1) The symptoms that you have at the start of treatment and the movement of symptoms as the disease works its way out are always the defense mechanism's best possible response to the disease stressors. These symptoms should therefore never be suppressed or interfered with by directing treatment at the removal of the symptoms without taking the entire symptom picture into consideration. Our aim with homeopathy is not to remove symptoms but to restore balance to the organism. In the process symptoms will leave.

2) A healthy attitude of the patient would be to trust her/his own immune system in its choice of symptoms to develop, and to trust that the vital response to the remedy and the order in which symptoms are removed is the best possible reaction. All efforts to interfere with the changes that take place by attempting to treat individual symptoms or to suppress symptoms that the patient might be ashamed of as in skin conditions should be resisted, because the process of the cure can be hindered.

3) More importantly - a sign of a healthy mind is that it is a trusting mind. It is important to trust in one's own body, and in the healing process, and to trust that the suffering you may experience is the least amount necessary to effect a cure. It is also important to trust in the pace at which the changes take place.

4) The task of the remedy is quite enormous. What it must do in the process of restoring health is to remove the underlying cause of the disease, which is often a lifetime of poor mental and emotional habits and attitudes, as well as genetic predispositions to disease. These weaknesses and errors are often not given up without a struggle, and the more the disease is on the mental and emotional plane the longer the process and the harder the struggle.

5) An important aid in assisting with the healing process is first of all a desire to get better. Second in importance is a willingness to cultivate healthy mental habits and a sincere desire to nurture and develop oneself in a wholesome way, which includes spiritual health.

6) A heart filled with anger has to be healed. This is a spiritual process. The poison of envy, jealousy and resentment must be energetically resisted. Thoughts should be minded diligently. Self condemnation has to be replaced with self love. Self doubt must be replaced with self assurance and discontent with gratitude.

7) These are tremendous goals. I call the process the healthifying of the human mind. I am convinced that this is a spiritual process. One has to learn how to love in a healthy way - unconditionally and without attachment. One must learn to see the unity of opposites, that the dark and the light side are the same - one cannot exist without the other - and to have no attachment to either pole.

8) One must learn to work in a healthy way - that is, to have no attachment to the results of your labors. The Hindus call this Karma yoga. When you are working trust that you are doing the best that you can. Once the work is done - let go - come back to quietness. Do not entertain doubts.

9) I believe that next to the remedy meditation is your best ally on the road to health. It promotes mental hygiene, and helps restore fluidity to minds that have stagnated by becoming fixated on certain thoughts or thought categories. It quiets down the noise of the ego, so that the god that dwells inside of you can finally be heard and become your ally and guardian. It helps you to understand your moods and your thoughts and shows you that these are not just things that happen to you, but that you have a choice in the matter. It gives you mental clarity and objectivity. It teaches you to let go of your own thoughts, and have no attachment for them. From there this can be extended to everything in your life. Once you stop trying to hold on for dear life and release your tight grasp - the things that you want will come to you freely and joyfully.

Meditation teaches you that the mind substance that's in you is the same mind substance that is in everyone else, and in the animals, trees and even inanimate objects. Everywhere you look it is all mind. There are some of the lessons of meditation. You have to know that the greatest teacher and healer is the one that dwells in you.

10) Food

When you eat trust that the food you eat is nourishing.

 

Feel gratitude for the food. Gratitude is one of the highest expression of a healthy mind.

 

Trust that you will eat the amount necessary for your health and well being.

 

Enjoy the food you eat. Take pleasure and experience happiness in it. Then the food that you eat will be nourishing to you. It will give you sensual and spiritual pleasure. And when you feel gratitude you are bringing joy to the great provider.

 

If you are afraid of your food and believe that it is devoid of vitamins and minerals, and full of toxins - the food you eat will poison you. It will not give you sensual pleasure, nor nourish you spiritually.

 

The most important elements in the eating process will be lacking: Trust, Gratitude and Joy.

-February 9, 1997