Mastery

July 22, 2010

Mastery. This word was spoken today and I felt it resonate within my expanded self. To know an art – or a science – takes time, intention and determination. Some months ago the word “mastery” occurred within me. And it challenged me to own it. Homeopathy is wide and deep. So wide and so deep that one can spend a lifetime of study and practice and never have completely mastered its beguiling ways.

Yet at some point in the journey, you arrive at a waystop that is at least the beginning of mastery. I am no longer a neophyte. I am no longer an infatuated lover entranced by the beauty and power of this craft. I know what I’m doing. I even know what to do when I make the inevitable mistakes that lead to new learning. I have come to this place of knowing through intention, strength and determination, and now it is mine to own. And I own it by saying it: “I am a master of the practice of homeopathy.” By saying this, I accept and own what has already happened. Greater knowledge, understanding and intuition have combined with the unfolding of my spiritual self in such a way that I, the practitioner, am practicing from a deeper, richer space. I know the practice of homeopathy, I have mastered it.

Imagine a magical coin. On one side, in beautiful calligraphy it says “Intention”. On the other in bold Times Roman it says “Determination”. The coin as a whole stands for one thing with two sides: intention and determination. Perhaps that one thing is resolve. This one thing is the genesis. Some great part of me, my oversoul perhaps, created a resolve. To enact the resolve, I activated the intention: I wanted to heal. That is, I wanted to transmit healing and I wanted others to be healed as a result. I activated the intention first because intention must always come before manifestation. Once the intention is activated clearly and fully, determination must be activated to carry me through the lifetimes of healing that follow. Intention and determination must partner and balance each other. If intention flags, I’m fruitlessly busy, doing things without purpose or coherence. If determination flags, I mire in inertia and get sidetracked into meaningless pursuits. When they work together, hand-in-hand, I surf effortlessly to the shores of my higher desire.