I can read you like a book - S1E5
This Heilkunst Life
In episode five of "This Heilkunst Life," Jeff and Allyson delve deeper into the philosophy of Heilkunst diagnosis, contrasting it with allopathic medicine. They discuss the idea that symptoms and illnesses are not just physical manifestations but also textual expressions of deeper emotional and psychological states. Jeff shares his personal journey of re-engaging with literature, which led to a profound realization about the essence of literature and human consciousness. Allyson recounts cases where patients' symptoms and life stories reveal deeper emotional and psychological issues,...
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Living Out Of Participative Consciousness - S1E4
This Heilkunst Life
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung Dr. Hahnemann instructed his students to “participate the patient” - this was in bold opposition to the usual implication in science that the highest standard is for neutral, detached observation. This form of Heilkunst diagnosis - deep participation - is not only the key to true diagnosis, but for how to live a fully healthy life. How can our patients learn to take this skill home with them and learn how to develop it? Resources...
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The True Meaning of Your Shocks and Traumas – 32 Short Films About Your Sequential Timeline – S1E3
This Heilkunst Life
Sequential timeline therapy will not be successful if implemented in a mechanical manner. The ordinary, empirical mind always seeks for easy formulas or recipes to follow at a superficial level, as it has no ability to penetrate into the deeper dynamics of living function. In this episode, we explore how your multi-dimensional life force responds to shocks and trauma, and how this can set up illness and the possibility of healing. We’ll discuss: Why the mechanical approach to treating the sequential timeline isn’t successful. The multiple levels of meaning to any given symptom or...
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How does Heilkunst Define Health? - S1E2
This Heilkunst Life
We’re all at great risk - if we don’t make a deliberate effort - to default to the allopathic definition of health in our thinking. This is a negative definition, which means that health gets the very poor definition of “an absence of symptoms”. Likewise, all treatment modalities are judged on whether or not they simply “got rid of a symptom” - and the quicker the better. What is the definition of health? In its fullest sense, it includes much more than a “symptom-free” status…it implies growth and development, and ultimately an “evolution of consciousness” at its core....
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The Healing Power of Illness - S1E1
This Heilkunst Life
This Heilkunst Life is a show designed to bring the deeper philosophy of Heilkunst medicine out into a practical, usable understanding for your daily life. In our first episode, we go into the heart of a key part of the definition of health : What is the MEANING of your symptoms of illness, and why does a complete healing process require a full understanding and integration of this content? Rather than seeing symptoms as random and annoying occurrences, they are, in fact "words" or "sentences" being spoken to us in the language of the phenomenology of symptoms. These "words" are powerful...
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PREVIEW - How Are You Living THIS HEILKUNST LIFE? (S01E00)
This Heilkunst Life
Are you ready for living this Heilkunst life? In each episode, Jeff Korentayer and Allyson McQuinn will bring you an intimate exploration of what this means for the practical realities of your daily life. The grand philosophical and therapeutic framework of Heilkunst medicine will be broken down into very clear and practical takeaways for you and your family. These are based on the private conversations we've been having with our patients for over two decades, and are simply too valuable not to share publicly. We are constantly being asked exactly how do I take action on your advice in my...
info_outlineThis Heilkunst Life is a show designed to bring the deeper philosophy of Heilkunst medicine out into a practical, usable understanding for your daily life.
In our first episode, we go into the heart of a key part of the definition of health : What is the MEANING of your symptoms of illness, and why does a complete healing process require a full understanding and integration of this content?
Rather than seeing symptoms as random and annoying occurrences, they are, in fact "words" or "sentences" being spoken to us in the language of the phenomenology of symptoms. These "words" are powerful expressions of parts of ourselves that we have banished from our waking conscious mind, and they are now attempting to return home with the annoying forcefulness of a symptom or health problem. This is what is called "shadow work" in a Jungian context, or the "heilen" process of full integration brought about in Medical Heilkunst.
Human nature has a tendency towards one-sidedness, or "choosing sides" between what we perceive as good versus evil, or beautiful versus ugly. We need to constantly fight our way beyond this one-sidedness back towards our wholeness (to "heal" is to be "whole"). Our general susceptibility to illness and mortality is precisely a function of this one-sidedness. Our symptoms are usually unwelcome reminders as to the sides of ourselves we'd rather have nothing to do with.
In Heilkunst terms, we differentiate the actions of medicines which are "curative" versus "suppressive", under the umbrella concept of "direction of cure". This is colloquially referred to as "better out than in". The "out" part of this requires a process of fully engaged, conscious expression of whatever is the issue at hand. In other words, we need to foster a new form of literacy for ourselves - the literacy (and phenomenology) of symptoms and what they actually mean to us.
Those who choose to remain illiterate in this arena will suffer the fate of symptoms that return over and over and over again...they will keep knocking at the door until they are finally acknowledged, and properly integrated. Or worse - and we see this all the time - illness keeps progressing and taking over the former state of health, until chronic illness eventually leads to a patient's untimely death. As the old saying goes - "What you resist, persists".
Explore these themes with us in this episode, and then take the discussion even further with us by joining our Inner Circle at https://www.thisheilkunstlife.com/support/
Resources cited in this episode:
- "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlefsen https://amzn.to/3SOcjys
- "Messages From the Body" by Michael J. Lincoln. https://amzn.to/3TlbrBz
Watch the video of this episode here : https://youtu.be/a-mH8xtZZk0