come anywhere close to the rich benefits of the sun.

Your outer health depends on your inner harmony. The majority of the world’s population are badly out of inner harmony. This is frequently set up in childhood, but it can also be a result of what your parents. and ancestors. passed on to you.

Traditional eastern health modalities recognise this. So does homeopathy.

The best way to explain this is to give examples. Suppose you have heart problems. As a child, you may never have been allowed to make any choices. Even your clothes were chosen by a parent. You grow up feeling very indecisive. You gathered no practice at this essential skill to life. Each time you tried, you were knocked back.

As you grew up, you had to compensate for this, and this created an inner imbalance. You were not being true to your essential nature. As a adult, you could now make choices, but old habits die hard. You are now set in a pattern.

As an adult, many instances now come your way, incidences that are similar to the original problem. They are opportunities to resolve this inner imbalance, but appear scary. So most people react against them, typically with irritability, anger, anxiety or fear. This means the problem grows over time.

Eventually, your inner being can’t support this imbalance on its own. It needs help shouldering the burden. And so it goes to your physical body - you get a disease. But it is a disease that picks up on your fundamental or inherited weakness. For one person it may be diabetes. For someone else it may be kidney problems. For another it may be neuralgia. For someone else it may be a cardiac weakness.

In homeopathy, the curative medicine will be one that restores this inner harmony. With that in balance, there is now no need for the physical disease.

Hopefully, now you can understand that there can be no one remedy for one disease. It depends entirely on the individual. So for ten different people, all suffering with kidney failure, ten different medicines are likely to be needed.

Likewise, one homeopathic medicine has the potential to cure many (if not most) physical conditions. This is because it is targeting you, not your disease.

I hope this makes sense. However, it DOES require a change in consciousness, and quite a big change. Give yourself time to get to grips with this concept. The truth is eternal. And doesn’t change. So it will wait for you.

Wild animals (living in the wild, rather than captivity) don’t have these problems. But domestic ones do. I consider this to be primarily caused by the food they are given, especially commercial pet food. But it is also because pets are influenced by us. They contract our imbalances, and so the same pathology develops in them.

By sorting out your own imbalances, you not only contribute to your own health, but that of your animals, too. And of the world as a whole. I consider that getting good homeopathic resolutions for my own health issues is my number one priority.

Homeopathy Restores the Peace We all Crave

There’s a saying that all roads lead to Rome. Put another way, all truths come to the same conclusion, even if they take different paths to get there.

Perhaps everyone’s goal is to feel at peace within themselves, to feel content and relaxed moment by moment.

I remember hearing about a rich business tycoon on holiday in a remote island, inhabited by local people who relied on fishing as a living. The tycoon was out fishing one day, and got talking to the owner of the boat. He suggested that the fisherman could market himself better and make much more money.

The local fisherman listened quietly and with respect. Then, wisely he commented that then he would become more stressed. This would lead to his need for a holiday in the environment he currently called home.

Who was wise here? Who has more?

Humans have deviated from this inner peace to an almost unprecedented level - constant mind chatter about the past or future, with no focus on the present. Yet it is the present which is all there really is to life. Seeking more and more material ‘things’ to fill that inner void just leads to more desires. It does nothing to alleviate the emptiness within.

This ignores the fact that we are dynamic, spiritual beings, not just beings within the physical boundaries of the skin.

It ignores that everything in our lives reflects who we are - our children, partners, family members, friends, enemies, environment, animals, work, hobbies. The list is endless.

If you want to speak to someone in a crowded and noisy room, the best way is to whisper in their ear. Trying to compete with the noise is pointless and simply adds to the chaos.

Your intuition, inner wisdom, or whatever you want to call it, doesn’t try to compete with your noisy mind. Instead, it whispers to you, when your mind is silent, however briefly. These are the eureka moments that people so often have - on the toilet, in the bath, on falling asleep or at any time when their minds are quiet.

Meditation can help you achieve this, as can yoga, Tai Chi and various other natural modalities.

Another approach is to watch what goes on around you. Watching how your relationships unfurl are a great way of mirroring you back to yourself. The anger, fear or emotions in others are a direct reflection of you. How easy it is to resolve someone else’s problem, rather than our own! But, they are our own.

Animals, in their total acceptance of the ‘now’ moment are fine masters at this art of mirroring you. When you are in fear, so too will be your animals. To such an extent that they will even suffer the same pathology - caused by your imbalance.

The desire to control our environment and family is because we have a lack of inner control which makes us feel very anxious. Our every action is a reflection of that inner turmoil.

Homeopathy understands this so well. Which is why homeopaths need to consider so much of you - your past, your dreams, your hobbies, your work, your reactions. It all points to how you deal with your life, how you act which is different from everyone else. Your individuality.

Homeopathy is so good at restoring the balance, at undoing past hurts, at calming your mind.

It is quite normal not to know how bad things have become for you, until you start on the journey away from the chaos. Then, looking back, it’s almost like viewing a movie - was I really like that? I know because I’ve been there, done that..., probably still doing it but to a lesser extent.

Homeopathy as a Complete Health Package

There really is nothing quite like homeopathy. There are no limits to what it can achieve. The limits are those that are imposed by you the patient, or the practitioner.

Let’s look at how. Homeopathy is brilliant at resolving physical issues, be it from a mild injury, to an intense headache, to severe pathology. You can even learn to treat the mild (and not-so-mild) physical issues yourself with some of the common remedies in a low potency (strength).

Homeopathy is fantastic at restoring emotional balance after a shock, a fright, a grief, abandonment or when anger or aggression becomes a dominant factor in your life.

There is nothing quite like the depth or speed with which homeopathy can reverse deeply troubled minds.

In a nutshell, homeopathy is your doctor, your specialist, your councellor, your psychologist, your psychiatrist. This is because all of you is connected. Your mind is not separate from your body and your body parts are not separate from each other. You are connected to all of you. Homeopathy is one of the few modalities which recognises this.

Homeopathy can also replace chiropractors, physiotherapists and other body workers.

Because homeopathy works at a deep level, dentistry can also come into its sphere of action.

People have their own limited ideas. Sadly this comes through by incomplete homeopathic training as well as by not expanding our potential.

Some homeopaths do a quick 6 months or year long training. Some courses are written by people other than homeopaths. There are a multitude of reasons why some homeopaths will tell you your problem can’t be fixed by homeopathy. What they really mean is that they are not up to the job, that they don’t know enough. But that takes courage to admit as well time to rectify. Not something many people have.

I’m telling you that the sky is the limit with homeopathic treatment. You just need patience and a good homeopath who makes it their life’s journey to continue to grow and learn.

Just as in any other walk of life, there are good, bad and indifferent homeopaths. Here are a few of my suggestions to know if your’s is on the ball:

•  you should always have a good, working relationship (friendly but respectful - anything less will not be in your long term interest)
•  where you do most of the talking (guided by the skillful homeopath)
•  when you are not judged, when the homeopath has no prejudices, where you feel completely at ease
•  the depth of questioning will give you an idea - we need to touch your inner core so expect hidden emotions to surface
•  the fewer the remedies (both in different remedies and in doses) you are given at any one time, the deeper will be the prescription
•  complexes (several remedies in one bottle) are definitely taboo except under exceptional circumstances
•  a need to see you frequently initially, fading into rare visits means your tendencies are being dealt with and so your ailments will diminish
•  an improvement in not only your complaints, but also in food cravings (for healthy food), in sleep and in energy and motivation

Although most chronic conditions will take time to go completely, there will be signs to show you things are definitely on the mend. Sometimes these are subtle and you can’t see them immediately, but a skillful homeopath will be able to recognise and show you the improvements.

However, homeopathy is not one of the easiest modalities to work with, as everyone is treated as the individual they are. So if you feel comfortable with your homeopath, allow them time to ‘find’ you and so the most suitable prescription. After all, it can be hard to pack a lifetime into an hour or two.

And a good homeopath will always be using homeopathy for themselves. Just as you do, they will need an objective person (in the form of another homeopath) to help them through their problems. Ask what troubles they have or have had and what helped them. That can tell you a lot about them and the depth of their knowledge.

The Different Levels of Homeopathic Prescribing

I’ve always been a bit puzzled when homeopaths say “homeopathy can’t treat this or that’, as my training was all about homeopathy treating the person, not the disease. As one homeopath put so well, ‘a tumour doesn’t walk into your clinic and sit in your chair, so why treat it?’.

It’s the person (or animal) with the ailment that needs treatment, not the ailment itself.

At a recent seminar, the mystery was solved for me. So I want to share this with you, as it may help you understand homeopathy a little better.

There are four levels of homeopathic prescribing.

Level one is at the level of treating the disease itself, rather than the person. This is in line with allopathic treatment (mainstream medicine) where just the ailment is treated. Little knowledge is necessary as only the disease itself is considered. The only difference between allopathic treatment and homeopathic treatment at level one treatment is that the medicine will be in potency (ie will have the energy of the source, just as homeopathic medicines do), rather than be in material doses.

Level two is still treating the disease or problem, but now it is a little more specialised, with personal knowledge of the uniqueness of that person expressing the disease. Some individuality is now needed to prescribe the right medicine, such as arthritis which is worse in the summer or better at the end of the day.

Level three brings in the emotional or mind of the person, as well as using the symptoms of the presenting problem. For example, the person may be suffering migraines, which started after they lost a loved one. The unprocessed grief is now manifesting at the physical level.

Level four is a recent addition, and goes much deeper and way beyond level three. Few homeopaths are using this method as it is so new, but also much more difficult to apply. However, the results that can be obtained far outweigh all the other levels combined.

Most medical homeopaths (doctors and vets) have only been trained to level 2, so they use therapeutics a lot, just as they do in the medical world. Whilst there is nothing inherently wrong with this, and much good can be done, it is limited.

Most lay homeopaths (the non medical ones) in the west have longer homeopathic training than the medical ones and are far more interested in reaching the mind and emotions, knowing full well a much better result is likely.

The exception to this is Indian trained homeopaths who generally undergo far longer training than those in the west.

Of course, there is always individual.as well as cultural and country variations, but generally speaking, you will get deeper prescribing from a lay homeopath in the west, than from a medical one.

Home prescribing is at level two. You can do a lot yourself, but by no means everything.

Depending on the person and the part of the world you are in, naturopaths may only be up to level two. However, in America, homeopaths are called naturopaths.

Talking about practitioners, I consider it to be of paramount importance to have a good relationship with your chosen practitioner, whatever the modality. If you don’t resonate with them, I suggest you don’t discard the modality, just the practitioner. Make sure you have a good, working relationship.with all your therapists, but be practical about it, rather than romantic.

Homeopathy Restores Balance After Acute Grief

Grief is a perfectly normal and natural part of life. However, how you deal with grief is not. The modern way of suppressing everything, from feelings to physical problems is counter to good health.

This may sound a little odd, but your body needs to express itself freely. It’s only by free expression that emotions can be worked through. It may not be fashionable to burst into tears when you have been emotionally stirred, but it’s REAL. Expressing your emotions means you are alive.

I, for one, look forward to the day when humanity can express themselves openly and freely, at the time they are stirred. Our society will be far healthier for it.

Most people try to hide their tears when in public, swallowing the grief. Or you may find yourself feeling empty inside, so go looking for food, which does nothing to fill the hollow.

A much healthier approach is to allow the feeling. You don’t have to encourage it, but if you simply accept that you do feel grief, you are feeling upset, sad or depressed. Allow it and it will pass. When you suppress the feeling, you are simply giving it more energy. This means it will re-surface in the future, often stronger and more difficult to deal with.

Learning to accept situations in your life doesn’t mean you don’t try to improve it. Far from it. But when you accept the situation, rather than deny it, you come from a much more positive place. The energy is very different.

Let’s suppose you have lost someone very near and dear to you. You expect to grieve their passing. By allowing this grief free expression, you are likely to emerge from the grief in a relatively short time. And when you do emerge, you will be ready to move on in life, while honoring the life you had.

When you suppress your grief, you can become morose and miserable, clutching onto the past, without ever moving forward. You get stuck.

Homeopathy is wonderful for helping you get unstuck, but this is an area when it is best to get professional help, rather than to try to do this yourself.

I remember a woman came to see me, who was beside herself with grief after she discovered her husband was having an affair. Her world fell apart. Later she told me that the remedy I gave her literally saved her life. Each time she felt her spirits sink, she took another dose. Without this support, she felt very close to taking her life.

After a couple of days of frequent dosing, she became more balanced, more in control and the support was no longer as necessary.

As happens with deep healing, another past grief of losing her beloved dog some years previously, was also healed. She could talk about him without crying or even feeling sad. Now, the memory of him was of their happy times together.

Supporting others in grief is another area that is often not healthy. Mostly the help is to try to get people out of the grief by any means. Suggestions such as ‘don’t cry’, ‘here, have a chocolate biscuit’ or trying to explain or rationalise the grief encourages denial of it.

What is more supportive and healthy is to allow their grief full expression without hindering it. For some reason, talking to people is better than talking to a wall. So if a grieving person wants to talk to you, it’s far better to remain silent. You are simply a catalyst, a vehicle by which the grief can be expended. You do not have to be involved. By getting involved, you can make matters worse.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is far more eloquent on this course of action than I am, so if you want to know more, you may like to read her books.

If you don’t process your grief in a healthy way, if you do get stuck and don’t do anything about getting proper help, then expect your animals to carry the load for you. They do that willing, so it’s better not to give them this burden.

Look back into your past and try to see if there is an area where you got stuck. Is it still causing you problems? Did your pets get sick soon afterwards?

When you become aware of subtleties, when you become acutely aware of life, when you really look, you can start to really see.

Homeopathy Works on All Levels

When someone receives a good homeopathic prescription, they experience a rapid re-balancing. It’s only when you are off balance that you develop ill health.

Off balance can mean a craving for unhealthy food, a low level of energy or an aversion to doing normal tasks, as well as more serious problems.

Toxic/Hormonal Disturbance
For example, a normally healthy young woman came to see me because she had recently developed a craving for chocolate - so much so that she had to stop off at every shop she passed, to buy a bar. It was getting ridiculous, expensive and she was gaining weight as a result.

It had started after she had changed her oral contraceptive pill.

I suggested to her that this was the cause of her problem, and that it would be a good idea to explore more natural methods of birth control. I’m not sure if this advice was heeded, as the homeopathic remedy I gave her stopped the craving instantly. She later told me it was ‘like a switch’.

Emotional Disturbance
Another young woman came to see me because she had problems using the telephone. She could manage sending and receiving text messages, but actually speaking to someone on the phone was almost impossible. Of course, this was causing serious problems at work.

She also had problems communicating with people outside her immediate family, so neighbour and work related issues often developed when they could have been easily resolved at the start. She had no friends and was alienated with her extended family.

Probably only a homeopath knows what to do with these sorts of problems.

Her homeopathic remedy worked so well, a couple of neighbours dropped in the day after, purely to be chatty and, well, neighbourly, without any move on her part. The issue with the other neighbour died a natural death. Work relations improved to the point she started to enjoy work rather than dread it. And she found herself using the phone more often than using text messages. I’m waiting to see if she makes any new friends, which I expect to see in the coming months.

Fear is very common in the current world. Probably everyone is fearful of something. Yet homeopathy shows that fear is only a state of mind, that can be almost effortlessly overcome.

Physical Disturbance
A small boy was brought to me because he had asthma, was sleeping badly, had recurring bladder infections and was very cranky. The first night after his homeopathic remedy, he slept through the night, and did so thereafter. His moods improved almost as quickly. His bladder infections slowed down to nothing over the next two weeks. And in six months, his asthma had gone, never to return.


Bringing it All Together
In homeopathy, we know that disturbance mostly starts in the mind and shows itself by mental and emotional symptoms that do not enhance your well-being or peaceful way of life. When these are ignored, with is common, then physical symptoms develop.

A homeopath wants to know your state of mind, not to judge, but to find out how your lack of balance developed. Without this knowledge, homeopaths can be working with one hand tied behind their backs.

Homeopathy Stops Excessive Menstrual Bleeding

A couple of years ago, one of my neighbours haemorrhaged to death after a hysterectomy operation. Her medical team had forgotton she was taking warfarin.

This week, a woman came to see me about excessive menstrual bleeding. The previous year, she had been diagnosed with a blood clot in her chest, so had been prescribed warfarin. This had increased her menstrual flow, so she had been advised to have an IUD fitted. IUDs have a slow release synthetic hormone.

When it was decided to stop the warfarin, she chose to have the IUD removed. However, the combination of the warfarin and IUD had thrown her health out badly and she started to haemorrhage.

Twice she was admitted to hospital. Finally, after excessive bleeding for two weeks, she came to see me.

The first thing that had to happen, was to stop the bleeding. She had lost far too much already and was already feeling the effects, with reduced ability to carry out simple tasks.

Within two days, the bleeding had totally stopped. It restarted, but at a much reduced flow, the following day. However, after jiggling around with her optimum dose level, it stopped completely.

Excessive menstrual bleeding is a common scenario. The medical options tend to be rather drastic with high levels of synthetic hormones (plus all the dangers they pose to your health later in life) or surgery to completely remove your uterus.

Although these measures can be seen to improve your bleeding, they do nothing to improve your general health. This is because they have suppressed your body’s natural symptoms to try to correct an internal imbalance. The cause of the problem is still there. And always will be until it can be addressed at an energetic level.

People are often surprised that a homeopath needs to know your past history. The reason is because it is necessary to know how your body was trying to right itself.

The permanent resolution of a health problem with homeopathic treatment will not happen unless it is addressing the problem at the level of the cause. Homeopathy doesn’t work any other way. It doesn’t suppress your natural healing powers, rather it supports and enhances them. This totally different view point is often difficult to comprehend, initially. It needs a change in consciousness to view something from a completely different angle.

Your body has great wisdom and all symptoms are indications of its best efforts to right itself. Try to look upon disease in this healthy way, rather than viewing it as ‘bad’.

It’s normal, in today’s world, to trust medical professionals implicitly. However, they are human, just as everyone else is, and mistakes are made.

It has never been easier than now, with the information so easily gleaned from the internet,  to check up on the drug you’re taking. Make sure you are aware of all the side-effects and the occasions when it is not advisable to take it or have other procedures carried out. Had my neighbour done this, she would probably still be alive.

Taking responsibility for your own health is the only way you can work towards good health. It can never come from giving this away to someone else. No-one has your own best interests at heart as much as you do.

What is Holistic Health?

The term holistic health relates to treating you as a whole person, rather than the sum of your different parts. For example, how can an operation (or any other major event) you had several years ago not be connected to your problems now? ALL your life experiences make up who you are and how you deal with life, from the genetic imprint from your parents, onwards.

EVERYTHING is your life is relevant. Some aspects simply show how you deal with events. Other aspects show a problem in the making.

Homeopaths are taught to look at everything, to judge nothing, but to consider even the smallest detail that may have been a contributing factor of your current health issue. As far as I am aware, there is no other modality of health care that is so thorough.

Things that happen to children are particularly traumatic and can have a huge effect. Things that seem silly or insignificant to an adult, can be enormous to a child.

So holistic health is all about looking at you as a whole person and looking for areas that was the start of your problem.

However, I feel that holistic health goes further than that. I feel it needs to take into consideration our whole environment, even the whole world. What do I mean by this?

I don’t believe that you can expect to have good health when you eat food that is devoid of nutrients. Not only does factory farming harm the environment, it also harms you. In reality, how can a system that harms the world that supports you, be beneficial to your health? The impact of this may not be immediate, but it is there.

On a much deeper note, the cruelty and misery humans inflict on animals must have an impact on the world. I see no justification in any acts of cruelty, but none less than in the entertainment industry.

Circuses have long used animals (both wild and domestic) to entertain the public, in particular children. However, their training methods have long been suspect. Quite apart from this, what does it do to a growing mind to see a dignified, wild animal performing silly tricks? Teaching a child to be insensitive makes for an insensitive adult.

I recently watched a couple of yourtubes on how elephants are trained in a circus. Although one particular circus was the culprit in these links, none are exempt from the cruelty. I was profoundly disturbed by this, and couldn’t work the rest of the day (luckily I didn’t have any consultations booked).

But this is simply the tip of the iceberg.

If you feel that circuses are fun for children, please check this link out, to see first hand how elephants are trained. Is it acceptable to take your children to this, a product of extreme cruelty and insensitivity?

Just as we are connected to all parts of our bodies, so we are also connected to every other living being in the world. By respecting and treasuring all life, we will also be respected and treasured back ourselves.

If animals suffer so much at the hands of humanity, how can this contribute to a healthy world? We are all connected, so even if we don’t actively engage in the acts of cruelty ourselves, they will affect us.

A small contribution from everyone (such as not going to circuses) is all that is needed to effect a change. Please think twice before visiting a circus with animals. Instead, actively support those who only have human performers, which is much more about acts of skill.

I’m very pleased to say that homeopathy does not engage in any animal experiments, relying on the much more accurate human trials.

Quick Fixes Can Be Detrimental to Your Future Well Being

This is an age when everyone wants everything in double quick time. People want their health problem removed, regardless of the consequences in the future. People are thrown into a panic when they, a child or an animal shows any condition not considered normal.

Pain killers are the most common drug used.
‘Quick, fix my headache. I want to keep working’.
‘Dull the pain of my injury anyhow. I want to return to the game’.

Yet pain killers don’t address the cause of the problem and do cause liver damage. And this is apart from the added problems you build up by ignoring what your body is desperately trying to tell you.

There is no regard for what is happening. And doctors and vets keep this going, as they have no idea what is happening, either. Medicine has no concept of disease, no idea of the importance of understanding what’s going on. Doctors have a great understanding of anatomy. But you are more that a collection of parts. You are an energy being, an evolving soul, going through various experiences.

Few people seem interested in the fact that life is a journey. As with any journey, it’s not a smooth run. You get peaks and troughs. Sometimes the going is tough, sometimes it’s a breeze.

You need to understand the process of disease. Then you can appreciate the importance of allowing things to happen naturally. And know when you need assistance. And what sort of assistance.

Fever is a great example to use here. Fever is a healthy body’s reaction to prevent entry of an unwelcome pathogen. A healthy body will throw out a violent fever that will last a short time. This will be successful in preventing the entry of the pathogen.

An unhealthy body will never be able to throw out a violent fever, managing only a low grade, mild one which is usually not successful in preventing the entry of the pathogen.

Yet, most doctors will try to bring a fever down, thus preventing a healthy body doing its job.

Occasionally, a high fever can go too high and then problems can set it. But this can be treated by homeopathic fever remedies, which support the body’s action, rather than suppressing it. A win-win situation.

There is a group of homeopaths in South America doing some ground breaking work in treating cancer with the homeopathic fever remedies. They have established a link to suppressing fever in the past, to cancer in the present.

Homeopaths talk a lot about suppressing symptoms because it is so detrimental to your overall good health.

And it’s not just physical conditions that are suppressed. Natural emotions are too. Children are taught not to express their emotions - girls shouldn’t get angry, boys shouldn’t cry.

Suppressing your emotions is even more detrimental to your overall good health than suppressing physical symptoms.

When you have had a lifetime of suppressing symptoms, your first visit to a professional homeopath can be cathartic. But it is also a time of taking the lid off, allowing your body to express itself fully.

This can be unfamiliar and alarming, initially. But, in time, it will be welcomed for the relief it provides. Your natural state is to express naturally, as emotions arise.

Although this is going to be tempered by society rules to some extent, as long as you understand when this is happening, you have a better chance of being healthy.

If you can begin to understand that everything in your life is a reflection of who you are, that your illness is giving you an indication of where you are, you’ve made progress. Your weak back may be showing you a lack of support in your life. A kidney infection may be showing you how pissed off you are with someone or some situation in your life. A malfunctioning liver may be an indication of suppressed anger. Lung problems tend to reflect an unresolved grief.

Did you know that tuberculosis is most common in misplaced people? They have been forced to flee their countries, but didn’t want to. Grief ... lungs.

All ailments are an opportunity for you to grow beyond the present, to evolve, to learn from them and move on.

There are many ways to do this, some of them dramatic, some of them highly emotional, not all of them successful.

Homeopathic treatment enables this shift to happen without any effort. Don’t ask me how you can achieve this life-changing event effortlessly, but you can. It’s as if the wires that connected your emotional triggers have been disconnected.

Children and animals are very good at reflecting back to you, who you are. They are far more truthful, honest and ‘real’ than most adult humans are. This is why one of the best things you can do for your children and pets, is to get your own health sorted out, at an energetic level.

I have been an animal ‘rescuer’ in my time (and probably still am to some extent), until I realised the animals were there for me, not the other way round. I fought that concept for many years (so don’t be surprised if you do), but finally had to accept it, the more I investigated.

Don’t look for a quick fix. Allow the problem to make you stop and really look at what is going on in your life, however inconvenient that may be.

Why do you have a headache? It may simply be a question of dehydration. But it could also be because the situation you are in is not acceptable.

A woman came to see me, suffering with migraines. We worked out that it was two unpleasant work colleagues who were causing her migraines. Once she recognised this, she chose to change her job and that cured the migraines.

However, it hasn’t really cured the problem, as similar people can come into your life at any time. Although I’m not suggesting you remain in a job that makes you unhappy, far from it, the problem is often you, not the job.

The energetic shift that a good homeopathic remedy will do, is to make these two unpleasant people insignificant to your life. They will either fade into the background, or the shift will make them more friendly.

This shift is what all homeopaths look for in consultations following a good prescription.

Headaches Are a Way of Letting You Know Something is Wrong

One of the things that humans seem to find so difficult to grasp is that you (and everything else on this planet) are energy beings. You have a vibrational energy. You resonate within a predetermined vibrational frequency.

What this means is that all other frequencies have an effect on you, some beneficial, some less so. It also explains why homeopathy works so well, as homeopathy is an energy based medicine.

The modern day environment is loaded with electrical frequencies from the high-tech world, both inside the home and work place, and outside. By far the most detrimental to your health are the microwave frequencies from cell/mobile phones and the meter box, but other areas pose a problem, too.

I have been advocating certain safety measures when using a cell phone for some time now, but that is only the tip (and possibly the worst offender) of the iceberg.

There are other major areas of concern.

One of them is the meter box. Although these are generally situated on the outside walls of the house, they can be too close to a bedroom. Meter boxes do emit strong, unacceptably high frequencies to be near for any length of time, such as when sleeping.

I had recently moved bedrooms and was sleeping within a couple of meters to my meter box. When I started to get low grade headaches, I looked around for any changes in my life. This was too big to ignore, so I moved to a different room, and within a week, the headaches had subsided dramatically.

Other areas that effect you are:

•  sleeping with an electric blanket switched on all night
•  cooking with a microwave oven
•  sitting too close to a computer/TV screen
•  a laptop keyboard emits much more EMF than a desk-top keyboard
•  overhead power lines close to your house, on your side of the road
•  cordless landline telephones especially the long distance ones

Obviously, if you work in an environment that has unacceptably high levels of EMF, you may want to think of ways to protect yourself. Or change jobs.

Protection
There are many things you can do to reduce the effect of these frequencies on you. Taking the precautions outlined above when using cell or cordless phones can reduce the detrimental effect enormously. The manufacturers of the Wave Shield cell phone protection device say many people have been cured of chronic headaches after fitting the device.

Another device I understand helps reduce the detrimental effects of the electro-magnetic fog we live and work in, is a mini Rayonex. I’ve had trouble sourcing these devices, but I include the name in the hope you have better success.

It’s a small, portable device you can take anywhere with you, put in your meter box, near your computer, near your bed, in your pocket. It is claimed it will neutralise the frequencies, to a safe level.

Earthing Yourself
Another idea I came across recently is earthing. Before humans became ‘civilised’, you walked barefoot on the earth, slept on the earth, had constant contact with the earth. In effect, you were earthing yourself, just as electrical appliances need to have a safety ‘earthing’ point.

Most people can feel a difference, a rejuvenation, after gardening, by walking on the beach barefoot, by swimming in the sea. This is often considered to be as a result of being relaxed, or connected with nature. Could it be because you have been earthed? Or is it the same thing?

In the old days, when someone was electrocuted, the cure involved burying them in the earth, for maximum contact. This ‘remedy’ is still probably one of the best cures for electrocution, apart from the homeopathic treatment.

Some claim that illness is as a result of not being constantly ‘earthed’, that chronic inflammation can be cured by simply walking barefoot regularly on the earth.

Whilst you may not be able to change the position of your bed or your work place, there are other measures you can do to limit the effect.

Earthing Connections provide solutions to earth your bed, your car and your computer.

Measuring the EMF
Gauss meters are the instruments that are used to measure emf electro-magnetic fields. The scales let you know what is acceptable and what isn’t and they are fairly inexpensive to buy. A good investment

To recap

•  listen to your body, as symptoms are indications something is wrong
•  follow safety measures when using a cell/mobile/cordless phone
•  don’t sleep near a meter box
•  regularly walk barefoot (in safe areas) on the earth
•  invest in a gauss meter to determine danger areas of your home and work
•  if necessary, buy earthing or emf neutralising devices
•  if necessary move house or change jobs!

How to Cure Depression Naturally - Step Three, Finding The Cause

If you want to know how to cure depression naturally then one of the best ways is to try to remember when you first became depressed. The word depression is far too vague and covers a multitude of causes.

Let me give you an example. When someone receives a sudden and life threatening shock they may never fully recover. The result of the shock - intense fear - is meant to release adrenalin so you can escape from the dangerous situation rapidly. The action of fleeing tends to be curative.

It’s when the shock comes and you can’t do anything, that the long term effects become apparent. Let me give you an example. A soldier witnesses his best friend blown to pieces beside him, in combat. He must remain in the situation and continue his job. He suffers shock, loss and grief, but can’t deal with it.

Later, he suffers panic attacks and insomnia. These continue unabated. He is diagnosed with depression and put on anti-depressants. This makes no difference.

Finally he consults with a professional homeopath, who gives him the homeopathic medicine Aconite in a high potency (strength). Immediately he sees an improvement. The first night he sleeps like a baby. Over the next week, his panic attacks lessen in intensity by about half. The following week, they are almost gone.

Aconite deals very effectively with the suddenness of an attack. Earthquake victims, who had no warning and were suddenly trapped, are likely to need Aconite to resolve the shock.

Sudden attacks of violence or a sudden accident can bring the same results.

Grief is another emotion that is often grouped under the title of depression. The loss of a loved one can have a profound and lasting effect on some. You can’t do anything about the loss, there’s no escape. If you can’t grieve, then you can get stuck. By allowing the natural expression of grief, you are letting it go. By holding it in, you are holding on to it.

The homeopathic medicine Ignatia has helped many free themselves of grief.

A feeling of isolation or abandonment, can also make some feel desolate and depressed. This may start with a mother giving her baby up for adoption. The baby never fully recovers from this abandonment and similar situations keep repeating themselves throughout their lives.

The homeopathic medicine Pulsatilla can help some people through this feeling.

So in learning how to cure depression, you need to know what your unique cause for the depression was. This is often too complicated and painful to manage on your own. In which case a professional homeopath can help you.

One Main Reason For Ill Health

One of the main reasons people are sick is because we tend to resist what’s happening in our lives. This is a very adult problem. Children, especially small ones, are disarming in their acceptance of what is, as are animals.

That doesn’t mean they don’t try to improve their lot if this is needed. But they do it from a stand point of acceptance, rather than of resistance.

Let me explain more fully.

When you get angry with someone, this can be a very natural and healthy response to an unacceptable situation. A healthy child may throw a bit of a tantrum for a few minutes, then suddenly drop it and move on. They accept the situation and get on with the serious business of enjoying life.

An adult has a much greater tendency to dwell on the argument, often for days, reliving aspects of it, who was right, who was wrong. This is resistance, or denial or focussing on the past, however you like to see it. But it isn’t healthy. By living in the past (or the future), you can create health problems.

One or two incidents aren’t going to make you unwell, but these tendencies do accumulate with repeated occurrences. You end up becoming toxic by your resistance, by your thoughts.

Although it appears you have no choice, you do. You think you don’t because you automatically slip into the habit of a lifetime. But if you become very aware, you can see a microsecond, or perhaps a nanosecond, of an opportunity where you have a choice - to engage in a fruitless angry argument where you know you will suffer, or not.

When you choose not to, it’s as if a tense balloon has burst - all the tension is released. I know, because I have had the opportunity to do this, and it really is a remarkable experience. Just as you are getting worked up to argue your point, it vanishes.

Repeated anger is highly toxic to you. Over time, your liver will suffer as much as that of an alcoholic’s.

If you choose not to get involved in the angry argument, you can still see that perhaps you need to change something in your life, to get away from this angry person or situation. Maybe you need to change your job or your partner. But you realise this change is needed from a state of acceptance.

It has a totally different energy about it.

Instead of being in denial of the situation, which comes from focussing on the rights and wrongs of the argument, you move beyond it to the bigger picture. You, in effect, can see a problem (if there is one). And make the necessary changes. You admit rather than deny. You come from a healthy standpoint of acceptance rather than resistance.

Let me give you another example, one that is perhaps more extreme and so more difficult for you to control and where homeopathic help can do so much for you.

Let’s say you are involved in a shocking event - such as a bad accident, a bank robbery, an earthquake, anything. Your natural inclination is to flee or fight for your life. So your heart starts to beat faster in preparation, your blood pressure goes up, you become super aware of your surroundings, you become very anxious, or fearful.

If you do end up fighting of fleeing with a good end result, then all this preparation was worth it. And all the symptoms will probably be dissipated. But mostly, you don’t. Mostly you become paralysed with fear or rooted to the spot.

This means the symptoms becomes engrafted on you. You remain in a state of shock, all be it more mildly, permanently. You have permanent high blood pressure, you have permanent heart palpitations, you sweat more or you have panic attacks frequently. Or you have all the symptoms.

When the shock is treated on an energetic level (ie in effect, wiping the slate clean, such as with good homeopathic treatment), then the resulting symptoms disappear, too. Your heart palpitations, hypertension, sweating and fear are no longer needed, so go.

Sometimes people know exactly when their symptoms started. More often than not, they are buried in the mists of time, and it takes skill and persistence over time to discover more about the possible causes.

When using homeopathy, it’s rather like having one foot in psychology and the other in personal development. Happily, you don’t have to have all the counselling or heart ache to achieve the same results. The treatment does it for you. Subtly and effortlessly. And QUICKLY.

But you do need to change your mindset, to get started. Seeing ailments as faulty spare parts that simply need fixing is a thought process that won’t get you anywhere. Instead you need to look at your ailments as a reminder that you haven’t been listening to what your inner wisdom or your body has been trying to tell you.

Don’t think physical. Think bigger. Look at the whole picture of you, who you are, what you have experienced, what has shaped your life, who you think you are.

Only then can you experience deep, natural and lasting good health. The key is by naturally releasing old and harmful patterns that may once have served you, but do so no longer.

Energy is the Stuff You’re Made Of, So Energy Needs to Be Your Healer

Energy is little considered in our society, at least as far as your body is concerned. Yet you are, first and foremost, an energy being. All your ails with have a cause, a root, in energy - your disturbed energy.

Let me give you an example to show you what I mean. One of my patients, Anne, moved to the other side of Australia recently. She took her menagerie with her. Obviously, such a long trip can create problems - the trip itself, uprooting from the familiarities of home, a new home with all its differences, new people and so on.

One of her dogs developed a severe ear discharge which was upsetting her (the dog) a lot. She constantly scratched at it and whined as she scratched. Anne was discussing this with a new friend she had made, who suggested she see a local naturopath, who was also a clairvoyant.

The clairvoyant tuned into the dog and said she needed something smelly and familiar with her old home. Anne found an old rug that had somehow escaped the cleaning that comes from driving for days on dusty roads. Within a week of putting this smelly (of the old home) and dirty rug down, the dog’s ear completely healed.

The impact of a new home can be enormous for a human, but even more so for an animal, even when you are the same.

Food can be energetic or dead. Processed or canned food is often cooked at very high temperatures and pressures, killing off any enzymes and other nutrients as well as stripping the food of essential properties for complete digestion But cooking always kills off enzymes as well as altering other nutrients.. Live food is fresh produce. You can raise your energy levels (and so your health), just by eating fresh, raw produce.

People talk about feeling heavy when they are depressed. Heavy means no energy. Many times, not only are you heavy, but the energy of your home can be heavy. This allows little scope for your ability to lighten. This come about from a variety of reasons - anger, fear, drugs, pesticides and so forth.

By using the age old white sage smudge stick, you can remove the heavy energies and bring in the lighter ones. Music can have a similar effect. By playing music that is light and happy, you often have little choice of smiling, then jiggling.

People can ‘steal’ your energy. That’s essentially what happens when you argue with someone or when someone frightens you. If you feel depleted of energy after an interaction with that person, that’s what happened. These people are best avoided until you have learned how to retain your energy. At that point, they will desert you, as you’re no longer any use to them. They need all the extra energy they can get, to survive in their disfunctional way.

Homooeopathy is all about energy. The remedies, or medicines, are energy based. In making them, the original substance is used as the core, but all the physical properties are then removed. But the energetic properties are not only retained, they are enhanced.

As an example, the homoeopathic remedy Arsenicum album is derived from arsenic. Arsenicum is one of the most useful remedies in our materia medica (encyclopaedia of all the remedies), but it has none of the highly poisonous properties of the original arsenic. The physical properties are dropped, but the energetic properties are enhanced. Arsenic has poisoned many to death. And Arsenicum album has saved many from death.

It’s all in the energy of the substance.

As it’s the physical properties than can cause the harm, no homeopathic remedy is harmful. Although repeated doses of the higher potencies (strengths) can upset your energy if they are not appropriate to you. This is why home prescribing remedies are only available to the home prescriber in the lower potencies. Don’t use the higher potencies (above 30c) unless you have been prescribed it, or are in contact with a professional homoeopath about the treatment, or you are experienced.

By keeping your energy, by remaining light, you not only help yourself and your locality, you help the world. It needs that at the moment.

Western Australia Bans Flu Vaccine

I'm not in any way competitive. I dislike patriotism, preferring to look upon myself as a citizen of the world. However, there are times when I do feel pleased and supported by my choice of community.

Western Australia's capital city, Perth is probably the most isolated city in the world. So the people of WA have always had to tough it out for themselves. They can't rely on much or quick help from a neighbour. And this has made the people rather more independent than perhaps many other communities. At any rate, the label has stuck - WA is a bit bolchy.

I love the independent spirit, the unwillingness to conform for the sake of conformity. Certainly other parts of Australia are well aware of this spirit.

And I have never been more pleased to be a part of this 'bolchiness' as now, when WA has taken, what appears to be the world's first country to ban the flu vaccine in small children.

Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children

Homeopaths have always been able to see a link between deteriorating health and vaccines, with the arrival of the very first smallpox vaccine. Vaccines contain mercury, aluminium, formaldehyde, cross-species tissue, just for a starter. 

And the whole idea of injecting a foreign substance directly into the blood stream shows total ignorance of how a body works. Subtle symptoms of the body to naturally build up immunity are brutally ignored in our profit driven world.

Could this great start that WA has shown possibly be the beginning of good sense prevailing over fear tactics and emotional blackmail?

Homoeopathy is a Journey, a Lifestyle, More Than Just a Treatment

When you start to use homoeopathic treatment, especially when you start to learn to use the common remedies at home, you gradually come to realise that homoeopathy is a way of life, rather than simply a treatment.

Because homoeopathic treatment is all about finding your unique cause of ill health, as well as your personal symptoms, it becomes obvious to you that you need to take ownership for what you do to yourself.

Taking responsibility for your own life is rare in today's world, driven by materialistic gain and ego-related recognition. But you will never have good health until you recognise that this is part of the process.

Diet, sleep, exposure to natural sunlight, time for you, time in nature, time to relax all become not only desirable, but necessary. When you ignore them, you quickly come to realise you did so at your peril. And you need to do something to get back on track.

When you start to use homoeopathic treatment for all your health concerns, the process subtly changes your perspective on life. Over time you relax more, shift your focus, let things go more easily, naturally move towards a healthier approach to life. Materialism becomes less important. Inner peace becomes your focus. Relationships improve. People can no longer easily push your buttons.

This is in perfect natural balance. Ill health is more about the unresolved emotional energy that creates physical ill health as a result, than apparently appearing out of nowhere.

Enjoy the journey. The destination will take care of itself.

Glue Ear Can Be Treated Quickly and Naturally

Glue ear in children is usually treated with antibiotics or grommets. Several courses of antibiotics are normally needed, which means the essential bacteria within the child are being targeted. This is never in the direction of true healing.

Grommets means a surgical operation to allow the ear to drain.

Neither approach is well handled by many children.

So what other options are there for treating glue ear?

Like everything in life, there are a multitude of different ways of approaching something.

Homeopathy has an excellent track record of completely resolving glue ear quickly and easily. If you are new to homeopathy, then it’s best to consult with a professional homeopath.

If you have used homeopathy before, then you might like to try your hand at some home prescribing.

First, purchase a home prescribing kit from a reputable homeopathic pharmacy. This will come with basic instructions.

Then make a short list fo your child’s glue ear symptoms. Symptoms such as the character of the pain, the time of day the pain is worse, whether heat (holding the hand over the ear usually indicates warmth helps) or cold improves the pain.

And anything else that seems connected, such as lack of energy, or wants company all the time.

Then look through the symptoms in the instructions and note the remedies that have these symptoms. You should have a common remedy that appears beside each symptom. If you do, then cheek the remedy. If it matches, then that remedy is likely to resolve the whole problem, with just a handful of doses.

If there is no improvement after about four doses, then it’s back to the drawing board for you.

If you don’t seem to be getting anywhere, then you may need to consult with a professional homeopath. Some conditions are too complicated to treat yourself.

How to Cure Depression Naturally - Step Two, Re-Locate Your Focus

Learning how to cure depression naturally means that you need to recognise that the way you live has not served you well. That some changes need to be made.

Learning to change your thoughts (detailed in step one) is one of the most difficult things to do, but one that has the most potential for profound change. By difficult, I mean it will take time and effort to put it into place firmly. So be patient.

Depression is rather like a black hole. It has the power to suck you in. And the sides of the hole are slippery so it’s hard to climb out. However, if you learn to shift your thoughts away from your depression, you’ll find that somehow, you fly out of the hole.

Shifting the focus of your thoughts may be difficult at first, so again effort, determination and time are needed. Initially, I suggest that you search around in your mind for the happy times in your life. Where were you happy? What location were you in? Was it in a park, on a beach, on a camping holiday?

It will probably be somewhere natural. Once you recognise those times, then you may like to visit a similar location that’s near to where you live. Then look around you and try to observe the subtle details of life - the swaying of the trees, the birds singing, insects searching for food.

Put your judgements on hold. Just observe the life around you.

This may only be momentary the first time. But the shift away from you is what you are trying to achieve. Looking at other life forms and how they cope with life is a good way to do this.

Then, you can shift your thoughts back to this, any time during the day. If you can manage this three times in the first day, you’re doing well. Try to increase this every day.

If you can’t remember any times in your life that you were happy, then think of situations that give you a glimmer of happiness, of hope, now. What are their locations? By going to similar locations, you are automatically re-focussing your thoughts away from you.

Shifting your thoughts away from your problems tends to lighten you. In the first days, even weeks, you will probably not manage this very often, but slowly, slowly you are making profound and lasting changes. In these days, it will feel as if you’re not making any progress.

However, as the days roll into weeks, you will start to see a change.

Not everyone around you will like the change. People often prefer the familiar, even when it’s negative. So don’t expect everyone to enjoy your new found freedom from depression.

Abscess Treatment and the Secret Behind Their Easy Resolution

An abscess typically develops after an injury, when infection has entered the wound and is causing problems.

Normally you can expect to experience a combination of pain and soft swelling. If you do nothing and are healthy, your body will probably completely heal it on its own.

But if your immune system is not at a high level, the infection may just get worse and worse.

So it’s better to treat it in the early stages if you can.

You can treat an abscess yourself, if you have a homeopathic home prescribing kit with a set of instructions. But it’s also helpful to know a bit about how to prescribe homeopathic medicines.

In a nutshell, you need to find a medicine which has the same symptoms that you have. It mirrors you.

Lets look at a common homeopathic medicine which will treat many abscesses.

The medicine is called Hepar sulphur and the symptoms which indicate its use are:

• very painful, won’t let anyone near it for fear of further pain
• soft swelling then bursts with yellow or green/yellow discharge which may be bloody

The typical pain of this medicine is stitching. And the typical smell of the discharge is of rotten cheese.

If an animal needs this medicine, it is likely to bite you when you try to look at the injured part. This is because of the pain. They just can’t tolerate pain. It’s a great indication of the medicine.

Some have a high pain tolerance. Those needing Hepar sulphur have an extremely low tolerance to pain.

The abscess can appear anywhere - dental, at the site of an injury, anywhere on the skin appearing as boils or carbuncles, internally and so forth.

Suggested potency (strength) is 6c. Suggested dosage is one dose every hour. If no relief is felt after about four doses, this may not be the right medicine.

Treating Your Oedema is Simply Recognising Your Unique Symptom Picture

Oedema basically means a swelling. Swellings come in all shapes and sizes, so before we look at appropriate treatment, we need to look at your particular symptom picture.

Since I’m not with you to ask, I’m going to present a common picture. If this looks like your condition, then the following treatment is probably going to be good for you.

So the oedema this article is all about looks like this:

• there maybe a pain which is stinging or burning
• the swelling is rosy red in colour
• the swelling is tight, hard
• when you put something cold on the swelling, you feel relief, whereas something hot is worse

When you learn to use homeopathic medicines at home, there are many things you can’t treat as they are either too complicated or too deep. But you can learn to treat a lot of acute, and sometimes deeper conditions.

All you need to do is to learn how to look for your particular symptom picture. You are unique, so it stands to reason that your most effective medicine isn’t going to be good for everyone else with the same condition.

If the above symptom picture looks like yours, then the homeopathic medicine Apis, is likely to be effective for your condition. And if you can see a similarity in the following symptoms, then that confirms it.

• your are generally thirstless, you have to make yourself drink
• you seem to be a bit clumsy, often dropping things
• you seem to be busy all the time, but don’t necessarily achieve much
• you may be a slightly jealous person - of your partner your child, your sibling, anyone (you need to be very honest with yourself to see this trait)

If any of this rings true for you then the homeopathic medicine Apis is likely to very effective in dealing with your oedema, where ever it is.

Rheumatic Treatment - the Most Efficient Raises Your Immune System

Rheumatic treatment is most effective with a modality that boosts your immune system, so you can take over and cure you. That’s what your immune system is for. To keep you healthy. If you have rheumatism, then your immune system is in a very unhealthy state.

Medication generally only masks the symptoms. And it also further lowers your immunity.

Homeopathy, on the other hand, works by raising your immune system.

So, by seeking out the services of a professional homeopath, you are likely to totally resolve your rheumatism. Not everyone can do that, for a variety of reasons.

Another workable alternative is to work out which common homeopathic medicine is best for you. The common medicines are available in comprehensive kits.

First you need to make a list of all your symptoms related to your rheumatism. Then you need to be able to match them up to the homeopathic medicine which is likely to do you the most good.

Some people get relief from their pain or stiffness by the application of heat packs. For others, it’s the cold packs that does it for them. Not necessarily icy, which can numb almost any pain. Just cold.

Your best rheumatic treatment hinges on getting this right. There are many homeopathic medicines for both conditions. But the common medicine found in all comprehensive homeopathic home prescribing kits, Ledum, is especially helpful for rheumatic symptoms which are relieved by cold applications.

Heat makes it worse, such as heat of the bed or being cooped up in boots all day.

Anxiety with Breast Cysts and How to Resolve Both

Some women have breast cysts all their lives. The tissue feels lumpy. On it’s own, it’s rarely a problem.

Women who have breast cysts are often subjected to many biopsies. This is very invasive. Couple this with the high level of anxiety that comes with many tests, and you are well on the way to creating a problem for yourself.

The best way to help you is to resolve the breast cysts at an holistic level. This is likely to not only heal the cysts, but to heal your high anxiety, too.

So lets look at a common reason for cysts. They can occur after you have sustained an injury or a trauma to your breasts. Cysts and lumps quite commonly occur after injury, and breast tissue is particularly sensitive, so lumps and cysts would be an expected outcome.

If your cysts started after your breasts were badly hurt in some way, then the homeopathic medicine Bellis perennis will probably completely resolve them and your anxiety.

Bellis perennis is an excellent trauma or injury medicine. If follows the king of injury medicines, Arnica, taking over when it left off.

Apart from healing injury to the breasts, it is also the best medicine after (or before) birth if you feel deeply bruised, after deep abdominal surgery (any, but particularly hysterectomy, D & C or after having an IUD fitted). It is also good for after you start using muscles again, that have been idle for some time. The common picture that comes to mind for that is a seasonal gardener.

Bellis perennis is primarily used for women and the various hormonal traumas, but as it’s a trauma medicine, keep it in mind for any injury that Arnica hasn’t quite managed to complete.

Wound Dressing May Not Be Necessary

Any wound dressing is normally considered essential to promote healing. It is felt that the wound must be shielded from the risk of infection.

But in reality, this may not be necessary.

Healing is all about how healthy your immune system is. If it isn’t very healthy, then it’s likely that you will not be very effective at any healing. You may get a fever or an infection.

Those with a healthy immune system rarely get sick. Their immunity works so quickly, they don’t notice any problem. Wounds heal fast and rarely give trouble.

Wounds are also best left exposed to the open air. They are normally covered over with some wound dressing, to prevent infection. But if your immune system is in good shape, you won’t get an infection.

If your immune system is not so healthy, then you can stimulate it to prevent infection.

By using a homeopathic medicine which has strong properties of wound healing, and you experience benefit from taking it, then you can rest easy that all will be well.

Let me give you an example.

Some years ago, my mare had a fight with a fence. She came off worst. She tore the flesh around a back joint, to the extent I could see the bone. A little spurt of arterial blood shot heavenwards.

She only received homeopathic treatment. I treated her with the medicines internally, to stimulate her immune system into healing. And I sprayed diluted herbal tinctures, topically, on the wound to promote healing.

At no time did I consider the use of a wound dressing, even though she was lying down a lot, and getting soil into the wound. I knew her treatment would resolve the problem. And it did.

There is no residue of lameness, no residue of any problem related to muscle, tendon or ligament damage. Just a small scar is left.

One of the medicines she received both topically and orally, was Calendula. This is a remarkable homeopathic medicine with strong healing properties for any wound. It can promote healing, prevent infection, promote healthy granulations and resolve pain. Not one I would consider being without.

One of the Best Treatments for Psoriasis is Homeopathy

The best treatments for psoriasis are those which work by raising the level of your immune system. Psoriasis is a skin condition with a redness, an itch and a scaly skin.

Everyone has slightly different symptoms, and so everyone should be treated with the most appropriate medicine for their unique expression of the condition.

Typical treatments for psoriasis include drugs which simply suppress the symptoms. In doing so, they lower your immune system. Suppressing symptoms are merely covering over the problem, masking the effect. It has nothing to do with curing the condition.

So in searching for the best treatments for psoriasis, you need to try to look back and see when it started. What was going on in your life at the time? This will give you the cause.

Often psoriasis starts after a grief, or after any emotion that was not allowed to run its course of free expression. In the modern world, this is not uncommon. Suppression of emotional feelings is more the norm than a rarity.

But it does your health incalculable harm, because any unresolved emotion creates a blockage in your immune system. This allows all manner of diseases to take hold of you.

Homeopathy works by effortlessly resolving these blockages, so that your immune system can work at its full potential, once more.

The first step to resolving your psoriasis is finding the cause. Homeopathy works on both the cause and the personal symptoms.

Staphyagria is a common homeopathic medicine which can resolve ailments which start after suppressing an emotion. Psoriasis is one of the most common consequences of this suppression.

The unique expression of Staphysagria psoriasis is the itch that changes place as soon as your scratch it. The eruption tends to be dry, with thick scabs and a violent itch.

For any skin condition, it is best to use the most appropriate medicine in a low potency (strength). If you think Staphysagria is a good match for you, then I suggest you purchase it in a 6c potency.

A daily dose for a week will give you an indication that it is working. If you notice nothing at all, after this time, then you may not have the best match.

If the match is a good one, you will notice more than your psoriasis going. You may no longer suppress your emotions, allowing them free expression. Although this is much healthier, it is not always well accepted by family and friends.

Skin conditions can be complicated to treat and the services of a professional homeopath may be the fastest ways to resolve this.

Is Cholesterol Bad For You - the Facts and Treating the Cause

Is cholesterol bad for you? It has a very bad press and many people talk about LDL,  mistakenly called ‘bad’ cholesterol and HDL, the mistakenly called ‘good’ one.

First let’s look at what cholesterol really is. It’s a product that is naturally made by your liver. And it’s a product found in animal protein. You need it. It’s essential to a healthy body.

If you consume high amounts of animal protein, your liver makes less. If you don’t, it makes more.

And here’s the big one, the levels do not affect the health of your heart. People with low or high levels of cholesterol have no difference in their propensity to have heart related problems. By taking drugs that lower your cholesterol levels, you are not more protected against heart disease than if you don’t.

The statins, those drugs which lower your levels, such as lipitor, mevacor, zocor, pravachol, and lescol are known to cause cancer in rodents. Although they are considered to reduce the risk of heart disease, this is unrelated to cholesterol.

LDL is short for low density lipoprotein and HDL is short for high density lipoprotein. Lipoprotein carries the cholesterol around in your blood.

The problem arises from your consumption of cooked animal protein. By cooking meat, the fat becomes damaged. Not only is the fat damaged by high temperature, but also by processing.

If you eat a lot of cooked and/or processed animal protein, you will have a higher than normal amount of damaged cholesterol floating around in your blood stream. This can be seen by having a high LDL count.

If you have a high LDL count, then you are at a higher than average risk of suffering from a heart related problem.

If your HDL count is high, then you don’t have a high amount of damaged cholesterol floating around.

What is far more important than your cholesterol blood levels is the amount of damaged cholesterol you have in your blood. By eating raw or little animal protein, you could avoid this.

A diet largely based on plant foods will provide all the protein you need.

The dangers of low cholesterol, especially the ever declining levels advocated to entice more people onto the lucrative drug market, can especially lead to stroke, depression, low vitamin D and hormonal problems.

Treating the cause of any problem is far more effective than treating the effect. Once you know the cause and direct your attention to changing that, the effect disappears on its own.


For more information you may like to see my article on cholesterol here.

Treating Kidney Stones Naturally, With Diet and Homeopathy - Part One Prevention

Treating kidney stones is normally either by laser treatment or surgery. Both these measures are very invasive and neither of them address the cause.

Kidney stones are a hard mass created in the kidney. When your body tries to eliminate them, you can experience excruciating pain, a pain so bad you seek immediate medical help.

By knowing what the cause is, you can prevent these stones forming.

Many dietary supplements, especially but not exclusively the cheap ones, are synthetic and in isolation. What does this mean?

Synthetic means it was made in a laboratory. So it’s not a natural or real food.
Isolated nutrients are artificial. Nature doesn’t make isolated nutrients, because each one co-depends on many others. For example calcium needs phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, vitamin A and natural sunlight at the very least, to be fully utilised.

All your nutrients should come in the form of natural food. The trouble is that modern farming methods produce quantity rather than quality. So even if your diet is exceptionally healthy (and most people’s isn’t), you may still need to supplement your diet for the healthiest body.

By taking synthetic and isolated nutrients, not only are they not absorbed, so can be excreted (at best), they can cause harm by hanging up in parts of your body where they are not meant to be (at worst).

Depending on the supplement and how regularly you take it, will decide on what the worst case scenario is likely to be.

Your body naturally tries to rid itself of these supplements, in the best way it can. Creating kidney stones is one way.

Preventing recurrence of kidney stones is best addressed by taking only plant based dietary supplements. These are a food, so are in complete and natural balance. The best ones, the super foods, are the blue green algae, especially Aphanizomenon Flos Aquae.

Check the ingredients on the label of your supplement. If minerals, vitamins or nutrients are listed, then it has most likely, been created artificially. If plants are listed, then it will be easily absorbed.

Dietary calcium supplements are considered to be the cause of many, if not most, kidney stones, by the natural health industry.

Other foods which can cause kidney stones are dairy, vitamin C and D supplements (again artificial), high animal protein and processed foods. All these make your body pH too acid. By increasing the alkalinity (high plant based diet) in the form of lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds and a super food supplement, you are most likely to avoid further problems.

How to Cure Depression Naturally - Step One, Change Your Thoughts

If you are seeking how to cure depression naturally, or any other way, then you probably need to start by changing your thoughts. In a way, this is the most difficult thing to do, so once you can do this, then the rest is almost easy.

Your thoughts will keep you firmly in your present state, so this is the most important aspect that needs changing. All you need to do is to be aware of your thoughts and change them from negative to positive.

For example, if your thoughts are “I’ll never be rid of this depression, my father and aunt were depressed, too. It’s in my genes.” A subtle change which would have a big impact could be “Depression may be in my genes, but I have the power to change it”.

Write what is meaningful to you. Just ensure the words you use are positive, rather than re-enforcing what you already do. Honour your attachment to negative if you have to, but do it in a positive way. Such as “depression may be in my genes, but I have the power to change it:

At this stage, it doesn’t really matter if you believe whether you have the power to change or not. As long as you believe that change is possible, that’s enough. Recognising that others have succeeded in changing gives you the potential to believe it can happen for you.

Although some people think this is a brain washing activity, you are already brain washing yourself with your negative thoughts. It’s far better to brain wash yourself with positive thoughts. Thoughts have a profound effect on you. They dictate who you and what you do. You have the choice to keep the old ones which don’t serve you, or to change them to new ones which will serve you better.

Create thoughts that will work for you.

Write down the new words and keep it with you, perhaps as a note in your pocket. Every time you become conscious of your negative thoughts, refer to your note. This will be an effort in the first few days, so you need to keep the note somewhere you will regularly see it.

It’s also best to keep your note and your thoughts away from others. The last thing you need at this stage is to be mocked by those insensitive to your needs.

If you can achieve this three times in the first day, you’re doing well. Each day, this will increase.

After a few days, changing your thoughts will become second natural. Keep at it. Don’t give up.

Keep the note, be aware of your thoughts and change them.

Natural Treatment for Glaucoma - With One Homeopathic Medicine

The natural treatment for glaucoma is likely to resolve more than the glaucoma. Natural treatment, especially homeopathic, works by clearing blockages that prevent your immune system working properly. Once it can resume its normal function, everything starts to come right.

Glaucoma is an increase in the pressure within your eye structure. This comes about because the aqueous humor (eye fluid) is being created more quickly than it is leaving the eye.

This increased pressure can change the optical efficiency of the parts of the eye, especially the retina, the optic disc and eventually the optic nerve. This can lead to vision defects and eventually to blindness.

The symptoms can come on unnoticed, as there is no pain, so it may take some time to notice a decrease in your vision.

When the natural treatment for glaucoma, or any health problem, is using homeopathy, it’s always helpful to know what was going on in your life at the time it started. Since the symptoms come on slowly in glaucoma, this can be difficult. So the accurate prescription may rely entirely on the matching of your symptoms to those of the chosen medicine.

The homeopathic medicine Phosphorus works very well on the structures of the eye. Here are some of the symptoms:

•  glaucoma
•  retinal bleeding
•  degenerative changes in the retina
•  detached retina
•  atrophy (degeneration) of the optic nerve
•  writing appears red
•  there is a green halo around light sources
•  as if there is a veil over your eyes
•  photophobia (unable to tolerate direct sunlight or glare)

Along with one or more of the above symptoms, for this medicine to work for you, you will also need some of the general symptoms:

•  a great thirst for icy cold drinks
•  a history or respiratory troubles which go to your chest easily
•  a history of bleeding which is bright red and won’t clot (wounds, nose bleeds, etc), including hemophilia
•  worse for fasting, spicy food, lying on left side, twilight
•  better for company, eating, sleep
•  anxiety especially for sudden noises and/or that something bad is going to happen

Osteoporosis and How to Prevent or Reverse It

Osteoporosis is on the increase in the world, but particularly in the western world. With increased knowledge about health care and better diets than in past decades, how is this possible?

It really comes down to diet. There is a saying that you are what you eat. Women are traditionally the primary food providers in a family. With women now going to work, often full time, convenience food is becoming more common.

Most people are aware convenience food aren’t healthy, but they are, well, convenient.

But there is absolutely no need to fall for the fast food, the supermarket packets, the frozen food, the tinned food, to bring together a meal quickly. These are all ‘dead’ foods, most having been processed so much there are few nutrients left.

You can create a quick meal which is also nutritious. It’s just knowing what you need. And how to do it.

Most people don’t eat nearly enough fresh fruit and vegetables. This should be the key to every healthy diet, not just when you’re trying to prevent or reverse osteoporosis. Make fresh fruit and vegetables at least 50% of your diet.

Try to eat as much of it raw as possible. Cooking destroys enzymes and enzymes are essential to good health.

Buy appetising and exciting produce. Don’t just purchase the normal, if it doesn’t excite you. Make eating a pleasure. Don’t stint on this side of your grocery bill.

If you are on a budget, you will be far healthier to spend the bulk of it on fresh fruit and vegetables than on meat, dairy or convenience foods.

Green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, kale, bok choi, broccoli, etc are very high in digestible calcium, in natural balance. These can be quite a dull vegetable to eat, especially raw. But if you have a powerful blender, you can include them in delicious smoothies.

For example, blend bananas, raspberries and baby spinach. Vary the ingredients and quantities to suit your palate, but make sure there is plenty of spinach. This is one of the best and most delicious answers to preventing and reversing osteoporosis.

How’s that for a quick, easy and above all, nutritious breakfast? I challenge you to try that one on your kids, too.

This alone will do you far more good than any isolated or synthetic mineral supplement on the market. You evolved to gain your nutrients from food. Isolated and synthetic supplements are made in the laboratory. They are not in natural balance and at best are quickly eliminated (expensive poo). At worst they hang up in parts of your body where they have the potential of causing damage.

Damage such as kidney stones. Some of the supplements have even been found to cause osteoporosis.

Supplementing your diet is certainly a sound idea, in today's stressful world. You just need to be aware that there are supplements and supplements.

Blue green algae is known as a super food. This means that it has all the macro nutrients and many of the micro nutrients, all in natural balance. So it can be absorbed by your body easily.


I take one from Lake Klamath indicated on the right side.