Consulting Client Tip #1 IHC: Balance - vs- Cure

Dear Students,

Every week as I correct tests I will share student excerpts, student dialogue, consulting client tips and more as I go through the exams and speak with other students. That way you all can benefit from the discussions I have with other students.

Here is a consulting client tip that I shared with a student this week:

This is something to remember in all healing – it is a matter of balance and not cure. We will always being dealing with imbalance in the body. When we look at healing as a method to cure we will be lost. When we look at healing as a method to balance the body we will always be able to heal from anything by seeking that balance over and over – no matter what happens to the body.

Student Questions: What is the best way to restart my studies?

A student wrote to me earlier last week asking what the best way to re-start their studies was. This is a popular question as some students sign up, do a little work (or not) and then leave their work for a while. Oftentimes picking up the work again is confusing. Here are some tips I shared:

Dear A,

You are registered for the Islamic Healing Course as well as the Naturopathic Healing Course Online. Because you have so many classes you are registered for and because your schedule in completing them may be irregular I would advise that you do them "in order" (do unit 1, then unit 2, etc...) You are not required to do them in order but this will probably work best for you.

The first unit of the Islamic healing course is located at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/islamichealing/files/

Using that link above you can download your files from that link OR you can download the password from that link and access online. Most students tend to prefer this NEW online method. So I would recommend that you download the password from the link above and use that.

The first unit of the Naturopathic Healing Course online is located at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/nutritionalhealingcourse/files/

Same instructions as above... When you are deciding which to do first, keep in mind that the Islamic Healing Course focuses heavily on medicine of the prophet and healing of the Arab world, whereas the NHCO has courses in iridology and reflexology included.

If you have any additional questions please IM, e-mail me or call me anytime.

All my contact information is posted at http://www.thedreamangels.com/

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

Student Questions: What is my Bravenet Password for the Course?

A student wrote to me requesting access to the course and asking me to send this access to a new e-mail address. This was my reply:

Dear (H),

Thank you for asking!

If you need your e-mail address changed for the course you can go to:

To Change your Yahoogroups e-mail or settings to Vacation, Special Notices Only, No-Email or Leave Group please visit:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/(Name of Group)/join

The password for the course is located in the files section of each unit. Members of the entire healing course can locate their ONE-PAGE access code at:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/IHC_Unit12/files/

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

Student Excerpts: Aisha and the Melancholic Temperament

I really enjoyed Huda's application of the temperaments to different people in Islamic history. Here is her description of Aisha as a person of the melancholic temperament:

‘Aisha (ؓ) was one of the seven who narrated more than a thousand hadiths; she was also one of the seven most prolific in giving legal opinions. In both sets she is the only female, which is a remarkable feat; she was revered by women and men alike. She is known for her deep love for the Prophet (ﷺ); she would sometimes get angered out of love for the Prophet (ﷺ). ‘Aisha had heard news of the Prophet marrying a new wife by the name of Saffiya, she was of Jewish heritage. ‘Aisha went to the wedding and remained veiled, the Prophet noticed her. When the Prophet saw ‘Aisha he asked her what she thought of Saffiya, she answered “she is the same as any other Jewess.” The Prophet (ﷺ) was always patient with ‘Aisha and his other wives, he understood their temperaments and knew how to handle each one. Every one of his wives thought she was the most beloved to him, it was only when he fell ill at the end of his life that his request to stay at ‘Aisha’s house let them know that ‘Aisha was the most beloved to him (although he loved them all very dearly).

Student Dialogues - Different Methods of Healing

This is another excerpt from my dialogues with students this week...

Huda observes in her assignment:
There are some in homeopathy that are shied away from the idea of temperaments and humours, James Tyler Kent* seems to be one of them. Kent’s constitutional medicine had nothing to do with giving remedies by classical temperaments. Kent spoke out against the use of classical temperaments in Homoeopathy in his Lesser Writings.

Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND commented back:
I am sure his system works well too. The trick to a system working is deep knowledge of the system, continuing education, faith and immersion in the system. When people ask me what the “best” healing method is I always say, ‘One that the practitioner and client deeply resonate with”

Student Dialogues - Typology in Different Traditions

Each week or two I like to share some conversations I have had with students or excerpts from student work that I think would benefit other students. This week, student Huda, brought up a very good point in one of her assignments. This is an excerpt from her assignment and my comment on her assignment:

Huda:Personal Reflection: it is more suitable to look at the Chinese (and any other) typography as a system in its own right.

Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND: You make a good point. I will be sure to include this in the student BLOG so other students can understand that this is the intention of the assignment - to look at a system within its own right is the best way to evaluate a person. Because each system has it own way of looking at things which encompass the entire system. There is a core belief that runs each system and without that you are missing out on the depth. So when you are diagnosing you do need to stay within one system.

However, for educational purposes it helps to see how the systems correlate so you can get a better feel for the way typology works and the way the different systems may or may not work together. Cross referencing typology is like studying history – you are not going to use the information...but your knowledge and ability to make decisions and learn will be enhanced by studying it.

Consulting Client Tip #1: Taking vs Giving

more and more student work comes in I realize how very important it is for us all to share our experience with clients - tips, methods and whatever else comes to mind. The things that I share in this column will be directly related to student work and client work they have done and are posted as a response to that work. If you would like to comment on my posts or to add some information of your own please feel free to press "reply". We have a wonderful group of students here - many are already practitioners of some type - we have the potential to help each other out in so many ways.

Client Tip #1: Taking vs-Giving

Suggest some things to add to the diet, rather than take away. Often, people in depressive or restrictive situations don’t want to be told “don’t eat this”. It is more depressing! So, instead, tell them to eat certain foods every day – give them a list of “healing foods” – this list will of course, be true, such as offering oatmeal to lower cholesterol. However, what you won’t tell them is that by adding these foods they will be LESS INCLINED to have the “bad foods”. Don’t tell them that part. Don’t let on in any way you are saying NO to them. I used this method extensively in Saudi Arabia, where I used to live, as many of the women there were already restricted in their movement and other life choices. They would not have benefited from being told by yet one more person - "You can't do that". When healing you need to consider where and who are person is.