I tried that first excercise and it was way too easy. I must be doing something wrong.

carol this is most useful to a homoeopath as the patients always go too fast.
with the one hand you can write what they are saying, with the other, what they are doing as they speak.

You are doing wrong As there is only one person in the world who has this capibility of doing this and that is me..

The way the causes are listed in that article with relation to the parts affected, it reminds me of this book I read years ago when I was first interested in healing, by Louise Hay, and she has a similar list. I was going down this thing, heart = lack of love; stomache = nurture & mother issues..that type of thing..etc..until I got to the bladder = pissed off. And I couldn't take it serious after that.

I looked in the boenninghausen materia medica and rep...under cowardice..and there was no gel.I looked in Murphey's rep..and it was highlighted there. Is Gel a late bloomer?

Yep it was a post-Boenninghausen bloomer. And quite a nice little creeper in the garden.

The real problem I had with that Louise Hay list is that it lacks individuality in application.
Wow, wasn't she popular for a while back there? Most everyone you knew was quoting things like my hand hurts, must be because I want to punch somebody and the like. The problem is when people rely on lists and books without using their own powers of discernment as well.

I think you can use the list as a starter for understanding a particular "issue" you may have, but it still needs a lot more individualization from that point on. Just like every organ or system in our body functionally responds to another, a bladder infection may be the result of another physiological imbalance in the body. So it's wrong to simply equate having a bladder infection with being "pissed off" IN EVERY INSTANCE. It could be that, or it could be you just got a bladder infection. Lucky, not. Period.

An alternative is to quietly ask yourself the question, *Who* is my bladder infection?, and you'll get an image of someone or a situation, which is the source of the individual problem. No prizes for guessing that it's probably someone at home or at work. Of course, then your rational mind will try to squash the information within a fraction of a second, because you can't or won't believe it could really be that simple. Intuition.
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And then you have to take into account that problems are rarely "linear" in causation.
Most emotional and/or physical 'issues' have many different layers to them, and things may be relative to another.

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There is this woman..mona lisa shultz...totally left brain thinker...became a doctor...but she had narcolepsy...she picked up a louise hay's book in a bookstore..where it said to look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I love you". She thought it was a really stupid thing to do...but it turned on her right brain and she never had an attack of narcolepsy again. And she became a medical psychic..and wrote a book and had seminars and she was completely hillariously funny.

Let me qualify this: her book, I think it was called "medical intuitive"...was great in the first couple of chapters...the rest of the book was so totally thickly left brain boring that I couldn't read any of it.

And...

how does it end????

in china, whose culture developed fairly independently [depending on whether you believe marco polo] the gallbladder is said to be the seat of courage, being physically of course, the receptacle of yellow gall.

ref. "pissed off" - this might have come via the colloquial "being pissed" [drunk, in england] and therefore have only a tenous connection with the urinary bladder.

i read some of a similar book: "the healing power of illness", until coming across the author's assertion that a woman who has long red fingernails has some kind of special connection with her femininity.

these books have some grains of truth from cultural history and traditional medicine, but also some rubbish that is dreamt up by the author to fill in missing bits of the body, and they give themseleves away rather like the "weapons dossier."