A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind, and Soul - Softcover

Sullivan, Andrea

 
9780385485777: A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind, and Soul
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0385485778 ISBN 13: 9780385485777
Verlag: Crown, 1999

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In A Path to Healing, Dr. Andrea Sullivan, one of the nation's leading naturopaths, tells readers everything they need to know about establishing wellness in their lives. In easy-to-understand language, she demystifies alternative medicine and prescribes an overall guide to maintaining health and keeping disease at bay. Special attention is devoted to the most common and dangerous diseases, including:

stress
hypertension
cancer
diabetes
obesity
HIV/AIDS
arthritis
depression

In the tradition of Dr. Andrew Weil's Natural Health, Natural Medicine, A Path to Healing is a necessary prescription for creating a healthy and balanced life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrea Sullivan, N.D., lives and practices in Washington, D.C., is a member of several national homeopathic organizations, and is a founding member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She appears frequently on television and radio.

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In A Path to Healing, Dr. Andrea Sullivan, one of the nation's leading naturopaths, tells readers everything they need to know about establishing wellness in their lives. In easy-to-understand language, she demystifies alternative medicine and prescribes an overall guide to maintaining health and keeping disease at bay. Special attention is devoted to the most common and dangerous diseases, including:
stress
hypertension
cancer
diabetes
obesity
HIV/AIDS
arthritis
depression
In the tradition of Dr. Andrew Weil's Natural Health, Natural Medicine, A Path to Healing is a necessary prescription for creating a healthy and balanced life.

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In A Path to Healing, Dr. Andrea Sullivan, one of the nation's leading naturopaths, tells readers everything they need to know about establishing wellness in their lives. In easy-to-understand language, she demystifies alternative medicine and prescribes an overall guide to maintaining health and keeping disease at bay. Special attention is devoted to the most common and dangerous diseases, including:

stress
hypertension
cancer
diabetes
obesity
HIV/AIDS
arthritis
depression

In the tradition of Dr. Andrew Weil's Natural Health, Natural Medicine, A Path to Healing is a necessary prescription for creating a healthy and balanced life.

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Homeopathy

One of the reasons I decided to go to graduate school to study sociology and psychology was that I wanted to have a better understanding of human behavior. I was in my early twenties, fresh out of college and a little naive about what I wanted to do with my life, although I knew I wanted to "save the world." I had a lot of unanswered questions about the way people acted--the way they responded to things and expressed themselves to one another. I thought that an advanced degree in a field which deals with the interaction of individuals would provide some of these answers.

Long before I made this decision, however, I had always wanted to believe there was more to me than my mind and emotions, my acquisitions and success. No matter how well I did in school, I still felt inadequate. No matter how many friends I made, I still felt separated and distant from them. I needed to make some sense of all the suffering in the world, including my own. I needed to know more about Truth, about the idea that there is something greater than man and his intellect.

I also wanted to rid myself of the sense of inferiority and pain I had accumulated as a black female in this country. I wanted to know more. I wanted to know who I was. I wanted an awareness of myself and how I fit into life. I wanted to understand others so that I might have more compassion and kindness. And I wanted the same for others.

But sociology didn't provide the answers. Nor did my job at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It wasn't until I began studying natural medicine that I was able to find my true self--and along with that the Truth. As I mentioned in the Introduction, between my second and third year of naturopathic school, while traveling in the Holy Land, I discovered the soul, the part that is connected to the universal spirit that connects to us all. As the New Testament declares, the kingdom of heaven is within us. The true self focuses on the divinity within. It uses love and wisdom to create harmony with God's creations. We are all part of creation. We are made in God's image, and we have the right to be joyful, healthy, and wealthy. We deserve it. This new awareness helped me replace my false self, the self that harbored feelings of fear, insecurity, and pain. This awareness answered my many questions.

The false self is a great force, but not the greatest force. Opposites exist everywhere in nature, including the human psyche. Underneath the negativity of the false self is the positive nature of the true self. Likewise, with homeopathy, the remedies replace the unhealthy patterns and thoughts of the false self with those of the true self. Homeopathic remedies work to eliminate limitations and fixed ideas that make the individual more susceptible to disease.

George Vithoulkas is a world-renowned homeopath and was one of the first Europeans to revitalize homeopathy in North America. About health, in The Science of Homeopathy, Mr. Vithoulkas specifically says:

Health is freedom from pain in the physical body, having attained a state of well-being; freedom from passion on the emotional level, having as a result a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with Truth.

I was intrigued. Going to naturopathic school was a continuation of my search for Truth. I thought homeopathy was a way for myself and my patients to gain freedom and discover the Truth. I was right.

How does all of this talk about God, true self, and false self relate to homeopathy?

Let's begin with an understanding of the mental state. Our mental state is responsible for our memory, concentration, and creativity, among other things. A mental disturbance comes in a variety of different conditions and refers to more than just medical diagnoses like schizophrenia or manic depression. For example, a mental disturbance may make it difficult to express one's thoughts or to find the right word in conversation.

A mental disturbance may also hinder your consciousness. When you begin to lose awareness of yourself in relationship to others and the environment, the result is harmful behavior like selfishness or greed. Self-absorption and intolerance are other signs of this mental disturbance. We cannot know the Truth when we are operating out of self-advancement and egotism. Instead, we become oblivious to others' needs.

We usually know when we are mentally healthy. We are aware of being part of a greater whole. Our behavior is likely to be productive and fruitful. We pursue goals of health, happiness, wealth, and love. We encourage others to do the same. We have selfless creativity for ourselves and others. When we are well, we can give freely of ourselves from the overflow of who we are. When we are well, it hurts not to give.

Emotional wellness requires the ability to feel. When patients say they have no feeling about a situation or life experience, I find they have likely suppressed the feeling or disassociated from it because it is too painful. In order to survive emotionally, these patients have had to separate themselves from the experience, as if it happened to someone else. There is an Ethiopian proverb, "He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured." We should try not to hide that which is making us sick. Also, when we react to things in the past, we are unable to deal with things in the present and therefore become emotionally unhealthy. We need to be able to feel the range of emotions, from good to bad, to be healthy. When we have emotional freedom, we are able to experience our feelings and let go of them. We don't burden ourselves with one emotion. We become angry, for example, but it is an anger that is appropriate in degree and intensity for that situation. Emotional freedom enables us to return to a state of peace and calm.

On the other hand, physical health is much easier to assess. We are used to focusing on our physical condition when we are sick. Physicians have grown accustomed to focusing on physical disease, picking out individual organs to heal rather than the entire person. In fact, the medical establishment was so intent on dealing with physical symptoms, it did not recognize a connection between mind and body until recently. Yet most people would admit that conditions like fatigue, chronic headaches, or arthritis are closely connected to our emotional state. Physical health allows us to be energetic and pain-free and to experience a state of well-being.

Now, having a greater understanding of wellness and homeopathy, I believe it is the one medicine that touches deeply into a person, truly creating wellness on all levels, for the homeopathic remedies touch the soul.

Treating the Whole Person: Body, Mind, and Soul--An Acute Condition

Whether we believe a condition like arthritic pain makes one irritable and angry, or whether an angry and irritable nature contributes to arthritic pain, we cannot deny the connection between our natures and our bodies. Homeopaths view the person and the symptoms in a totality; and it is the totality of symptoms in a person that we treat. The homeopath will individualize a treatment by assessing the state and the nature of the patient in order to give the correct remedy. However, there are times when the physical symptoms are so overwhelming that they must be the focus for a homeopath. Following is an example of when a homeopath recognizes a patient's acute condition.

Not long ago a patient named Patricia called to say she thought the cold she had had for the past week was moving into her lungs. She felt weak and exhausted and had spiking fevers of 104 degrees. During our conversation I noted a hard, dry cough she said was painful. She had aches all over her back, but...

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Verlag
Crown
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385485778
ISBN 13 
9780385485777
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304
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