WORKING WITH THE BANERJI PROTOCOLS IN EVERYDAY PRACTICE

WHAT DOES IT HAVE IN COMMON LOSING WEIGHT AND RECEIVING HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT?

I love working with the Banerji Protocols but I find that in practice, it is such a misunderstood system of homeopathy.
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A few weeks ago, I understood why sometimes patients come to see you a few times and then never come back. 

I put myself in their shoes!

You see, I am 47 years old and going through a transition period in my life in the form of perimenopause. As many will know, it can be much easier to gain weight and much more difficult to lose it once it's there, this was a struggle for me as I was never used to this.

​I started to exercise more often and expected results a little faster than they would come. I was so focused on the scale that I did not see the other benefits on my health while doing an exercise. I was blinded by only one thing, the scale, and I forgot to look at all the positive changes to my health and wellbeing. 

It was not only about the weight, it was about raising my whole level of health and moving through a process that involved shaping my brain and adjusting elements that helped my metabolism to work smoothly.

​By reducing my weight, my liver got a better chance of detoxing and dealing with the hormonal imbalance by helping to flush things out (and yes, that is a reason why many women get digestive issues at menopause, the liver is struggling to cope as it is overworked), and in time, it helped to improve to metabolise fat and carbohydrates more efficiently.

 All of this while I was working and concentrating on losing weight- the only "symptom" I wanted treating.

This is what happens to my patients on many occasions, they come to see me a few times and in their mind their main symptoms "HAVE TO BE GONE or much improved" in a few appointments, otherwise -like me- they feel that there is no progress. 

I can sympathise with this as I know how hard it is to work for something without instant gratification, it is how we are mentally wired as humans, but we must realistic. How long have we had these symptoms?

​Some people come to see me after experience their problem in the last 6-7 years or even since adolescence. Yet, they get disappointed that they are still there or only slowly improving after several appointments.

I have had many patients thinking that you can just be on a Banerji Protocol and the symptoms are going to go away in a couple of months. Honestly, I don't know where this idea is coming from, but if you look at Dr Banerji's cases, most of them span from one to several years, depending on many factors and what type of problems you are treating. 

It is not as easy as just using one protocol to achieve healing, Dr Banerji used his knowledge of homeopathy and worked on parallel layers at the same time and all of these remedies helped to move the case along. So for instance, a person may suffer from Hashimoto's, depression, sinus infections, low immunity, and allergies. When you put the protocols together, you are working on multiple layers at the same time and the remedies are cutting through several issues that help balance your organism and raise your total level of health. 

Again, these protocols work in harmony to tackle different layers. Have a look here how this layers work together in the Banerji Protocols.

So initially, your symptoms may be slow to heal, and you only may see 5-10% improvement in the follow-ups but in reality, your body is working hard in other areas that you are not aware of. It is only after that level of health is raised that you can look back and see the other changes as well, not only to your presenting symptoms.

For example, you will realise that after a year your hayfever symptoms are rare, your Thyroid antibodies have decreased or are back to normal, also your mood has improved, you do not feel tired any more, and you are getting fewer sinus infections. An all-round success!

Some of these protocols will help with a problem straight away, but others will work partially and moving lines will be needed. Other times, the answers do not come easy, you need to work hard trying to understand where all of this is coming from if you are focusing on a health problem but the protocols are not giving you results.

​ I always say that when this happens, you are not looking in the right place! These are the journeys with my patients that I find most rewarding, working it out together. But of course, this may take time.
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​For instance, one of my patients came to see me for horrible daily headaches that had been around for the last 3 months. She has had many tests including brain scans to try to find the reason why she was experiencing the headaches but they all came clear and doctors could not give her any concrete idea of why this was happening.

You may have thought that I would have gone straight to the Headache's protocols but on taking her case, I thought that several symptoms of this patient along with the headaches were pointing to some direction, her circulatory system and digestive systems. So she was put on protocols for those systems and her headaches decrease gradually and disappeared in about 4-6 weeks.

Of course, if the patient has had this problem for years, the healing process would probably be much more lengthy! Understanding a case where remedies are not producing the expected results takes time and skills but these are the cases that you never forget. 
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​​As I always say, when you give a remedy or protocols and the patient quickly improves, this is not a reflection of your skills, it is a reflection of how easy that layer was to uncover. My practice is full of cases with heavy pathology where I may be their 5 or 6th homeopath, and I know these are not easy cases to work with.

​All of the easy or obvious routes have already been explored with no results. This is a case where using multiple methodologies and understanding what is causing the problem and the correct body system affected can make a difference and with a little bit of patience from both parts, the patient and myself, beautiful results can be achieved.

Do you see what homeopathy and losing weight have in common? Patience and determination!!