How does Heilkunst Define Health? - S1E2

We’re all at great risk - if we don’t make a deliberate effort - to default to the allopathic definition of health in our thinking. This is a negative definition, which means that health gets the very poor definition of “an absence of symptoms”. Likewise, all treatment modalities are judged on whether or not they simply “got rid of a symptom” - and the quicker the better.

What is the definition of health?

In its fullest sense, it includes much more than a “symptom-free” status…it implies growth and development, and ultimately an “evolution of consciousness” at its core. There are objective milestones along the human progression to health which are key to this definition.

Rather than “getting rid” of a symptom or an illness, the higher goal is to fully “go through” it, in a process of transformation. Like any relationship in life, we should grow and change as a result. A student working through their schooling, by analogy, should gain an actual education, and not a mere certificate to be framed.

The “negative” definition of health represents a new form of ‘illiteracy’, and we know from the dire statistics of modern medicine that it now pervades our modern healthcare consciousness.

RESOURCES:

Hahnemann's Aphorism #9 

In the healthy human state, the spirit-like Living Power (Autocracy) enlivening the material body (organism) as Dynamis holds sway unrestrictedly and keeps all of its parts in admirable, harmonious, vital operation in both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.

Books mentioned:

• Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani : https://amzn.to/3VcW27K
• How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America's Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children's Health by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD https://amzn.to/3Rz7dVp
• Organon of the Medical Art by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann https://amzn.to/3MkrU6x

Blog posts mentioned:

• What is the purpose of health? : https://arcanum.ca/2012/03/22/what-is-the-purpose-of-health/
• My Pet Peeve With The Word “Wellness” : https://arcanum.ca/2012/06/09/my-pet-peeve-with-the-word-wellness/
• Improving Health With Support From Arcanum : https://arcanum.ca/2020/08/23/improving-health-with-support-from-arcanum/
• Off Thyroid Prescriptions! : https://arcanum.ca/2020/08/26/off-thyroid-prescriptions/
• Ally's blog "what are we shooting for, Tex?" : https://arcanum.ca/2008/02/05/what-is-health-or-what-are-we-shootin-for-tex/
• Determining the Direction of Cure : https://arcanum.ca/2012/11/01/determining-the-direction-of-cure/
• An Introduction to the Cancer Miasm : https://arcanum.ca/2012/05/03/an-introduction-to-the-cancer-miasm/
• Three Possible Outcomes of Treatment : https://arcanum.ca/2012/10/19/three-possible-outcomes-of-treatment/
• Sustentive versus generative power : The “Generative Power” of Heilkunst medicine : https://arcanum.ca/2020/03/16/the-generative-power-of-heilkunst-medicine/
• My Pet Peeve With The Word “Wellness” : https://arcanum.ca/2012/06/09/my-pet-peeve-with-the-word-wellness/

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