| Mary Jo Aloi, DHom(UK), PCH | |
| Health Health is the ability of an organism to efficiently respond to challenges and effectively restore and sustain the vital functions and sensations of the system within an optimal range. “Dis-ease” is a stuckness, a response to stressors in which the system is not restoring the vital functions and sensations after it has been moved outside its ideal range. Health is a process, not a steady state, our systems are constantly in motion responding to stimuli from our environment. Disease is a process also, it is not that we “have” diseases, so much as we are “diseasing”. The symptoms that we see are a result of our “diseasing” process, they are not the disease itself. This inability to respond to challenges happens on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. Disease often takes place on more than one level of a person at a time. The human organism is astounding, amazing and incredibly wise. Of its own accord, it expresses the imbalance inside as symptoms that are as far removed from the vital processes and organs of the body as it possibly can. Symptoms that appear on the skin are much less critical to our functioning than symptoms that interfere with our breathing or our heart function. When individual symptoms are changed or removed without addressing the internal imbalance or way of “diseasing”, the body automatically expresses the imbalance in the next least critical way it can. If it is prevented from expressing in this way, it expresses in the next least critical way, this continues, however each time getting closer to the more vital organs of the body. The classical homeopath seeks to listen at the deepest level to the wisdom of the body, to the signs and symptoms of its disorder and hear and see the pattern of stuckness, and then to respond by giving a homeopathic remedy that reminds the organism of its freedom and purpose. At the deepest level, health is the freedom to express our being’s truest desire and to realize it: to know our purpose in life and to live it fully. This is my vision as a homeopath, to restore health in myself and others by seeing imbalance and meeting it with a remedy that can help us to remember what health and wholeness is and to live it.
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