Introduction
The first couple of pages...
Life isn't
always fun. Good things happen, and bad things happen, too. We live
in a dimension of duality, where good and bad are just two sides of
the same coin. When good things happen, we are at ease, and when bad
things happen, we become stressed and troubled. We often wish for only
happiness and joy, but the fact is, it is often the more difficult times
that allow us to "rise to the occasion" and expand to new
levels of consciousness in order to find a way to move beyond the misery
we are experiencing.
It was one of those difficult times that actually inspired me to write
this book. As every woman knows, when we feel miserable, it always helps
to talk to a girlfriend, so that is what I did. In fact, I talked to
three different girlfriends that day, and every one of them had a different
response to my story. After the first one heard what I had to say, she
looked around and said: "Well, at least you still have a nice house."
The second girlfriend listened to the exact same story and said: "I
don't know why you are so miserable. You didn't even have to pay out
any money!" And after I told the story, again, to the third girlfriend,
she took my head in her hands and looked into my eyes and said: "Whatever
happens, try not to be bitter about it!"
As I thought about their comments, I wondered why their responses were
so totally different, when the story I told each one was exactly the
same. All of a sudden, I could clearly see why. The first girlfriend
was a Calcarea Carbonica, and in her perception of reality, life is
extremely scary if you don't have a house. I still have a nice house,
so she couldn't see any reason for me to be miserable. The second girlfriend
was an Arsenicum Album, always worried about money issues, so in her
perception of reality I was fine because nobody took my money. And the
third girlfriend was, of course, a Natrum Muriaticum. She was feeling
my pain, and she gave me the best advice she could, based on her own
perception of reality: "Try not to get bitter about it!" I
thought to myself, whoa! This is probably what we all do, but why do
we do this? And why do different people perceive the same thing in so
many different ways? I wondered if I could find more answers if I studied
the mental and emotional symptoms associated with each remedy profile,
and I also wondered how much these different perceptions of reality
affect our lives and our relationships. As I delved into my books as
deeply as I could, with great interest and determination, one thing
led to another, and before long, I found myself in the middle of writing
this book.