MINI COURSE THE VITAL APPROACH

The organon states that “A disturbed vital force produces changes in the state of the mind and the body” This means the source of the disease must be beyond mind and body Hence disease is situated on a vital level

The tangible and visible physical body is the most dense of our ‘bodies’ It can be examined, weighted, touched, scanned, measured (quantified) from the inside and the outside Diseases on level one could be caused by deficiencies, poisonings, injuries…and must be treated accordingly

All the other physical ailments are expressions of a vital disturbance Taking away the symptoms = taking away the expressions= suppression Suppression of these can be done with toxic or non- toxic products

It is the energetic aspect of het physical body It resonates with the second dimension, this means, the elements, the ores, stones, crystals, bacteria and virusses It needs to be fed as well as the physical body

The possible disturbances are in the amount, the distribution or the nature of the energy This corresponds to the psoric, sycotic or syphilitic tendencies or Hahnemannian miasms It has an individual and a collective aspect

It contains all common human emotions: grief, anger, guilt, shame, fear, doubt, envy, irritation, hope, despair, sadness, mortification… But the mixture and intensity differ according to personal history and personality traits

The personality is the result of social and cultural background, intelligence, education, inherited characteristics and family history, events and life situation, etc. When the vital level is disturbed the emotions are troubled as well They are not the source but the effect of the disease

The psyche has three layers: Conscious: rational analytical mind Subconscious: the realm of taboos, too painful emotions, forbidden desires and delusions Unconscious: story of humanity told in myths, fairytales, allegories, symbols and legends

Everybody has a mind but not everybody is a mental case ! Our “conditions to be OK” are the limitations to our freedom and thus: disease The outside world reflects the inner world In fact there is nobody out there… (phenomenological point of view)

The most individual experience of the Self and thus the world As individual as one’s face, DNA, fingerprints… It is similar to the sensation level of Sankaran (who uses 7 levels: Name, Fact, Emotional, Mental, Sensation, Energy/Source/ Substance and number 7.

Not a product of the mind but the matrix that shapes thoughts, emotions, vitality and physical functions and actions Everybody has a sensation but it is only experienced when disturbed This is analogous to the physical body

Here’s the good news: The vital sensation is on all levels all of the time! All you have to do is discern between what is local and what is vital

Level 1: what doesn’t belong to the pathology belongs to the patient Level 2: all disturbances in energy supply, nature or function (generalities) Level 3: what is not explained by the ‘story’ or the personality; vital is how the story is experienced

Level 4: subconscious information revealed in dreams, fears, phobia’s, fascinations, hobbies… Level 5: the deep experience of emptiness, survival, specific sensitivity, illhealth…

The pattern From level 5 we can determine the kingdom Level 4 gives miasm information Level 1 and 2 together give individualized pathology (with modalities and generalities) Level 3 gives peculiar emotional reactions Together they all point in the same direction Or: SRP sx from different levels, periods, examples, form a coherent pattern Symptoms one level are local, on more levels vital