Homeopathy Again - The Real Stuff

In the News again is the reluctance of GPs to refer to homeopaths. So how many patients don't get well with conventional medicine? How many with the more mystical treatments? And how many didn't with those?
We need statistics that aren't lies or damn lies.

The homeopathic practititoner would say - so we treat animals and they became better. (Intention of the giver of course - that's how this all works but is it ever measured ... no).
I have no idea how many do or don't but a percentage of us get better anyway without any treatment. How many times could you have gone to the GP and put it off? Then didn't need to. Only when desparate eh?
If it's not obvious what you need - Just try a third party who wants to get people (or animals) better and see.

Intention = will ...see previous post.

It’s Really A Love Thing

Remember the circles?

Last year there was much in the press about treating co-habiting couples being treated under the same laws as married couples.

What a field day for solicitors as they scurry around people’s financial affairs in the rat trap of the ‘perpendicular’ circle of ego and money. Complicated further by some of the co-habitees who may still be married to someone else!

Good – that leaves marriage as a purely spiritual thing. (The eternal ‘horizontal’ circle of will and love).

As Alistair Crowley said – (and probably found in the Bible too)
“Do as thy will and let thy will be love”.

Just a reminder of what circles are

Perpendicular circle - ego & money = what we call 'us'
Horizontal circle - spirit and love = everything else = universal nature

I (Perpendicular circle) think they (whoever) had it right. It seems to work.

History Repeats Itself - As Always

Based on the wheel of fate turning and that history that keeps repeating itself, together with my very limited knowledge of what’s been before…. Here’s a very silly prediction for the future of complementary Therapy in the UK – as I can’t give the timescale but it’s happened before so why not again?

With Regulation approaching fast if it is at all implemented after all the arguments, there will be some kind of catastrophe that puts us all back in the Middle Ages and we have to start looking after ourselves rather than paying out money for our health. Thus Regulation falls once more.

Background:
In the 1600s the medical profession took offence that people such as Culpepper and Hanneman wanted the lay people to help themselves. ‘Witches’ were killed off in this battle for power.
Last Century’s example is Eunice Ingham. She shared her techniques with other therapists. She also first used the term ‘reflexology’. She was in Court many times defending the principle of self-healing opposing the medical establishment. Her last appearance in court was in 1972. She died in 1974. She was a very spirited woman indeed.
In the UK Aromatherapy developed here, why not in its home in France? - Not so much regulation!

So, with the establishment’s reaction to loosing out on business here comes more regulation….In my opinion this may stifle the development of therapies. It is all ready regulated anyway with professional associations (My ego with its professional pride is pleased to say) and the reductionalistic/robotic National Occupational Standards which appears to be at odds with the concept of holism and intuition but hey ho. (Please correct me if I am wrong but they are a lot to read through).

As with any business it’s the bottom line that counts and I suspect these changes have all to do with that and little else. Money and power. (The perpendicular circle at work).

Why is a catastrophe needed to put the power back to the people? Does that work any better? Who knows?

Catastrophes are nature’s way of the planet re-balancing itself. I have no idea of what it could be; climate change or the city finally blowing it all in the UK’s biggest casino perhaps. In my opinion, Complementary therapy may well go underground – just as trees that are cut down put out shoots. It’s a natural survival mechanism. Who on earth can regulate the natural healing power of touch…and the desire of folk to do so?

And then Regulation starts all over again…the wheel of fate moves on.

Keeps us busy I suppose.

PS -In spite of the city crashing today I wrote this a few days ago... I believe it is just the start of things.

A Warm Welcome

Ever had cold hands? Not too good for hands on therapy!

Here’s what you can do before the appointment…and what not to bother with…
30 minute vacuum and dusting workout – too tiring and you may not have the time;
Run hands under the hot tap – you do need to wash your hands but they instantly freeze up again.

Try this: use a hot pack (2 minutes in the microwave) even with cold hands, a moment holding the pack will transfer the heat from your palmer surface onto the client. Your hands may still feel cold but they won’t be. If you are doing massage, start off single-handed and keep swapping over in between effleurage strokes.

Apart from using hot packs in sports massage, this is a trick I learned with experiencing a hot stone massage – they do the same thing but are a lot more expensive.