While curing any chronic case emotional-intellectual-will axis of patient is very important, actually the most important. Much of it comes out from how he presents himself, way of talk, gestures, prominent emotions, facial expressions, much more. We have read about the frowning impatient Nux Vom, the confident, bragging & shabby Sulphur, the cautious, timid Calcarea, the restless anxious Argentum, the yielding weepy Pulsatilla, ever so perfectionist Arsenic, the idealistic romantic Ignatia, The disheartened and broken Natrum mur, The indifferent sarcastic Sepia, the hiding foolish Baryta, and so on. Stories upon stories, pages upon pages of their presentations are with us.
But now the life style has changed. It is more artificial than natural. Everybody is trying to be what he is not. The cause behind it is probably the race of life.
Now-a-days you can find so many mental peace centers who are claiming that they teach the art of living. most of the people working in Technological, marketing, communications, or anyone in touch with many people, undergoes PERSONALITY training to make over themselves. To Live is our basic RIGHT and how to live is inherited by NATURE. But now everybody is deceiving himself by learning this art artificially. TO BE WHAT YOU ARE NOT IS AGAINST THE NATURE.
So Calcarea, no more clammy soft handshakes, Sulphur, no more open buttoned shirts, Lachesis don’t speak away from subject, Nux control temper, Arsenic, don’t show your anxious face, smile, Pulsatilla- project self-confidence, all Diplomacy!!
People undergo intensive training to change themselves. Now even schools teach them. SELF control lessons, Positives thoughts, self-encouragement etc. This is the biggest barrier in the way to real cure; as the patient is now behind a mask. A Homoeopath must have such fine, deep observation to find out the person hiding behind the Confident face, an Eagle’s Eye!
People are cheating themselves by hiding their ORIGINALITY. See how patient answer deceitfully :
Question: What are the conditions that make you angry? [trying to control their originality] Answer: Anger is your enemy. It has no value. Love humanity. This is all I understand.
Question: What have been the bad moments in your past? What sad memories do you have? Any incident that had broken you?
Answer: Human’s must let go of the sadness, be happy. It’s just God testing you, when you pass you get a beautiful and better life.
For a new practitioner these things are nothing but the guarantee for shut down his clinic permanently. Instead of case taking, it feels like some meditation class! No matter how much you probe, if you lack the skills, you are just running round and round. The patient just does not want to recall his negativities after his (pseudo) transformation. I feel this is a form of Mental suppression, isn’t it? Where you don’t come face to your true trouble and find a solution, instead you keep running away in the name of happiness! IT is an illusion of being great and perfect!!
SOLUTION: At this platform don’t stop yourself to penetrate the past behavior of the patient.
For eg. ask her if your husband shout on you in front of guests. what will be your reaction? [Under the shell of being great] she may answer – now I don’t mind it, as he has more responsibilities than me, I will try to keep patience. Now ask her, how did you react previously on the same matter? IT will give you your remedy.
I would start crying and say sorry, plead – Pulsatilla
I would spend sleepless nights due to the embarrassment –
Sulph
I would shout back at him and leave the house – Merc, caust I would get very angry and have fight with my husband – Lyco
I would feel angry, humiliated and tremble, would be unable to
focus on work for days – Staph
I would blame myself, how could I do so, it’s all my fault, I’m solely responsible for this, I fear I am not worthy to live in this house – Aurum, Arsenic.
A thorough understanding of the childhood pattern would also be helpful.
