Homeopathy and Energy Part 2 – Harry Dean

Part 2 in a series of articles on homeopathy by Harry Dean who attends Jenny Newman’s yoga class in Suffolk and is a qualified homeopathic practitioner.

In the last article it was explained that homeopathic remedies stimulate the body’s natural ability to heal itself. At the core of this process is energy, described by the founder of homeopathy as the ‘Vital Force’. So what is energy?

I will always ask patients where on a scale of one, lowest, to ten, highest where their energy levels are. I will record this and ask them on the next visit the same question. Almost always their perceived energy level will have improved which is a sure sign that healing is taking place. Interestingly with many people, just increasing their water consumption will increase their energy levels.

We all have energy and we know that our levels of energy fluctuate from day to day and week to week, sometimes we know why (or at least we think we do), but most often it is a bit of a mystery. Energy is always there within us, it doesn’t go away so what is really happening?
All manner of events will compromise the energy that we have in our daily lives. We can wake up one morning feeling on top of the world but by the end of the day, because of whatever has happened, we can be reduced to a point of deep despair with all of our energy drained away. Events have an enormous impact on our lives and because of our inbuilt safety mechanisms we tend to cover up in order to survive. Yes we do survive but a consequence is that we bury events because we do not know how to cope and we are protecting ourselves. That takes a lot of our energy so straight away we have an energy drain as our subconscious tries to deal with the situation.

In a perfect world as perfect beings we would be able to deal with all that life throws at us but very few of us are perfect and so from the moment we are born we build in to our lives drains on our energy.
Amazingly the natural world which surrounds us has built in within its evolutionary structure all the attributes and qualities of our life experiences. If you swallow a material dose of Arsenic you will experience among other things exhaustion, restlessness and great anxiety. Hence when confronted with a patient where these symptoms are uppermost Arsenicum prepared homeopathically is the remedy of choice.
During Homeopathic practice when the patient feels improved in themselves because their energy has increased, then their physical disease will be cured. By taking the correct remedy that matches the symptom picture of the totality of the patient, this remedy has acted on their Vital Force, their life energy has manifested itself which is then able to deal with the morbid disease symptoms manifested by the physical body.

As the pattern of disease changes so to does the personality. The more negative aspects become transformed to more positive ones. This is the great gift of Homeopathy.