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Profile / Qualities of a successful Homeopathic Practitioner
by: Karen Jonas, FSHomMed e-mail: naturaldoctor@estayhealthy.com
Personal Qualities
1) Commitment and dedication to study
2) Open and receptive mind
3) Interest in discovering other people’s life perspectives
4) Genuine care and concern for the well-being of others
5) Desire, persistence, a keen mind and a compassionate heart
6) Comfortable meeting and talking to new people
7) Awarness of personal biases, values, shortcomings etc.
8) Ability to think quickly and act in emergency situations
9) Maintain empathy for others without internalizing their pain yourself
10) Ethical, careful, organized, responsible attention to detail
11) Ability to deal with setbacks, failures in the process of developing homeopathic skills
12) Willingness to work long hours, keep appointments and take work home
13) Patience to wait for remedies to act
14) Tact in managing patient expectations of immediate well-being
15) Entrepreneurial spirit to build a clientele and practice
Why Homeopathy?
1) What do you want or hope to gain?
2) What do you hope to give?
A Day in the life of a Homeopathic Practitioner
Many hours are spent listening to people relate their personal stories of pain, happiness, success,
failure, suffering, betrayal, joy and sorrow.
Some stories may share common elements but each individual will have a unique combination of experiences. If you have an insatiable curiosity about people this will make homeopathy exciting.
It
also means sitting still and quiet for hours, evaluating the information received and making decisions based on an analysis of the information presented to you. It is a challenge to maintain an objective
perspective of each individual without falling into deep emotional despair when hearing heart-wrenching stories repeated over and over again.
Homeopathy involves both your logical, scientific reasoning skills
and your emotional, artistic, intuitive aptitudes.
This combination of logic and intuition can be compared to a modern day Sherlock Holmes. Every case can be seen as a mystery and the correct homeopathic remedy will provide the ultimate answers and solutions to the problems presented.
Responsibility for another’s well-being involves a willingness to refer the individual to additional health care givers in a timely manner. No matter how tempting it is to view success and failure of
homeopathic remedies personally, it is important to remember that your responsibility is to provide the highest level of care you are capable of and to remain objective enough to recognize and acknowledge when that
is not enough for the overall health of the individual concerned.
There are over 4000+ homeopathic remedies available for a homeopathic practitioner to use.
Typically, 200 of these are most commonly used. Even after 3 years of practise it is difficult to claim extensive knowledge of even 30 of these 200 remedies.
Each remedy has headaches.
The challenge is to determine if the EXACT kind of headache experienced by your patient matches the kind of headache that a specific remedy is known to cure.
Even experienced homeopaths count themselves
lucky to select the best homeopathic remedy on the first try 50% of the time. In most cases 3-4 remedies are selected before a clear improvement is seen.
Since homeopathy involves administering a remedy and then WAITING 2-5 weeks to see if it is successful, the process of trying 3-4 remedies can easily take 6 months or more.
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