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As these things do, it's taken a little longer than initially anticipated... but I feel sure it's going to be worth the wait. When I was nearing completion of writing, I thought that if one person is helped by it, then it was worth the effort. Last week I heard that had already happened, so I guess I need a new goal! 10, 100? It's strange following your heart in a project - and feeling so guided in the creation of it, it almost feels like I've done my bit - though of course I need to share the finished product and get on with the odd bit of talking about it I guess. All a new (and exciting) learning ground for me! I've been delighted by the reception it's had from beta readers and reviewers and very grateful to those who've promised to buy a copy. I could do with a few Amazon reviews as it'll be on there too - so if you're an Amazon shopper and wouldn't mind I'd HUGELY appreciate that too. Pre-launch sales (hardback only) open here on my website on 4th August, and I'll be posting those copies out as soon as I have them... then the book launches in ebook and hardback format on the 3rd of September. Have a read to see the reviews - they're all here: The Joy of Homeopathy - reviews and more :) Tho there's a few here too: A perfect book to read for those that are interested in homeopathy in practice. The title reflects the author’s passion for homeopathy, which comes from years of experience and witnessing the healing in both humans and animals. A ‘Joy’ to read! Gill Graham, MFHom (Int), Vice President, Faculty of Homeopathy Em has crafted a captivating book on homeopathy, presenting the elegant science through her eyes and clinical experience. She intricately blends concepts, history, statistics, critical analysis, meta-analysis and, most importantly, the diverse experiences of patients and homeopaths from around the globe. Delving into this book will inspire the inquisitive mind to leap forward in the world of homeopathy. Dr. Bhawisha Joshi M.D. (Hom) & Dr. Shachindra Joshi M.D. (Hom) The Joy of Homeopathy is packed with stories from a dynamic homeopath’s life--stories to enlighten the reader about the breadth and depth of homeopathy and about the potential for healing that’s possible with this lovely modality. This little guidebook is full of inspiration. Oh and joy! Miranda Castro, FSHom, Homeopath, Author, Educator Reading Emma Colley’s The Joy of Homeopathy was a great pleasure--indeed, a great joy. From her many years of experience in homeopathic practice, Em has crafted a homeopathic gem, which happily fills the gap between professional works and self-help books for the public. It provides ideal reading for anyone interested in understanding the principles upon which homeopathy is based and, through charmingly-presented anecdotes, affords rich insight into what a wonderful friend this gentle, yet powerful, healing modality can be in family life. The book also gifts the practitioner an engaging and instructive text to be recommended to clients desiring to know more about the unique, individualising methodology of homeopathic prescribing. Dr David Lilley, past-dean of the South African Faculty of Homeopathy In this book Em shows the process of healing with homoeopathy beautifully through stories that are relatable and authentic. A must for anyone who wants to understand what a curative journey may look like, or to delve deeper into a homoeopathic healing journey. Camilla Sherr, FSHom. PCH More reviews: If you belong to an organisation or group that reviews books and would be interested in doing so please get in touch with me on [email protected] More news soon, With joy, Em x
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Inspired by an image a wise friend shared this morning, I recalled the feeling I had as I was giving birth. A powerful sense of connection to all women before, during and after my time. A fierce, compassionate, warrior energy. A deep knowing, awareness that it could not be other than thus. I have no idea where it came from, and plenty of times I have forgotten it, and yet this morning that sense awoke within me again. Thanks to Paddy! And that feeling rising within me also reminded me we're not just solo tapestries, we are woven together, intimately connected to each other. Connected in ways many of us don't think about on a daily basis. Whenever I see coffee I think of certain people, at times I recall our trip to Tanzania in 2004, of the people who supported that trip both in Tanzania and from the UK, the animals we were lucky enough to see, the food we ate, who harvested the food, made the drinks, transported everything, those who flew us there and back, the others on the planes. The homeopath who packed the kit I took with me - the homeopath who designed the kits before they sold the idea to Helios... so many connections before I've even really started to properly think about it for long. We are a beautiful, interconnected, messy mess of beings, exquisite in our differences, dependent on each other for aspects we rarely ever consider. Thank you for being a part of my beautiful, interconnected, messy mess - I am grateful! As the wisest bear out there said: “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” I'd add, and more connected than you'll ever know. We've a pear tree that was a dwarfing stock 'ideal' for a container, which grew in there for a few years and then developed a fungus on its leaves. I reached out to a plant homeopathy chap and got advice - which I tried to follow but was super complicated tbh! - I don't think most plant based homeopathy is that hard to follow, maybe our tree was special, or I was rubbish at following the instructions. Anyway, not much changed (but I think that may have been on my part) and my partner after reading Finding the Mother Tree and Entangled Life, decided to plant it near some other trees. Two years in and the tree has never looked so well. Which has made me ponder if putting a tree in its own little house (or tub/pot etc) and then creating connection for it, what does it really do for so many of us? We may be more connected than ever via our technology, but we're also the most medicated we've ever been. Most mentally and emotionally struggling. Loneliness is a major issue, and been shown to contribute to depression massively. Beatifully, interconnected, messy - and I believe it nourishes us so much. With love, connection and gratitude, Em x One of my favourite mugs (and t-shirts) talks about the mouth of a sailor and it's got me pondering... of course the idiom 'mouth of a sailor' is well known but my musings go beyond that. The adventures, joy and exquisite things sailors get to see is a total inspiration - and whilst you wouldn't in a million years ever get me doing some of the sailing my partner can and does do, I am very grateful to have experienced a week on the sea back in August 2019 with some incredible experiences. Below: A view from a night at anchor in Two Rocks Bay, Greece. Watching the moon rise/swimming under the moon/swimming at sun rise are all some of my very favourite things too! Another of my current loves is John Denver. Actually it's not all that current really; past, present and very likely future me will have that love. In particular I have a love for his music - and word-smithery and his love for the world around him. During the period of writing the book (which is now in the editing stage - yay - and how long does editing go on for?!?), I'd return on school runs with Calypso playing loudly in the car. In particular these lines really resonated with me... To sail on a dream, on a crystal clear ocean There's so much in the song that I love and I learnt how the song was written to celebrate Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. Earlier this year I finally picked up Jacques Cousteau's The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus book and prompty fell firmly in love with Jacques too and his curiosity, his love of the world and those around him. I thought I'd celebrate the mouth (and mind) of a sailor share some quotes from him - firmly anchored as one of my very favourite sailors. His curiosity about the word, his enquiring, exploring mind takes a lot to rival - and his book was a delight of exploring with him - both the world and the huge range of what being human entails. His playful spirit in particular appealed and I'm grateful for the insights he shared. From the mouths of sailors. It's well worth an explore if you've not read it. His passion and love for others, strength and gentleness are all inspiring. With love, Em x Searching for sailing quotes I also came across this site, which I explored and had a lovely time pondering. Sharing in case it's of interest :)
It's been funny exploring instagram again, with having a wee account for the book (here if you like), and I find myself having opinions on lots - sometimes it's remedy advice - 'if you feel these three symptoms take this remedy for several weeks' (I have to admit to occasional cringing and shouting 'but we need to individualise - those symptoms could fit any number of homeopathic medicines'). I had a browse of the search term 'homeopathy humour' this morning... and found the usual sidesplitting memes... one similar to this, which made me ponder a while. Of course I've several thoughts, as ever. One is that frequently surgery is amazing, lifesaving and I'm grateful for so much about it. What an incredible privilege it is to have it available. That's forefront of my thoughts on the topic. Another is that the 'nothing' philosophy is based on a fairly reductionist view of medicine and science and that many remarkable scientists, for example Luc Montagnier for one, who got the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery of HIV sat in front of me (and many others, at a conference, not a private audience) and said 'high dilutions of something are not nothing'. Others, such as Dr Jayesh Bellare who features in Ananda More's Magic Pills film, described how unfortunately mentioning homeopathy seemed to act as an innoculation against getting published in scientific journals in future. The film website describes: "Along with his students, he discovered nanoparticles of source material in high potency homeopathic remedies, which were previously believed to be impossible. Nanoparticles, interestingly, seem to be gaining interest in the conventional scientific world as curiousity grows around the topic. The third, and to me, perhaps most intriguing thought is that sometimes the 'nothing' seems to avoid the need for surgery afterall. Looking at tributes to vet Chris Day recently, I discovered another story similar to ours about our horse's eye. This one they were faced with blindness in the eye due to uveitis (same condition as for us), and had two years of conventional treatment that hadn't helped. Another eye saved. Also have a read of the link, so lovely as a testimony to Chris, and also to the potential of homeopathy and other CAM modalities. Many years ago I talked with someone who told me he'd been told he needed surgery, then after a homeopathic medicine came back and showed me the full extension of his arm, that he couldn't do previously. My partner also avoided minor surgery with a cyst that homeopathy helped after antibiotics had done nothing for. Another story in the book tells how Kay had two surgical interventions to try and help chronic sinutitis but still had copious amounts of snot. She'd have about 2 and a half hour of relief every day (from 12 - 2.30pm) then symptoms would ramp up again. The start of the story is on the blog here. The end of the story is that last thing I heard, Kay described herself as 99% better. Earlier in the story, her medical team had said there was nothing else they could do about her sinusitis symptoms, they were latterly focussing on her ears. She had some impairment of hearing, her ears would pop and she would get intense pain if flying. Several months in to working with homeopathy, she was discharged from the ENT team as her ears were great. No pain flying, no excessive wax, hearing improved. So maybe, just maybe, there's a time and a place for a 'pass the nothing' afterall :) It'd be lovely to explore that further - if you've a story how homeopathy came to the rescue and avoided surgery or other intervention I'd love to hear. It's not, for me, about one or the other, but these accounts - and many more, illustrate to me that there's a place for CAM and conventional approaches to sit together in our world. Have a lovely joyful day! Ooh speaking of joy, I've just read a newsletter from my editor/publisher about an amazing opportunity in the Hebridian Islands. Here if you want to know more. With best wishes, Em https://www.huffpost.com/entry/luc-montagnier-homeopathy-taken-seriously_b_814619 https://magicpillsmovie.com/ Re-reminded of this quote after watching Brené Brown's Netfix show, I shared the following with students this weekend. I find it a good reminder to keep getting out there, doing, sometimes not doing quite how I wanted to, and getting on with it again.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt I also shared a more modern take, Brené's quote below. I can't do a Texas, or even American accent, so they had to go with it in my own Northern style, but if you can do a Texan one (or listen to Brené deliver it somewhere), I'm sure that adds to it really... “If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback. There are a million cheap seats in the world today filled with people who will never be brave with their own lives, but will spend every ounce of energy they have hurling advice and judgement at those of us trying to dare greatly. Their only contributions are criticism, cynicism, and fear-mongering. If you're criticizing from a place where you're not also putting yourself on the line, I'm not interested in your feedback.” ― Brené Brown I'm not sure any of my words right now can add to that, so I'll leave it there. With love xx Lots has been going on and I thought I'd share a wee update on the book here on the blog. I've almost finished annoying Lel, my graphic designer with tweaks and changes... almost anyway! I'm loving where the front and back covers have got to. I'm loving feedback in general. My project is unlikely to be without criticism - it's a book on homeopathy afterall, so am in a 'bring it on' phase before it heads out to the wider world! Tweaks, edits and more are afoot. When I think about it all, my biggest sense is gratitude, and it's possible my Acknowlegements section could be complained at for being like some kind of Oscar waffle... I am incredibly grateful for those on my journey to getting to where I am, and for those helping with the book. I can have a bit of "I can do this' attitude at times, but in reality it's never without a team, or if nothing else a safety net, to pick me up if I'm struggling, give me a kick up the ass or a hug. All are appreciated at different times. There have been so many people involved with this, and still are to come, from those who feature in it, helped educate me and so much more. A friend described it yesterday as feeling like some beautiful woven mandala with some gorgeous threads interweaving together. That feels about right. I'm giving birth to this book but there is so much more than me involved with it. Russell Brand did a sticker give away and after I'd sent off for and received Russell's stickers through the post, I started playing with designing stickers to accompany the book. Of course I handed over my random designs to Lel... who came up with the idea of stickers that double as bookmarks... And ta-dah! Here they are!! I love a world where I think about creating something then, would you look at that, it exists now. What kind of magical existence are we having?! The book has been with two people I respect HUGELY in my wee homeopathy world for their thoughts on all/aspects of it and is now with Helen at Bold Fish Publishing for her to organise my thoughts into something coherent and more readable (I don't think it's terrible already but looking forward to even better!) We meet in two week when she'll be almost done with her work on it. March heralds, as well as possible storms, snow, spring flowers and more... the book heading out to beta readers and those I'm asking for potential endorsements on the text, or short comments for the front and back covers... April is the month of collating changes, improving the text further and hopefully the end of April here it comes! Copies will be available in ebook, paperback and hardback versions and it'll be on print on demand, plus I plan to have copies available to sell direct too. Thanks for reading and following the progress! With gratitude, Em PS. The ISBN number above here is a mock one for space holding purposes, please ignore any details from it! I love recommending people to other practitioners where appropriate. That said, there was a time I thought I should be able to offer lots of things alongside my work with homeopathy. Not quite a one stop shop, but plenty to support someone's health in various ways. Before studying Homeopathy I did my degree in Psychology and Neuroscience, a diploma in Reflexology and my first degree in Reiki, and a Counselling qualification along with some voluntary work with the Samaritans. Along my journey since being a homeopath, I have undertaken courses in BWRT* (Brain Working Recursive Therapy), Natural Hygiene, Naturopathic Nutrition*, Raw Food, Plant Based Nutrition, Nutrition, Kinesiology, Mindfulness, Supervision, Australian Bush Flower Essences*, Laughter Yoga, Provocative Change Works*.... some I've completed and incorporated in various ways but several I've started (the ones with the *), done most of the course and for various reasons not finished them. Often because they clashed with a homeopathy event or training, or with a family commitment. I've also studied with some amazing homeopathy teachers and practitioners, attended courses, seminars, conferences and learnt from the likes of Jeremy Sherr, Grazia Gatti, Helen Dalton, Ilana Danaheisser, Bhawisha and Shachindar Joshi, Rajan Sanakaran, Mahesh Gandhi, Geoff Johnson, Michal Yakir, Elizabeth Thompson, Julie Geraghty, Jonathan Hardy and lots more. I've travelled the UK and beyond in the name of learning and continue to do so. This homeopathy stuff has me hooked. I love to learn more and incorporate it in my clinical work and teaching. So, this blog is really about what I don't do... and to be fair, I don't do much. I consider myself a Homeopathy geek and that's pretty much what I do do. I work with homeopathy. Whether that be in person, online, in a supervisory sense, teaching and sharing things. I recognise my work may be flavoured with other themes here and there from elements I've studied and encountered. I bring me to the space. However, if someone asks about what supplements they should be taking then I'm most likely to refer them to my good friend and colleague Nicola. She's walked the path of her own cancer recovery, taken her learning, done more learning and qualifications and study and crafted a valuable offering to others. I have heard great feedback from those she's worked with and I worked with her myself whilst recovering from adrenal fatigue 2 years ago. Without further ado; ask me about supporting your health with supplements, get Nicola's details. PS She does so much more than just that. Go find out :) https://www.nourishandgrow.love/about Pre-sea swimming with Nicola August 2021
It was wonderful to be in college at the North West College of Homeopathy, in Manchester this weekend. I had taught recently in Wales, and thought that was possibly my favourite teaching weekend ever in 7 years of teaching in colleges. And this weekend realised, and recognised that perhaps my favourite weekend of teaching is the one I've just finished. A great way to stay in the moment I suppose. Wales was kinda special for so many reasons, the Fisherman's Bothy where I stayed backing straight onto the beach. The sound of the sea from the kitchen, the walk along the seafront to the Winter School location. The beach walk with students and lecturers. Hanging out with Linda Gwillim, Petra Wood and other fabulous folk. The attention to detail in supplying my breakfast, snacks for the cottage and beverages of choice, a hot water bottle and even having a fire warming the house as I went in. And the students were fabulous. That is a consistent vein. As are the wonderful colleagues. I am grateful to have sat with some wonderful students each time I have rocked up to teach. And reflected often that I've said yes to these opportunities thinking perhaps I can give something back, and found each time I've learnt things from them. I know that now, I no longer go thinking I'm doing anything except bringing a few things and sharing the space of great folk. Hopefully we all get to learn something new in the space. I am grateful to call many of my colleagues friends, and it makes me smile that I'd read about some of them in journals in my student days and they'd be on these pedestals, I'd be in awe of many of them. This weekend it was all quite special again, for the reasons above, but also something quite personal to me. It was in January 2007, on the 21st of the month, that I sat in college, in my fourth year of study. With my newborn baby. I talked about it this college weekend and thought she was 17 days old. But no, my maths was wrong. I've just counted it now before writing this. 12 days into this world, my girl and I sat in lectures. Now I wonder if taking a little more time may have been a good idea, but online wasn't an option back in those days, and I had no thought that I wouldn't be back in class. I was determined I could do it, and do it I did. Support from her dad, my parents and sister made it possible for me to complete my homeopathy qualification and graduate when my daughter was 6 months old. What I couldn't do was breastfeed discretely and my biggest memory of that weekend wasn't the lectures I did, it was trying to fumble about under a muslin cloth and figure out wtf I was doing. Needless to say (or perhaps not needless but anyway), the cloth was gone within minutes, I recognised bodies were just bodies and for goodness sake, we were in a college concerned with natural health. Looking back, perhaps that was a turning point altogether for me. Little did I imagine, sat there 17 years ago, I'd be separated in a year, divorced 2 years after that, do businesses I'd never ever heard of, work in home help and network marketing (at separate times) alongside being a nearly full time mum and setting up my work in homeopathy. In case that wasn't enough, skeptic attacks were fairly relentless in 2007, along with a significant recession. I told my story in brief this weekend to students, and regularly do so. Not normally the breastfeeding bit - that was a special bit thinking this weekend was a special one, particularly in my miscalculations, that 17 years ago on Saturday my daughter and I sat in college, her 17 days old. Damn it, turns out my 12 years in was the special one for the numbers, since we were sat there and she was 12 days old! I missed that one. But for me, and why I share it, I hope my story helps others. It can be daunting sitting there wondering how it will all work out. If it will all work out. I have no answers for anyone else, but I know that I had no question that I would be doing this. Even 'how' didn't really seem to be that present, just keep at it and it'll get there. And it did. But did it take time? Absolutely. Did I fall in love with it all more and more along the way? Hell yes. Did I learn more, about me, about the world alongside the homeopathy learning? Yup to that one too. Was it all worth it? It certainly was. I could never have dreamed up the challenges that would be faced over the years between then and now, within our family, health, schooling, relationships, work. And I suppose I'm glad I had no idea, I got to face each one, some more mine and others with a supporting role. Frequently we had incredible people around us who were just amazing, and grew each time. Learnt more about the world and ourselves. I knew I was never going to teach, which always makes me smile, especially having done a recent session with the amazing Liz Norman who read my natal chart and assured me I was doing what I was supposed to do, working in higher learning, and teaching and sharing ideas. Lordy. that was not in my awareness for so many years. Teaching as I do, to small classes of adults who want to learn and engage brilliantly, is not like I ever imagined teaching could be. With parents who taught in primary schools (and a dad who became a headteacher) I know what many of the harder aspects of teaching can be like. Social media wasn't on my radar back then, and I would go on to encourage, support and help a whole load of other folk to use it for their businesses and to promote this amazing world of homeopathy. I would work with organisations for quite a few years, and then step back, letting go of all but one platform (nearly anyway, Insta remains but is currently private whilst I still play out with the old folk left on Facebook). I had no plans either to offer supervision to students or pracitioners, and I love that aspect of my work now. I was so shy it took me years (honestly) to set up and run an Introduction to Homeopathy course. I kept working towards it, pushing my boundaries, and with an awareness of not liking to talk to groups of more than 2-3 or so, I expanded those boundaries right out. I think 150 was my biggest in person crowd to date, though several podcasts I've been on apparently have audiences in the 1000s. In many ways I have nothing more than a bit of determination and a lot of enthusiasm for the topic. I see how incredible it can be, I'm grateful to have witnessed some remarkable changes, some slower burning changes, and see how seeds planted can transform all sorts. Most definitely the seed of homeopathy planted years ago transformed my life, my understanding of the world and so much more. With love, Em A strange, rare or peculiar symptom is pretty much like it sounds. We don’t see them all the time, and they can be a symptom that fits any of those descriptors, so they may be rare, or strange, or peculiar, it doesn’t have to be all of them. These less common symptoms can help us match a remedy to the individual. We need to take account of both these and common symptoms.
They can be a real gift to the practitioner when presented with them during a case session and can help us pinpoint a remedy to help the individual. ‘Homeopaths have a phrase for what is most useful in the study of materia medica, and so also in the study of patients in an effort to help them, ‘strange, rare and peculiar’. The clues to a cure lie in what are uncommon and characteristic in both the properties of the medicine and the symptoms of the patient.’ http://www.homeobook.com/pdf/strange-rare.pdf Strange symptoms are those which defy our logic and make no sense to us, yet still exist – e.g. pain in rectum, eructations, during empty. Rare - those which we rarely encounter in our patients or remedies. They’re found in very few patients, and very few remedies. Singular symptoms – so rare that they’re found in one remedy in our materia medica and repertory. Peculiar symptoms are different to what is normal or expected. Symptoms that are against our expectation. E.g. pain in knees better by walking – if there is knee pain, we may expect to be worse for moving. Or painful throat better for cold drinks – most patients find a warm drink more soothing with a sore throat. Common symptoms are not to be ignored – a good remedy usually covers both the common and uncommon symptoms. We decide on our remedy based on the characteristic symptoms, but that doesn’t mean the common symptoms never have any value. This is such a vast topic that whilst writing my book The Joy of Homeopathy, trying to condense a definition for my Terminology section into 4 or so lines was a real challenge. Helen who I'm working with to publish the book suggested a blog post on the topic, which was a great idea. If you're here from the book, welcome. If you're here having discovered my website or via the blog, hello too! When I was first taught potency in College, it's pretty fair to say, it was accompanied by echoes of 'What...? You mean...? How...?' around the classroom that I sat in. It goes hand in hand with our Law of Minimum Dose, which is quite the step for us, so used to our material world. Two aspects of this are key - one is that we give the minimum dose to enable a reaction to for our client to start their journey towards healing, in terms of repetition, and the second, in a weird twist of ‘really, but how?’ the more diluted and succussed (shaken) a remedy is, the stronger the potency. The power seems to be particularly related to the shaking, the succussion. How I can’t tell you, and to be fair, I have given up trying to really understand. I’m OK with seeing it working. I’m happy to know that I see change. I’m really happy to know that way cleverer people than me are working in many countries around the world investigating the how, demonstrating the efficacy of homeopathy on plants, seeing it work in agriculture and lots more. Much research is frequently self-funded or funding comes from within the industry, which doesn’t make it a level playing field with the world of conventional medicine, but research is ploughing ahead regardless. People’s passion, people’s recognition for something that works, commitment to learning and curiosity about the world around them and this thing that shouldn’t work but clearly does, has much to be said for it. Then there’s the fact our current scientific paradigm says that it can’t work and yet still it does, perhaps makes it all the more fascinating. If I'm totally honest, I can no longer tell you in detail how a lightbulb switches on. Once upon a time I could have told you the physics of it, but those heady A Level Physics days are gone. I don’t care how my car turns on when I turn the ignition key. I’m curious about much in the world, but I see these things working and that works for me. I’m grateful mechanics are way more up on my car than my awareness that it’s metallic dark grey with a fabulous panoramic roof, I’m very grateful my dad knows exactly what he’s doing with it. But do I need to? Years ago, single parenting away, getting my business set up, supporting ourselves with bit jobs on the side, I recognised there were many things I needed to do and know and that I could accept help with others. My car is one I accept help with. I admire those who can do cars too, but I’m OK that’s not me. Similarly, I’m very grateful we have incredible researchers, I’ve met some of them and am inspired by their passion for the topic. My passion is seeing the change on the front line. Being in clinic, working on cases, seeing clients. Seeing results which clients describe as life-changing. That’s my space. And the rest will come. I believe we’re getting close to the ‘how’ and there are several fascinating theories which may well be shouted about soon. They may soon show us how what we do does it. There may be several ways to explain it, and that’s where I think we'll be in the end, that it’s not just one thing. Not just nanoparticles or Exclusion Zone water. Not just the quantum world that will give us clues. But I’m leaving that to the marvellous researchers. I don’t think it’ll be long before we know a whole lot more. Back to potency, commonly used potencies in homeopathy are: 6X, 12X and beyond, these are on the Decimal scale. 6C, 12C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M which are all classed as being on the Centesimal scale. The LM scale goes from an LM1 upwards and you can start at 1 and work up, or adapt accordingly depending on the energy of our client. In the decimal scale, noted by an X after the number, 1/10 of the liquid is added to 9/10 of alcohol and shaken (succussed) well. The first dilution is a 1X. The number in front of the X notes the number of times it has been diluted and succussed. A 12X potency of a remedy will have been through this process 12 times. Our centesimal scale is similar, 1/100 of the starting material or tincture is added to 99 parts of alcohol. That creates a 1C of our remedy. And so on upwards. Our M potencies have been through this process in the orders of thousands, 1M a thousand times, 10M ten thousand times. LM potencies, which are sometimes called Q potencies are made by diluting and succussing 1:50 000 of the original tincture/substance. The short video here is helpful to describe how we make remedies and gives an insight into potency. We’re always looking at each case as an individual and that means matching the remedy and the potency to the person in front of us. |
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