How Homeopathy Helps Stress

Homeopathy alleviates the symptoms of  stress and helps you achieve:

• more calmness
• less irritability
• fewer headaches and stomachaches
• and fewer of the myriad of stress-related problems listed below.

Stress affects everyone differently. It was thought until recently that the only damage of stress was psychological, but research now shows that constant stress affects the physical body as well, and this can be very serious at times. Call Richmond Homeopathy today for a free 15-minute consultation to discover how homeopathy helps stress and helps you reduce the effects of stress in your life.

According to a 2007 study by the American Psychological Association:

Three quarters of Americans experience symptoms related to stress in a given month:

• 77% experience physical symptoms
• 73% experience psychological symptoms
• One-third of Americans feel they are living with extreme stress
• About half of Americans (48%) feel that their stress has increased over the past five years
• Money and work are the leading causes of stress

Physical symptoms of stress include fatigue, headache, upset stomach muscle tension, change in appetite, teeth grinding, change in sex drive, feeling dizzy. Psychological effects of stress include experiencing irritability or anger, feeling nervous, lack of energy, feeling as though you could cry.

For two centuries homeopaths have believed in the interconnectedness of mind and body. Homeopaths see over and over that fixing an issue on the mental plane helps relieve problems on the physical plane. In an in-depth analysis, constitutional homeopathic treatment combines both the psycho and the physiological profile of the patient, with each given equal weight. This means that homeopathy helps stress and alleviates its symptoms through careful listening, analysis and finding the right remedy.

There are many remedies that help with stress overall.  Nux Vomica and Staphysagria assist the stress that results from anger and impatience and Ignatia and Natrum Mur help when long-standing grief creates a stress response. Argentum Nitricum and Tarentula are very effective in reducing the stress of over-achievers. Kali phos is good for an individual who pushes himself physically and mentally. But there are other remedies that address some of the above symptoms more specifically. For example, someone might have a headache from stress, but is it a right-sided or left-sided headache? Is the pain cutting or throbbing? Does it occur every day or is there a pattern? During constitutional treatment these specifics are taken into account, in addition to the fact that the headache arrives with stress.

“The physician must penetrate into the inner recesses of symptoms; the very life of the patient must be opened and laid bare, Learn the fears, instincts, desires and the aversions of the patient. The remedy often crops out through the affections.” - J.T. Kent

As Kent advises, homeopaths look to understand the rich tapestry of our clients’ lives as we seek to find the cause and cure of their stress complaints.

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A good article from Homeopathy World Community on protecting ourselves from the radiation that will be heading our way from Japan: http://www.homeopathyworldcommunity.com/forum/topics/use-of-iodine-to-preserve

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Today I begin again to blog. I haven’t felt genuine in my blog, Twitter or Facebook communication. I was learning the tools and compelled to say something but it wasn’t the real and full story… yet. So now I begin again.

I live my life by four basic principles set forth by the cultural anthropologist, Angeles Arrien:

1. Show up, or choose to be present.

2. Pay attention to what has heart and meaning.

3. Tell the truth without blame or judgment.

4. Be open to outcome, not attached to outcome.

Why is this important to bring up? Because I am becoming the healer I desire to be. I am finding the people I wish to emulate and I am showing up, paying attention, telling the truth and detaching from outcome over and over.

I believe homeopathy should be practiced using The Four Fold Way as a guide. When a homeopath takes a case s/he must be fully present and pay attention to everything the client says, but most importantly s/he must pay attention to what the client intimates has heart and meaning to them. It is even more important to reserve judgment on what constitution the person is or what remedy they need. It is critical for the homeopath to hear the full story and write it down in the words of the client. Next the homeopath must try to see what is at the core of that story without judgment and then analyze all the data in the case without attachment to what the remedy might be. Often a homeopath thinks s/he knows the remedy and so very often they are wrong.  And often this is because they have made a “knee-jerk” prescription without fulling understanding the case.

Being a homeopath is an incredible spiritual journey when one allows it to be. It’s possible to consider homeopathy a lucrative business or to think oneself a do-gooder for selfless reasons. Both can be true. But I also think we teach what we need to learn in life. Practicing homeopathy offers an opportunity to show up for oneself in addition to one’s patients, to pay attention to what is really important in one’s life and speak the truth about it without judgment.  And what an intense spiritual lesson it is to detach from outcome. None of us ultimately controls anything in this life. Yes, the little things perhaps: where to buy our coffee, which socks to wear, etc.  But do we have any control over life and death? We like to think we can influence our kids’ choices and our spouse’s beliefs. But at the end of the day how successful are we really?

Regardless of the effectiveness of our efforts to assist our patients’ movement in the direction of cure as a homeopath, we disrespect the human body if we do it in a way that the does not include the Vital Force (“the spirit-like life force… that enlivens the material organism … and governs without restriction and keeps all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards to both feelings and functions…” per the founder of homeopathy Dr. Samuel Hahnemann). At the end of the day, the Vital Force is each patient’s own inner guide to health and we are not in charge of the outcome.

It is an honor to work with my patients and to hear their stories. I am committed to paying attention to what has heart and meaning for them. I so appreciate their truths and I strive to detach from the outcome while working tirelessly to assist them towards cure.

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We are all bombarded with information on a daily basis, sometimes nearly second-by-second. We receive it in our emails, our Twitter and Facebook accounts, from the newspaper, the radio and friends. There’s a lot of misinformation out there but there is also a lot of very good information. I thought I would share a couple of sites and blogs I have found to be very good on health, nutrition and homeopathy. These are my go-to sites and I have subscribed to their newsletters:

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