Energy Healing in the Modern World

That's Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler above, the discoverer of Cell Salts as homeopathic remedies.

For the past year and a half I experimented quite a bit with Cell Salts and other modalities of traditional and alternative medicine and wanted to talk about how they fit in a world were commodity has priority over well-being. I've found out that a few adjustments need to be made in our mindset to make the best out of cell salts --and homeopathy and naturopathy in general-- since these methods of healing evolved in a society that was very different than ours and was also slower and more aware of the densest and most concrete of the vehicles that house the soul; in contrast with ours that is used to instant results and hardly able to tell anything apart if it's farther than "right now", albeit with its own technological prowess and economical expansion.

This has been a huge reason why homeopathy isn't popular these days. For homeopathy to work best, you need to put work and make health a working priority in your life, not just a nuisance when you don't have it. Most people are not willing to do that; or even farther, they don't even have a framework to think about a world were energetic methods like homeopathy work, since very little in our society provides a language, education or set of experiences for it.

I don't want to bash pharmaceuticals, they are not evil and indeed they can save your life but they are drugs and as with all drugs they are easily abused. More, they promote the fallacy that anything is able of curing the human body and it's conditions. Nothing is able to cure the human body, all a medicine can do is allow for the body to heal itself easier or more efficiently one way or the other. They are a chemical crutch and if you don't need it then your own capacity to heal is compromised by lack of use. That's why you don't use a crutch unless you need it, your ankles become weak and your muscles lose mass. Traditional and alternative medicine suggest, under the scrutiny of their studies and the weight of their results, that pharmaceuticals and other strong therapies must only be used once and only the body has lost its own capacity for healing not used in order to replace those capacities, unless they are irrecoverable. That is much less common that one might think though is sounds straightforward. The problem is that we have become averse to pain and work, (or lack self worth for that matter) and healing, true healing, takes all of them and more.

When we are sick these days what are we encouraged to do? Take pills to suppress the uncomfortable purging reactions of our body, numb it, and then target the infection or otherwise with another pill; take rest until you feel like going out of bed and watch movies all day or similar, for many people. And for the rest it is a need to go and attend their work duties without feeling they are dragging their bodies, though they do, without noticing it. This isn't the right way to care for your body or train it to be resilient. I personally have found that taking lots of rest when I'm sick but forcing myself out of bed to let my body know that we need to move and to get my blood circulating to get the vital oxygen to the places it needs to in order to repair tissue damage has done more for my health than taking an Advil.

The thing is, none of those things are comfortable to do when you are feeling weak but in my experience it makes you heal faster and also makes your body stronger for it to better endure further sickness. That's what I like about Cell Salts, they focus on providing the body with vital cell food and energy for the body to do its work best. However, if your body isn't resilient, and here lies the catch, it's much harder for your body to respond to them. Cell Salts and homeopathy work best to restore health if you usually take care of your health. That makes enormous sense to me. Health is like a muscle, the more you use it and take care of it the better it responds and the more skillfully you can handle it in daily life and in rest.

I can attest to this from direct experience. I suffer from regular gastritis and the accompanying acid reflux. I've been on proton pump inhibitors --emphasis on inhibitors, also called anti-acids like omeprazol-- for 10 years and I haven't been cured at all. However, I started taking the proper Cell Salt combination and shifted my diet to something lighter and lo and behold. Within the month I was mostly healed! I still get the ocasional upset stomach, mostly because my habits haven't changed completely but to me it feels more like a recovery of health instead of a management of disease. Most people I know with gastritis take anti-acids and keep having bad diets, that helps us with the vice of over eating but not with the inflammation in the body, and the stress it puts on it.

The same goes for my allergies to dogs and cats, it's infrequent but it still happens. I consulted and allergist and he suggested a two year plan to train my immune system to target the allergen before it gets to interacts with my body and cause inflammation. Honestly, that's pretty cool tech. However, I didn't think I needed it. I would consider that necessary for severe allergies that could cause blazing atopic dermatitis or anaphylaxis and death, not a runny nose. And perhaps my limited immunological resources can be put to better use. So I did what biochemic doctors did and took the proper cell salt combination for balancing watery conditions and... Within the week my allergies were gone. I don't know yet if they are gone for good, it took several repeats of exposure to dogs and cats and taking the proper cell salt but I can feel my body becoming more used to responding correctly to allergens and I haven't had anything resembling allergies ever since, even after frequent contact with house pets.

I consider, in this out loud musing, that the balance between corrective medicine (most of modern medicine) and traditional medicine that makes you stronger needs to find a balance in todays world when sickness produce all kinds of imbalances. The key to this seems to be to recognize the long forgotten bridge between mind and body, between ourselves and the rest of the cosmos, between the personality and our intuition. It is this energy we've lost words for that binds the two and solves the apparent opposites of two views of healing the body. Prana, chi, pneuma, Spiritus, ruach, you know it, Energy.



If you are the meticulous type, I also take grammar and orthography corrections as I still have some bad habits to get rid off that I got while learning the language. Thanks for reading!