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Pellet of Mussar: The Other Song

 I think the best part of being a homeopath is to hear people's "other song". Let me explain. As I told my patients and students numerous time, part of us is Divine (we're hoping 100% of the time we're connected to that part!) and part of us, the Other Song, is less. Some people get easily angry, others are more messy, some are often sad, everybody has their "other song". When we look for a remedy (doesn't matter what the official diagnosis is), we want to address the other part of us, the unbalanced part, the one that prevents us from doing our Avodat Hashem.  Hahnemann said (the founder of homeopathy)  that a healthy state is when the "reasoning spirit who inhabits the organism can freely use this healthy instrument to reach the lofty goal of human existence" (from his book The Organon of Medicine ). We're born with this "less divine" part of us, and the job of the homeopath is to hear, identify and treat the other song so t...

Pellet of Mussar: My Business Consultant

I've been told to use her business counsellor in order to help my practice gain some speed. I don't regret this decision. Not only did I improve my income without compromise on the quality of my homeopathic services, but also it helped with my children's education. Here's how. My First Business Consultant In our generation (in truth it's been like that for a few hundred years now), children, even small children, think of themselves as small adults. Hard to educate somebody who thinks he knows it all already, parents look like tyrants trying to guide their children in the right path. Children close themselves off chas v sha-lom and then who knows which road they'll take? So this great rebbe, Kolomynus Shapira, told the parents in his book on education, how to approach the child. Tell the child he's the boss, he's the one deciding about his life. You, as a parent, you're there to guide him, give him advice as per needed, not to impose anything on him. ...