Well Within - with Homeopathy

02/04/2025

The void is just waiting to be acknowledged, accepted and addressed! The more we push it (the void/our issue) under the carpet or numb it temporarily by food, drinks, or any other pleasurable activ…

14/11/2024

What’s so special about Homeopathy in psychological stress?

Though we may not have voiced this out in so many words, I’m sure we all have felt this at some point or another; even if we have someone to share our stress with, even if others try to lessen our stress for us, or even in the best of circumstances; there is always a gap between the experience of stress for us personally and the understanding of it by another person from their own point of view. What is stressful for one person may be a piece of cake for another. So, just telling someone, “arre yaar, stress mat le”, “handle it in this/that way”, doesn’t work or it works just superficially, because true understanding has not happened here. Not to mention that there is no change whatsoever in the pattern of stress; if I have a tendency to be stressed in a particular way by a particular thing, it just continues in the same way.

Enter Homeopathy with its wide range of remedies potentized to such a level that they are capable of having a very powerful action at the level of the mind (thoughts and emotions). As a Homeopathic doctor if I am able to understand your problem through your own perspective, if I am able to enter your world and understand why you are not able to resolve your problem, if I am able to see the vicious loop you are stuck in, only then I am able to understand your issue in its entirety. This is a process of understanding which happens when I give you the space to express yourself completely without any judgments and also when I also suspend my own prejudices and my personal point of view for the time being. This is the most basic quality we, as Homeopaths, are required to develop. Thus, once the issue is clearly defined and understood, an appropriate remedy can be selected which can help address the issue. This it does in such a subtle way that the advice is taken in more readily as our own personal realization. Things which affected us and caused stress, stop bothering us so much. This is the change which comes about very organically. We are thus able to transcend our issues, come out of the vicious loop and move ahead!

Don’t put all stress under the same bracket. Understanding the nature of your own stress gives insight and self-understanding and puts you on the pathway to healing!

Did you know this about Homeopathy? Did you know that what you thought can never be changed since its so much a part of your nature, can be helped and brought about more into balance? Did you know that there are remedies/medicines available which can address your very individual nature of stress and bring about relief?

10/10/2024

11/07/2023

A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself.

~ Maryam Hasnaa [Artwork by Christian Schloe]

22/06/2023

When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place. Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability.

Art : Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor.

08/06/2023

Homeopathy for psychiatric illnesses and psychological distress:

A Homeopath is first your psychologist because we are trained and skilled extensively in understanding you and your psyche. A Homeopath is also then your psychiatrist who then treats the disorder with medicines. And last but not the least, we can be your counsellors too and provide individualized psychotherapy.

Benefits of Homeopathy in psychiatric disorders:

The biggest benefit is Homeopathy aims in understanding your illness to its deepest core. So, the focus is on understanding what lies behind the illness rather than just prescribing on the symptoms being presented. Its an awareness and healing journey which the patient takes with his Homeopath, understands his/her illness, and transcends it with the help of Homeopathic medicines.

If we only understand that any illness is not random and has a certain meaning, we would be more open to this idea of addressing the issue rather than applying a band-aid over it.

So, then, what can Homeopathy address?

Well, a wide range of mental and emotional illnesses like,

Depression
Panic
Phobias
Anxiety
Unresolved grief
Mood disorders/bipolar disorder
Addiction disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Schizophrenia
...to name a few.

Benefits of Homeopathic medicines:

- You don't just stay hooked on to medicines for the rest of your lives (in the majority of cases). You stop the medicine once the issue is resolved and you reach a state of equilibrium in mental health
- No risk of addiction
- No risk of side-effects

Thanks and regards,
Dr. Chitra Shrivastava
BHMS, PGDPC, PG-FHPC (Fellowship in Homeopathic psychiatry)