Liz Lalor
Workshop: Revealing the Disturbance of a Case: The Eye of the Storm.

 

In 2008 Liz Lalor will present a Workshop in the UK and Netherlands that she has called: Revealing the Disturbance of a Case: The Eye of the Storm. This is an explanation of her unique approach.

 

Each case I present in this lecture Revealing the Disturbance of a Case. believes deep within their own self that they deserve the disease state or the emotional pain they are currently suffering.  My challenge to all homoeopaths is to find me a patient with a serious illness whether it is Mental, Emotional or Physical who does not believe they have caused their own demise.  I know if you dont know how to look for and find that Disturbance inside of the patient you will not find the interplay of the Simillimum; that interplay is our homoeopathic philosophy of like cures like.  If we as homoeopaths do not know how to find the eye of the storm; we will not find the Simillimum.

 

In homoeopathy there is interplay between the Mental, Emotional, and Physical.  In treating a case of warts the majority of us would go for Thuja, and maybe it would work in 100% of the cases, and maybe it will work in 70% of the cases.  The problem is when we have chosen Thuja have we always understood the interplay between the interconnecting components that link Like to Like?

 

Thuja has the Rubrics, Fear, of others approaching them, and the Rubric Insanity, will not be touched.  Both of these are expected emotional and mental dialogues you would expect from someone who has warts all over their hands or face and feels like that they do not want to be touched; or feels unclean.  In the majority of cases Thuja would pull it off and the remedy would work.  But I am not dealing with a simple cases of warts in my clinic; I am dealing with patients who have severe emotional and mental disease states, severe diseases like Cancers, Auto immune diseases like Lupus, Thyroid antibodies, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohns, Rheumatism, crippling Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis, to list just a few.

 

Did we really explore the defining Rubrics which would indicate the Mental and Emotional inner conflict and stance that a person who needed Thuja would display; i.e. Delusion, body is delicate.  The Delusion Rubric: the body is delicate is the core underlying dilemma and fear and disturbance of any Thuja case; that is why a person needing Thuja for their warts is so disturbed by the warts.  The problem is we know that in homoeopathy we have to find the interplay between the Mental stance, the Emotional feelings and the Physical disturbance but do we know how to find that, or look for it, or are we just content to wing it?  With warts you can afford to do that but if you want to cure serious disease we have to look much deeper.  If we dont know how to listen for the Disturbance in the case how can we with any confidence tackle serious diseases which have devastating consequences for our patients?

 

There is always interplay with the correct remedy. Like cures Like ruminates with energy; that energy is the Simillimum.  Inherent in the medical pathology and somatic presentation of our most serious diseases like Cancers and all the Auto Immune diseases is internal conflict and destruction.  If you want to treat patients with these serious diseases and be able to cure, you have to be able to find the disturbance which caused the destruction.  The reason why it is important to know the disturbance in a case is because any severe disease state is always a reflection of our deep sub conscious struggles; our inner angst.

 

Disturbance within a patient will cause such conflict and pain that it will eventuate in a physical illness or mental and emotional illness which is reflective of the intensity of the conflict.  Do we know how to find the Like to Like energy interconnecting the Mental disturbance; the Emotional Disturbance and the Physical disease?  In homoeopathy we do not treat the disease we treat the person; but the Simillimum is the remedy which is able to contain the same intensity of conflict and destruction to match the disease presentation.  Our patients with Ulcerative Colitis, Crohns, Rheumatism, and Cancer to list just a few, all ruminate with the energy of conflict.

 

If you cant identify the inherent conflict you will not be able to help your patient; it is as simple as that.  If you as a homoeopath do not know how to look for the inner conflict in the case you will not find the Simillimum.

 

Do you know how to find and listen for that Disturbance?

 

Revealing the Disturbance of a Case.

 

Where do we find the Rubrics which will lead us to the Simillimum?

 

The Rubrics that point to the correct remedy to cure these cases are found within the Delusion Rubrics; these are the Rubrics which ruminate with conflict and disorder.  The Rubric: Delusion he has committed a crime is not meant to be taken literally, it is reflective of a persons inner belief that they have in one way or another committed a sin or must have done something wrong or in some way be inherently evil.  In all serious illness the Delusion Rubrics will be in the core of the case analysis; they are always revealing in that they show up the eye of the storm.  I say again if we do not know how to find the eye of the storm; we will not find the Simillimum.

 

I do not believe that you will find the Simillimum in these serious disease states if you do not recognize how to look for the disturbance in the case.  Hahnemann said we should look for the Peculiar, Queer, Rare and Strange symptom.  This is not often taught or emphasized to be as important as it is.  If you dont look for what is unusual or uncomfortable or disturbing in the case you do not find the cure, nor will you know what to do in the case; nor will you understand your patient; in fact, we will miss the whole case altogether.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The extract of the Anacardium case presented here is an extract from the lecture.

 

Anacardium Trauma: Clairvoyant ability to see all the crimes of the past lives that she has committed. She feels overwhelmed by how evil I am. Feels separate from other people in the world; they will never understand me. Whether the issue of the past lives is real or not, the essence of the case is that she knows this trauma as a truth inside of her. She believes she committed those terrible crimes. Whether I also take this as reality or reflective of either a capacity or desire to commit those crimes in this life is immaterial; the psychodynamic meaning of feeling guilty and a terrible person who has done evil things is the basis of the repertorisation. She trains with a spiritual teacher who helps her stay with Spirit so she can undo the karma in this life and know how to listen to Spirit. [God]

 

Delusion he is a devil.

Delusion the devil sits in his neck.

Delusion he has an angel prompting him in one ear.

Delusion he is doing nothing right.

Delusion he does everything wrong he cannot succeed.

 

The Medorrhinum case presented here is an extract from the lecture.

 

Medorrhinum Trauma: She says of her concern around the issue of suicide, How do I reconcile meaningless, purposelessness, so as to avoid suicide?

 

I write letters that will hurt and then I burn them; my Dad wrote such letters and sent them; I have learnt not to send such things. Here I feel I have a sense of boundary; I have terrible reactions when on the few occasions I have hit my son; I live in fear of repeating the trauma I experienced as a child and as young adultphysical violence from my Dad, desperate sarcasm as a childphysical violence from my mother as a young adult. I do not shy away from my inner self, I fantasize about life as a hermit, I enjoy solitude. I suffer if I dont get enough time alone, I really want to reach a place where I can accept my complexities, perhaps I will accept that I am not who I wish to be; a calm, contented, trusting person. Definitely attacking, critical when overwhelmed or pressured, then when the pressure is sustained overtime I implode; loss of meaning, suicidal. I have a profound sense of being broken, of having been so for such a long long time, my grief and rage express a loss of a self, I remember somehow, somewhere. There is great anxiety about not being able to sustain the faade of functioning and coping; albeit only just most of the time and sometimes not at all; great anxiety about collapsing. Overwhelming sense of loneliness because I am so extreme this alienates me from many, though I dont feel that extreme. I alternate between trying to be a good girl so as to be accepted as a normal citizen and then I get really angry, deeply resentful about towing the line; conventions etc. mostly this anger ultimately is towards myself for allowing myself to be manipulated.

 

Medorrhinum has the

 

The Veratrum album case presented here is an extract from the lecture.

 

This Veratrum case reverberates with a crisis of self examination which reflects both the Delusions of herself as God, and herself and her disease as the victim of Gods judgment.

 

Gods vengeance has been absorbed into the core psychodynamic crisis which is subsequently born to fruition in the very nature of her disease. In this case the woman believes she deserves the Adenocarcinoma; she seeks no treatment. This is a suicide case. Veratrum album moved her stance on whether she deserved to die; Veratrum viride subsequently moved her Delusion of curing her own cancer.

 

Keywords:

Delusion he has committed a crime.

Delusion he is in communication with God.

 

The woman informed she did not want to pursue conventional Radiotherapy treatment as advised by the medical doctors as she knew that she had the cancer as a result of the fact that I have never chosen to live. When she found out she had cancer she asked what have I done to myself? She was extremely sure that because she had no passion to live and that she had never had any passion to live that she had deserved the cancer. It is wrong to not know what do with the gift of life, therefore I dont deserve it.

 

The Anahlonium case presented here is an extract from the lecture.

 

Q. Do you think that since taking the homoeopathic remedy your grounding [this was the presenting concern in her first consult; feeling ungrounded in the world,] in dealing with the world is better?

 

A. Yes I think so, what I would call the first ray element of will or power has found its right place in a way that it hasnt up till now. It is not nearly as shocking to a relatively sensitive personality vehicle as it used to be. So the personality vehicle has the strength to contain and hold that potency. The other thing that has happened since taking Anhalonium is that it is as though the masculine principle has taken its right place which is absolutely standing in support of the feminine principle; absolutely making its commitment to serve the enduring values which are held and ensured that they get carried into the world; thats what Anhalonium has done. The impact on me is a much greater sense of capability and of authenticity as there is a much greater representation in the outer world of what is being experienced in the inner world. As that more extroverted work goes forward I get feedback from the world that I would never get. It has opened parts of the world to me that I normally dont have access to; left to myself I live a relatively introverted lifestyle but that is not good enough for the work that I have to do and its certainly not good enough for what Anhalonium is asking of me so the fact that I have been able to adopt that stronger position is that I have meet the world with a new face different parts of life with people who I would normally wouldnt speak to, activities that I have had to engage in that I am not used to where I have had interesting and unusual response from people that are very affirming.

 

      Delusion: world, from the: he is separated:

      Delusion: immortality, of: Anhalonium is the only remedy listed.

 

The Delusion Rubrics reveal the Disturbance of the Case.

 

Once we identify the presenting disturbance we become aware of how the person has constructed their self and their presenting disease around a specific Delusion Rubric.  The disturbance is the foundation upon which the person has constructed the story that is their life.  In homoeopathy if we can delve into the original crisis that created the first Delusion Rubric we have the remedy picture and we have the cure for the crisis of the persons existence and subsequent disease.  Within the Delusion section of the repertory are the patients life story, disease, and homoeopathic cure.  Homoeopaths have often underestimated the power of insight that lies behind what is the largest section within the mind section of the repertory.

 

If you do not know how to find the underlying Disturbance how do you expect to treat and cure serious illness?

 

A lecture in this format has never been presented before that directly targets the emotional conflict or disturbance within each Constitution. I am able to bring to my teaching 27 years of experience of working in the area of Counselling, and Somatic Psychotherapy.

 

In this lecture series Lalor presents the same dissection of the emotional psyche or complexities of the Constitutions that she was able to reveal in her book.

 

Liz Lalor is the author of the first Materia medica to be sold in mainstream bookshops anywhere in the world.

 

Liz Lalor has done a remarkable job in describing common personality types in a manner which is easily comprehensible, yet also covers the essence of each type with enough subtlety to satisfy the serious reader. A serious and entertaining exposition of how homeopathic types interact in relationships.

Philip M. Bailey, MD, Homeopathic Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aside from working as a homoeopath Lalor also uses constitutional homoeopathy within a conventional counselling practice to help her patients understand more about themselves as a particular homoeopathic constitutional type. Lalor is able to draw upon her experience of counselling the more unusual constitutional remedy pictures and has written articles on the remedy picture of Agaricus and Alice in Alices Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; published in Homeopathy in Practice UK. Links magazine have published Lalors essay on the characters Frodo and Gollum, and the remedy pictures of Anacardium and Mancinella, in Tolkiens tale of The Lord of the Rings. Homeopathy in Practice UK 2005 published Lizs essay on the character of Hamlet as the remedy picture of Muriaticum acidum. The American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine has published an article of two Tarentula hispanica cases and the character of Iago in Shakespeares Othello. The article is titled Revengeful Insanity: love; from disappointed: Tarentula hispanica. Links magazine published Lalors essay on three Anhalonium cases and the character of Queen Galadriel in Tolkiens tale of The Lord of the Rings. The American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine Spring 2007 has recently published an Anacardium case in which the woman who was clairvoyant and clairaudient was aware of all of her sins from this and many lives. The American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine Summer 2007 also has published an amazing case of a Baryta Carbonica Case where the woman has until taking the remedy struggled intellectually as a result of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

 

Lalor has worked as an integrative natural therapist for 27 years; with a thriving practice in Melbourne, Australia, covering all aspects of health; in particular specializing in the treatment of infertility. Her successful treatment of her sons illness was the catalyst in cementing her belief in the unique healing abilities of homoeopathy, and the altruistic inspiration behind her book. Her book A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility is the first Materia medica to be sold in mainstream bookshops. Lalor is an originator of a Fertility Program based on the ideology of Dr. Leon Vannier which was the inspiration behind the formulation of the program. Lalor has worked with 187 different women and been successful with 163 babies born. Lalor is altruistically inspired to have homoeopathy reach the mainstream public; as with her book, her successful treatment of infertility, has attracted couples who would never have tried homoeopathy. Infertility is a modern-day problem faced by millions of women. Links, magazine spring edition 2005, published an article on Lalors Fertility Program; which was also previously published in Similia Australia 2003 and Homoeopathic Medical Panorama June 2004 India. It was not until the Links article that Lalor saw the overwhelming need to develop a step by step clinical guide for homoeopaths wanting to use the program. Following the article in Links Lalor consults daily via email with hundreds of homoeopaths world-wide who are currently using her program. Homeopathy in Practice, UK 2006, has published the updated Fertility Program clinical guide for homoeopaths.

 

 

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