book on bach remedies coming

my daughter who just loves animals, and uses the remedies to treat them for everything from serious injury to depression to just starvation.... finally got me to start writing something i should have done earlier

but i was still learning, and will do so for a long time - the human mind is complex - but i think i have a handle on it now, enough to be useful to others.

will post chapters here as soon as the Editor in Chief proofs and approves them :-)

cheers

all diseases are curable .......my journey began when i developed asthma at 22, went from being a super athlete one day to a cripple, literally the next. Some years later the disease was gone as quickly as it came - and i started to ask why ? how ?

The time to talk about this is now, when conventional ideas on healing are being thrown out and a new vision emerging - in the past 100 years doctors just loved to put the tag, incurable, and heriditary to so many diseases. Today the use of stem cells is healing even organs and damaged tissue almost to the point of regeneration. Which means our bodies have always had the ability to cure themselves, of anything, but we just never looked at how.

Even today stem cells may just become the aspirin of yesteryear, the quick fix that yields visible local, results, but there may be a better way, to trigger the body's own healing systems, which in turn release complex chemicals and even stem cells as needed. The body however does this with an inner knowledge of it's own workings and is not doing just a patch up job. Ideally one should be able to prevent any disease rather than just heal after the damage is done.

This is where the Bach remedies come in. I am not going deep into the old battle between Skinner and Chomsky over whether man is a bahavourial or conceptual. Suffice to say that a large part of our personality is programmed early in life by our significant elders and this can be easily reprogrammed. But, there is an even higher layer or emotions and aspirations that seem to have a life of their own and are very strong balancing factors against the influences of life and other people and even traumatic events, which all humans experience.

By dealing directly with the emotions, the Bach remedies intervene at a very potent level in the healing process of the body - truly the old adage should be "a healthy mind creates a healthy body". Today whether on Larry King, or in the most conservative of journals, doctors are admitting that patients with a positive outlook, motivation etc. heal much faster than those with a pessimistic view, and in many cases 100% remissions even of cancer just happen. That it can happen even once means that body has that capability, and cancer and every disease is curable, just as an accidental injection of stem cells into bone marrow, caused a remission of AIDS in the patient (Denmark i think some months ago).

Back to my beginnings, when i first met my doctor and to-be teacher, he practised homeopathy, but the strangest treatment he gave me was some advice "It's ok to have a pimple, one should not become the pimple". He also assured me that if i did not turn to inhalers, and amti-histamines and steriods, we could lick the asthma at it's roots.

It took some painful years for me to understand this concept, but one day i did, and that moment the asthma disappeared. Noting had really changed in the world around me, but i had changed. In the long hours spent struggling with the disease i had filled my mind with every positive thought i could latch on to, from Khalil Gibran to the Gitanjali to Castaneda and Jonathan Livingstone seagull, to thousands of pages i myself wrote- in effect i had instinctively set about reprogramming my own mind.

The world never changed, but my perception did, and the new me was not a suitable host for asthma anymore. I was no longer in conflict with my world, no longer got involved in the problems of other people and thus into lose lose situations. My world realigned itself around a richer vision of my own life and thus of others, in which passing judgement on anyone was no longer possible. There was no more fear, of hurting others or being hurt, of what others may say about me, or of doing what my heart led me to. No fear, no conflict - no asthma. HOW, WHY

So 22 years ago, i began to seriously study the Bach remedies, the shortest route to healing i had yet seen. In hundreds of cases with family and friends and of course myself, i say how converting hurt emotions and traumatic experiences into something positive, totally transformed the person as well as their health. It did not matter if these had happened years ago in childhood, or recently. What was important was how we perceived them - so a child may cry because he has no shoes while another smiles, though he has no feet.

The power of our emotions is what makes us who we are - the 38 bach flower each address a fundamental emotion - like the periodic table for elements in chemistry, the mind seems to have a table of emotions that define the human field. Each plays their role and in a happy person the emotions are balanced and on their positive note. But when anything goes out of balance and deeply into excess or the negative state, whether fear or jealousy or anger or even ambition - then it creates a deep rift in the system that invites illness.

Illness is a warning, that the system needs correction and the correction needs to occur at the deepest emotional level if it is to heal the body permanently. And the disease follows very logical patterns, and while Dr Bach did not (have the time to) associate the remedies with specific physical diseases, over 20 years of observation has shown me there are clear patterns to the relationship between specific disease and the type of personality.

So to heal thyself all you have to do is know thyself - from simple chronic indigestion to diabetes, look both at your current lifestyle and habbits, as well as the events of your past that have scarred you so to say. Read the simple words of Dr Bach himself, see what applies to your state of mind. You can safely explore each remedy as i have never seen them have any negative effect at all. Nor are they addictive, as within days you no longer feel the need for that particular remedy. In very severe cases you will use multiple remedies together and for as long as a month or two but that is all.

When we really really want to be well miracles happen - that is important - it is not important that we believe in the bach remedies - they will still work - but we must want to be well enough to be willing to change some things in ourselves, otherwise we simply call back the old patterns and the diease goes away, but comes back again.

In subsequent posts i will try and share a safe and systematic approach by which we can set about to create not just good physical health but also an emotional state of being that is resilient and positive. There will always be problems but how we deal with them makes the difference between having a pimple, or becoming one :-)

Gibran said that "peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the triumph over conflict".
So is good health :-)

Test entry to new blog

Hi
this is where i plan to discuss another aspect of my world, that of healing, with the bach remedies - call it programming the mind for good health :-)

ashok