Real change in health starts with careful, individualised observation.
Can you see the elephant? Not obvious is it? Lots of other things catch your eye first. You have to really look to see it, and even then it’s not immediately obvious that there’s an elephant there. You can’t see the trunk or most of the legs – and anyway, why would there be an elephant in the middle of a city?
But it’s the one thing that doesn’t quite fit in the picture – if you look closely.
Looking closely is precisely what happens when you see a homeopath. Paying careful attention to the exact nature of your problem, what it feels like, what makes it better or worse, when it started and what was going on when it started helps a homeopath match you with the right remedy to help nudge your body to start addressing the problem so you start to get better.
Our bodies have the most tremendous, amazing healing capacity, but they do get stuck sometimes. Where they get stuck is a very individual thing. It depends partly on your genetic inheritance, partly on where and how you have lived, and partly on the results of decisions you have made. The combination of all of these is very individual to you. So finding the right remedy to stimulate your system to start to rebalance itself also needs to be individual to you.
But to find this information, careful individualised observation is crucial.
When was the last time you worked with someone who really listened to you and paid attention to the details of you and what is going on for you?
Let’s look at anxiety, for example. Anxiety can have lots of different causes: worry about family members, worry about your own health, worry about money, worry about getting things right, worry about whether or not you are good enough, worry about performing well, worry about danger, worry about flying, worry about things you can’t even begin to name …
And it can manifest in many different ways: fear of meeting anyone, inability to get out of the house, loss of appetite or feeling desperately hungry all the time, constant need to keep re-checking things, becoming terribly restless, or zoning out on the couch endlessly doom scrolling, feeling cold, feeling hot, feeling dizzy … There are many many variations, and what you experience is almost certain to be unique to you.
If we really want to find a remedy to start to address this at the root, not just try to suppress the symptoms, we need to find one that really matches you and what is going on for you.
Then we can stimulate YOUR body to start to sort out where things are out of balance, and get you better.
We need the details of that elephant!
Pictures of the mechanical elephant in Nantes, France, taken by me.
