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Healing: “Take over the task”

That’s what L.C.Mees tells us in his profound writings on anthroposophical medicine.

In one sense, illness can be thought of as a “placeholder” for something that has not been actualized. Nature abhors a vaccuum.

There’s a Russian Jewish folk tale that first taught me about this, called “The Corpse Bride.” It’s about a corpse (metaphor for illness) who wanted to marry. The story is about a journey
of self-actualization, and by the end of the story the real bride (wholeness) was able to take her rightful place beside the groom.

The corpse bride was despondent about this, but the real bride comforted and assured her, “Now I will live your dreams for you.” In other words, health and wholeness was restored to its rightful place, but not with contempt or abhorrence for her, not by usurping her power, but by the true bride reclaiming and stepping into her rightful power. With that assertion (healing), the corpse (disease) was no longer needed but passed on the kernel of truth that she held, so that a new life-affirming form could take over.

Take over the task of illness… and heal.

Which technique is best?

Q: I’m wondering what makes EFT more effective than the 5 Healing Sounds or Fusion techniques? ( if you believe it is)..

A: Well, the way I would answer that is to go into a bit about what makes any one treatment more effective than another.. To sum it up quickly, EFT and many hypnotherapy methods works on the Law of Similars, while healing sounds work on the Law of Opposites. It depends on what the nature of the problem is, as to which law you need to work with to get the best results.

Very often when someone is using a particular healing method and it’s not helping, it’s because the real root of the problem is in a different jurisdiction. It’s sort of like if you’re prosecuting a crime, but you’re in the wrong jurisdiction, then you don’t get the results you need.

That’s why the world of natural healing is so hit-or-miss — we try to throw different techniques at the problem, according to the ones we like or have an affinity for, or the ones that others got good results with. But if one person has anxiety, for example, it could be due to a magnesium deficiency, and that would call for the law of opposites to be applied (provide the missing nutrient). Then that would be enough for them.

And someone else could have anxiety that’s due to a different kind of disturbance of the life force, which requires the law of similars to correct it. They might also benefit from magnesium supplementation, but that might not be enough to solve the problem, because the problem is rooted in a different realm. So the key is really to understand the nature of the problem beyond the description of symptoms.

Chinese medicine understands precise patterns of imbalance, and deals with the law of opposites. Although it goes very deeply into that realm, often the law of similars needs to be applied as well. (Dr. Hahnemann taught how to do this very precisely).

Now, maybe it would be interesting to try doing EFT tapping while doing the Healing Sounds simultaneously, and see what happens! I also think EFT is an elegant alternative to EMDR, and can basically replace it. Other hypnotherapy methods can be useful too, but EFT can’t be beat for portability and price! TAT is also great.

Intro to Buteyko Breathing

A Russian physician named Constantin Buteyko discovered some important principles of breathing in the 1950’s, and the breathing method he developed has a long history of safe use. It corrects hyperventilation, which causes many common disorders, and surprisingly 98% of us are actually hyperventilating as our usual way of breathing!

The Buteyko method is sometimes known for treating asthma or panic attacks, but really it’s for everyone who can’t hold their breath for 60 seconds comfortably!

The Buteyko website says this about what it can treat:

“Most of all, diseases, which often accompany bronchial asthma: chronic rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, hypertension, and stenocardia. Bronchial asthma and stenocardia are only 2 distinctive models, which effectively demonstrate application of the Buteyko method. However, these are, by far, not the first diseases, which can be successfully treated using the Buteyko method.

Normalization of the immune response removes appearance of various forms of allergy. Improvements in blood supply and oxygenation of the whole organism make application of the Buteyko method efficient in solving problems which are connected with toxicosis of pregnancy, sleep disturbances, insomnia, snoring, sleep apnoea, and also for a wide range of neurotic diseases of the nervous system.”

This is based on the fact that CO2 is actually not purely the waste gas we think it is, but that CO2 actually helps to make O2 available to the cells. Without enough CO2, you can gulp air and still not feel like you’re getting enough.

This is the situation not only with asthmatics but with people who have chronic anxiety, panic attacks, depression, any condition associated with stress, all kinds of nervous and immune system disorders, cardiovascular disorders, migraine, etc.

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Here’s a bit of distillation of the philosophy of healing that Heilkunst embodies. It’s based on Hahnemann’s teachings but also draws from Rudolf Steiner, Wilhelm Reich and others, and says that as we evolved spiritually over the ages, we lost some etheric vitality as a tradeoff, and took on susceptibility to disease.

To understand this new definition of disease and curing of disease, we need to define two distinct aspects of the human life force. This is the Dynamic view, and differs significantly from the Vitalist view that most of traditional natural medicine approaches espouse.

Traditional natural medicine, including Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and all the various modern naturopathic approaches are based on the idea of healing of disease by shoring up the “vital force”. Also they work by the law of opposites rather than the law of similars.

For example, if you felt a little chilly so you took a warm bath, that would be using the law of opposites. Or you might have a deficiency of some nutrient, so you would treat the deficiency by providing what is lacking. That’s using the law of opposites appropriately.

But Hahnemann taught that the law of opposites doesn’t have jurisdiction in disease proper. In disease, only the Law of Similars has jurisdiction. And the curative medicine is one that’s given according to the Law of Similars.. so that you would give a remedy that has been proven to have similar effects as the disease that you’re trying to cure.

Dr. Hahnemann found that using the law of similars with remedies that were highly diluted would not cause harm. The remedies are not only diluted but shaken vigorously, which activates the curative properties.

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