Being true to ourselves creates health
Homeopathy and flower essences both can help us find the freedom within to move further into alignment with our higher selves.
One of the best preventative and curative remedies is this simple advice:
To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day
Thou canst not be false to any man
The great and intuitive playwright William Shakespeare wrote these words for his famous play Hamlet.
So what does this have to do with vibrational medicine? EVERYTHING.
Both Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, and Dr. Edward Bach, the founder of the Bach flower essences, recognized the healing power of being true to yourself.
We’ll start with Hahnemann.
He believed that periods of “long vexation” could negatively impact our Vital Force. Not only would it weaken this life force, but it could awaken any latent miasms/inherited disease tendencies.
We’ve all probably experienced periods of “long vexation.” We’re probably all experiencing it right now. We understand how chronic low-grade, or worse, high-grade stress affects our health.
There’s been debate about how to translate Hahnemann’s “Ärger” from the original German. It’s usually translated as “vexation” in English.
But might “vexation” be acute and chronic feelings of being out of alignment / untrue to ourselves? And that source feeling is then followed by the more recognizable feelings of frustration, anger, anguish, and stress?
Everyday examples of vexation might be feeling stuck in a job or a relationship. There is something about the situation where we can’t bring our whole selves or follow our arrow.
In aphorism 9 of the Organon, Hahnemann said: "In the healthy condition of man ... our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence."
Hahnemann is telling us that it is our birthright to follow our highest calling, to be true to ourselves, and good health allows us to do that.
Dr. Edward Bach, who was born about 40 years after Hahnemann died, was also a homeopath and he took this notion one step further.
He believed that we must be true to ourselves to create health.
The personality and higher self need to be in alignment.
And when we do that, health and happiness will follow … just as “the night the day.”
Our inner light will be so bright that we cannot be false to ourselves or to anyone else.
In his book, Free Thyself, Bach said: “Let us find the one thing in life that attracts us most and do it. … And our own work, when we find it, so belongs to us, so fits us, that it is effortless, it is easy, it is a joy, we never tire of it, it is our hobby. It brings out in us our true personality, all the talents and capabilities waiting within each one of us to be manifested, in it we are happy and at home; and it is only when we are happy (which is obeying the commands of our soul) that we can do our best work.”
Homeopathy and flower essences both can help us find the freedom within to move further into alignment with our higher selves. Let’s all try to be more true to ourselves today than we were yesterday.
