Hi,
I have known Steve Emig for several years now. He is a remarkable individual. Not only
knowledgeable in his field but with an uncanny knack for understanding the human
condition, he provides, in life counseling, an invaluable service for those of us with
psychological, emotional, and social needs.
I met Steve while working with my great-uncle, Al Mejia. Al, Steve, I, and others,
share a warmth and concern for bettering humanhood. I recommend to those close to
me, including family and close friends, consulting Steve Emig with their health and
psychosocial needs. Steve has helped me immensely with my issues related to anxiety,
both through counseling and homeopathy. I am deeply grateful.
Respectfully,
Jesse Rodriguez
By Steve Emig HHP, MCH
I was speaking with my friend Sharon, recently, about her visit with her terminally ill father. Her father had made her so miserable during their last visit that she wasn't sure she would ever be able to see him again. The pain in her face was evident when she described how easy it was for her father to "push her buttons" and hurt her. As we talked, she was only able to give me a sketchy picture of her early life. Sharon's birth was not planned; much less desired. Her father left her mother to marry another woman before Sharon was born. Sharon's mother emotionally abandoned her soon after Sharon's birth. Sharon spent most of her child hood growing up in foster homes or with other relatives. She has been living her life, in one way or another, in a constant search for approval from her father. She feels that if she is perfect maybe her father will love her. Naturally, he never does, and this is the "button" of rejection and abandonment that gets pushed whenever she visits him. Sharon feels like an "orphan" even though she has two birth parents. Sharon and I could only speak for a short time. I gave her some advice on how to talk with her father while protecting her "buttons", but I couldn't help thinking that what she really needed was a good homeopathic remedy.
As a practicing homeopath, I often feel like I know this wonderful secret. I have to be careful how I reveal it to people because homeopathy doesn't explain (or pronounce) easily. Homeopathic remedies tend to work at the deepest levels first. So, a well chosen homeopathic remedy would quickly give Sharon relief from her feelings of abandonment around her father and from the depression that follows those feelings. She would be able to talk with him and not feel so vulnerable to his rejection. The single remedy would address all of her symptoms. So, over time, it would correct her adult onset Diabetes and her thyroid imbalance. She would need less and less medication for those conditions until she would no longer need any medication at all. After a time, Sharon would still have memories of her childhood, but the painful feelings of hurt and abandonment would dim and eventually become difficult to even remember.
Feeling like an orphan is just one of many common themes (or remedy states) in homeopathic practice. I often see it in adults. Like Sharon, they have felt like orphans since birth. The most common remedies to treat this state are homeopathic preparations of magnesium. Homeopathic remedies stimulate the body to bring itself back into balance. It is only after homeopathic preparation that the healing quality of the magnesium is made available to the body so it can correct the "orphan" state. Nutritional magnesium works physiologically and will not work deep enough to treat this state. The curative potential of magnesium was discovered by an American pioneer in homeopathy: James Tyler Kent. By using the remedy, Magnesia cabonica, he was able to save infant orphans from the slow decline and death from marasmus in the orphanage he was working at in the late 1800s. It is possible that Sharon needs a magnesium remedy as well. She would need to go through the classical homeopathic intake process, however, to determine exactly which remedy she needs.
I have used Sharon as an example to show the depth at which homeopathy works. It is capable of correcting a central disturbance often resulting from a severe stress occurring early in life. If not corrected, individuals will carry this imbalance around for the rest of their lives. If the affected people are able to adapt to the imbalances (compensate), it may not seem to affect their lives very much. The state may even stimulate these people to achieve great things out of an effort to overcompensate for what they are feeling deep inside. More commonly, the imbalances reduce the individuals' success in life in some way. At some point the imbalances may begin to cause physical or mental symptoms to develop. Severe physical or mental pathology, addictive or criminal behavior can result in susceptible individuals. These symptoms are usually treated medically. The medications don't correct the underlying state of imbalance and only suppress or palliate the symptoms. Often deeper symptoms result from medical suppression. For example: cortisone cream is used to treat a simple case of eczema and then a new case of asthma develops after the cortisone treatment. Depression or anxiety can follow corticosteroid treatments.
Homeopathy is capable of correcting the central disturbance that is at the bottom of all pathology. The physical and mental symptoms permanently disappear as the imbalance is corrected.