Homeopathy offers an understanding of how body, mind and emotions are all expressions of one soul, one state. Each state corresponds to a particular way the individual experiences his or her specific symptoms. The homeopathic remedy corresponds not to symptoms nor a pathology, but to the state of the individual and their unique experience of their disease.  The Homeopathic remedy acts by strengthening the innate constitution of the individual, assisting the body's natural processes of healing. Thus, homeopathy addresses the individual as a whole rather than the disease and its symptoms.  Classical Homeopathy is, and always was, a holistic therapy.

Today, Homeopathy, through its Materia Medica of remedy states, provides the most extensive spectrum of “body-mind” constitutions of any traditional, non-traditional, medical or psychological system. This makes homeopathy the most finely-tuned instrument of intervention available, and perhaps the most demanding on its practitioner. Homeopathy requires its practitioners to understand not only the dynamics of disease and the dynamic process of healing, but also the roles of consciousness and emotions in health.

To participate fully in this dynamic process, the homeopath must be able to perceive the client as a “body-mind” whole and touch the individual’s essential nature, or “soul” (as defined by Plato), so that the right remedy can be chosen. This aspect is also the most personally rewarding, for the homeopath must be  in touch with his/her own nature or "soul" before being able to perceive and guide others to the same depth to allow homeopathic healing to occur.

Classical homeopathic training (as taught at M.I.C.H. by Judyann McNamara) involves careful and insightful observation and learning to “perceive” the body-mind state in yourself and others by being in a totally receptive state. Thus, “Body-mind-soul” is an ever-present and extensively elaborated theme in homeopathic study.