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Resilience, tenacity and endurance

Current issue

Summer/Autumn 2023

We face all kinds of adversity in life which we have to learn to cope with and work through. Personal attributes such as flexibility, adaptability and perseverance can be developed over time, helping us to become more resilient, and enabling us to meet the challenges of loss of loved ones, family illness, job loss, financial insecurity and so on.

Family cohesion, a resulting sense of self-esteem and good interper­sonal communication skills give us a head-start in life leading to healthy coping mechanisms, more satisfaction and psychological, emotional, and physical resilience in adulthood. Research shows that resilient people are able to better cope with a pandemic, exuding lower levels of stress and anxiety, as they remain calmer. 

In this issue, we explore different ways of enhancing our natural resilience and endurance, in order to stay healthy in even the most challenging of circumstances.

Feature article

How to keep well – germ versus terrain theory by Chris Hill

In this article, Chris points out that despite progress in medicine and surgery, the rate of ill-health has increased, and the germ theory is still the prevalent traditional medical theory today. Only a holistic approach to healthcare can help us to achieve a complete state of wellbeing. Click here to download the article.

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Contents

News from the Chair
Who is WHO? Karin Mont 4

This article takes a closer look at how the World Health Organisation (WHO) is constituted, and how it is funded. Most of us are already aware of WHO’s proposed ‘Pandemic Treaty’ which, if adopted by governments across the globe, would override national and individual sovereignty in the event
of a future pandemic. The public have not been invited to either comment on, or vote upon, any aspect of this treaty, which has been compiled by this all powerful, yet unelected and unaccountable entity.

News Features

ARH Conference 2023 – Some impressions James Cadle and Jo Ketteman 6

An overview of the ARH two-day online conference 2023.

Whole Health Agriculture – We need your help Karen Seyersted 12

WHAg (Whole Health Agriculture) teaches a salutogenic approach to whole health management. This includes homeopathy and other CAM which ultimately increases farm animals’ vitality and resistance to disease. In their flagship course WHAg teaches farmers what they can deal with themselves, such as following early preventive protocols, sorting out obstacles to cure, and what requires veterinary intervention. Karen Seyersted sees the high degree of costly medical intervention as a chance to demonstrate the role of homeopathy in whole health management – not only for livestock farmers.

Better, Brighter, Bolder? 4H Conference Amber Woodward-Brown 16

A report on the 4Homeopathy Day in April 2023, which also celebrated the many contributions former MP David Tredinnick made to promote the role of homeopathy within UK healthcare delivery.

Viewpoint

Have new methodologies made homeopathy unsustainable? Jennifer Poole 20

Jenny Poole believes that we can only create a healthy world if we practise with confidence, and if our own house is in order. She contends that many homeopaths have abandoned the tried-and-tested classical homeopathy and replaced it with methods which, in her opinion, make case analysis confusing, less straightforward and unsustainable. Over the last decade she collated cases for reanalysis to show where, in her view, the original, often too complex, analysis might have gone wrong, and how she thinks going back to the simple classical approach might have been able to solve the case with ease. Teaching our students basic skills, for example how to repertorise, is essential.

Features

Resilience and the values crisis – critical time for reappraisal Rob Verkerk 32

In this article, Rob Verkerk suggests that we are not well equipped to deal with a globalised, increasingly authoritarian and restrictive society which pursues a certain narrative in which critical think­ing goes out of the window. It has been replaced with purely emotional re­actions to what ‘information’ the mainstream and social media have thrown at us during the COVID pandemic. It is time to ‘check in’, hold our values and virtues high and stand up for them when they are compromised.

How to keep well – Germ versus terrain theory Chris Hill 40

Chris Hill considers that that COVID and the narrative we were exposed to by governments, science and a compliant mainstream media, has created an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear which is counterproduc­tive to our wellbeing. We have to learn to retake responsibility and enjoy life again. A pill for every ill and endless vaccinations won’t do the trick. Iatrogenic disease is on the increase. Despite progress in medicine and surgery, the rate of ill-health has increased. The germ theory is still the prevalent traditional medical theory today. Only holistic healthcare will lead to a complete state of wellbeing. To read this article, click on the title-link above.

Spring always follows winter Martine Mercy 44

The pandemic has changed our outlook on life and redefined our at­titudes to health. Together with the ongoing war in Ukraine, there is a lot of upheaval around us, and anxiety is palpable. Martine Mercy suggests Agglestone and fossil remedies such as Oliva sayana, Pecten texanus, and Belemnites to increase resistance and allow patients to become calmer and face life’s challenges.

Practice matters

Happy you, happy practice Em Colley 50

In this article, Em Colley gives us many practical tips and exercises intended to increase our own level of calm­ness and happiness, which will ultimately have a positive effect on our practice. She suggests that it can be helpful to look at the world around us from a different viewpoint and not just see struggle and hardship and the endless ‘misery angle’ which is permanently fed to us by the media. Happiness and fulfil­ment comes across in our work. A healthy dose of self-compassion is key. Work-work-work doesn’t give us the balance we need to be more content.

Obituaries 

Warm memories of Chris Day Various authors  54

Sadly, the profession has lost one of our homeo­pathic veterinary pioneers. We pay tribute to Chris Day, a man with sharp intellect who was passionate about bringing homeopathy into modern veterinary practice, and whose legacy will be a guiding light for us all for many years to come.

Reviews

Immune by Philipp Dettmer 60
One Earth | Three Worlds by Julian Carlyon 60
My Journey In Homeopathy by Francis Treuherz 61