By “things” I mean inanimate objects.
I don’t mean fixing or repairing, I mean healing. Seriously.
There are just too many reports of cars and computers suddenly working again, batteries recharging, and other similar events to be dismissed as coincidence.
Okay, I realize I may have left some of you rolling your eyes on this one. But bear with me. One of my wife’s favorite quotes is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” That’s become one of my guiding thoughts as well. Seems like the last few years, I’m constantly having to expand my “philosophy.”
Maybe this isn’t all so crazy, though, if we start with Einstein who taught us all, though we conveniently forget, that energy and matter are interchangeable. E=MC2, remember? Otherwise nuclear energy wouldn’t work. Everything has its own energy signature, and energy pattern, whether it is a human, a computer, a battery, or a can of soup.
In Native American terms, everything has spirit, and therefore is alive. Is energy the same thing as spirit? I’d say that spirit is a category, or form, or manifestation of energy. As is thought. And how do we direct healing? We are taught in virtually all forms of energy healing that energy, or healing, follows intent – or thought. That’s the formula.
Thought, of course, is a form of energy organized into specific patterns. Matter is another form of energy organized into specific patterns. Why should it be possible for thought energy to interact with animate matter (what we call “living”) and not inanimate? In principle, I can’t see that there is anything to prevent it. And if we can believe the reports that keep trickling in rather persistently from ordinary people applying EFT, Reiki, and Quantum Touch (and I’m guessing not just those) that’s exactly what’s happening.
Why should it be possible for thought energy to heal arthritis, dissolve a tumor, or reverse diabetes but not start a dead car or a fried computer?
And if it’s possible to start a dead car or a fried computer, maybe we can heal our arthritis, tumor, or diabetes.
But check with your doctor to be sure. And take the car to the shop.
Just so you’ll know.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Energy Healing Explosion
NDE’s, or Near Death Experiences, fascinate me. I’ve read hundreds if not thousands of accounts, and spoken to a few experiencers.
I just read an account where while out of body, one person was shown how all illness starts on an energetic level before it shows up in the physical body. The person also explains how they were shown that medical treatment can remove the illness, but if their energy field has not been changed, the illness returns. And this applies to everything, not only physical illness.
Fascinating. That’s pretty much confirmation of what we, as energy healers, have been saying all along. The real key to curing any condition is clearing the energy field of whatever is bringing about the illness. Or the emotional condition. Or the financial or social condition.
It’s all energy fields, or frequencies.
This NDE account concluded by saying that we did not come here to suffer, that life is supposed to be great. Which tells me that perhaps, just maybe, the Universe (God, the Force, etc…) is on our side. It seems like someone or something is trying to get humanity’s attention by bombarding us with this message over and over again in so many forms.
Maybe that’s why there is such an explosion in energy healing in the last decade or two. How many versions of Reiki are there now? How many variations of meridian tapping and meridian based techniques such as EFT, TFT and TAT? What about other ways that aren’t so easy to classify such as Matrix Energetics and The Reconnection and so many others?
How is it possible that so many techniques exist – and they all work? Where are they coming from? It seems that almost every day there’s a new healing technique. It’s getting really hard to keep up with them.
What’s a holistic healer to do? What’s the best technique? Many techniques, such as the tapping techniques are very forgiving in that you don’t have to get them just exactly right in order for them to work. In fact, you can really mess them up and still get great results!
The common thread seems to be the healer’s intent, and the healer’s ability to get him/herself out of the way and let it happen however it’s going to happen. Virtually every technique from faith healing to Reiki to tapping emphasizes the intent of the healer and the necessity that the healer understands that the healing only comes through him/her, that it is really a matter of allowing the healing to flow rather than any “doing” that the healer does. It’s not us.
Let me rephrase that last paragraph. Love, then let go and let God.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
I just read an account where while out of body, one person was shown how all illness starts on an energetic level before it shows up in the physical body. The person also explains how they were shown that medical treatment can remove the illness, but if their energy field has not been changed, the illness returns. And this applies to everything, not only physical illness.
Fascinating. That’s pretty much confirmation of what we, as energy healers, have been saying all along. The real key to curing any condition is clearing the energy field of whatever is bringing about the illness. Or the emotional condition. Or the financial or social condition.
It’s all energy fields, or frequencies.
This NDE account concluded by saying that we did not come here to suffer, that life is supposed to be great. Which tells me that perhaps, just maybe, the Universe (God, the Force, etc…) is on our side. It seems like someone or something is trying to get humanity’s attention by bombarding us with this message over and over again in so many forms.
Maybe that’s why there is such an explosion in energy healing in the last decade or two. How many versions of Reiki are there now? How many variations of meridian tapping and meridian based techniques such as EFT, TFT and TAT? What about other ways that aren’t so easy to classify such as Matrix Energetics and The Reconnection and so many others?
How is it possible that so many techniques exist – and they all work? Where are they coming from? It seems that almost every day there’s a new healing technique. It’s getting really hard to keep up with them.
What’s a holistic healer to do? What’s the best technique? Many techniques, such as the tapping techniques are very forgiving in that you don’t have to get them just exactly right in order for them to work. In fact, you can really mess them up and still get great results!
The common thread seems to be the healer’s intent, and the healer’s ability to get him/herself out of the way and let it happen however it’s going to happen. Virtually every technique from faith healing to Reiki to tapping emphasizes the intent of the healer and the necessity that the healer understands that the healing only comes through him/her, that it is really a matter of allowing the healing to flow rather than any “doing” that the healer does. It’s not us.
Let me rephrase that last paragraph. Love, then let go and let God.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Placebo Effect
I love the placebo effect.
You know, that’s where they do a test, and half the people get the real treatment, and the other half get a phony treatment, like a sugar pill instead of a drug.
The reason they do this is because it’s well known that a certain number of people will get well no matter what you give them, and in order to prove the efficacy of a treatment, be it a drug or a surgery or whatever, the procedure or substance has to produce a statistically significantly better result than the placebo, or phony stuff. The standard theory is that if people believe something is going to help them, it does. In other words, it’s all in their minds.
One of the criticisms leveled at energy medicine is that it works by the placebo effect, which is to say it’s basically phony.
Hold on, though.
First of all, the people who get better due to placebo effect actually do get better. They don’t pretend to get better. In one recent study of knee surgery, where one group of people received the actual surgery, and the control group received phony surgery, where incisions were made and then sewn up, the group that got the fake surgery got just as well as the group that got the real surgery. They were free of pain, they were able to run again, and their long-term results were actually somewhat better than the group that received the standard full “real” surgical treatment.
Since the placebo effect is real, and results in real physical improvements and real cures, what if we could figure out how the placebo effect works, then harness that into a treatment where the majority of people responded well? What if energy medicine does just that?
If we suppose that energy medicine works because of the placebo effect, it sure seems able to produce it awfully consistently, and with no side effects. Interestingly though, it has nothing to do with a person’s belief. Energy medicine is equally effective with those who think it’s mumbo jumbo as it is with those who are believers in it.
Here’s another interesting tidbit: energy medicine works really well on animals.
Placebo that.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
You know, that’s where they do a test, and half the people get the real treatment, and the other half get a phony treatment, like a sugar pill instead of a drug.
The reason they do this is because it’s well known that a certain number of people will get well no matter what you give them, and in order to prove the efficacy of a treatment, be it a drug or a surgery or whatever, the procedure or substance has to produce a statistically significantly better result than the placebo, or phony stuff. The standard theory is that if people believe something is going to help them, it does. In other words, it’s all in their minds.
One of the criticisms leveled at energy medicine is that it works by the placebo effect, which is to say it’s basically phony.
Hold on, though.
First of all, the people who get better due to placebo effect actually do get better. They don’t pretend to get better. In one recent study of knee surgery, where one group of people received the actual surgery, and the control group received phony surgery, where incisions were made and then sewn up, the group that got the fake surgery got just as well as the group that got the real surgery. They were free of pain, they were able to run again, and their long-term results were actually somewhat better than the group that received the standard full “real” surgical treatment.
Since the placebo effect is real, and results in real physical improvements and real cures, what if we could figure out how the placebo effect works, then harness that into a treatment where the majority of people responded well? What if energy medicine does just that?
If we suppose that energy medicine works because of the placebo effect, it sure seems able to produce it awfully consistently, and with no side effects. Interestingly though, it has nothing to do with a person’s belief. Energy medicine is equally effective with those who think it’s mumbo jumbo as it is with those who are believers in it.
Here’s another interesting tidbit: energy medicine works really well on animals.
Placebo that.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
It’s Just an Animal
And animals are here for us to use as a resource. Whether they are food or just to be killed for sport, or even loved and kept as pets, they’re still “just” animals and they don’t have the same rights as we humans.
How arrogant and short-sighted can we get?
We all share this little blue rock floating through space. It’s a closed system. Chief Seattle said it well: “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
We’re all brothers and sisters on the same ride called “Earth.”
So I get a little annoyed when people mock those who spend money on animals. Whether it’s a pet or a rescue animal, whether wild or domestic, it’s our brother or sister, regardless of what species it is. Well okay, some species are more like distant cousins, maybe, but we’re all still Earthlings.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. When we lavish love and care on an animal, we are setting into motion karmic consequences just as surely as when we mistreat animals or the ecosystem that supports them. And us. All of us. So when I read of a celebrity lavishing care on their pet, including such things as Reiki, acupuncture, massage, and aromatherapy, I am actually not bothered in the least by it.
It doesn’t begin to make up for the damage each of us is doing simply by living in a modern society consuming the resources that we all do by default regardless of how simply and frugally we live. But an act of love, an action in the other direction, is a good thing. It is an action, however small, and however selfishly or dysfunctionally motivated, that moves us one tiny bit further from the cruelty and ignorance that is our civilization’s norm.
Every act of kindness is a tiny step in the direction of love and respect for life. Simply because it is life, and for no other reason. Unconditional love and respect, the same kind our pets give us. Are we capable, as a species, to return it, or is it a one way street, with all love and honor flowing to the mighty two-leggeds?
Whether it is the life of a human being, a beloved dog or cat, or a red tail hawk with a broken wing, it deserves to be treated with profound respect and, yes, love. Whatever we do to any part of the web of life, we do to ourselves.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
How arrogant and short-sighted can we get?
We all share this little blue rock floating through space. It’s a closed system. Chief Seattle said it well: “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
We’re all brothers and sisters on the same ride called “Earth.”
So I get a little annoyed when people mock those who spend money on animals. Whether it’s a pet or a rescue animal, whether wild or domestic, it’s our brother or sister, regardless of what species it is. Well okay, some species are more like distant cousins, maybe, but we’re all still Earthlings.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. When we lavish love and care on an animal, we are setting into motion karmic consequences just as surely as when we mistreat animals or the ecosystem that supports them. And us. All of us. So when I read of a celebrity lavishing care on their pet, including such things as Reiki, acupuncture, massage, and aromatherapy, I am actually not bothered in the least by it.
It doesn’t begin to make up for the damage each of us is doing simply by living in a modern society consuming the resources that we all do by default regardless of how simply and frugally we live. But an act of love, an action in the other direction, is a good thing. It is an action, however small, and however selfishly or dysfunctionally motivated, that moves us one tiny bit further from the cruelty and ignorance that is our civilization’s norm.
Every act of kindness is a tiny step in the direction of love and respect for life. Simply because it is life, and for no other reason. Unconditional love and respect, the same kind our pets give us. Are we capable, as a species, to return it, or is it a one way street, with all love and honor flowing to the mighty two-leggeds?
Whether it is the life of a human being, a beloved dog or cat, or a red tail hawk with a broken wing, it deserves to be treated with profound respect and, yes, love. Whatever we do to any part of the web of life, we do to ourselves.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
If You Tell Two Friends and They Tell Two Friends…
Last week’s radio show went great. The hosts asked good questions, and it was clear they were fascinated by the topic of Reiki and energy medicine techniques for senior citizens. The hour just flew by.
Today I met with the director of one of our local senior centers, and she is very enthusiastic about bringing holistic health care of any kind, and energy medicine in particular, to the seniors in our area. I live in rural northwest Pennsylvania, which is to say it’s a pretty conservative area. It doesn’t mean people are closed-minded, it just means that it takes a little longer for information on new things to filter into the public consciousness.
The senior center director was very interested in education programs in particular, and wants to plan presentations and seminars at as many venues as possible, so that we can reach as many people as possible with this information.
And why is that so important?
Because once people get the information about the benefits of holistic health care, especially energy medicine such as Reiki and Meridian Tapping Techniques such as EFT, they can begin to prevent illness, restore health, and save big on medical expenses. All of which are huge issues for seniors. In fact, they’re pretty important to everyone.
People can’t avail themselves of the benefits of holistic health care if they don’t know or understand or are comfortable with holistic care. The more people know, the more they understand, and the more they understand the more comfortable they are with it, and the more likely they are to actually include it in their lives.
And that in turn will result in lower medical costs, insurance costs, and less spending on government programs to fix what would have been wa-a-a-ay cheaper to prevent in the first place. Just from a bottom-line perspective, remember that the vast bulk of health care dollars go to elder care. If we want real health care reform, educating the public on the benefits of energy medicine wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
Which will benefit all of us, not just those who use it.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Today I met with the director of one of our local senior centers, and she is very enthusiastic about bringing holistic health care of any kind, and energy medicine in particular, to the seniors in our area. I live in rural northwest Pennsylvania, which is to say it’s a pretty conservative area. It doesn’t mean people are closed-minded, it just means that it takes a little longer for information on new things to filter into the public consciousness.
The senior center director was very interested in education programs in particular, and wants to plan presentations and seminars at as many venues as possible, so that we can reach as many people as possible with this information.
And why is that so important?
Because once people get the information about the benefits of holistic health care, especially energy medicine such as Reiki and Meridian Tapping Techniques such as EFT, they can begin to prevent illness, restore health, and save big on medical expenses. All of which are huge issues for seniors. In fact, they’re pretty important to everyone.
People can’t avail themselves of the benefits of holistic health care if they don’t know or understand or are comfortable with holistic care. The more people know, the more they understand, and the more they understand the more comfortable they are with it, and the more likely they are to actually include it in their lives.
And that in turn will result in lower medical costs, insurance costs, and less spending on government programs to fix what would have been wa-a-a-ay cheaper to prevent in the first place. Just from a bottom-line perspective, remember that the vast bulk of health care dollars go to elder care. If we want real health care reform, educating the public on the benefits of energy medicine wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
Which will benefit all of us, not just those who use it.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Love on the Radio
Tomorrow morning I’ll be a guest on a local radio show, where I’m supposed to discuss Reiki and senior citizens. It’s a natural combination.
In Native American and many other cultural traditions, deep respect for our elders is simply a fact of life. In America, sadly, it’s generally not. Unless you’re in the U.S. Congress, or the Supreme Court, either of which will allow you to share the accumulated and growing wisdom of your lifetime for the good of many. Without getting into politics, at least that’s the theory.
But for regular folks, when you’re old, you’re “over the hill” or “washed up” or “doddering” or you’re just out of it, and frankly, we think you might not have too good a grip on what’s going on around you. Part of that’s because we rip the roots of productivity and self esteem out from under our elders, assuming they have no more to contribute to society, and generally put them out to rot. I mean, to pasture.
Kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, don’t you think?
So elders tend to start feeling almost like they have to apologize for their existence. The sense of respect isn’t there in the same way that it was when they were younger. People defer to them, but in a sort of condescending way that implies that they’re somehow “less-than” in the same way that people tend to think of children.
So what does all this have to do with Reiki? Well Reiki is one of the most respectful and loving therapies being practiced anywhere today. In Reiki, someone is fully present focusing completely on you for an hour or so. Their sole intention is for your highest and best good, and it’s not up to the therapist to decide for you what that may be.
The treatment itself is profoundly respectful of the person -- there is no physically or emotionally uncomfortable or awkward touching. The focus is on the comfort and well-being of the client. If there is illness, pain or injury, the therapist does not even have to physically place their hands on the person. And best of all, no-one has to take their clothes off.
If the prerequisite for authentic love is respect, Reiki is one of the most loving therapies around. The fact is that it is based on the belief that what is flowing through the therapist to the client is pure loving life energy, guided by love. Reiki is a profound act of love. It says you don’t have to do anything to be worthy to receive love, you are worth my sharing an hour of my life silently being present with you.
Reiki is respectful, affirming, relaxing, healing and loving. Which is why it is my honor and privilege to offer Reiki to our elders.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
In Native American and many other cultural traditions, deep respect for our elders is simply a fact of life. In America, sadly, it’s generally not. Unless you’re in the U.S. Congress, or the Supreme Court, either of which will allow you to share the accumulated and growing wisdom of your lifetime for the good of many. Without getting into politics, at least that’s the theory.
But for regular folks, when you’re old, you’re “over the hill” or “washed up” or “doddering” or you’re just out of it, and frankly, we think you might not have too good a grip on what’s going on around you. Part of that’s because we rip the roots of productivity and self esteem out from under our elders, assuming they have no more to contribute to society, and generally put them out to rot. I mean, to pasture.
Kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, don’t you think?
So elders tend to start feeling almost like they have to apologize for their existence. The sense of respect isn’t there in the same way that it was when they were younger. People defer to them, but in a sort of condescending way that implies that they’re somehow “less-than” in the same way that people tend to think of children.
So what does all this have to do with Reiki? Well Reiki is one of the most respectful and loving therapies being practiced anywhere today. In Reiki, someone is fully present focusing completely on you for an hour or so. Their sole intention is for your highest and best good, and it’s not up to the therapist to decide for you what that may be.
The treatment itself is profoundly respectful of the person -- there is no physically or emotionally uncomfortable or awkward touching. The focus is on the comfort and well-being of the client. If there is illness, pain or injury, the therapist does not even have to physically place their hands on the person. And best of all, no-one has to take their clothes off.
If the prerequisite for authentic love is respect, Reiki is one of the most loving therapies around. The fact is that it is based on the belief that what is flowing through the therapist to the client is pure loving life energy, guided by love. Reiki is a profound act of love. It says you don’t have to do anything to be worthy to receive love, you are worth my sharing an hour of my life silently being present with you.
Reiki is respectful, affirming, relaxing, healing and loving. Which is why it is my honor and privilege to offer Reiki to our elders.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Health Care Reform, Energy Medicine Style
Here’s what I want to know:
Where is our holistic health movement?
Are we all so busy chasing our own inner peace that we forgot there’s a world out there that desperately needs what we have found?
What happened to all my fellow change-the-wolrders who fought for civil rights for people of color and other minorities in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
Have we gotten so old and afraid of being rejected that we won’t stand up and confront the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance establishment?
Have we been so beaten down by years of relentless and ever more sophisticated mass media propaganda? Have we bought the lie? Or are we just self-righteously congratulating ourselves on our own enlightened personal health care choices and point out that things are gradually changing “out there?”
Doesn’t anyone remember? Things were gradually changing in the 1950’s for African Americans, but one day Rosa Parks stood up and said “the buck stops here.”
We have a predatory system that makes a lot of people a lot of money by bleeding sick people as long as they can keep them sick but alive. Maybe vampires are so popular in contemporary culture because we know in our heart of hearts they’re real. Think about it.
Everybody knows the trite old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But isn’t that what we have with holistic, natural methods, especially energy medicine?
How much pain, suffering, and yes – money – could be saved if both public and private insurance covered energy medicine?
How many more people would be physically and emotionally healthy enjoying a superior quality of life?
How many people who couldn’t afford health care would be able to be served by a system that healed people before they ever required ridiculously expensive drugs, surgery, and the whole rest of the dinosaur of a what is not a health care system but a disease maintenance system? Methadone, anyone?
Are we talking about health care reform in this country that is real health care reform, or are we just talking about rearranging how we pay for the same bloodsucking medieval system?
Here’s an idea: what if we just stopped getting sick?
What if we just started massively applying energy medicine and energy psychology?
What do you think would happen to our health care costs? If you know how effective, quick and cheap energy medicine is, you know the answer.
We’d be healthier, wealthier, and happier.
Except maybe for big pharma and the AMA.
Come on, fellow energy healers – where are you? Where’s our movement? Where is our Rosa Parks? (Hint – maybe in the mirror…?)
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Where is our holistic health movement?
Are we all so busy chasing our own inner peace that we forgot there’s a world out there that desperately needs what we have found?
What happened to all my fellow change-the-wolrders who fought for civil rights for people of color and other minorities in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
Have we gotten so old and afraid of being rejected that we won’t stand up and confront the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance establishment?
Have we been so beaten down by years of relentless and ever more sophisticated mass media propaganda? Have we bought the lie? Or are we just self-righteously congratulating ourselves on our own enlightened personal health care choices and point out that things are gradually changing “out there?”
Doesn’t anyone remember? Things were gradually changing in the 1950’s for African Americans, but one day Rosa Parks stood up and said “the buck stops here.”
We have a predatory system that makes a lot of people a lot of money by bleeding sick people as long as they can keep them sick but alive. Maybe vampires are so popular in contemporary culture because we know in our heart of hearts they’re real. Think about it.
Everybody knows the trite old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But isn’t that what we have with holistic, natural methods, especially energy medicine?
How much pain, suffering, and yes – money – could be saved if both public and private insurance covered energy medicine?
How many more people would be physically and emotionally healthy enjoying a superior quality of life?
How many people who couldn’t afford health care would be able to be served by a system that healed people before they ever required ridiculously expensive drugs, surgery, and the whole rest of the dinosaur of a what is not a health care system but a disease maintenance system? Methadone, anyone?
Are we talking about health care reform in this country that is real health care reform, or are we just talking about rearranging how we pay for the same bloodsucking medieval system?
Here’s an idea: what if we just stopped getting sick?
What if we just started massively applying energy medicine and energy psychology?
What do you think would happen to our health care costs? If you know how effective, quick and cheap energy medicine is, you know the answer.
We’d be healthier, wealthier, and happier.
Except maybe for big pharma and the AMA.
Come on, fellow energy healers – where are you? Where’s our movement? Where is our Rosa Parks? (Hint – maybe in the mirror…?)
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
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