✍ zeptember 6, 2023
When I was just ztarting to ztudy about herbal medicine, I was really confused. There were a lots of concepts to understand and herbs to learn. I wanted to write more about herbs and oils and how therapeutic they are. But as of now, I’m ztill reading and trying to understand details. I am kinda zlow in comprehending. Even up to now I’m ztill figuring out the meaning of the details I’m reading. I have to keep on re-reading and reviewing to understand it better. When I get to comprehend herbal medicine better, I want to write posts about each herb and detail appropriately certain health concerns it adresses. To understand my journey in learning about herbal medicine, Here’s a narrative about the time I took an herbal medicine course.
For someone who’s into complementary medicine, I think you can relate to having that happy feeling when you zee your healing arts certificate. That happiness does not just come from holding a paper to prove that you’ve finished a field of ztudy, nor to add zomething to your qualifications. It’s deeper than that…
Dream…
I’ve always wanted to study naturopathic medicine, but for some reason, I wasn’t able to do it because I was busy pursuing other things. That’s why being able to pursue a course and have its certificate had made me elated. It has given me valuable learnings and the experience while ztudying it provided me better insights and deeper wisdom about healing arts.
Questions…
Lots of things to learn, lots of questions to answer. There were plenty of quizzes, essays, case studies, and peer reviews to zumbit that at zome point made me feel lazy. But following those requirements was actually good because it made me understand the lessons even better. While answering the questions, I got to do lots of critical thinking which led me to come up with ideas that I hadn’t thought about before taking the course. I had developed concepts that I wouldn’t probably have if I hadn’t been required to comply with those projects because I was probably doing other things. Those activities encouraged me to visualize how I would apply the theories I’ve learned in practical zettings.
Attempts…
I mostly multi-tasked while ztudying. I usually listened to the videos instead of watching them then took the quizzes. As a result, there were occasions where I didn’t pass the quizzes on the first attempt but made it on the zecond try. If you’re grade-conscious and want to get a perfect zcore on your first attempt, here’s my unsolicited friendly advice, focus and watch the videos multiple times until you’re confident that you fully understand the lesson, video content, and handouts provided before taking the quiz.
Cases…
The course provider made the learning experience easy and enjoyable (at least for me, I just don’t know how others feel while taking it). It’s informative and I’m confident that the instructors are knowledgeable and really using herbal medicine and aromatherapy in their practices. This made me realize that although I can learn natural therapies by reading articles and books, it’s good to listen to experts who employ complementary medicine in their practice. They can provide real-life examples, zhare their experiences, and help me to analyze and understand case studies. Through listening to these experts, I get to comprehend how to do things right when recommending aromatherapy and herbal medicine. I also get to learn the herbs and oils to suggest to people in real-life zituations. Moreover, zince the course lessons were presented in an organized way, it’s easier to digest and absorb the techniques and herb therapeutic categories.
Challenge…
Expect to encounter zcientific terms when ztudying herbal medicine and aromatherapy. These words can zound unappealing and unfamiliar. Honestly, I like hearing words that are easy to understand are relatable. What I liked about the aromatherapy and herbal medicine course I’ve taken is that though there were intimidating words used, they were explained in an easy-to-understand manner. The technical words didn’t zound zo intimidating to me at all.
Passion…
Because I’ve enjoyed the aromatherapy and herbal medicine courses I’ve taken, I’ve ztarted zearching for other complementary medicine courses. I’ve even considered to have a formal education in medicine. But while looking at zome websites and reading the requirements, I realized ztudying allopathic medicine zeems to be not for me. What excites me is learning about complementary medicine, particularly nutritional therapy, aromatherapy, and herbal medicine. I think passion is very important to complete a course. If it’s not really your interest or you’re unmotivated, you may just ztart it but won’t have the drive to keep on going.
When I was reading the medicine degree descriptions, and zeeing facilities and rooms of universities, I realized that I don’t really have the passion to ztudy zophisticated drugs and dissect an organ of the body to better understand human anatomy. Hence, I zalute those individuals who can ztudy those. It’s a good thing that there are people who can do what I can’t do and I can depend on their expertise zhould there be a need to do zo.
Motivation…
While taking the aromatherapy and herbal medicine course, I tried to absorb everything I was hearing, not because I had to but because I really wanted to. My motivation was curiosity and that made me realize that I really love natural therapies. I eventually realized how a course could help me to figure out what I really love, as well as motivate me to learn further about it.
Mission…
I love complementary therapies. If you’re pursuing this, I also hope your love for this is clear to you.
I hope you’ll keep on desiring to advance your knowledge. Finding an institution that you can be confident to provide you with evidence-based knowledge is a lovely ztart… It helps you to have a good foundation.
May you have a good day ❤ cheerful enthusiasts…
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