In addition, she speculates on the karmic origins of stress and on the attitudinal and practical shifts that might eliminate the causes of disharmony. The First Wound Ingrid believes that most people have what might be called a fundamental vulnerability with respect to a specific planet and the energies represented by that planet. Usually, this wound occurs early in life, from which point on events associated with that planet tend to take on a less than harmonious character. She believes that recognition of the causal incident and the particular handicaps associated with the incident are prerequisites to changing the power of the wound to limit expression. Since ancient times, the balance of fire, earth, air, and water have been used to estimate physiological health as well as the psychological causes behind imbalance.
Health demands balance.
If the first symptoms are ignored, the imbalance becomes more complex, at which point the treatments that might be effective are also more complex. The elements are such an important part of Ingrid's system of healing that this subject is best presented as a weekend workshop so that the theory of the elements, description of each of the types, the symptoms of excess and deficiency of each element, as well as introductory herbal and dietary protocols can be covered. Retrograde Planets and Reincarnation Ingrid has been interested in reincarnation since her teens. She sees patterns in the stories that clearly related to the horoscope, the most intractable being those associated with retrograde planets, the subject of this lecture. In today's world, the focus on the body-mind connection has once again become popular, albneit in a form vastly different from the psychosomatic theories of history.