People who are new to homeopathy often don’t understand what to expect to after they start taking a remedy. Homeopathy stimulates your vital force into embarking on a self- healing process.
The vital force is the energy behind all the systems of the body— it indirectly regulates your digestive process, hormonal balance, and immune function, and everything else. Every day, in thousands of ways, your vital force maintains a harmonious balance which you experience as health, and a sense of well-being and comfort. When the vital force is stuck, it’s not able to finish the job it’s trying to do, and can create chronic problems.
The symptoms you experience are your vital force’s best attempt to bring your system into balance. Homeopaths “read” the symptoms to understand how the vital force is stuck, these symptoms indicate the remedy the vital force needs to get unstuck. That’s why homeopaths call symptoms the “language” of the vital force.
People often ask me if a certain remedy works on migraines, or allergies, or whichever symptom bothers them the most. The answer is always the same—each homeopathic remedy “works” the same way, by stimulating the vital force to heal. Which remedy you need is determined by your individual symptom patterns.
Homeopaths define health as freedom-- freedom from that which limits us from pursuing the purpose of our existence. This is a lofty definition, indeed! As we heal, these limitations become less—physical aches and pains lessen, environmental sensitivities resolve, moods become more stable, hormones come into balance. When we are free of these limitations, it’s easier to feel creative, positive, and “in tune” with our lives. This is the wonderful promise that homeopathy offers -- a renewed sense of well- being, far beyond mere suppression of symptoms.
What does your body do when it’s trying to heal? Generations of homeopaths have noticed several things that often happen as part of the healing process. Sometimes old symptoms return as if your vital force wants to ‘relive” them in order to resolve them. Usually these symptoms are mild and transient.
Symptoms that you currently experience may intensify somewhat as your vital force begins to clear them. Often this is accompanied by and increased sense of well – being, a feeling that things are actually getting better even though the symptoms are worse!
The healing process can only be evaluated properly in retrospect, over a period of weeks or months. If you’ve had your allergies since childhood and now you’re an adult, it may take a few years of working with remedies to make a complete shift. However, marked reduction of symptoms should be experienced within the first few months, if you are on the right remedy. Sometimes it can take a few tries to find the remedy that works for you. That is all part of the process.