Symbolism of Illness: the Lungs & Breath

The lungs are an organ very close to my own heart (literally) having been asthmatic my whole life. This, plus very acute hayfever, is what brought me to homeopathy over 30 years ago. While the hayfever improved very quickly, the asthma has been a longer term issue and has given me much time to consider…

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Can We Ever Be Whole and Healed?

Often in my practice I see patients who have spent many years and probably many lifetimes trying to heal. They may have incarnated with a chronic mental or physical illness or they may have experienced an accident or injury which has become the focus of their life. Many of us, and I have been one…

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Symbolism of Illness: Infection & Inflammation

Some years back I wrote a series of newsletter articles addressing the psychology behind some of the physical symptoms we may experience in our lives. I thought these may be interesting to review in the context of our discussions on the life path. Let’s start by looking at one of the commonest and most basic…

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Obstacles on the Path: Illusion

As we journey along our path we usually touch on many different life philosophies and ideas and out of these many ideas we develop our view of the world and of our spiritual path. We create an image of how we see not only our future, but our present and our past. We create our…

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What is the life path?

Someone recently asked me “what is the life path?” This is a beautiful question as it can be so simple or so complex. It’s also a question about unfolding or starting to consider the world differently. It’s often the first question we ask as we ponder that age old question “is this it?” There are…

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Dark Night of the Soul – Finding the Light

Many of us will experience periods of deep sadness or depression in our lives, maybe around the ending of a marriage, a death or a job loss. A Dark Night of the Soul is an altogether different experience and while it may arise from one of the events above, it actually relates to our life…

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Troubles at School or “why don’t I fit?”

We shouldn’t ask “What does a person need to be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order today?” Instead we should ask “what lives in each human being and what can be developed in him or her?” – Rudolf Steiner Over the last five to ten years the number of…

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Finding our Wisdom and stepping out of Fear

In this day and age we have so much information at our finger tips. Anything we want to know is available on the internet whenever we choose to access it. Sometimes the quality of the information or the reliability of a source can be a problem, but basically it’s all there. Everyone knows everything or…

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