When addressing questions like „Who are we?”
health. It helps people to regain their health through
"What is health?”, "What is happiness?” the solu-
awareness and conscious evolution.
tions found should match the depth of the answers that have been found.
When the goal is to prevent the symptoms - as it is
in allopathic medicine- the focus will be on the re-
The knowledge of man is oneness. Nowadays soci-
moval of the symptoms rather than on finding a
ety lives in a true Tower of Babel in which know-
solution to the psychological conflict and traumas
ledge is broken apart and distorted rather than put
which lead to the illness. Prevention in Integral Na-
together.
turopathy means a conscious evolution in the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical domains.
When the greater picture is missing people behave
like blind men fighting over what an elephant looks
We could say that naturopathy is the sum of know-
like. One touches the trunk, another the leg, anoth-
ledge from different spheres of life which help us
er the tail and yet another the ivory husk. They
evolve towards a deeper state of happiness, health
fight bitterly, every one thinking that he is the only
and awareness.
one who is right, while the others are wrong. Instead of integrating the many perspectives into a
The illness is seen as having two main causes:
unitary vision, they waste precious resources fight-
1. Breaking the rules/laws of existence or the
ing over parts of the truth.
physiology of body.
2. The continuous transformation of the human
In ancient times the functions of the priest, doctor
being.
and teacher of the community were often performed by one individual. Nowadays we have the
Dr. Hamer, the founder of Germanic New Medicine,
doctor, the teacher, the psychologist and the priest
views illnesses as adaptive processes of the body.
all trying separately to figure out and direct the hu-
During its development the body triggers illnesses
man being. There is a strong need for the knowledge
as means of improvement of the body’s ability to
of human nature to be synthesized into a coherent
adjust to the physical and social environment.
form. This is one of the purposes of Integral Naturopathy, which views the human being as a whole –
From this perspective we need to understand ex-
body, energy, emotion, mind and spirit – and the
actly the meaning of the illness, and to not inter-
treatment takes this unity into consideration.
fere and block the process but rather to support it.
Thus it will be able to run its course without any
The Naturopath encourages the patient to take re-
acute crisis which may endanger life, allowing a
sponsibility for his or her own state of health. Not
process which has been started by Nature to final-
to wait for the solution to the ailment in a passive
ize. In the case of fever for example,
and unconscious state, thinking: „I am paying! You
fix me!”. In naturopathy the ill individual is the
the goal, in Integral Naturopathy, is not to stop it,
cause of the illness. Unless he transforms he will
but to allow for the purification triggered by the
not be able to heal. Naturopathy does not sell
body to take place while ensuring the necessary
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