Holistic Living

A Visionary Beginning

by Deborah Trotta

“The mind once stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Isn’t it interesting how having children is such a powerful catalyst for change? Through this life change, we get more serious about intellectualizing our beliefs or “Rulebook of Us,” as I like to call it. We become more introspective about what we want to share and teach to our offspring. We begin to really explore our ideas of spirituality, health, nutrition, education, and more. Life views and our carbon footprint suddenly become more important. Often some of these ideas are visited for the first time as new parents.
As a homeopathic practitioner, I am able to observe many of the conscious and unconscious circumstances that affect the psyche of each new being as he/she enters the world. I have also witnessed the influence of the global environment or “vital force” of society on our most recent generations.
The decisions we make now, for ourselves and our children, will often have an effect that can last a very long time. How great would it be if we had the vision to start out with a deeper understanding of where we stand as parents and ultimately, as people, mentors, models, teachers, leaders? So much confusion and suffering comes from the sampling of approaches until something works.
There is no replacement for experience, as having had an “Indigo Child” myself many years ago has taught me. My commitment to finding a better way ultimately led me to homeopathy. An incredibly profound system of natural medicine that has been focused on getting to the source for hundreds of years, homeopathy is the second-largest health care system in the world. Homeopathy does not require you to make an “either/or” decision about health care; in fact, it works well when integrated with other methods. Its purpose is not to mask or band-aid symptoms, but to truly get to the core of the problem to improve health with a more permanent change and bring balance to an individual whether the issues are physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Strengthening long term health is the goal, which is why it makes sense to use homeopathy as primary treatment for much of what ails us. It is a trend that has been growing exponentially in the U.S. in the last decade, catching up with many other countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
How timely it is that we are now more open than ever before to changing on a multitude of personal and national levels. This transition, as witnessed by our past, doesn’t happen easily and without some shift in thinking.
Though clichéd, children are our future and deserve the benefits of the best information available to us in this most globally accessible time in history. Along with that information must come action. Children’s enlightened spirits deserve nothing less and may even help enlighten some of us in the process.
Ironically, as children we are born with an innate ability to easily hear the language of our bodies and an intuitive power to “listen to our gut.” Somewhere along the path of “instruction,” that ability can slowly diminish and if not nurtured, is often lost altogether. Reconnecting with this ability is part of the homeopathic experience and is cathartic in its own right.
Supporting our future generations best starts with being informed to make good personal decisions with confidence from conception, to childbirth and far beyond. What procedures or protocols are really necessary and what is the best choice for each individual? What does illness really mean and what is the best way to address it so it actually strengthens the immune system in preventing chronic or degenerative issues later on? Homeopathy is about making choices that naturally support the body’s own incredible ability to heal itself while rebalancing potential genetic weaknesses.
Educating people has become a passion of mine that has grown into outreach through my position as director of The Homeopathic Academy of Southern California. We offer an opportunity for people to become better informed and this allows us all to be more equipped to make good decisions for ourselves, our loved ones and our society at large.
The great thing about knowledge is that whether you are just starting out in life or are enjoying a brood of great-grandchildren, it is never too early or too late to empower yourself and apply the wisdom from new ideas to make optimum choices for an improved quality of life for our children and ourselves.
I invite you to begin your journey. Wherever you decide to begin, there is no better time than now.

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