…putting the 'CARE' back into 'healthcare'.
Posted in Flower Essences, Healing, Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room, Materia Medica on Mar 27th, 2012
I had a patient who had gone through an incredibly powerful and difficult time when she went through the third round of chronic miasms. As she put it, she felt “….devastated — like London after WWII.” She needed a break from this deeper form of curing, and a modality which would help her rebuild and [...]
Posted in Healing, Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room, Materia Medica, Principles, Regimen, Therapeutics on Mar 25th, 2012
Before I studied and practiced Heilkunst, I had spent a lot of time exploring the Bach Flower Remedies for my own personal healing, and my original health consulting practice was as a flower essence practitioner. I had always been drawn to any sort of systematic explanation of human behaviour and emotion, and the Bach remedies [...]
Posted in Healthy Emotional Expression, Ideogenic Beliefs, Inside The Consult Room, Regimen on Mar 20th, 2012
I’ve noted how the initial explorations of the third jurisdiction (“Therapeutic Education”) still has much cross-over with the second (“Therapeutic Medicine”), to prepare the patient for the full engagement with it. Likewise, there is a root of this third jurisdiction which reaches back into the first jurisdiction of Regimen. Beyond the basic level of education [...]
Posted in Healing, Ideogenic Beliefs, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen, State of Health, Therapeutics on Mar 14th, 2012
We continue our journey into the third jurisdiction of Heilkunst (“Therapeutic Education”), with another key consideration : the level of health of the practitioner. As I’ve mentioned in a recent blog, there’s a unique aspect to Heilkunst, in that the patient needs to be “qualified” on order to begin any level of treatment — a [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen, Therapeutics on Mar 8th, 2012
There are different vantage points from which to answer the question “What is Heilkunst”, and I’ve explored a few of them in these blog posts. One place where the conceptual meets the practical comes when I explain the three primary therapeutic jurisdictions which organize every aspect of medical Heilkunst. Every case is unique, and one [...]
Posted in Hydration, Inside The Consult Room on Mar 3rd, 2012
In my recent blog on the ABCs and 123s of health, I included hydration in my top 3. The first really big misconception that many people have, is that they are already hydrated, because they’re “not thirsty” generally. Most of the time, this is false, as the thirst mechanism itself is one of the first [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Nutrition, Regimen on Mar 1st, 2012
I remember as a boy that my Grandfather told me that if I was hungry for more food, and looking for seconds, that I should “wait 20 minutes, because that’s how long it takes what you’ve eaten to get to your stomach, and signal to you that you’re full.” Always curious to know how things [...]
Posted in Ideogenic Beliefs, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen on Feb 28th, 2012
Much resistance from patients comes in the form of not liking being “told” what to do. Part of the fear comes from the possibility of losing their perceived freedom to eat however they see fit for themselves. Sometimes, it goes deeper than having emotional attachments to food into the more powerful realm of beliefs — [...]
Posted in Healing, Ideogenic Beliefs, Inside The Consult Room, Orgonomy, Principles, Regimen, Sexual health, State of Health, Therapeutics on Feb 26th, 2012
How does a Heilkunst treatment session work? Of course, the variety of issues and stages of health which patients bring will lead to a very individualized form of treatment, but there are a number of areas which form a backbone for the type of content that I might explore during each session. The purpose of [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Conditions, Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen, Therapeutics on Feb 24th, 2012
When I refer to “Allopathic” medicine, people often assume that this term only applies to the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs, but not to any non-drug approaches, such as surgery. “Allopathy” has a much broader meaning than this, and indicates a more general conceptual approach to health which doesn’t understand or treat the cause of a [...]
