This week, I missed two flights and found myself flying home from London on a British Airways flight — totally unplanned. I ditched the book I'd bought to read on the plane and vegged out with a recommended inflight movie. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was the perfect nightcap to a life changing week in Croatia. Guided by the incomparable Dinesh Chauhan, a small group of us, all lovers of homeopathy, gathered to listen to our inner … [Read more...]
Homeopathy for Travel : Diarrhea remedies
Signs of Vitality: Hair
A few of those dear and close to my family's bosom have started to lose a lot of hair after living in a certain polluted cosmopolitan city. When they moved away, their hair started to grow back. Hair is a sign of vitality, intimately to hormonal health and the vitality of our internal organs. Rather than reach for more chemicals to stimulate hair growth artificially it makes more sense to help the body to remove the toxic materials naturally and … [Read more...]
Healing Injustice and Cultivating Empathy
A little fourth grade girl sat in her class and watched her teacher struggle with classroom management. She singled out the boys with poor handwriting, poor grasp of material, and the kids who couldn't care less about school, hauled them to the front of the class to showcase as examples of what not to do. If humiliation could reform the hapless, this teacher was trying her darned best. The girl sat and watched as the teacher became red in the … [Read more...]
How to Disarm a Powerful Opponent by Mirroring It
If you've ever been burned in the kitchen, you probably know that the worst thing you can do is to stick your hand under cold running water. Yes, it's what the docs advise. You get a big blister, pain and redness for several days to remind you to be more careful in future. Your grandmother may have passed along a piece of folk wisdom: slather the burn with cooking oil or a pat of butter. It seems counterintuitive. But it works every single time … [Read more...]