Meet Your Remedy Halfway

People come to Homeopathy for many reasons. Some are curious about natural medicine, some come as a last resort to help a chronic problem, many are wanting balance from trauma, emotional pain or mental strain. The list is as individual as my clients. Homeopathic remedies help to heal on such a profound level it is easy to take a back seat and expect the remedies to do all the work towards our healing.

But what if I told you the remedy doesn’t do the healing!. The remedy doesn’t change you or fix you or heal you. The remedy is a mere catalyst to enliven your body’s vital force and is the key that unlocks stuck energy. Your innate vital force is what does the healing work as it responds to the inertia from the remedy. In essence, the power to heal comes from within.

There is a trend on social media right now. It starts with the prompt: “If I wasn’t afraid to hurt your feelings I would tell you” and then goes on to say some truth bomb. Here is my version of this trend:

As a Homeopath, if I wasn’t afraid to hurt your feelings, I would tell you 

We all need to meet our remedy halfway.

Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy, experimented with potentized substances to minimally provoke the vital force to mount a stronger, self-curative response against the disease. It is the drop that creates the ripples. Our cells receive the ripples as energy toward healing. I see in my daily practice, though, that the remedy alone is not enough to keep us healthy and in a constant state of balance. We need to use the remedy to help us help ourselves. 

Hahemann, writing on Homeopathy in the early 1800s, essentially tells us the same thing. In the Organon of the Medical Art, the main text on Homeopathy, he wrote; 

“While patients with chronic diseases are using medication (i.e. the remedy), the most expedient regimen is based upon the removal of obstacles to cure plus the addition of their necessary opposites including:

*Innocent mental and emotional diversion (Finding balance)

*Active movement in the fresh air in almost all kinds or weather (with daily walks, light manual labor, etc); (Moving the body)

*Appropriate, nutritious food and drink, etc” (Eating well)

And without mincing words, he continues “the kinds of ill-health that people bring upon themselves disappear spontaneously under an improved lifestyle”.

He is telling us that we need to remove "obstacles to cure" and add the opposites, such as listed above, to help our healing along. I wonder what he would think now of our fast paced lifestyle, our 7-day work weeks, our endless exposure to artificial lighting, EMF radiation, food additives and pesticides and our sedentary lifestyle. 

I have felt compelled to write about this because our efforts matter. I see in practice every day that efforts made to enhance our wellness through movement, nutrition, balance, sleep, etc help us heal faster!

So I ask: what are the ways we can contribute to our progress by meeting the remedy halfway? What is a small, simple step you can take to help improve your health.

In your appointments I would love to dive deeper into how this looks for you!

In Service To You,

Rebecca