Miasm... what?

Let's start with what a miasm is NOT.  It is perhaps not an inherited disease process passed down through generations of ancestral trauma (as you may have read somewhere).  But do disease energies have their own miasm?  I believe so, yes.  Could your energy field come into contact with a disease miasm?  Yes, but it is not yours and does not become yours.  The invading stressors' miasm would be temporarily working against you, but I strongly believe your miasm works FOR YOU, not against you.  It comprises the dominant force behind your defense mechanisms (both physical and behavioral), which although not always accepted by society, do help keep you alive.  For generations, your ancestors reproduced and raised children to reproductive age without any fatal mistakes.  Think about the gravity of that.  Naturally, a miasm as a 'transferable disease energy' would not be in favor of evolution and would be worked out of evolutionary processes.

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So what is it?  At it's very essence, a miasm is a force.  There are many forces of nature working upon our bodies and energy fields, yet we each have one dominant force that is in the driver's seat, controlling our instincts and influencing our behaviors. This dominant force is our vital force.  As Samuel Hahnemann beautifully puts it,

"In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence."

-Aphorism 9   [A great reference that breaks down Aphorism 9 and the concept of a vital force for further exploration can be found here.]

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When Hahnemann described the vital force as being autocratic and having unbound sway, he was referring to its dominance.  Hence, one could say that the dominant miasm is the miasm of the vital force or even that the dominant miasm IS the vital force, since a miasm is a force and the vital force is the one that dominates and animates the organism.  In this line of thought, a dominant miasm is also one you cannot and should not try to rid the body of.   The dominant miasm/vital force is an essential force (essential = vital and miasm = force); it is an essential miasm.  Thus, the goal of the homeopath should not be to find a remedy that will remove a person's vital miasm.  Instead, the remedy should be used to 'retune and strengthen' that miasm, which will restore resonance between the immaterial vital force and the material body.

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Since there are different types of directional forces (miasms) in nature that behave in varying ways with noticeable patterns, one could also say there are different types of vital forces.  When we choose a homeopathic remedy to strengthen someone's vital force, that remedy should be a match between the original substance's type of vital force and the person's type of vital force.  In other words, the remedy should fall into the same miasm group as the person. The remedy will act according to the dominant force and provide 'self-energy' a.k.a. 'life-force energy' since it is a match.  It is the type of energy the body prefers to battle symptoms with.  But this is not the only way to use remedies, there are other modes of application.

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In the case of an acute exposure to a threatening force (for example, the stress of a virus or fear of a 'virus' ), a homeopathic remedy could be chosen 1) based on the person's miasm to strengthen the person's own defenses to over power the invading force, or 2) a remedy could be chosen to match the miasm of the virus (or fear of said 'virus') in order to repel the invading force.  When I say repel, think of magnetic energy, where the identical sides of two magnets repel each other.  You cannot repel yourself, so a miasm-matching remedy will supply energy to strengthen rather than repel, leaving you better equipped to annihilate the threat.  I hope I was able to clarify the two ways in which remedies can be chosen based on their dominant miasm for use in either a 'repel model' or a 'supply/strengthen model' of application.

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There is a third and superior mode of action for choosing a remedy, which is that of attunement.  A remedy that can best stimulate attunement of a vital force is one that not only belongs to the miasm group of that vital force, but also matches in totality, as close as possible, to the signs and symptoms presented by the organism.  It is not enough to know the dominant force, but also the defining characteristics of the derangement at hand.  The derangement or imbalance of the vital force is what produces symptoms, whereas a healthy vital force can maintain the body's harmony.  Much like tuning a piano to achieve ideal pitch and beautiful, melodic sound, the closest matching remedy will tune the vital force to harmonize and restore balance to the system.  Here is when we shall see the organism not only survive, but thrive.

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So if there are different types of vital forces, how many are there and how are they categorized?  As with much natural phenomena, as an absolute I believe this to be currently unknown, but as a theory, it is possibly close to being figured out.  There is a system of Homeopathic Facial Analysis (HFA) that has been developed in order to assess an individual's dominant miasm, which shows on their face.  In theory, the dominant force acts on genetics to shape facial features.  In the same way, dominant forces will act on plants, minerals, and animals to shape their characteristics and features.  To learn more, please visit my page on HFA or visit the HFA website directly.