Bruja Botanicals

La Bruja's philosophy of health and healing

    I believe that the body has a blueprint. How else does each cell know what it is (a liver cell vs. a brain cell e.g.)? You might say that it is encoded in the DNA, but how does the DNA sequence get activated or turned on? Why does one sequence get activated for a liver cell and another is activated for a brain cell? Where is the blueprint? The blueprint is not strictly physical. We could call it an energy body. It has been called the etheric body. This energy body is the basis for acupuncture and acupressure techniques. The "chakras" are the main connectors between the energy body and the physical body.
    The physical body becomes ill whenever there are blockages in the transfer of energy from the energy body (the blueprint) to the physical body or blockages in the transfer of energy throughout the physical body. These blockages can be caused by unprocessed or suppressed emotions (See any books by Louise Hay) or by external contact (poisons, prolonged bad eating habits etc.) Any healing method that addresses the energy blockages is more direct than those that address symptoms. Alleviating symptoms is necessary and important, but the pain of the symptom is meant to call our attention to the bigger problem.
    For these reasons, I recommend any method that addresses the energy body, including but not limited to: acupuncture, acupressure, crystal healing, psychic healing and therapy. For alleviating symptoms, I recommend gentle and subtle approaches, such as: chiropractic, massage, herbs, flower remedies, essential oils and aromatherapy. It doesn't make sense to me to introduce more poisons (drugs) into the body to alleviate symptoms that are caused by poisons. Be aware that persistence is needed for efficacy. Any herbal remedy should be tried for at least a week before giving up on it, unless you have some sort of adverse reaction. It took a long time for the symptoms to show up, it will take awhile for them to go away. If you merely mask the symptoms with pain killers and such, they will simply show up somewhere else until the root cause is addressed. One needs to take responsibility for oneself, including one's health and well-being.

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