Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Santa, Father Christmas, Saint Nick, Santa Claus, St Nicholas, Noel...Yes that's Him!

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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Santa's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.



Santa with his uncertain gait, carrying a heavy bag of presents, moving with a jingle in his step…full of cheer for all: children and adults!Laughing a hearty Ho Ho Ho, or Ha Ha Ha (apparently Santa has been banned from using the former by the PC police)…nevertheless bringing magic into everyone's home for one night, every year.


But Santa can have a few health issues too!
The North Pole where he lives is mighty cold and wet – covered in snow most of the time.


On Christmas Eve, he sets out on his flying sleigh pulled by reindeer all across the world, delivering gifts to all single handed: all in one night!


He travels through a portal between different realities: the world of magic and make believe ruled by elementals and fairies, and the third dimensional reality where we all wait for him to spread some Christmas magic.

Climbing down chimneys, trying to be nimble and quick so that no child surprises him while he carefully lays down their presents under the tree…overfed by all those biscuits, milk and erhm…

Stiff drinks left out for him as a reward… and as if it wasn't enough, he's also supposed to keep the ladies happy...

A lot of them put on their best lingerie or their sexiest nighty just in case Santa happens to take a wrong turn between the Christmas tree and the chimney and ends up in their bedroom…luckily he’s a happily married chap and Mrs Claus seems to be oblivious to all of this…still it can take its toil, especially on a chap…well…quite mature…

Fortunately we can assist Santa with homeopathy, and help him to be at his best this year!
Santa’s remedy is Agaricus Muscarius. It is also known as Fly Agaric the pretty mushroom with the red cap and the little white dots… very poisonous!

The two main toxins ibotenic acid and muscimol have been used as entheogens in Northern Europe from ancient times, linking this mushroom to Shamanic practices, facilitating the contact between different realities, and access to magical beings such as the elementals. There are many depictions of Elves and fairies sitting under these mushrooms in fairy tales and Walt Disney movies.

When intoxicated with agaric, reindeer jump around as if trying to fly, and in some Northern European cultures there has been a tradition of killing these animals and eating them in order to access some of the hallucinogenic properties of the mushroom without the poisonous effect.

As a homeopathic remedy, it is useful for treating spatial and time awareness disturbances:

This remedy is full of strange, rare and peculiar symptoms: these are symptoms to which we homeopaths give particular importance, as they can be almost unique to a patient and help to differentiate between remedies with similar characteristics. One of the symptoms is involuntary laughter when there is pressure on dorsal vertebras causing pain.

The patient perceives time as either much lengthier than it really is or much shorter. Objects seem larger than they really are. There can be severe back ache with nervous twitching on the spine as well as sciatica. All the symptoms are worsened by consuming alcohol, which the patient often craves, also from exposure to cold and wet weather. There is a characteristic pain that feels like icy needles. This remedy is also helpful in erectile dysfunction in older patients. It’s the main remedy for frostbite.

Overall, the patient who needs this remedy displays a bizarre behaviour normally with a cheerful mood as if they were slightly intoxicated - even when they haven't been drinking...

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy, A Christmas of magic and science...

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Between science and magic: that's where homeopathy is...

It's Christmas time again! Some love it, and some hate it...

Whatever your views, or even whether you celebrate it or not - this winter festival has deep roots in our subconscious, and in our collective history.

It wasn't always linked to Christianity and the birth of Jesus, in fact winter celebrations marking the Solstice have been around well before Christ.

In Europe, this was marked with a great feast to celebrate the birth of the Sun:

The end of the long nights and the beginning of longer days as the re-birth of Sun. They slaughtered the animals that couldn’t be kept throughout the winter and feasted on them from late December throughout January.

Around the same time, German pagans honoured their much fierce god Oden, a dualistic god known for his unpredictable temper and a penchant for flying over their camps cursing some and blessing others…

In Scandinavia the Norse celebrated Yuletide, with each family feasting until the log they burnt was consumed into ashes.

The Romans had no less than three festivals that fell around Solstice. The best known: Saturnalia was celebrated in honour of Saturn, their patron of agriculture. From December the 17th to 24th, social hierarchy was reversed: slaves dressed in their masters’ clothes and were allowed to rule, children were also encouraged to rule their parents. All excesses were permitted and unpunished during the festival - overeating, gambling, drinking, and sexual promiscuity were generalised among the population at this time.

By the 4th Century, with so many different pagan festivals to contend with, the Church decided that it was impossible to eradicate them and better to join them, or at least to give their followers an alternative celebration so that they wouldn’t be tempted into joining pagan celebrations, and so Christmas was born with the birth of Jesus attributed to the same date as the Winter Solstice.

No matter what there are still reasons to celebrate, and so I would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas...even to those of you who refuse to be enveloped into the Christmas spirit, there is something in the air...

If for nothing else because of the Higgs Boson, tentatively making its way into the limelight  just when we most need it!

This tiny particle has so far been a figment of imagination. Even if real it has a mass of 124-125 gigaelectronvolts : absolutely insignificant as far as mass goes! And yet it underpins the entire Standard Model - the "instruction booklet" that describes how particles and forces interact: it explains gravity, and it is considered crucial for allowing science to “make sense” of the Universe!

So there is hope that magic will be allowed to exist once again even in those skeptic and cynic minds, and that once it has been confirmed scientifically they will be able to "see it"... the God particle, as it has been nicknamed by many, might actually be real, not just something "cooked up" by Peter Higgs in order to explain the unexplainable!  The Higgs particle has just been "glimpsed" on two separate scientific experiments at CERN.

As someone pointed out on Twitter, and yes - I know it was supposed to be a mirth comment but it did strike a cord... "we spend billions of dollars trying to find Higgs, how come we cannot prove that homeopathy works?"

I say it is not in the current interest of science to explain it - it would upset well established scientific principles that not many are willing to re-evaluate at this stage... also it gives that disafected lunatic fringe of the scientific community something to do...yes, I mean the Skeptics off course!

Their sect as all the makings of religious fanaticism: it is dogmatic, based in false principles, the majority of its members is spiritually blind but is being manipulated by a few of the best scientifc brains in order to serve their interests... and it works!

They are trully fanatic about demoting anything that science cannot explain yet...anything that doesn't fit into the current scientific model: it is a hobby, and that's fine...they meet in pubs, stand up comedy shows, etc...its all good fun I'm sure!  Even thought that it is a destructive way of being when someone has to resort to attacking others in order to find their place in society and to define themselves...

Trying to avoid the same pitfall, I try not make any personal attacks on any particular individuals... even those who cover themselves in ridicule by conducting "homeopathic overdoses" when they know fully well that homeopathic principles contervein the possibility of overdose...

Even when someone claimed recently on Twitter to be a "health expert" because he's an "ex US surgical"... well, it shows that he might have observed a fair amount of human tragedy - and he certainly has my respect for that! It also shows that he's worked in a highly pressurised environment, where complementary medicine could not be an alternative and where only surgery would do... it also shows me that he had access to powerful narcotics which most people can only find in the black market...but it doesn't qualify him as a "health expert" - it just proves that in his confused mind illness equals health...one day even him will be able to "see" the link between complementary medicine and health.

So let this Christmas be the dawn of a new Era for both science and magic, and remember that magic is all that science cannot yet explain...

Merry Christmas to all - and I really mean all, no exceptions!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Adele, we could have had it all...

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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Adele's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

Adele, the soul singer and song writer: her success can only be compared to that of the Beatles; she is the first living artist since them to have two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously.


Most of her songs have been dedicated to her ex-boyfriend, or to the relationship they once had.

She has said on an interview” It's hard singing all these songs because it makes me remember how brilliant we were when we were good... and how tragic it was when we were bad.”

We have heard of her heartache of the past relationship in many of her songs, perhaps the most poignant is “Someone like you”.

She sings with tears in her voice

we can sense how heartfelt it was for her to lose that love, and how she still feels that loss: even her body language with a pained expression on her face and the hand pressing on her chest tell a tale of regret and sadness.

Earlier this year, we’ve heard of her successive voice problems, culminating with the cancellation of a series of concerts and having surgery treat a hemorrhaged vocal cord.

We know of her smoking habit and her taste for beer and red wine. We’ve learnt that the singer likes sweets, such as chocolate bars, honey and muesli energy bars. She also likes fruit, bananas, apples and grapes but avoids acidic foods, such as citrus fruits, tomatoes, and vinegar.

We also know that she supports “Sands” a stillbirth and neonatal death charity, and she insists that her fans make a compulsory donation to the charity in order to gain access to her.

Adele’s homeopathic remedy at this moment in time is Antimonium Crudum

At a physical level this remedy addresses complaints of the digestive system as well as skin. Bloating of this remedy is aggravated by acidic foods and drinks such as vinegar, tomatoes and sour wine, although paradoxically some patients do crave these. They have strong beer cravings.

They can have eating disorders, with periods of overeating that can in extremes lead to bulimia, and periods where they have no appetite which in extreme situations can lead to anorexia. The main differentiation between this and other remedies for eating disorders is that these are triggered by unrequited love: either because their relationship broke down, or because there was never a relationship.

Antimonium Crudum treats obesity in young people, laryngitis with loss of voice and skin complaints with indurations.

We can see some of the physical indications of this remedy in Adele, but the real indication for the remedy, is found in the psychological sphere.

Antimonium Crudum is the remedy for people who cannot move on after falling in love with someone. Even when the relationship is decidedly over and there are no prospects of rekindle, they are unable to move on to the next relationship.

They are deeply marked by that love experience, real or imaginary – often the way they perceive the relationship has little bearing to what it really was, in some cases there was not even a relationship – they might have fallen in love with someone who didn’t love them. They cannot find anyone else who compares favorably to that special person… they go on through life bleeding emotionally, deeply wounded but reveling in their emotional suffering in a masochistic way – believing the only cure is for their love to be reciprocated.

They are in love with the being in love experience...
Their body language expresses their immense sadness to their love loss, they sigh often, they hold their chest as if the emotional pain transcended into the physical…they are incurable romantics, but in their heart they’ve already made their choice…even those who seem to move on and settle on a relationship with someone else, often secretly dream of what it might have been if only they were able to have a second chance with the only one they ever loved!

By The Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: George Clooney, the power of a king!

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses George Clooney's psychological profile according to homoeopathy principles and prescribes a homoeopathic remedy.

George Clooney needs no introduction!

Or does he? We are so used to seeing successful actors in the media that their faces, emotions and expressions become more familiar to us than our own.



We forget that what we are looking at is a character they’ve lend themselves to in order to tell us a story.


Unlike musicians who put themselves forward for all to see, and often even add on to this by writing their own lyrics, so that we get to know them really well, or artists who convey their thinking and feeling processes through their medium; actors create an illusion of total and unconditional surrender to their audience by lending their bodies, their emotions, their personal experiences to their character but without really compromising their privacy nor revealing who they are. The more an actor is typecast the more our illusion of knowing them really well is perpetuated.


George Clooney has a particularly multifaceted character. He is a scriptwriter, movie director, producer and actor.

He plays basketball regularly. Although he doesn’t appear particularly reclusive nor secretive he has made it clear that his private life is his own and not to be shared by the media.

We have known of his slightly troubled romantic life with a failed marriage and a succession of girlfriends.

We know of his past jobs before he went into acting: several low profile sale jobs and even work in a tobacco plantation cutting leaves.

We also know of some of his serious illnesses: while still at school he suffered from Bell’s palsy which caused him to be bullied by the other kids. He had a serious back and brain injury while filming Syriana - he was driven to contemplate suicide while in hospital, by the severe pain and the extent of the injury he suffered, at one point he was losing CFS fluid through his nose. He still suffers from occasional migraines as a result of the accident.

Perhaps most touching, we've known of his pets, the most famous of all: Max the enormous potbelly pig with whom he had a special bond, crediting the pet with saving his life when the pig woke him up just before an Earthquake.

He was twice nominated the “Sexiest Man Alive” by the People magazine

He has received two Golden Globe awards and an Academy Award, and many other nominations and awards for acting, but perhaps the most prestigious awards have been those pertaining to his political stance in defence of those who don‘t have a voice - He was presented with the Summit Peace Award, and he’s also been nominated a UN messenger of peace.


He has used his success and connections in the movie industry for social activism

He's been instrumental in raising awareness to the Darfur conflict, which has seen thousands and thousands of people being prosecuted and killed in one of the longer lasting conflicts in history.

George has also spoken against the Iraq war, alerting political leaders to the fact that we cannot fight a war with war, and that every war we fight we are creating a new generation of people seeking revenge.

George’s homoeopathic profile is Bismuth

This mineral is part of the gold series of the periodic table: the entire series carries an aura of power and kingship to some extent. Aurum being the recognised supreme king. Bismuth, which is stage 15 typifies the aftermath. One has been king, but has lost his kingdom, there is a choice of either trying to cling on to power in a vain attempt to resist the unavoidable or surrender gracefully.

Bismuth is also one of the remedies where suicide is most prevalent. All the gold series has a theme of depression relating to power- desire to attain it, abuse of power, or loss of power depending which stage in the periodic table they appear. All of these can be motivations for suicide.

In Bismuth, there is the realisation that power without strong social and moral values is hollow.


In Bismuth there is a strong dichotomy between idealism and cynicism: the person knows that if power is used to oppress others will not last, and true strength comes from empowering others and giving them a voice. They can sometimes feel powerless towards social injustice and even resort to suicide as a last resort to keep some control over their existence and the way they chose to live or die.

There is also humour expressed as irony in Bismuth, with subjects seeing themselves with enough detachment to be able to laugh.

Clooney has displayed this quirky side in many occasions both by making ironic comments about his political opponents, and also when lampooned in several programmes including South Park series - even saying he would have been offended if the program didn't make fun of him!


At a physical level, Bismuth is one of the remedies for facial paralysis and Bell’s palsy.

With Bismuth everything happens suddenly, life and death have a blurred boundary: Clooney has had a few near miss death experiences and sudden accidents

The one most publicised was the motorcycle accident in 2007. His stay in hospital attracted enormous publicity when dozens of hospital staff abused their position of trust by looking at his medical records.


Bismuth people are private, they don’t like to have their personal details exposed, and yet in a genuine display of sympathy to the hospital personnel, Clooney requested that no one should be punished over the incident: that is the whole mark of a true king - the power to be magnanimous!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Lady Gaga, disappointed love

Lady Gaga is a singer with millions of adoring fans whom she calls “her little monsters”.

She seems to be on a category of her own, both her musical style and her fashion sense are quite unique.

During her still short but meteoric career we have been treated to a kaleidoscope of ever changing successions of Gagas

We could be forgiven for thinking that we are in the face of several different women impersonating this eccentric character rather than just one re-inventing herself at a fulminating rate.

There have been rumours of mental illness, rumours of an auto-immune disease, namely Lupus.

Lady Gaga herself has done little to dispel any of these rumours: she’s not confirmed them nor dismissed them, she much rather ignore any critical voices and concentrate or her artistic career and her fan base.

To her fans, and her friends she has plenty of time. She replies personally to some; there was recently a poignant message of support to a fan being bullied… yes Lady Gaga knows what that feels like. She has been there herself, but overcome this to rise to success!

On a song that made her famous, “Bad Romance” she talks about unconditional love.

She expresses very intense feelings, and not wanting to be just friends but wanting a relationship with all that involves: the good, the bad, and the uggly!

She is definitely intense… on an a recent interview she opened up about the string of unfulfilled romantic relationships she has had – she hasn’t been accepted for who she is, some lovers have been envious of her creativity and her success… love has been disappointing!

Her homeopathic profile is Phosphoric Acid.

This remedy combines a certain freshness and creativity of the group of Acid remedies with the characteristics of Phosphorus.

Phosphorus is about all or nothing as far as love is concerned. It is about communication with fellow humans at all levels.

A typical phosphoric personality has many social connections. Easy to relate to others, they have close friends, and acquaintances with whose they also enjoy keeping in touch.

They have many virtual friends on Facebook, Twitter, and any other social network they decide to join… in fact social networking sites owe their success to Phosphoric people who require constant communication with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and the marketing people, who take advantage of this lively interactive group of people, in order to promote their products.

Phosphorus people are also the Goths, and the vampire movie lovers.

Physically they tend to be very pale, to have a weak spleen, and a tendency to bleed easily.

Psychologically they have great empathy, and they can easily feel the emotional suffering of others and take it as their own. They are idealists, and they can easily get confused in between a friendship and love relationship.

They assume that the other person is on the same wave length and that there is no need to talk – communication happens at an emotional level rather than at the intellectual level. They can then be greatly disappointed once they realise that their partner doesn’t share their views and ideals, leaving them feeling misunderstood and betrayed at a very deep and emotional level.

On the other hand If they feel they have much in common with the other person and there is an easy communication going on between them, they are very willing to take the relationship into the sexual level. For this reason it is easy for them to be bi-sexual, as often there is a closer bond and empathy between people of the same sex.

The Phosphoric Acid state is the result with the Phosphorus patient being brought to this state of emotional exhaustion by disappointed love.

People in this remedy profile become exhausted from giving themselves to others and they are no longer able to communicate. As they get more tired they shut down physically and emotionally.

If Phosphorus is the “party” state, Phosphoric Acid is the “after-party”, it is the match that has fizzled out, the sparkling drink that has lost its bubbles.

But just like other the remedies in the acid group, it does it with style… it has a dry sense humour, it has enough creativity to fascinate others, it has a different take and a new perspective on life, that others cannot easily grasp…

Phosphoric Acid like Phosphorus still has a lot to give, but needs to communicate from a safe distance, without too much pressure and demand from too close a circle of either family relations or friends…  sometimes it is easier to be friendly in the digital world!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy: cystitis after sex, understanding the psychological causes of UTIs and their homeopathic treatment

Homeopathy: cystitis after sex, understanding the psychological causes of UTIs and their homeopathic treatment

Homeopathy Celebrities on the Couch: Rihanna, it's a lonely place down there...

Rihanna, By SandyRiri18
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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Rhianna's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

That awkward moment when chat show host Ellen DeGeneres realises she is interviewing one of RiRi's body parts...





Rihanna has been voted the sexiest woman alive

She is also one of the most successful singers, and since her career took off at the age of sixteen she’s been constantly in public view.


She had a traumatic upbringing, her parents separated when she was young. Her dad has a long history of addiction to both alcohol and cocaine. As a child she was a bit of tomboy, prefer to play amongst the boys then to be with girls. She suffered from debilitating headaches as a child.

She admits that her ideal man has to be aggressive, mysterious and very self-assured…

She’s been abused by the men in her life, and suffered a very public attack by former partner Chris Brown who left her excoriated, bruised and battered for all of us to see, after one of the couple rows went out of control.

On Twitter she is constantly talking about sex, and retweeting her fans lewd comments about her.

In her song Disturbia which was curiously written by Chris Brown for himself but later decided that the song didn’t suit him as it had a very feminine vibe and was more suited to Rihanna.  It speaks of mental confusion and identity crisis  of someone beeing intruded and invaded by someone or something stronger than them. The song is very suggestive of rape and of the mental confusion rape victims can go through afterwards.

There are also other interesting songs that replay this theme, not necessarily of actual rape, but of abusive sexual relationships.

Her album “Good girl gone bad” also plays up to the theme of someone who was innocent but has been corrupted.

In homeopathy the best known remedy for rape victims, and females who have been victims of sexual abuse is Staphysagria. It is also a main remedy for cystitis after intercourse: what it is sometimes called “Honeymoon cystitis”. It is also a remedy for head and eye injuries with severe headaches.

A patient needing Staphysagria, is excessively sexual, even lewd, and given to masturbate frequently. They become sex obsessed after the abuse they have sustained.

There is a guilty complex about the abuse itself, with the patient suffering from indignation about the way they have been treated by their abuser. However this anger is turn towards them for having allowed the attack to happen.

Their psychological coping mechanism is to become sexually corrupt, playing the initial traumatic sexual event, and re-inventing it by creating situations, or getting involved in relationships, that have the potential for further physical and sexual abuse.

In a way they feel this as a way of gaining control over of themselves: if they are the ones creating the opportunity for their own abuse to take place, at least they have some control over the situation.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Resume: Applying for a job in homeopathy

Claudia Dias

I am a people's person, always interested in social issues, political affairs, medical research, scientific discoveries, and homeopathy.


I’m a qualified homeopath and shamanic healer with a particular interest in the area in mental health.

I’m also an actor and scriptwriter.

I hope to never cease to learn about homeopathy - it fascinates me how it can be applied to all life circumstances - it is a true holistic healing - unique, bespoke medicine tailored for each individual.

It helps us to be in harmony: mind, body and soul by integrating how we relate to our social and physical environment, and defines us as unique individuals distinct from everyone else.

If you don't believe me give it a try!

Sometimes it’s absolutely necessary and imperious to recourse to conventional medicine, but this should only be a temporary measure with the understanding that as much as conventional medicine and surgery might be the way the best way to postpone death it doesn’t offer long term health.

Would you rather wear clothes that we especially made for you or wear a one size fit all? So why do you think you should use one size fits all medicine rather than that a holistic system especially selected for you?

Conventional medicine's ability to deal with disease is only temporary, removing the pathology from one organ while causing damage to other organs through its aggressive suppression techniques (drugs, surgery, etc.).

If you want to know what are going to suffer next, it’s very simple: just read the side-effects of what you are taking now and you will know!

The same is happening to our environment where aggressive pesticides combined with genetic manipulation are leaving a trail of destruction behind, depriving us both at the national level and causing irreversible damage to our endocrine system. Our mental health and emotional being suffers for this too...even for those incapable of understanding their own spiritual connection to the rest of nature, it should be clear that our emotions are ruled by hormones and that our endocrine system is sensitive to even minute changes to chemicals and radiation in our environment.

We as supra intelligent beings should be the guardians of nature not its attackers. By ravaging our own natural resources we serve our greed but we don't create long lasting wealth, we become poorer both materially and spiritually.

Email me at undercoverhomeopath@gmail.com for an appointment. I practice from central London and North London where I live; I also consult on the phone. I offer a free short consultation on Twitter: this is only useful for recent ailments, follow me @urban_healing and you will find my #healingmondays often advertised.

If your ailment is chronic, we both need to take time looking at the many life patterns physical and emotional, as well as your medical history.

We will then look at homeopathic and shamanic remedies, healing techniques, meditation and nutritional supplements that can set you on the path of recovery and of discovery of your new you: developing your potential and helping you to be the best you can possibly be!

I know it takes time but it's time well spent!

Claudia Dias, the Undercover Homeopath

Butterfly by Andrea Uhlikova

RESUME

Qualifications

 Fully qualified Homeopath and Shamanic Healer.

• Actor and Scriptwriter

VOLUNTARY WORK

• Oct 2011 - Jan 2012 , Bank of Ideas, London

Organiser and sole homeopath and healer at Homeopathy and Healing Clinic once a week, Bank of Ideas, London

• 2011 - Current, Twitter, International

Promoting Homeopathy on Twitter as @urban_healing

• 2011 - Current, Twitter, International

Free Homeopathy advice service weekly on Twitter: #healingmondays

• 2011 - Current,

Weekly Blog promoting Homeopathy. Analysing celebrity psychological profiles, and current affairs, according to homeopathic principles

• Jan 2012, Bank of Ideas, London

Organiser of Art Therapy Workshop. Combining meditation and art in order to promote physical and mental healing.

Employment

  

• 2010 - (Present) - Practising Homeopathy and Healing in London
  

•  2002 -2004, Media Duo Ltd, London

Public Relations and Press Officer, and Office Manager. Writing press releases, informationals, and designing promotional leaflets to promote the company‘s complementary health products. 

 1998 - 2002 Executive Assistant, The Empty Homes Agency, London

 

management of database of empty properties around the UK, liaising with various welfare organisations.

•  1995-1998 NOP, London

Research executive and translator for scientific, medical, technological, and marketing studies.

•  1990-1994 Freelance actor, Lisbon

Acting work for various theatre companies and TV productions.

•  1984-1994, Jornal Sete, and Revista Visao, Lisbon

Photo Archivist for a large Press Corporation, also as Personal Assistant and Secretary to the Managing Director.

 Education

  

• 2010 - Present: School of Shamanic Homeopathy, London

Post-Graduate Course in Homeopathy and Shamanic Healing

• 2006 - 2010, School of Shamanic Homeopathy, London

Diploma in Homeopathy and Shamanic Healing

• 2005 - 2006 Lakeland College, London

Homeopathy, attendance and completion of the 1st year of a three year course.   

• 1994 - 1995 NOP, London

Marketing, Qualitative Research and Administration

• 1986-1989 Escola de Teatro A Comuna, Lisbon

Drama: Acting, Scriptwriting, and Directing

• 1984 Escola Secundaria Luis de Camoes, Lisbon

A levels: Geography, Chemistry, English, Philosophy, Portuguese, Psychology

Languages

Portuguese (fluent)

Spanish (conversational)

French (basic)

References

Available on request



The Butterfly photo at the top is part of a collection of photos that Andrea took after having a healing session with me at Kew Gardens.

Who is up for the corporate Darwin Awards?

A small slice of Nature by CubaGallery, Flickr

I’ve been looking through the latest candidates for Darwin Awards …

For those of you who are not familiar with this “award”: it’s a compilation of ridiculous and unnecessary deaths caused by the stupidity of the deceased themselves. Based on Darwin’s evolutionary theory – those less than bright individuals remove themselves from the gene pool by their untimely deaths so that humanity will not have to inherit their idiocy… I know it’s all a bit of juvenile humour, but life is tragicomic and sometimes it’s good to see its funny side.


Anyway, that got me thinking about creating a new award, based on the same principles but for corporations! After all corporations are run by individuals, and they should be made accountable for the high level of stupidity that they display!

It’s a very simple and basic principle that even animals know:

“You don’t poop where you eat!”

And yet in an age of great technological advance and increased scientific knowledge that’s exactly what some keep on doing…

We’ve all heard it: “with great power comes great responsibility” – just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you should!

What would be a good name for this award? Perhaps the “With Great Power Comes Great Stupidity Award” or the “It’s A Brave Stupid World Out There Award”

“IABSWOT Award" for short…

The main dilemma is who to give it to? So many candidates… I’m getting dizzy watching quite a few of them trying to outdo each other… to name just a few, and please forgive me for the many omissions … I’d like to organise a more comprehensive list in the coming weeks – if you like minded folks can help me with this: we could have a Twitter hashtag #IABSWOT where you could post the name of any nominees, preferably with a link to information as to why they deserve the Award.

We have NASA

Discarding all sort of rubbish into space from old satellites to common waste from their space station, and watching it whizz around our planet until eventually comes back down. Their recent statement when a piece of space junk the size of a double decker bus was set to crash land? Something on the lines:  “we don’t know where or when it’s going to fall. What runs out fuel eventually comes back down, but don’t worry – the chances of being hit by it are minute!” Yeah…thanks mate – that’s good scientific data to back-up a good responsible attitude towards our planet! We know we can trust you…

And we have Monsanto!

They have done so much to deserve this award that I feel that if they don’t win it outright they should be awarded on a special category of their own… they have given us over 100 years of their efforts not only by distorting our food chain as much as possible, but also by making sure that the damage to the environment is irreversible! And their latest stroke of stupidity? Super weeds! Through the systematic use of their weed killer “Roundup” they have strengthen common weeds and created a new strand that is now resistant to any known weed killer! And because you can’t have too much of a good thing: it is also available in concentrate form! But that’s okay…just bear with them I’m sure their new super strong weed killer must be coming up soon…in the meantime just enjoy their genetically modified corn: it’s proven to cause cancer in mice…but we are men not mice aren’t we…?

And off course let’s not forget the energy corporations:

So many have been involved in recent crimes against the environment that it’s virtually impossible to single one out. We have fracking to thank for quakes and permanent geologic stress; we have oil, and chemical spills affecting the wild life; we have radioactive leakage: a most efficient way of being able to damage more with less… that way they not only affect current generation as they also ensure birth defects for generations to come! And not contented with damaging land, there is now a trend of discarding, whatever is perceived as too toxic to be handled, into the oceans:

“Well there is so much water isn’t it?
Most of our planet is composed of it so why limit ourselves to do away with land when we can spread toxicity so much faster if we damp it into the water and get done with it? Never mind the three eyed fish – we were going to get there anyway with genetically modified food… who knows they might be a delicacy…"

Never mind the cancer rate going up either:
Big Pharma is on the case!

The ingenuity of this money spinning, pill popping industry is relentless! “Do you suffer from headaches? Have our newest painkiller: it hasn’t been properly tested yet but what’s the worst thing that could happen? Okay, you might end up having a stroke, internal bleeding, blurred vision, chronic diarrhoea, reduced hearing, and depression…but don’t worry we have just the right drugs for that too! Surely it’s got to be better than having to put with a headache, don’t you think? Is the contraceptive pill getting in the water supply and causing Prostate cancer? Oh well you can’t have your cake and eat it! Or perhaps you can…just bear with us while we work on a new jab… if you can’t wait for that: we could use you as spare parts, do you have a kidney or two you could donate? Or perhaps a brain?”

With so many contenders to this award of corporate stupidity, I’m starting to think that the only way to be fair is to have several categories! Keep those nominations coming folks!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch - Michael Jackson starved of love

Michael Jackson by justjnia, Flckr

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Michael Jackson's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

Michael Jackson – starved of love

Michael Jackson the king of Pop was indisputably a creative genius.  

As a baby he was already unusually co-ordinate in his movements and good at dancing. He became a performing artist at a very young age, and together with his eight brothers and sisters they were known as the Jacksons.  But he felt abused and taken advantage of by his father – forced to rehearse and to do public performances, he felt continuously under pressure to be the best since childhood. 

As the emotional suffering took over his mind transforming the shy teenager we once knew into an asexual and eccentric figure who refused to grow up, we watched little by little a metamorphose taking place: reshaping his image turning his physical body in what he thought more appealing to his public while his intellect was slowly being taken over by mental illness, and completely devouring him from the inside. 

In his last days he wanted to make amends for his life:

A fresh start with a series of concerts in London, in his words, he wanted his children to remember him for his talent on stage, not for what he’d become. 

This man who was so painfully emaciated that the undertakers who collected his body thought him an hospice patient, this man who was nearly blind, who had a catheter for releasing his urine, who was addicted to “Milk” the affectionate name he found for the highly dangerous drug he become dependent on – gave an amazing rehearsal performance full of energy the day before he died. 

Years earlier he was on trial

He was accused of child abuse for his unusual friendship with young boys.  At the time he said he liked to sleep in the company of little boys but that nothing improper had taken place – he was acquitted but not before a long and damaging trial which robbed him of the privacy he so much craved for.

Apparently he’d never overcome that desire of sleeping with a child by his side – on his deathbed there was  a doll the size of a child...

He hardly ate. He was very secretive both of his life and that of his children – forcing them to become reclusive like himself, and to wear masks as young children so that no one would know what they looked like.  Obsessive in many things: Excessive use of aftershave and fear of catching infections from contact with people were well known.  He was a perfectionist – he had to be the best. 

Throughout his career he treated his fans to a display designed to mesmerized them, a series of flawless performances that could not be matched in real life, and so he locked himself away from public view – afraid of disappointing, of being less than loved…

But he couldn’t hide from himself: his self-reflection distorted by a damaging upbringing, a past he couldn’t forget, starved of love.

His health:

He inherited Vitiligo from his father, a skin condition that causes discoloration. He suffered serious burns to his head from an accident with fireworks while filming a commercial.  He had extensive aesthetic surgery as a result, and a lifelong of painkiller dependency.  After this he had several plastic surgeries, he reconstructed his entire facial structure but seemed particularly obsessed with nasal reshaping.

When he died he was emaciated, almost bald, nearly blind, and had a catheter as it took him hours to urinate.  He had severe toenail fungus that was rotting his flesh, and he also suffered from arthritis – he must’ve been in a considerable amount of pain on a daily basis. 

He was a fragile and sensitive individual both emotional and physically not able to bear much pain.  

Homeopathic Profile- Thuja, the beauty and the beast:

Thuja remedy would have suited Michael Jackson well both at mental and physical level.

At a physical level it is the main remedy for vitiligo, burns, to clear drug toxicity, arthritis, toe nail fungus, also for urinary disorders with urinary retention that can eventually lead to catheterisation. 

Psychologically Thuja is the remedy for people who suffered abuse as children, and feel unloved as a result.  They try to be perfect at all times even resorting to plastic surgery in order to correct minor details of their physical appearance, and controlling all their attitudes whilst on public view . To them being loved by others can only be achieved by complete perfection, for this reason they can be very secretive about their private life as they fear if others see them as they really are they will be rejected.

They try to keep the perfect image by sticking to ridged routines and obsessive compulsive behaviour, but because they cannot keep up their image of perfection all the time they carefully control what they can and cannot reveal about themselves.

They tend to be escapists, resorting either to religious fanaticism or to drugs in order to reach a spiritual world they have difficulty in otherwise attaining as they become thorn in between a deep, dark subconscious where images of death and underworld abound, and the light of the spiritual world that they want to pursue. 

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy and The Occupy at St Paul's

This week the Undercover Homeopath goes out in the field in search a homeopathic connection and ends up volunteering to run a free Homeopathy clinic!

It’s all very well and good to support a cause from the comfort of your home – and don’t take me wrong – a lot of good can come from that...

whether you are donating a Tweet for a good cause, making a financial contribution, blogging or posting on your network:

making others aware of the wrongs that can be put right. Those are all very valid contributions to better the world we live in.

But today, I decided that it was no longer an option for me to just watch the Occupy movement from a distance, so

I went down to St Paul’s in London

to see the camping site and to mingle with the protesters.

This is what I found:  a busy group of people of all ages spending their day discussing urgent community and social issues, getting themselves busy with the daily run of the camp, organising themselves, undertaking  responsibility for the orderly maintenance of their site as well as making a stance for social and economic injustice. 

It seems to me that “Occupy, occupy!” is having a huge task as “Organise, organise!”

And contrary to what I have been reading on the Media about lack of organisation and respect towards their community – what I saw was a very well  ran camp. Various committee meetings were taking place throughout the morning, the first one I saw was the one with the Church representative, but there were several happening at the same time. 

There are also two general assemblies a day to give people the opportunity to put forward any concerns or issues that need sorting, and where everyone is invited to vote on practical issues to do with the camp itself such as: recycling, re-using of items, alternative energy sources for the running of the camp, etc.

There are volunteer groups running the library, the re-cycling centre, the first aid, the hot drinks, the donations, the wellbeing centre – which includes Meditation and Healing – and it will also be including Homeopathy within the next few days…you guessed: I’ve volunteered a couple of hours a week!

Off course with all the groups, and especially with a group so diverse as this there are also some unpleasant characters that infiltrate in order to causing disruption…but I didn’t see any today. 

And I didn’t see people with masks… but I respected their right to privacy by avoiding photographing individuals and focusing more on the protest itself – their posters and banners.  I made an exception for this chap  who wants to raise awareness for the prospect of an attack on Iran, and who stated that he is very happy to be photographed along with his poster!

Oh! By the way… these guys need blankets, thick socks, hot water bottles, mugs, and permanent markers – so if you live in London or are coming over for a holiday – don’t forget to pop by! 

The cold and wet British weather is getting to their bones and joints – as I was sitting at their general assembly I could see all sorts of creaking joints, neck and shoulder stiffness from rough sleep in cold and wet concrete.  Remedies anyone? I’ll be stocking up on Rhus-Tox, Ruta, Causticum  and Bryonia for starters…

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch Justin Bieber growing up

Justin Bieber by Laugher=] ,Flckr

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Justin Bieber's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

 

Justin Bieber's Homeopathic profile is

Kali Bromatum

Justin Bieber the teen R&B idol has provoked strong passions not only among his many fans but also amongst those who don’t appreciate his musical style.  It is fair to say that he is never going to be ignored, at least not by his generation: they either love him or hate him!

This is a characteristic of the Bromatum homeopathic remedy psychological profile. - Strong emotions that can boarder religious fanaticism.  Another very important characteristic of the remedy is guilt; mostly surrounding sexual issues… that and a sense of being constantly observed. 

The Kali (Potassium) component of the remedy adds another dimension to the main theme: that of duty.  People who need Kali remedies at a psychological level are very work focused and duty bound, they have a conflict between their personal desires and what their duty is: with them, duty normally wins and often they find themselves having to sacrifice themselves, their wants and desires to their work - they consider this their duty! 

In the case of Justin, we get a sense that he has indeed sacrificed his personal desires for his work.  What it started has a singing hobby with a few of his covers songs being posted on YouTube by his mother when he was a youngster, attracted the attention of a recording company and quickly he was catapulted into the lime light.  His innocent, childlike, spontaneous and effortless look of fresh youth inspired a marketing image of purity / virginity.  In a world where most stars are known for their raunchy, bad boy/ bad girl behavior, this is an image difficult to preserve. 

He has been mocked throughout the Media for comments about wanting to wait for the right girl before he has sex.  Most of these comments however, came from his mum and from his management.  Last year he gladly associated himself with Kim Kardashian, even admitting on Twitter that she was his girlfriend. Rumors were quickly quashed by his managers but not before the fanatic fringe of his fans to profess their undying hate to the lucky lady…

Since then he has been pictured with girlfriend Selena Gomez, and they have started to even venture to some very tame public displays of affection, but this has again been carefully controlled by Bieber’s minders so not to erode the marketing image that has earned him millions.

This week he appears to be the target of another attack on this image by a woman claiming that he fathered her child on brief encounter backstage…

Bieber has been quick to reply that he has never met the woman and that he “maybe a target but never a victim.” 

All of these personality traits and events lead on Kali Bromatum remedy. 

It is incidentally the remedy for Acne which is a typical teenage affliction but also a sign of raging hormones, and of growing up!  I say don’t suppress Justin Bieber!  Allow him to grow up and to become a man - hey, give a bit of space!

By the Undercover Homeopath